Metti un funambolo in Silicon Valley
An open discussion about entrepreneurship, innovation and new business. The evening is dedicated to a new model and its pioneer Fabrizio Capobianco. The idea is simple: we have talented engineers in Italy, flexible, creative, faithful enough to the company .... but our market is too small and venture capital are scarce.
Why don't we combine the "Italian Genius" with the capital and the U.S. market? ... It can be done, as Funambol from Mountain View - Silicon Valley - shows.
An open model, innovative and adaptable to the global market, with over 400 Italian entrepreneurs, managers and associates in SVIEC of Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley Italian Executive Council, ready to give help.
Fabrizio Capobianco is CEO of Funambol, Inc., the leading provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push email solutions for billions of phones. Fabrizio has extensive expertise in the mobile industry, with work experience that includes Reuters and Tibco. He is a successful entrepreneur, having founded the first Italian Web company in 1994 as well as a developer of an information portal with customers that included Kraft, Novartis, Italian Broadcasting Television and the Italian Stock Exchange. Fabrizio has taught university courses on mobile and holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pavia, Italy, with a focus on usability. He has been recognized as a top '40 under 40' high tech leader and a mobile visionary. He writes a blog that was voted among the best in the industry by FierceWireless. He is also a renown industry speaker who has spoken at numerous mobile conferences around the world, including GSMA Mobile World Congress and CTIA.
