Driving Transformation through AI and Digitalisation

20 May 2026
hours 16:30

Event description

This panel explores how AI and digitalisation influence innovation across diverse industries. Emerging technologies are increasingly specialised for specific use cases — from productivity and automation to voice and conversational tools — reflecting a shift from generic models to tailored applications.

The discussion highlights how innovation supports solutions, enhances efficiencies in sectors and contributes to evolving approaches in business ecosystems.

On stage start-ups that will pitch in 2 minutes each

Speakers:
Charlotte Ekelund, Account Executive Nordics Digital Natives Pursuit Microsoft
Jair Ribeiro, AI & Data Center of Excellence Director MSX International
Elsa Giolito, Program Manager SSE Business Lab

Moderator:
Lucia Gambuzzi, Startup Ecosystem Manager SMAU

#digitalisation #AI #emergingtechnologies

Details

  1. 1 hour

Speakers in this Panel

Lucia Gambuzzi

Lucia Gambuzzi 18.10.1991, Mirandola (MO), Italy | After spending the last 3 years in Tel Aviv, Oslo, and Paris with Techstars and former Innovation Advisor of the City of Turin, Lucia is currently managing the startup ecosystem of SMAU, Bolzano Slush'D and other innovative operators...Read more

Jair Ribeiro

Jair Ribeiro is AI & Data Center of Excellence Director at MSX International, where the company’s AI and data agenda is led with a focus on governance, scalability, and responsible adoption. Based in Sweden with deep roots in Italy, work spans business and technology to turn AI into a...Read more

Elsa Giolito

Elsa is Senior Program Manager at SSE Business Lab, the Nordics' leading startup hub according to the Financial Times. With a background in VC and strategic entrepreneurship from RSM, she has supported over 100 startups — sending five to Y Combinator and helping founders raise from...Read more

Charlotte Ekelund

Charlotte founded her own tech startup (a virtual office platform called Teemyco) via Antler in 2019. She ran this multi-VC-backed company as the CEO with a distributed team as the CEO for four years and served in the board until it was acquired a few years later. After running her own...Read more