Artificial Intelligence

AI: Sandei (Almaviva), increasingly central, looking for 30 PhDs and 80 technicians

Says the CEO of Almawave, who recently became the newly appointed Director Global artificial intelligence of the entire group

by Simona Rossitto

30 April 2026

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Key points

AI increasingly central to the whole group
Delisting Almawave frees resources
Need for internal reskilling

3' min read

Translated by AI

Versione italiana

(Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - AI, often accused of being the cause of job cuts, is also helping to create new ones. To contribute to the search for new profiles. "Right now," Valeria Sandei, newly appointed director of global artificial intelligence for the Almaviva group and managing director of the subsidiary Almavawe, tells Radiocor, "we need and demand human skills. In Italia alone we are looking for about 30 PhDs and experts in computer science. High-level profiles focused on the expansion of artificial intelligence. Furthermore, to accompany this development phase with concrete market applications and field experience, we are looking for about 80 high-profile technicians'.

AI increasingly central to the whole group

Artificial intelligence is increasingly central to the strategy of the entire Almaviva group, which in recent months decided to delist its subsidiary

Almawave, focused precisely on artificial intelligence, and to entrust the Global AI direction to Sandei: 'AI is not stand-alone, but pervasive: it affects all business areas in which we operate as a group, both in terms of solutions, collaborations, design and initiative'.

Delisting Almawave frees resources

The decision to take over Almawave, which took place in recent months, 'is an element that is helping to free up many operational synergies, and is enabling us to interact more and more as a group with a shared vision, eliminating filters and barriers that exist when paths are more distinct'.

The Almaviva group, recalls Sandei, 'globally counts more than 50 per cent of its revenues abroad. It is increasingly important to have a common, decisive and coherent vision with regard to the various areas in which we operate. On the one hand, important investments are in sight in Italia, in collaboration with universities, SMEs; on the other hand, with the new reorganisation, we have the ability to interact and develop with all our partners, both global and local, an increasingly innovative offer'. The new Global AI department, reporting directly to the group's CEO, Marco Tripi, has, as announced in a press release, taken over the strategic positioning and evolution of the offer on Artificial Intelligence issues.

Need for internal reskilling

The centrality of AI will lead to a process of reskilling internal skills. "As AI comes on board, a key word for us is that of all-round continuous training, involving all the skills of our

organisation. It is an element of transformation of all the company's operational and production processes. It becomes a decisive element, also directed externally, a differentiating factor with a view to grounding initiatives of measurable value'.

From an international perspective, 'we have the ability to implement in all the countries where we operate, keys to respond to the different needs that we are able to grasp in the markets where we are present. From the USA to Brazil, to all of Latin America, to the entire European and Italia context in which we are present'.

In this new context, Almawave, now a subsidiary of Almaviva and no longer listed, 'is increasingly called upon to be a centre of technological innovation on AI, in a more synergic and integrated manner with the group. This is the goal we are working for: to maintain a strong technological vocation, with projects and initiatives of great value, interacting more and more with all the divisions of the group'.

In conclusion, 'AI is becoming pervasive, we must be the first to seize it and position it as effectively as possible, no resource should be depleted, instead we must be able to express with increasing strength and speed all the capabilities we have at our disposal. A group such as ours, which is growing and evolving at a global level, is confronted with realities of great relevance at a national and international level and must express all its potential at 100%'.