Andrea Saltarello
CEO @ Improove.tech, Professor @ GSoM Politecnico di Milano, Software Developer, Depeche Mode uberfan
CEO @ Improove.tech, Professor @ GSoM Politecnico di Milano, Software Developer, Depeche Mode uberfan
Milan, Italy
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I believe technology only makes sense when it creates real value for people and organizations.
Today, I bring this vision to life as the founder of Improove, where we work to strengthen the Italian tech ecosystem through community initiatives, events, and training. I also teach Artificial Intelligence at the Graduate School of Management of Politecnico di Milano, helping executives and decision-makers understand both the opportunities and the strategic challenges of AI.
My journey started in software development: I co-founded UGIdotNET (one of the longest-established Italian communities about software development), authored books, and have spoken at conferences across Europe. Today, I leverage that experience to build bridges between technology and business, to make innovation understandable, accessible, and truly impactful.
Credo che la tecnologia abbia senso solo quando genera valore per le persone e le organizzazioni.
Oggi porto avanti questa visione come fondatore di Improove, dove lavoriamo per far crescere l’ecosistema tech italiano attraverso community, eventi e formazione. Parallelamente, insegno Intelligenza Artificiale presso la Graduate School of Management del Politecnico di Milano, aiutando manager e dirigenti a comprendere le opportunità e le sfide strategiche dell’AI.
Il mio percorso nasce nello sviluppo software: ho co-fondato UGIdotNET, una delle prime community tech italiane, scritto libri e tenuto conferenze in Italia e all’estero. Oggi continuo a mettere a frutto quell’esperienza per costruire ponti tra tecnologia e business, con l’obiettivo di rendere l’innovazione comprensibile e realmente utile.
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AI and the End of Coding as We Know It?
I’ve been writing code for four decades—long enough to witness the tech industry repeatedly try to reinvent how software is built. Some of those attempts were bold, some overhyped, and most faded away, leaving the developer’s role fundamentally intact. Today, AI is raising a bigger question than ever before: could it finally succeed in transforming, or even replacing, the craft of programming? In this talk, I’ll share lessons from history, insights from the present, and a critical look at what might be ahead, inviting you to explore whether we’re facing a new golden age for developers… or the sunset of our profession.
Azure AI Services showdown
Dall'uso dei modelli OpenAI ai servizi cognitivi, dal training di modelli alla pubblicazione degli stessi come servizi, in questo talk molto hands-on vedremo lo stack di servizi offerti dalla piattaforma Microsoft Azure, analizzandone sia le feature sia i costi di esercizio.
AWS Machine Learning, from a .NET Developer perspective
I services AWS Machine Learning offrono modelli domain-specific preaddestrati e facilmente consumabili da una applicazione.
In questa sessione vedremo come utilizzarli nelle nostre applicazioni .NET
Technology as a means for inclusion
The son of a deaf person, I've soon become well-aware of how disabilities make for a harder living.
My father had all his auditory bones (hammer, anvil and stirrup) surgically removed because of acute otitis, yet he could hear sounds by means of bone conduction glasses. This was in the late ‘70s and despite being bulky and awkward, those glasses were pure magic in the eyes of a child. Technology-based magic.
Forty years on, I’m amazed by the technology we have and how effective it might be when it comes to tackling these issues: bots, for example, make software accessible to people who simply can’t “just” point’n’click. Furthermore, Azure Cognitive Services are key to addressing a variety of impairments.
Even if your ethics didn’t kick in, this is a market you don’t want to turn a blind eye (pun intended) to in this day and age, so let’s have a conversation (and a few code-based demos) about it.
Cloud tales: real world CQRS/Event Sourcing
CQRS and Event Sourcing (or, more in general, applications using events as their basic information block) are by no means new kids on the block, yet a lot can be told about how to use cloud platforms to unleash their power without having costs soaring.
The ingredients list is quite simple: an event store, an event dispatcher, read model(s) and computing options to run back-end services. Picking up technologies in a cost savvy way, though, isn’t trivial due to the amount of viable options: should we go PaaS (e.g.: CosmosDB/DynamoDB, AppService, ASB/SQS) or IaaS? CosmosDB/DynamoDB or Mongo? Where do containers fit in this context?
Eager to know our recipe (and look at real code)? Don’t miss this talk then.
WPC 2025 Sessionize Event Upcoming
Codemotion 2025 Sessionize Event
WPC 2024 Sessionize Event
Codemotion Milan 2024 Sessionize Event
AI Conf 2024 Sessionize Event
WPC 2023 Sessionize Event
AI & ML Conference 2021 Sessionize Event
Accessibility Days 2021 Sessionize Event
A.I. Day 2021 Sessionize Event
Cloud Day 2020 Sessionize Event
AI Conference 2020 Sessionize Event
Global Azure Milan 2020 Sessionize Event
Microsoft Ignite | The Tour 2020
Talk "Azure tales: real world Event Sourcing"
Talk “Technology as a means for inclusion”
WPC2019 Sessionize Event
ITCamp 2019 Sessionize Event
Microsoft Ignite | The Tour 2019
Talk "Azure tales: real world Event Sourcing"
Talk "Implementing chatbots and Alexa skills using Azure Cognitive Services"
Codemotion Milan 2018
Talk "Cloud tales: a real world CQRS and ES Deep Dive"
ITCamp 2018 Sessionize Event
Cloudburst 2017
Talk: "Azure tales: a real world CQRS and ES Deep Dive"
ITCamp 2017
Talk: "Azure tales: a real world CQRS and ES Deep Dive"
Codemotion Berlin 2016
Talk: "The Fine Art of Time Traveling: implementing Event Sourcing"
TUGA IT 2016
Talk: "The Fine Art of Time Travelling: implementing Event Sourcing"
WPC 2015
Talk: "A gentleman’s introduction to ASP.NET 5 "
Talk: "Gestire il versioning delle entità con CQRS ed Event Sourcing"
Future Decoded 2015
Talk: "ASP.NET 5 from Visual Studio 2015 to Docker via Azure"
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/FutureDecoded/FutureDecoded-2015-Rome/FutureDecoded-Roma-2015-Track-Developer-ASPNET-5-from-Visual-Studio-2015-to-Docker-via-Azure
Software Architect Conference 2015
Talk: "The Fine Art of Time Travelling: implementing Event Sourcing"
IT Camp 2015
Talk: "Implementing Domain Driven Design"
Talk: "Implementing CQRS and Event Sourcing"
Tech-Ed Europe 2014
Talk: "Applying CQRS and Event Sourcing in Microsoft .NET Applications"
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/DEV-B313
Talk: "Architecting and Implementing Domain-Driven Design Patterns with Microsoft .NET"
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2014/DEV-B211
Andrea Saltarello
CEO @ Improove.tech, Professor @ GSoM Politecnico di Milano, Software Developer, Depeche Mode uberfan
Milan, Italy
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