Giulio Toscani

Former Director of Telefonica, Barcelona, ES

Artificial Intelligence for Business – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US

PhD Royal Institute of Technology – KTH, Sweden

Disruptive Innovation – New York University Stern, US

Leadership Indian School of Business, India / Center for Creative Leadership, Singapore

CSR Haas Berkeley, US

Professor ESADE Business & Law School, Spain

In-Company Trainer and Speaker in more than 100 countries

With more that 20 years experience, Professor Giulio Toscani represents technology and innovation at 360 degrees: Former Director of  Telefonica, Spain, Professor in many universities, Advisor for the world’s largest companies and himself Entrepreneur and Investor. He has been a Speaker in over 100 countries around the world and is one of the most accomplished figures in the world of technology and business strategy.

Former Adjunct Professor at ESADE in Barcelona, Spain, in the Law School and Business School for MBA, EMBA, MSc & Executive Programs.

He also teaches as a visiting professor at Stockholm University in Sweden, Politecnico Milano & Luiss Business School in Italy, Pacifico Business School in Lima, Bath Business School in the UK, ALU African Leadership University in Rwanda.

Additionally, he serves as an investor and advisor for Navozyme in Singapore and Muns in Spain, and has worked with numerous multinational companies such as Telefonica in several countries, General Electric in Europe, Nike and Megafon in Russia, Bic in France, and Bayer and PWC in Spain.

His vast experience on Big Data/AI springs from his work on location-system behavioural analysis and time perception projects at Telefonica to studies on AI at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also is one of the co-owners and in the board of Navozyme, a deeptech company based in Singapore. He is actively involved in research projects with Data Scientist to improve their performance with advanced technologies.

He published in several academic journals and magazines like Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Services Marketing, Harvard Deusto, El Economista, Gentleman, ESADE Do Better, etc.

Speaker experience in AI:

Professor Toscani has given speeches in over 100 countries around the world and is one of the most accomplished figures in the world of technology and business strategy.

Here is a small part of the events to which he took part: AI for Good Summit, Switzerland. Nike Strategic Leadership. Moscow, Russia. G1 Global Conference, Japan. Megafon Telecommunications Yearly forum. Moscow, Russia. Ely Lilly pharmaceuticals/Bbraun/Caixabank yearly meeting, Spain. Hamayesh Farazan Entrepreneurs meeting, Tehran, Iran. PWC Remote Working meeting. Spain. Bayer Digital Transformation. Spain & Portugal. ILTA Shipping Conference. Houston, Texas. MODHS Innovation and Creativity Annual Forum, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Complexity in advanced technologies for FOXX, Barcelona, Spain.

Education:

Executive Program

Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy  (2018) Mit Massachusetts Intsitute of Technology, Sloan & MIT CSAIL CAMBRIDGE, USA

PhD in Management (2018) KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

BSc andMsC in Chemical engineering (1999) University of L’Aquila and started his career as a patent attorney for chemical plants in Lugano, Switzerland.

Giulio Toscani plays the side flute, is a yoga teacher, a vipassana meditator and an ultra-trail runner with personal record of 120 km. He has worked, visited or lived in 115 countries, most recently having cycled solo across Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos the Black Sea and Caucasus.