#010 — Antonio Grasso: Leadership, business motivation and start-ups​

Founder and CEO of Italian startup Digital Business Innovation Srl, Antonio is regarded as one of the top Digital Transformation influencers on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, digital transformation, the Internet of Things, and blockchain.

Antonio Grasso has over 37 years of experience handling numerous projects in the field of information technology for both enterprise and public sectors. He believes that digital transformation is a digital evolution process that involves many aspects, and technology is only a component of the puzzle. For him, the biggest hurdle is a cultural change, and a strategic approach to face this epochal change is paramount.

He is an advisor, and enterprise and public sector consultant and mentor to numerous startups. He is currently collaborating with Siemens, Intel, The European Commission, Atos, Cisco, Ericsson, IBM, Talend, Huawei, Automation Anywhere, Oracle, Splunk, HPE, ASG tech, Ant Financial, Almawave, SAS Institute, Adobe and many others as Content Advisor, B2B Influencer, Author and Software Innovator.

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TIMESTAMPS:

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:58 Who is Antonio?
• 03:07 Tell us about your projects
• 6:54 Smart cities
• 9:58 Your views on smart cities and other technologies, the human and tech
• 14:35 Difference between corporations and start-ups
• 18:53 Will corporations need to revisit their operating model to keep up with the competition? (vs start-ups)
• 22:34 Multi-generational teams
• 27:55 Questions every entrepreneur must be able to answer
• 34:05 Your approach to set meaningful goals
• 36:32 What are the skills and/or character traits that helped you so far in your life?