Leandro Agro'

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Strategic AI and Robotics Partnerships @ SRI
Palo Alto, CA, US
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I am an awarded IxD/UX Director, IoT pioneer, patents contributor, author with 20+ years of design and team leadership. I served brands like Warner Bros, Unicef, Orange, Generali, Jansenn, Symantech, Eni, 3M, PepsiCo collecting –during the path- 2 WebAwards, 2 TechGarage prize, 2 ADI index mentions and other accomplishment including a student award at the Apple Design Project.I am also founder and co-author of Frontiers of Interactions a leading Interaction design Conference; Frontiers is the place where the design and technology guru from all over the planet meets together. Past speaker list includes the inventor of TED conference Richard Saul Wurman, the founder of Activision David Crane, the godfather of the Internet of Things Bruce Sterling, the theorist of the New Economy Kevin Kelly, the author of the Whole Earth Catalog Stewart Brand and many others top designers from Google, Yahoo, Twitter, etc. I’m also share holder at SrLabs (world class technology in the Eye Tracking field), JoinPad (leader in the augmented reality technology, including high professional AR Glasses) and TOK.tv (absolutely the best Sport dedicated social platform, serving more than 30MM users and 3 of the top 4 soccer club worldwide).I am the author of "IoT Designer" (Franco Angeli Editore) and "Internet of Humans" (Egea) and I contributed to seven other books. As speaker I talked at: Distruptive Week (2015), Richmond IT Director Forum (2013), TED MED live (2012), TEDx (2011), CSR4 Research Center (2010), World Usability Day (2009), UXCON (2009, 2011), Internet Evolution (2009), Birds of a Feather at ETech (2008), World Business Forum (2007), BayCHI (2007). During my professional life, several magazines, newspapers and TV shows mentioned my projects or interviewed me. This list includes: WIRED, Mashable, Reuters, New York Times, CNN, Creative Communication, Glamour and all main Italian newspaper and TV.

Leandro Agro''s Current Company Details
SRI

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Strategic AI and Robotics Partnerships
Palo Alto, CA, US
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sri.com
Employees:
2833
Leandro Agro' Work Experience Details
  • Sri
    Strategic Ai And Robotics Partnerships
    Sri
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
  • Innovit - Italian Innovation And Culture Hub
    Head Of Hardware And Robotics Program
    Innovit - Italian Innovation And Culture Hub
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
  • Metavethics Institute
    Advisor
    Metavethics Institute Mar 2023 - Present
    Cambridge, Gb
    Metavethics provides the right tools to design, build, deliver, and run sustainable, ethical, and inclusive digital, virtual, and immersive environments and metaverses.
  • Innovit - Italian Innovation And Culture Hub
    Head Of Innovation Programs
    Innovit - Italian Innovation And Culture Hub Feb 2023 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    As INNOVIT Head of Innovation Programs, I design, develop, and lead the innovation program portfolio, ensuring alignment with the Italian Institutions and company objectives. I define and track key metrics to measure the success of innovation programs while developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, including executives, partners, and investors.
  • Multiply Labs
    Senior Design Advisor
    Multiply Labs Jul 2022 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Multiply Labs is one of the most incredible startups I have ever met in SIlicon Valley. The Robots we built are bringing a fundamental disruption in pharmaceutical manufacturing. I am honored to support their rockstars' team in any aspect of their design journey.
  • Ntt Disruption
    Director Exponential Technologies (Spatial / Immersive)
    Ntt Disruption Dec 2020 - Feb 2023
    Design is a fundamental part of any innovation process. Design leaders have to take the call to shape exponential technologies; Spatial technologies, AR/VR/XR, will shape our future, evolve our habits, influence our social interaction. We are living in a moment where technology is running exponentially fast. Contributing to a desirable future is a mandatory responsibility and an enormous economic opportunity.
  • Design Group Italia
    Executive Digital Director
    Design Group Italia Jun 2018 - Dec 2020
    Milano, Mi, It
  • Design Group Italia
    Digital Product Director
    Design Group Italia Jan 2014 - Dec 2020
    Milano, Mi, It
    I started my professional path in Domus Academy and -as designer- I traveled many digital spaces both in Italy and US. Now, my experience into UX field and the Internet of Things, found a new home:As Digital Product Director at DESIGN GROUP (Milan, NYC) I am responsabile for the "intelligence" and "soul" that we will bring into all the objects and spaces we deliver. We bring digital life into everyday objects. Clients: PepsiCo, 3M, Unilever, ABB, Generali, etc.http://www.designgroupitalia.com
  • Razorfish Healthware
    Ux Principal
    Razorfish Healthware Jan 2011 - Dec 2013
    Principal Experience Architect RAZORFISH HEALTHWARE (PHCG) part of the world wide largest ADV-communication company: Publicis Omnicom Group.As a Principal Experience Architect Leandro is involved in strategic decisions, including the definition of Design methodologies, UX career families and deliverables.Recent projects includes:- HealthCare Consumerization, Strategic Whitepaper about eHealth- Videum.com Healthcare Video in any language (we got many international awards) - Starchannel a digital signage/TV solution for DrugStores.- Geeks of health magazine (from strategy to wireframes)plus, the every day strategic and UX design for companies like: AZ, Sanofi, Helsinn, BMS, Jansenn, DOC Generici, etc.Leandro contributes to the vision and culture company, with articles, whitepaper, and as a speaker in conferences like TED MED LIVE, TEDx, etc.
  • Widetag, Inc
    Founder
    Widetag, Inc Feb 2008 - Jan 2011
    Redwood City, Ca, Us
    WideTag is a cultural startup about the Internet of Things.Featured Projects:- SEM, The Social Energy Meter (Social Hardware / Internet of Things)Monitoring residential Energy Consumption: SEM is based on a stunning new software technology called WideSpime. A real life SEM is currently deployed in a Top10 world Energy Company. Online prototype: semdemo.widetag.com- WideNoise (iPhone APP / Internet of Things)Sold in about 30K copies, this iphone app was included by the NewYork Times in the Top10 Internet of Things Products.- iCrocco & Hacking IKEA (Social Hardware / Internet of Things)An USB interactive toy packed of sensors, that share information in realtime trough blog’s and Social Networks. A prototype for a Facebook physical UI.
  • Kallideas Group Spa
    Lab Design & Vision Director
    Kallideas Group Spa Jan 2006 - Jan 2008
    Starting from "apple knowledge navigator" dream, Kallideas is designing and delivering a revolutionary technology in Customer Interaction field. My personal commitment as competence leader is to define every specifications about behaviours (our sw feel the mood of the user) and Gui (mostly vocal) of the first "intelligent virtual assistant" specifically designed for the financial and medical field. I started from recruiting, process setting, etc. My role included:- definition of general behaviour of the virtual assistant (including gesture, language, etc)- definition of emotion models- definition of the apparence- GUI design- scouting about academics and R&D center involved in this field- support to the technology scouting- spread culture of emodiment (humans and machines will collapse into pixels).
  • Sr Labs
    Vgeneral Manager And Advanced Design Director
    Sr Labs Feb 2003 - Dec 2005
    Milano, Milano, It
    SrLabs is a highly innovative italian company focused on eye-tracking technologies. During this experience I was leading a team developing projects based on multimodal interfaces and earned the responsibility of Advanced Design Director (head of production + communication manager).I was continuonly involved in R&D project and Part of the company strategy commitee. Three important project in this almost three years, were:1) iAble. This product will be a "revolution" in quality of life for people with heavy disability. 2) iMed (Medical interfaces). We developed for Philips a multimodal GUI. We used voice+eyes to control a PC mouseless in with Doctors don't need to use the keyboard.3) ICS -Intelligent Cropping System: Process, enviroment and interfaces for an innovative eye-tracking based 3G-video optimization service. Cool and effective Dynamic Cropping (very interesting for one-step video format/dimension optimizations) delivered to the Movie Industry!
  • Altoprofilo Spa
    Vicepresident Presales + R&D
    Altoprofilo Spa Mar 2000 - Jan 2003
    In 2000, I co-founded the first italian firm in e-business consultancy. Our Company, called Altoprofilo -The User Experience Company- was supported by a multimillion venture capital from Pirelli Group (myQube), and we started out in Milan and Boston (in which we located the R&D team, lead by Giuseppe Taibi). At the very beginning, I got the role of Chief Creative Officer and built two different divisions of the company (Creative Staff + HCI department). My activities involved recruiting, salary planning, team building, etc. For two years I was part of the Board of Directors (toghether with some top-managers from Olivetti, Pirelli, Telecom, IBM) and -in the second half of 2002- I was named VP for Creative Business (PreSales and R&D).This experience was very important to establish a deep understanding of the consultancy business. I also learned an important lesson on how to manage a company involving more than one hundred people. I left this position in the first quarter of 2003.

Leandro Agro' Skills

User Experience Interaction Design User Interface Design Experience Design Start Ups Web 2.0 User Experience Design Strategy Usability Information Architecture Human Computer Interaction User Interface Entrepreneurship User Centered Design Social Networking Digital Strategy Mobile Applications Design Thinking Social Media Team Leadership Wireframes Mobile Devices E Commerce Service Design Usability Testing Eye Tracking Information Design Agile Methodologies Team Building Creative Strategy Web Project Management Internet Of Things Heuristic Analysis Futurist Thinking Outside The Box Experience Strategy Visual Thinking Design Review Ambient Intelligence Talent Scouting Technology Scouting Futurism Design Strategy Health 2.0 Managed Futures

Leandro Agro' Education Details

  • Stanford Continuing Studies
    Stanford Continuing Studies
    It’S A Practical Skill That Help To Design A Desidered Future.
  • Stanford Continuing Studies
    Stanford Continuing Studies
    Iot Product Management
  • Domus Academy
    Domus Academy
    Interaction Design

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