Giuseppe Conti PhD

Giuseppe Conti has a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering (cum laude) with a final thesis on Computer Aided Architectural Design carried on at the University of Lund (Sweden). He holds a PhD from the faculty of Engineering of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (UK). Since 2012, he has been serving as Chief Technology Officer - CTO at Trilogis, an Italian SME specialising in geospatial technologies. At Trilogis he has been in charge of the creation of an international profile for the company, acquiring and then managing several projects funded by the European Commission as well as projects in cooperation with international institutions such as UN-FAO or NASA AMES Research Center. In the past, he worked for Graphitech - Centre for Advanced Computer Graphics Technologies, a private applied research centre specialising in interactive computer graphics. While at Graphitech, he initially served as senior researcher, also carrying on a post-doc. He later become exploitation and bid manager at Graphitech, being in charge for fundraising and acquiring multiple projects funded by the European Commission and NATO.

Giuseppe Conti has 15-year experience large-scale international EU-funded projects (funded by NATO or EC in the FP5, FP6, FP7, ICT-PSP, H2020 programs) in the domains of computer graphics, interactive enterprise systems, service oriented architectures, geographical web services, mobile applications and location-based services. Over the past few years only he has acted as Technical Manager and Operational Manager within several large-scale EC projects funded within the FP7 (i-Tour) and ICT-PSP programs (BRISEIDE, i-SCOPE, SUNSHINE) each in the range of hundreds of man months, with up to 20+ partner institutions and up to several million Euros of total budget. He is currently the coordinator of the i-locate ICT-PSP pilot B project (www.i-locate.eu) and of the H2020 Innovation Action UNCAP (www.uncap.eu).

Giuseppe Conti has a sound technical background in the geospatial domain and indoor location technologies, especially for elderly people, where he contributes to activities of related professional associations (he has been member of the board of AMFM GIS Italian professional association). He also plays an active role within standardisation community, serving as member of the Technical Committee (TC) of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as well as co-chair of the IndoorGML Standard Working Group (SWG) and as chair of the Mobile Location Services Domain Working Groups (DWG). He is author of several publications, including articles in monographs or book chapters and more than 100 papers in journals and conference proceedings. He is also editor of 2 books resulting from a NATO-funded project and main author of the final extensive report (650+ pages, published in 2013) of the project VISION “VIsualization SImulation and visual cOmputing techNologies”. Within VISION he worked for the EC Directorate General CONNECT to analyse the European research landscape in the field of simulation, visualisation and visual computing (including visual analytics) to help the Commission make informed decision on future coverage and approaches in the aforementioned domains, for what was set to become the 8th EU Research and Innovation Programme, also known as Horizon 2020. Lastly, he was winner of the NASA 2014 Europa challenge, of which he is now member of the scientific board.