Contributors and partners of our Ecosystem

Digital Food Ecosystem (DFE) is an aizoOn-driven partnership. It developed an alliance with universities, research facilities and technology partner entrepreneurships. The final purpose of these partnerships is about giving to each agri-food production chain the availability of a specific and distinctive digital innovation capacity, useful for the approaches, methods, instruments, and technologies.

Industries

With expertise in the agrifood sector and in Digital Innovation and transformation.

aizoOn

aizoOn is an italian technology consulting company focused on innovation, operating globally through  aizoOn Italy, aizoOn USA and aizoOn AUS group companies.

It supports the future of its Customers in the digital era by offering technology and innovation competences and by responding to their specific requirements with a broad and articulated intervention capability:

  • Consulting Services: provides its customers with a wide range of specialized consulting services; by abiding to high standards for the selection of its technological Consultants, with high qualification in terms of professional skills and personal qualities. The two delivery modes of consulting activities include service contracts and administration of people.
  • Turnkey Projects, IT Operations and Solutions: aggregates technological and methodological competences of excellence and accompanies the Customer through all the steps involved in the design and implementation of software and hardware products.
  • Platforms and Products: has developed proprietary SW products in the strategic sector of Cyber Security, web platforms for cross-sectoral applications focused on advanced analytics and Industrial Internet of Things solutions.
    R&D Projects.

aizoOn distinguishes itself for its end-to-end intervention capability based on the technological excellence and competence, the business proximity to the Customer and the ability to identify and apply innovative solutions. Its organization is structured as follows:

  • Market Divisions: They ensure an extensive and assiduous knowledge of the demands and transformations underway in the manned business sectors: Finance, Government, Aerospace & Defense, Transportation, Consumer Goods & Services, Industrial Goods & Communication, Energy, Health & Life Science.
  • Digital Engineering & Innovation Division: It develops advanced Artificial Intelligence solutions that are able to cover the entire digital data transformation chain (Internet of Things/Data ecosystems). It operates as a strategic partner for the companies’ digital transformation, guiding them on the different levels of technological maturity involved in the process: R&D, Proof of Concept and prototypes, integrated solutions.
  • Cyber Security Division: It develops proprietary technological platforms to respond to the current challenges of the cyber scenario: malware analysis, data leaks, cyber defense, network traffic monitoring. It provides services and consulting activities in the areas of Risk Analysis & Management, Security Assessment, Governance & Compliance. It accompanies the organizations in the definition and implementation of their own “Security Roadmap”.

aizoOn adopts an organizational, management and control model for the prevention of the administrative offences, in compliance with the Legislative Decree 231/101.

aizoOn is among the founding members of 4 national, highly-specialized Competence Centers: Manufacturing 4.0 (in Turin), Made (in Milan), Start 4.0 (in Genoa) and Cyber 4.0 (in Rome) and is a founding member of ECSO (European Cyber Security Organization).

aizoOn is certified with the UNI ENI ISO 9001:2015 quality certification and is compliant to the ISO IEC 27001:2014 regulation (certificate IT279460 – Bureau Veritas).

Trustech

Trustech provides tailored solutions to solve industrial and research problems:

  • Feasibility studies with lab experimental support
  • Demonstrators for autometed measurements
  • Microfluidic and electronic devices prototypes 

Trustech can offer exceptional combination of:

  • Multidisciplinary skills in chemistry, biology, physics, electronic engineering
  • Full equipped labs for R&D, prototyping & tech. transfers
  • Specific know-how on microfabbrication and sensing systems

Wonderware

We live in the era of interconnection, globalization, and change. Skills and experience in managing plants and systems, while still necessary, are no longer enough.
Success requires the availability of real-time data and information, operational agility and efficiency and smarter and more sustainable assets.

Wonderware Italia, leader in industrial software since the late ‘80s, drives Digital Transformation of manufacturing companies and infrastructures to help shape a better future of industry and the world.
We provide solutions for Supervision and Data Collection, Operation Management (MES/MOM), Asset Management, Industry 4.0. 

With our software solutions we empower people, teams and companies to manage Operations and Assets in real time, improving efficiency, optimizing value, and reaching their sustainability’s goals.

Our consultancy approach follows organizations throughout all their technological evolution’s process, supporting them from a starting point of analysis, throught the adoption of the most suitable software solutions, to their upgrade and the optimization.
We are a life partner for your Journey to a digital and sustainable future.

Corintea

Corintea was founded in 1984. The characterizing and unifying element of its entire existence as a technical consultancy and planning company is the study and enhancement of the territory. Territorial issues are addressed and investigated by the multidisciplinary staff of Corintea from an agronomic, environmental, tourist, cultural, economic and social point of view, through the provision of integrated services of planning, design, consultancy, control, monitoring, technical assistance and training, aimed at public bodies and private entities.

Corintea has developed considerable experience in the Integrated Management and Control System (S.I.G.C.) of Community Contributions in the Agricultural sector (CAP) and has several R&D projects in progress aimed at integrating various relevant on site technologies with cutting-edge sensors, machines learning, analysis of multispectral and multitemporal satellite and aerial images, processing of big statistical, economic, agro-meteorological and environmental data to be applied to agroforestry, urban and infrastructural contexts.

University and research centres

The DFE’s ecosystem is also composed by university and research facilities. These operates actively to support the digital transformation into the food system, by taking into consideration the needs of sustainability, healthiness and reliability.

People

The DFE’s ecosystem is composed by experts: scientists, scholars, technologists.

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Davide Bardone Senior Data Scientist at aizoOn Discover more
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Davide

Bardone

  • Computer Engineer and Senior Data Scientist at aizoOn Digital Engineering & Innovation Division.
  • Study and development of statistical models, design and deployment of big data architectures.
  • Past experience in Research&Development activities, focusing on software solutions and architectures, Image Processing and Applied Machine Learning.
  • Academic research activities at Politecnico di Torino from 2008 to 2011, working on lossless compression techniques and web content classification models.
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Pierantonio Bertero Professor at UNITO Discover more
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Pierantonio

Bertero

  • Professor of Management Accounting at the Department of Management of the University of Torino.
  • Professor of Business Economics at the Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences of the University of Torino.
  • Research activity on new and sustainable business models in the food system.
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Luca Bolognini DigEI director at aizoOn Discover more
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Luca

Bolognini

  • M.Sc. in structural engineering (Politecnico di Milano), Director of the Digital Engineering and Innovation Division.
  • Consolidated management experience in the field of engineering consultancy for innovation and high technology.
  • Decades of R&D experience in the energy and industrial sectors, computer science and diagnostics areas.
  • Coordinator and leader of several European and National research funded projects, and of strategic projects for large industrial companies at an international level.
  • Several publications and participation in congresses, tutoring and teaching activities.
  • Member of the Technical-Scientific Committee of MADE, Industry 4.0 Competence Center.
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Laura Boschis CEO of Trustech s.r.l. and Micro Biofab s.r.l. Discover more
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Laura

Boschis

  • Chemistry degree.
  • Long experience in R&D for the production of electronic devices for telecommunications and sensors.
  • Knowledge of materials and process technologies.
  • Problem solving and design of innovative solutions in various industrial sectors.
  • Ability to manage research groups.
  • Strategic vision.
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Mauro Busa President, CEO and Business Director of Corintea Soc. Coop Discover more
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Mauro

Busa

  • Graduated in Agricultural Sciences, Agronomist.
  • President and operational vice-president, since 1984 of some companies and consortia active at national level in the provision of advanced services in agriculture.
  • Author of various publications, in particular in collaboration with Enea.
  • Vice President of Legacoop Piemonte.
  • Member of the Committee of Guarantors of National Legacoop.
  • Member of the Presidency of the National Association of Work and Service Cooperatives.
  • Member of the Surveillance Committee POR FESR Piemonte for a programming period.
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Luigi Cascarano GIS and Photointerpretation Coordinator Discover more
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Luigi

Cascarano

  • Graduated as Agricultural Expert.
  • Expert in Geographic Information Systems.
  • Technical coordinator and trainer in photo-interpretation activities for administrative checks (AGEA, ARPEA, OPLO).
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Valentina Comastri Junior Project Assistant at Corintea Discover more
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Valentina

Comastri

  • Graduated in Economics and Environmental Policies, Diploma in Data Science.
  • Junior Project Assistant for R&D projects at Corintea Soc. Coop.
  • Consultant on environmental and agricultural issues in the context of various European projects.
  • Expert in statistics and data processing and analysis.
  • Junior Project Assistant of Technical-administrative Check in the PSRN (CAP).
  • Junior Project Assistant of R&D projects related to smart agriculture.
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Silvia D'Alesio Food System Expert Discover more
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Silvia

D'Alesio

  • Food System Expert
  • Skilled in Food Brand Management
  • Skilled in Packaging Design
  • Food Product Innovator
  • Experience and activity in R&D
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Dario Dal Ferro Technical Manager at aizoOn Discover more
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Dario

Dal Ferro

  • Technical Manager for the Digital Engineering & Innovation division of aizoOn.
  • Technical Leader for Consumer Goods & Services sector on innovative solutions based on image analysis and data analysis (AI / ML / Deep Learning).
  • Experience in monitoring the processes of the Food & Beverage production chain, definition of specific KPis and feedback on the plants.
  • Design and construction of complex software architectures, from field data collection (sensors, ERP, MES, etc..), to the front-end for supporting strategic decisions.
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Paola De Bernardi Professor at UNITO Discover more
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Paola

De Bernardi

  • Professor of Management Control Systems and Circular Economy Management at University of Torino.
  • Research activity on new Business Models in Food System focusing on innovation and sustainability.
  • Member of EIT Food and ECESP LG "Food systems, Food Waste, Bioeconomy".
  • Expert |Jury |Mentor |Account Manager for the European Commission.
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Danilo Demarchi Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino Discover more
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Danilo

Demarchi

  • Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, with the tenures of “Introduction to MEMS and BioMEMS” for Biomedical and Electronics Engineering, of “Design of Microsystems” for Electronics Engineering and Nanotechnologies for ICT, of “Bio-NanoElectronics” for the PhD School in Electronics and Telecommunications and of "Electronics" for the Bachelor Degree in Biomedical Engineering
  • Visiting Professor at EPFL Lausanne (2019) and Tel Aviv University (2018-2021)
  • Visiting Scientist (2018) at MIT and Harvard Medical School for the SISTER project (Smart electronic IoT SysTEms for Rehabilitation sciences)
  • Author and co-author of 5 patents and more than 300 scientific publications
  • He manages MiNES (Micro & Nano Electronic Systems) Laboratory of the Turin Polytechnic and coordinates the Microelectronics group of the Italian Institute of Technology at the Turin Polytechnic
  • General Chair of the IEEE BioCAS (Biomedical Circuits and Systems) conference in 2017 and founder of the IEEE FoodCAS (Circuits and Systems for the Food Chain) Workshop
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Maria Lodovica Gullino Professor at UNITO Discover more
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Maria Lodovica

Gullino

  • Full Professor of Plant Pathology, Director of Agroinnova and Deputy Rector at the University of Torino.
  • Author and/or co-author of over 800 scientific publications and 28 books. Bibliometric indices: index H: 41, documents: 548, citations 6988 (July 2021)
  • Past-President of international and national scientific societies, has coordinated many European and international projects and has received various international and national awards.
  • As a journalist and writer is intensely involved in communication and scientific dissemination, even with children's books.
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Andrea Magnani Senior Project Assistant at Corintea Discover more
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Andrea

Magnani

  • Graduated in Agricultural Sciences, Agronomist and PhD in Soil Chemistry.
  • Author and / or co-author of scientific articles in international peer reviewed journals.
  • Collaborator on staff for Corintea Soc. Coop. on issues relating to CAP controls.
  • Senior Project Assistant for the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation (BCFN).
  • Involved in European projects concerning the innovation of the agri-food chain.
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Riccardo Marchesi Vice President and Technical Director of Corintea Soc. Coop. Discover more
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Riccardo

Marchesi

  • Graduated in Agricultural Sciences, Agronomist.
  • Vice president of Achab s.r.l. Benefit company.
  • Consultant on agricultural and environmental issues.
  • Project Manager of projects in the issues of waste management and sustainable development.
  • He wrote several articles and publications on environmental issues.
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Elena Micheletti Responsabile Area Internazionalizzazione Discover more
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Elena

Micheletti

  • Graduated in Economics and Business, and Master's Degree in "Analysis of Public Policies"
  • Member of the board of Corintea
  • Project manager in development projects in rural and mountain areas
  • Senior Assistant in national and international projects for the implementation of innovative technologies aimed at territorial enhancement
  • Project manager of international projects for Corintea within Pangea Soc. Coop
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Luca Ottone Client Manager at aizoOn Discover more
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Luca

Ottone

  • Graduated in Physics at UNITO
  • Client Manager of the Government division
  • Over 20 years of experience in the ICT consulting sector: PMP and SCRUM certified Project Manager, ITIL certified Service Manager
  • Management of IT project and services at leading companies of Energy & Utilities and Local Government markets
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Elena Ozzello R&D engineer at Trustech Discover more
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Elena

Ozzello

  • Problem solving and development in various industrial sectors: selection of materials and market analysis to improve existing or new products, optimization and analysis of production processes, feasibility studies, technological scouting for industrial and innovative applications.
  • Prototyping for electronic and microfluidic devices: design, fabrication and characterization. 2D, 3D design, mechanical processing, thin film deposition, patterning and functionalization of surfaces.
  • hD in Materials Engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin.
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Massimo Pugliese Associate Professor at Università di Torino Discover more
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Massimo

Pugliese

  • Associate in Plant Pathology, collaborator of Agroinnova, professor at University of Torino.
  • Founder of the spin-off company AgriNewTech srl, dealing with circular economy,
  • Carries out research activities in the field of sustainable crop protection and on circular economy for plant health.
  • Author and/or co-author of over 80 scientific publications. Bibliometric indexes: H index 13, documents 61, citations 550 (October 2021).
  • Member of International and National Scientific Societies, participated to several european and national research projects, also as principal investigator.
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Ivano Rossato Head of Digital Transition Area and CAP Checks Coordinator Discover more
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Ivano

Rossato

  • Graduated in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies.
  • Member of the board of Corintea.
  • Technical Coordinator of the Agricultural Checks and SIAN Management sector (AGEA).
  • Member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the Arcodrea consortium.
  • Responsible for R&D projects on evolved environmental surveys in the agro-forestry and urban fields.
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Livia Sandei Biomedical Engineer at Wonderware Discover more
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Livia

Sandei

  • Biomedical Engineer, University of Genoa.
  • Experienced consultant on MES projects for small, medium and large industries.
  • Many years of experience from technical support and R&D on MES projects, mainly in F&B and Pharmaceutical industries.
  • Solid experience in training and tutoring on MES systems, for national and international projects.
  • Member of the Triciclo board of directors, where I collaborate with passion and social commitment on social projects to help Genoese families.
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Davide Spadaro Professor at UNITO Discover more
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Davide

Spadaro

  • Full Professor of Plant Pathology at the Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Torino. Collaboration with AGROINNOVA – Centre of Competence of the University of Torino.
  • Research activity in Sustainable Crop Protection and Food Safety.
  • Experience in European (Horizon, EITFood, PRIMA, LIFE, COST) and national research projects.
  • SMC Postharvest Secretary at the International Society for Plant Pathology.
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Giuseppe Zeppa Professor at UNITO Discover more
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Giuseppe

Zeppa

  • Full Professor of Food Technologies and Sensory Analysis at the Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences at University of Turin.
  • Research activity on process and product innovation in the food system as well as on the compositional and sensory characterization of traditional food products.
  • Associate Editor of the Journal of Food Quality, of the Italian Journal of Science and of the International Journal of Dairy Technology.

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