Meet Paolo De Rosa, CTO - Italian Government - Department of Digital Transformation, who has been nominated for our prestigious European Digital Leader of the Year 2023 Award! Register here 👉 https://www.cionext.com/ to meet all finalists at #CIONEXT on the 26th of October, where the winners in the Finance & Government categories will be announced!
In this Leadership Deep Dive interview Paolo talks with Hendrik Deckers about the National Strategic Hub, a dedicated cloud infrastructure that addresses national security and digital sovereignty needs of public administration. Paolo also explains how he and his team developed Immuni, an open source digital contact tracing App and the EU Digital Covid Certificate (Green Pass). Paolo strongly believes that technology requires certain principles and when used properly can contribute to a better world.
Table of contents
01:27 | Introduction and Paolo De Rosa’s background
04:24 | Three pillars of the National Cloud Strategy
10:55 | National Strategic Hub
12:58 | Huge budget for a huge plan
14:22 | Ambitious digital compass from European Commission
18:24 | Paolo’s role as CTO
20:49 | The biggest challenge
23:29 | Green Pass
31:34 | Collaboration across Europe
34:22 | Urgency as motivation
35:13 | Digital Transformation Department and its role
41:02 | Organizational model
43:37 | Paolo’s role as CTO
44:29 | Building strong teams
47:50 | Paolo’s leadership style
50:48 | MBTI: the Entrepreneur
55:30 | Paolo’s mentors
56:30 | The best and worst moments in Paolo’s life
58:19 | The most brilliant mistake
01:00:56 | Paolo’s passions
01:01:44 | The most exciting technologies
01:04:04 | Advice for people starting out
