Raffaele Gareri

Raffaele Gareri is CoFounder and CEO of Venturerock Urban Italy SpA and President of Scientific Committee of TSCAI (The Smart City Association Italy). He spent two years in Tiscali as Chief Government Officer, and he was Co-Founder and first President of TSCAI, a non-profit association of private companies and local authorities for the promotion of urban innovation models and services. Raffaele worked for over 25 years in the local governments, first in Province of Brescia and lately in Roma Capitale, in which he hold various top management positions. He coordinated various local and national innovation projects. In particular, when in Roma Capitale, he designed the Roma Smart City Plan, a programme for the economic and social development of the city, co-designed with different departments of the municipality, as well as with other city stakeholders. Previosuly, for over 2 years he hold the role of President of Ento (European Network of Training Organization), an association of the Council of Europe and was co-author with Bas Boorsma of the book A New Digital Deal 2020 Italian Edition, which deals with models for Smart Cities and how to best use Digitization at the service of our communities. Raffaele graduated in Electronic Engineering in Genoa and obtained a Masters in Management of Local Authorities at Bocconi University in Milan. He has hold various lectures at the Polytechnic of Milan, at the University of Brescia, at Luiss Business School in Rome and at the HSE University of St. Petersburg on the subjects of innovation.