Cio+ Italia Award 2024: recognising the most innovative projects that are transforming Italy

In the CIO+ Empowerment Officer category, the winner was Piergiorgio Grossi, Chief Innovation & Data Officer at Credem, who presented the "AINEXT" project. which has made it possible to transform an already avant-garde business model into a true data-driven bank (solution), capable of integrating artificial intelligence in all its functions and thus enhancing its efficiency, governance and competitiveness, consolidating the group's position as sector leader. On his behalf, Stefano Bevivino, Team Leader Artificial Intelligence & Data Solution of Credem, took the stage to receive the award.

The winner of the CIO+ in the Digital PA award is Floriano Dian, Chief Digital & Technology of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti with the project 'Digital Bond on DLT': 'We operate in a market where the correlation between the success of companies and their ability to adopt new digital technologies is rapidly increasing. To support companies on their growth path in this context, systemic technology infrastructures need to evolve in tandem. The DLT Bond trial has shown how the use of distributed ledger technology and smart contracts within a regulated framework makes it possible to issue, purchase and settle central bank e-money in straight-through processing, avoiding lengthy post-trading phases. The potential for systemic efficiency that can result from a large-scale adoption of this model does not only affect financial markets, but also many companies and SMEs for which a new capital market would become accessible.

Winner infine in the CIO+ In the Green Digital Economy category special prize Alfredo Gatti in memory of the Founder of CIONET Italia is Claudio Balbo, Head of IT Architecture of Intesa Sanpaolo "GT Gen-AI", who says: "This award represents a further recognition of our Group as a best practice in technology and confirms the market's interest in the digital transformation path undertaken by Intesa Sanpaolo, which has made innovation and the adoption at scale of new technologies one of the enabling aspects of the 2022-2025 Business Plan. In the adoption of generative AI technologies for IT activities, particularly in the Software Delivery Life Cycle, Intesa Sanpaolo is acting as a first mover, having created a platform that covers the entire sw delivery cycle and having made it available to its approximately 6,000 IT resources in Italy and abroad and, in the coming weeks, to external system integrators. This platform, called GT GenAI, marks an important starting point to organically include generative AI technologies in the processes of the IT structure, with the finality of increasing the capacity to address the growing digitisation needs of the Group and the country.

The Jury's contribution to the success of this edition of the CIO+ ITALIA AWARD 2024 was invaluable, as it was a spokesperson for the guidelines that characterise the digital world today and to whom we extend our deepest thanks: Davide Gindro Group Chief Information Officer & Chief Digital Officer of SOL Group, Claudia Curci Dipt. Giustizia Tributaria - Direzione Sistemi Informativi Statistica Organizzazione e Bilancio of the Mef, Claudio Farina Chief Strategy & Technology Officer of Snam, Francesco Ferri CEO of Gellify, Simona Maschi CEO & CoFounder of CIID, Roberto Nicastro Chairman & CoFounder of Aidexa, Barbara Poli Chief Information & Technology Officer of GNV, Alessandro Puleo CISO of Amundi, Andrea Roero CIO of Molteni and Filippo Satolli Advisor.

Last but not least, a heartfelt thank you goes to CIONET's Business Partners Adesso.it, Cloudflare, Cubbit, Google Cloud, Hitachi Vantara, Mega, Snowflake, Stefanini Group, VEM Sistemi, and the evening's suppliers: Palazzo Visconti, Lumière Banqueting, Bridge srl and Dj GabDez, for enabling and supporting the optimal success of this edition of the CIO+ ITALIA AWARD 2024.