Shaping the Future: Careers and Innovation
Shaping the Future: Careers and Innovation
IEEE TEMS President
Meet the innovators shaping the industry
Cubit Innovation Labs is a public-private consortium founded in 2007 by the University of Pisa, Polo Tecnologico di Navacchio and innovative Italian companies. It provides applied research and product engineering services, turning research into industrial solutions. Its expertise spans embedded electronics, IoT, edge AI, intelligent automation and fluid dynamics. Cubit supports companies from feasibility studies and prototyping to system integration.
Founded in 2001, Net7 Srl is an Italian IT company specialising in the design and development of innovative digital solutions, combining a user-centred design approach with advanced technologies. The company serves Public Administrations, Research Institutions and industrial clients, particularly in the Manufacturing and Shipbuilding sectors. Its core areas of expertise include Artificial Intelligence, Web Design and Development, Semantic Web technologies, Knowledge Graphs and Data Analytics.
Wondersys S.r.l. is a technology boutique specializing in high-complexity software engineering, artificial intelligence, and cloud transformation. Certified to ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, and UNI CEI EN 17799:2024, Wondersys acts as a strategic technology partner architecting and developing custom, cloud-native solutions designed to solve complex business and research challenges in mission-critical environments.
Orlando Pandolfi Studio, based in Carrara. A pioneer of Mining Art for stone quarries, mines and systemics in industrial offshore diving, building on the experience of two generations with projects in Europe, Africa, Asia and North and South America. With its patented Visual Mining Art, over the years the Studio has boosted the digitalization of the industry, while promoting and taking part in integrated research.
Finance Partners is a Lucca-based innovative start-up delivering subscription-based Finance Direction (Fractional CFO) to Italian SMEs with revenues between EUR 1 million and EUR 50 million. Its senior Partner CFOs work on Aura, a proprietary multi-agent platform where an ERP-agnostic document processor, a multi-tenant central database and a deterministic Python/SQL KPI engine, with LLM agents confined to document classification, chart-of-accounts mapping and narrative generation, never to the arithmetic. The agents prepare, the Partner CFO decides: no output reaches the client without human review and sign-off.
Proxima Robotics has developed a hardware-agnostic operating system for industrial mobile robots, enabling them to navigate autonomously and organize themselves into fleets.
noze was founded in Pisa in July 2000 and has been based at the Polo Tecnologico di Navacchio since 2002. We develop products based on AI agents: CyberAgent, DataGovern, IntelliPA, AgenticHealth, VerdePilot and Admina Enterprise, built where we can on open components. Models are open weight, run on-premise or in European cloud. Data stays inside the organisation’s perimeter. We provide consulting on Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Digital Health, Cloud Web Apps and Linux Services & Systems.
Gaiotto Automation, founded in 1965 and part of the SACMI Group, is a Piacenza-based leader in industrial robotics and automation for ceramic sanitaryware. It designs turnkey robotic systems for glazing, handling and process automation, enabling Industry 4.0 manufacturing worldwide.
Weabios is a spin-off of the University of Pisa specializing in wearable technology and smart textile sensors, built on our patented Revelar® technology and the Sensar product line. The startup transforms the surface we use every day into intelligent sensing platforms by integrating patented, flexible fabric sensors with advanced artificial intelligence algorithms. Through proprietary deep learning models and real-time pattern recognition, the system decodes complex pressure maps, body kinematics, and biomechanical signals into actionable insights, in sport, lifestyle and health.
Kode is a data science and AI company, part of the FuturaWise Group. It develops data-driven solutions that make companies' processes and operations more efficient, serving clients across business, industrial and field operations.
Founded in Pisa in 2001 as a workshop of digital artisans, 3logic MK S.r.l. designs tailor-made software and integrated hardware/software systems, building new architectures or evolving existing ones. It develops enterprise dashboards and intranets integrated with CRM, ERP and ECM platforms, as well as secure web and mobile applications, a field it has worked in for over twenty years. Its hardware projects range from telemetry and sensors to drones and wearables.
Cartesia is an AI company based in Pisa and a spin-off of the University of Pisa. We create human-centric AI partners that enhance people’s capabilities, combining real-time voice interaction with expressive, multimodal behaviour. Our modular ecosystem powers voice assistants, digital avatars and Abel, the humanoid social robot. It can be deployed entirely on-premises, on-device or in a private cloud, giving organisations full control over their data.
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Compolab is an R&D engineering company that supports innovation from the initial concept to the development of products, prototypes and industrial solutions. Its multidisciplinary teams cover mechanical engineering, software development, industrial automation, electronics and electrical engineering. The company works on advanced projects involving Artificial Intelligence, computer vision, robotics, digital twins and intelligent systems, with particular attention to safety-critical and human-centred applications. Current R&D activities include AI-based solutions for real-time safety and decision support in hazardous environments, as well as biomedical and wearable technologies for physiological monitoring, human-machine interaction and smart assistance.
Based in Pisa, Erre Quadro develops artificial intelligence for the industrial world, with NLP solutions designed for technical domains. Its algorithms model how each technology works, what it does and what it is for, achieving above state-of-the-art completeness and accuracy in B2B and technical-language contexts. Its products, Innovation Reveal® for IP intelligence and Tech Reveal for document intelligence, help companies uncover the strategic knowledge hidden in technical data and patent databases. Today it has more than 20 collaborators, is ISO 9001 certified and has a commercial office in Denmark.
Part of the Tinexta Group, Tinexta Cyber brings together three Italian centres of excellence, Corvallis, Swascan and Yoroi, combining advanced digital protection with an innovative approach to system integration. Through proprietary technologies and cutting-edge expertise, it helps organisations build robust, high-performing and modular digital environments, supporting compliance with European regulations such as NIS2, DORA and GDPR. It holds ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 22301 and ISO 9001 certifications.
Born in Italy and based in London, Alpha Cogs is a software and design agency that combines Italian attention to detail and style with experience in major international markets. It specialises in AI-powered OTT platforms, cloud architectures on AWS and Azure following serverless and microservices approaches, big data analytics, mobile apps and websites, UI/UX design and high-performance solutions for the video game industry. Its engineers have worked with brands such as Disney, UEFA, the Royal Opera House, Kering and Alexander McQueen, and the company is an official AWS Partner and a winner at the IABM Awards 2024
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