Dr. Giovanni Rimassa is Chief Innovation Officer at Martel, supporting business development, market positioning and commercialisation activities, as well as leading initiatives around Artificial Intelligence, Human-Centered AI, and Computing Continuum. Giovanni shepherds ideas, approaches and applications from research validation through technology transfer and product conception and/or engineering. During his 20 year professional path between academia and industry, he authored scientific publications, participated in several research projects, and worked as an applied researcher and product manager for innovative software systems. Giovanni holds a Ph.D. in Information Engineering (Università di Parma, Italy), with a Thesis on Runtime Support for Distributed Multi-Agent Systems.