Michele Festuccia

Leading the team of pre-sales systems engineers with coverage of national Enterprise and Public-Sector markets. At the same time is leader of “Safety For Food [S4F]”one of the tracks of the Cisco Digitization Acceleration program. S4F is focused on the digital technologies adoption in Agrifood national and global market: big data, IoT and blockchain. Until 2014, Michele Festuccia was owner of the Solution LED team of Cisco Italia: a workgroup focused on solutions creation to address business needs of vertical markets like automotive, transportation, retail, industry and commercial. Really relevant has been the creation and development of BIZMAL, the first marketplace of digital solutions and bundle propositions for Cisco Distributor 2.0 program in collaboration with CGROSS: www.bizmall.com. In Cisco Italy from June 1998 to 2010 he has held various roles within the technical pre-sales organization (Systems Engineer, Solution Architect, Subject Matter Expert in Smart Grid, Industry 4.0 and Agri-Food) and has followed several markets (Public Sector, Defense and Utilities) and customers of international relevance (GAAR, Ministry of Defense, Poste Italiane, ENEL holding). During this period Michele Festuccia has been collaborating with the Emerging Technology Group and the T&D Solutions Core Team of Smart Grid BU, as well. First working experience at Pride SpA [January 1997 – May 1998], an Italian software house and system integrator, specialized in ICT sector, as Project Manager of DSL and ATM testing laboratories owned by Telecom Italia.