SDVCon 2024

Computer engineer with a passion for hardware and successful manager Fabio Violante is one of the most famous alumni of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, at least in the Italian and international tech-community, where he’s best known for his role as CEO of Arduino, the open-source platform for rapid prototyping used every day by millions of designers, planners and companies to quickly and easily build intelligent objects and digital devices.

Fabio's brilliant career started at the Politecnico di Milano, where, with some colleagues and teachers, he co-founded a start-up that was able to grasp the potential of the newborn internet network and was globally appreciated for its consulting services and its activities in the field of software engineering. Then came the acquisition by a large American company, in which for years he held a role of great responsibility, and finally he got to Arduino, where as CEO he’s working on projects that aim to make the package of solutions offered by the company even more versatile and complete, by looking to the future of connected objects and the Internet of Things.