Milan

🇮🇹 Tomorrow at Il Salone dei Pagamenti in Milan - finally spending quality time in my hometown. As VP Product at Chain4Travel, I’m focused on digital payment and identity infrastructure for travel. I’m looking to partner with neobanks, payment processors, stablecoin issuers, and digital wallet providers to link payment rails directly to bookings on Camino Network - enabling atomic transactions that reduce costs and accelerate settlement. With this year’s theme on AI and agentic commerce, the timing feels right: as autonomous agents start handling travel purchases, a transaction layer that grounds payments and identity to blockchain-based source of truth becomes essential. ...

What a great 4th meeting of the [Gen]AI Italy meetup yesterday in Milan, where I joined an A-Team of speakers by FairMind who delved deep into open-source models and architectures for GenAI, moving from theory to real-world implementation. 🔹 Alexio Cassani kicked it off with a survey on the state of the art of open models. Starting from a thought-provoking exploration of “Open… What?”, he challenged our assumptions about open-source LLMs while pressing an important point: open model training, evaluation, and deployment architectures are crucial for LLM research to move forward outside walled gardens. This sustains a vital open model ecosystem that enables data protection, IP retention, and ultimately, business sustainability of GenAI solutions. ...