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Vincenzo Pallotta

Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

My passion is what you get when you share your ideas with me. Probably, I can help you turning them into opportunities because with me you will see things from a different perspective which will allow you to connect the dots that you normally don't see.

Entrepreneur, scientist and trainer, I have worked for IBM and Apple as an analyst and software developer. I have founded a company in advanced semantic technologies for customer interaction analytics. I have spent 15+ years in scientific research and higher-education with several positions ranging from senior researcher, professor and associate dean.

I am currently a passionate Lean Startup adviser and coach who guides you into the processes of innovation, business modeling and customer development. I am also a chartered Project Manager with skills in Information Technology, Innovation, and People.

We can brainstorm together around a cup of coffee and I will listen to your vision and dreams. I am an eager learner and I like to learn about what you do and what you want to achieve with your projects. We can mash up my passion and experience with your vision and enthusiasm and let the solution naturally emerge.

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Bring Innovation to Market, in Startups and Enterprises.

LeanStart is the first Swiss advisory service based on Lean Startup. A unique feature of LeanStart is a different approach to strategy for early-stage startups to bring them to extensive market intelligence with a minimum initial investment. We target startups where innovation lies mostly on their business model and whose risk is mainly market and customer related.

The service is run by Dr. Vincenzo Pallotta, a scientist by training, and an entrepreneur by vocation, Vincenzo has been active in Information and Communication Technology since 1985. He started as an Analyst and Enterprise Software developer at IBM and Apple systems agents, after six years I came back to study and earned a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science. He is also professor of IT, Project and Operation Management and Entrepreneurship in several higher-education institutions in Switzerland.

Expert in Computer Science, he has explored both theoretical and applied fields such as Computational Logics and Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Computational Linguistics, Human-Computer Interaction, Web, Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing. I these areas he has published 70+ articles and several chapters in textbooks and edited collections, he is also the author of 4 books.

In education, he started very early in 1987 in technical instructor. At university level, he has been teaching courses in Computing, Information Systems and Project Management. He has been also invited as guest lecturer for tutorials in international conferences.

As an entrepreneur, he succeeded in leveraging research results into an innovative product in the area of Customer Interaction Analytics. He is always searching for new business opportunities and challenges aimed at solving relevant problems. With his backgrounds and experience he can help startups in their research for a viable and scalable Business Model.

Expert in Education Quality and Program Accreditation

Long and broad experience in adult and higher education. Filled various positions and was responsible of quality assurance and accreditation programs (IACBE, ISO29990, EDUQUA).

I can help in restructuring existing academic curricula and design new ones. Knowing both sides of education, I can easily understand all stakeholder requirements and needs. My project management skills as well as my communication and social skills make me the right person to support you in training programs design and implementation.

Technology Transfer

Invention does not equal Innovation. Many engineers have invented new technologies but they are still unable to find a real-world application. Transferring technology to industry is not just about protecting intellectual property, but it is mostly about finding a viable markets and building products that fit that markets.

I can help in connecting the dots to bridge your technology with its right application so that your invention can have a true impact in the real world. For doing that, I will guide you through the design of a Business Model as well as asking yourself the necessary questions that you need to answer in order to validate it.

Without validating a viable and robust Business Model, it does not make much sense to build a product that only mirrors the technology but does not solve a compelling problem or fulfills an actual demand.

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I met Vincenzo in 2004 while we both were visitors at UC Berkeley. We share a common interest in text summarization as well as other NLP related research topics and had some interesting discusstions. I am especially impressed with his extensive knowledge in a wide range of field in NLP, AI and computing methods in general.

Shuhua Liu Source: LinkedIn

We have worked together at EPFL and I must say that Vincenzo has very good communication skills, he is very creative at writting and has a really good broad view of computer science.

Vincenzo is a highly motivated person. I strongly recommend him.

David Portabella Source: LinkedIn

I collaborated with Vincenzo on a research topic that overlapped between his research and my PhD work. It lead to constructive results and a publication at a major conference in our scientific field. My experience of working with Vincenzo was that he was very resourceful and always brought the important ideas to the table that enabled us to progress. I also found that he was very knowledgeable about the state of the art in the research field and what other research teams were doing. In overall, working with him was very agreeable and I wouldn't hesitate to work with him again in the future.

Marita Ailomaa Source: LinkedIn

Vincenzo was a visiting scholar with the FrameNet project at ICSI, Berkeley in 2004-2005. FrameNet (http://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu) is a project withing the AI group at ICSI, which I lead.

While I did not directly supervise Vincenzo, we interacted frequently
during his visit. I found our conversations pleasant and always interesting. Vincenzo is technically strong, has good people skills, and the ability to follow through on an idea. During his visit with my group, Vincenzo
organized a conference on robust parsing and was the prime mover in
starting a multi-lingual language resource building effort across
ramance languages. The language resource idea was to use the English
FrameNet as a seed to bootstrap FrameNet developments in these other
languages. I have not kept close track of the most recent developments
but I remember that this activity generated considerable community
wide excitement. Vincenzo is creative, works hard, has a cheerful and
calm disposition, and should be a valuable team player.

Srini Narayanan Source: LinkedIn

I worked with Vincenzo at SELCODATA Srl about 20 years ago. Being such a long time, I will report here only the "essential" memories of the time we spent together.

From that period, one of the most positive things about Vincenzo was certainly his determination and tenacity in defending his ideas and standpoints. At that time, although relatively young, he was the most experienced in Xenix in our team, and consequently he had to face a few conflicts with those people among us who believed of being more expert because of their age, their role in the company, and their knowledge allegedly derived from their earned degrees.

The same tenacity was apparent in his absolute determination in finding solutions for technical and operational issues raised by our clients. He has shown great professionalism and accountability in dealing with clients' issues. This was sometimes misunderstood and rather considered a weakness by some of our managers because, due to his young age, he did not understand the company's business "policies" that were more oriented towards cutting costs rather than ensuring the quality of the provided services.

Another aspect I remember about working with Vincenzo is his teamwork (at least with their colleagues) and his ability to listen and give advices, which is fundamental to enable collaboration in groups. From the personal and social perspective, he was a friendly guy, capable of creating, within the limits of work's rules, a joyful, playful and relaxed atmosphere among his colleagues, so that the work hours were less stressful and more enjoyable. The social relationships he created at work extended also beyond the work hours.

I always been convinced that our work requires focus and healthy work conditions. Only in this way we can keep working nicely and with satisfaction. It does not count the amount of hours one works, but the intensity and effectiveness of the achieved results. I believe that in this sense, Vincenzo was able to create the right work environment to for this to happen.

Roberto Di Franco Source: LinkedIn

Vincenzo work continually to improve ideas and solutions; I really appreciated his sphere of excellence creative with a stroke of brilliance.

Vincenzo knows that there is always something for improvement...

Mohammed Momouh Khadraoui Source: LinkedIn

I have known Vincenzo many years ago when he was acting as teaching assistant. A very good and communicative teacher and nice person to deal with.

Maria Simi Source: LinkedIn

I have come to know Vincenzo when we were working on the IM2 project. He encouraged me to send a paper to LREC about automatic keyword extraction. We sent a paper (in collaboration with Martin Rajman) and it was accepted.

I have come to know Vincenzo as a very honest, enthusiastic, and independent researcher. Writing a paper with him was good. Especially, since he was in the States at that time and we could work on it continuously due to time differences. From my experiences I would say that Vincenzo is an independent thinker, a good collaborator and an honest person. It is good that he asked us to send a reference, because I am afraid that he might not express his own value.

Lonneke van der Plas Source: LinkedIn

Vicenzo is a very proactive, enthusiastic research scientist who is always trying to relate his interesting research work and others'.

Francisco J. Valverde Source: LinkedIn

I met Vincenzo Pallotta during my sabbatical visit at EPFL in 2001 and we collaborated in the field of Intelligent Tutoring Systems. We had several insightful discussions and we came up with some nice ideas that eventually resulted in a paper that was published in an international conference. Collaborating with Vincenzo was a nice and an intellectually enriching experience. I recommend Vincenzo for his flexibility and wide-spectrum view on computer and information science as well as for his attitude towards collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Esma Aimeur Source: LinkedIn

Although I never worked directly with Vincenzo, we time to time discussed around a coffee or lunch. Vincenzo is full of ideas, cultivated, and definitely a creative person.

Denis Lalanne Source: LinkedIn

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