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Meet the experts shaping the future at the Tech for Good Summit™ 2025. These are the first speakers revealed, with many more inspiring names coming soon.
One of the world’s earliest impact economists and entrepreneurs. Serial founder of 30 ventures in 40 years, of which the latest are B Corps in Europe and For Good Leaders. Board member: Aurora Borealis Foundation, Sweden; SIX, London; Foundations 3.0, Brussels; Progressio Foundation, Rotterdam. Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, London University alumnus. Co-author of 2 books and numerous articles. Lived in 6 countries and worked in 30. Residing in the Netherlands since the 90s.
Global Senior Brand Manager for Dove Masterbrand and lead for Ethical AI at Dove. She has driven the brand’s commitment to inclusivity and digital responsibility, most notably through the launch of The Code—a pioneering campaign that empowers creators to generate inclusive AI content using Dove’s Real Beauty Prompt Playbook—that earned a Cannes Lions Grand Prix in 2025.
Victoria’s work is driven by a deep understanding of how narrow and stereotypical beauty standards—especially those amplified by emerging technologies—impact women globally. In partnership with the Dove Self-Esteem Project, the world’s largest provider of body confidence education, she collaborates with leading experts to shape industry standards and drive transformative education.
Originally from South Africa, now living in London, Victoria brings strategic vision, empathy and purpose-led innovation to her role, helping Dove advance its mission to ensure women and girls everywhere feel confident in their own skin.
Since 2015, following the acquisition of the x86 server division, Alessandro has been leading Lenovo Italy’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), a role in which he continues to oversee end-to-end market operations.
After studying computer science and electronics at the University of Milan, he began his career at IBM in 1986 as a Customer Engineer for the Finance sector and became Technical Support Manager for Italy in 1992. From 1993 to 1998, he led MVS Multivendor Service, an IBM subsidiary specializing in IT systems integration. He returned to IBM in 1998 as Technical Manager within the System & Technologies division, responsible for Southern Europe and leading the company’s first x86 server technical support team.
In 2006, he earned an MBA from INSEAD Business School in Singapore and Fontainebleau, France. From 2008 to 2010, he served as Technical Commercial Manager for x86 servers across the EMEA region. In 2012, he became x86 Servers Business Group Manager within the System & Technologies division, a position he held until 2014.
Born in Milan in 1965, Alessandro is married and has one daughter. He is a passionate music enthusiast and a dedicated U2 fan, with a collection of over 600 EPs and memorabilia.
Leslie Rowlands is a senior advisor and a trusted partner to some of the world’s leading organizations across a range of sectors including manufacturing, life sciences, retail and hospitality. His insights help clients create high-performing workplace cultures through exceptional employee and customer experiences, strengths-based development and culture transformation.
Leslie partners with his clients to understand their critical business objectives and designs solutions that are strategically aligned with their needs, helping drive organic growth through cultural and behavioral change. He engages global teams that include business leaders, subject matter experts, learning and research consultants and other specialists, ensuring insights, recommendations and solutions provided are focused on the client objectives, create impact, and deliver results.
He holds business degrees from Reims Management School and Middlesex University Business School.
Fred Luskin serves as Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects, an ongoing series of workshops and research projects that investigate the effectiveness of his forgiveness methods on a variety of populations. The forgiveness project has successfully explored forgiveness therapy with people who suffered from the violence in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone as well as the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11.
In addition, Fred’s work has been successfully applied and researched in corporate, medical, legal and religious settings. He currently serves as a Senior Consultant in Health Promotion at Stanford University and is a Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He presents lectures, workshops, seminars and trainings on the importance, health benefits and training of forgiveness, stress management and emotional competence throughout the United States. He offers presentations and classes that range from one hour to ongoing weekly trainings.
LaFawn Davis is the former Chief People & Sustainability Officer at Indeed. She led teams that focused on Responsible AI; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging; Accessibility; Social Impact; Equitable Hiring Products, Human Resources and Environmental Sustainability. Her commitments were to reduce the environmental footprint, make job search faster and simpler, remove bias and barriers to employment, and build internal sustainable equity. LaFawn is a globally-recognized operator with over 20 years of experience serving in leadership roles at innovative Fortune 50, 100 and unicorn technology companies. She is a frequent advisor, contributing writer and public speaker. LaFawn has been named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Women of Impact, Fast Company’s Queer50, San Francisco Business Times’s Most Influential Women in Business and Business of Pride Outstanding Voices, and counted among Fortune’s Most Powerful Women. She serves as a Board Director of the World Wellbeing Movement, a Limited Partner in Operator Collective, an Angel Investor and a Fellow of the Black Venture Institute.
Laura Marciano is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University, Media School, in Bloomington and an associate at the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She leads research on digital media and teen well-being, including the HappyB projects and the Health and Happiness Study, using methods like Ecological Momentary Assessments, trace data, and digital biomarkers. She also directs a science communication project combining research with arts-based activities and serves on the board of the IBSA Foundation in Switzerland. Laura has authored over 45 publications, including the book Smartphone: Ally or Enemy?, and her work has been featured in the New York Times.
Tamara Lechner is a “people person” in the AI world—a leading expert in applying flourishing science to drive individual and cultural change that makes life and work measurably better. As Chair of the AI for Human Flourishing think tank within Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program and Head of Learning at the World Flourishing Organization, she’s on a mission to help 1 billion people flourish by 2035.
Tamara co-leads the IEEE team expanding global AI standards from well-being to flourishing, believing that compliance and policy can be be tools for advancing human potential. Her work helps organizations build data-driven, emotionally intelligent workplaces where humans and AI work in harmony to create extraordinary outcomes.
Tamara’s work signals a new era—one where AI is built to serve our highest human values and flourishing becomes the metric that matters most.
Helping professionals and families turn digital distraction into focus, wellbeing, and growth, Alessio Carciofi is a university professor and Italy’s leading expert in corporate digital wellbeing, with over a decade of experience guiding companies to reduce digital stress and use technology consciously. After his own digital burnout, he developed a method that transforms digital tools into allies for productivity and mental health. Author of several books, TEDx speaker, and host of two podcast seasons, he has reached tens of thousands of professionals and families. Alessio is also the Artistic Director of the Digital Detox Festival and creator of innovative summer camps for digital education, blending learning, presence, and social impact.
Amy Blankson is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Digital Wellness Institute, Founder of Fearless Positivity, and bestselling author of The Future of Happiness. A graduate of Harvard and the Yale School of Management, she’s the only person to receive a Point of Light award from two US Presidents. She is also a member of the UN Global Happiness Council, a Fellow of the World Innovation Organization, a featured professor in Oprah’s happiness e-course, and a regular contributor to Forbes. Her current work focuses on how to cultivate happiness and well-being in the digital era.
While at university, she worked as a journalist. After earning a degree in Political Science and International Relations, she attended Italy’s first Master’s program focused on corporate technologies for marketing and communication.
From 2000 to 2014, she served as Managing Director of the digital companies within the Dentsu Aegis Media Group, one of the world’s leading conglomerates specializing in digital media and marketing.
From 2003 to 2010, she was President of IAB Italy (Interactive Advertising Bureau), the world’s leading association for the digital marketing economy and industries, and from 2008 to 2010, she also held the position of President of IAB Europe.
In 2007, she was recognized as Manager of the Year by ManagerItalia, the most prominent managerial association in Italy.
From 2014 to 2021, she served as Chief Innovation, Marketing & Communication Officer and Board Director at Digital Magics, Italy’s leading business incubator, which manages a portfolio of around one hundred startups.
In 2022, she was appointed by the Mayor of Milan as Head of the Board for Technological Innovation and Digital Transformation of the City of Milan. In this role, she is responsible for driving, planning, and coordinating the activities of the Board, defining its work program, and ensuring alignment with the guidelines and strategies set by the Mayor and the City Council. The Board comprises twelve members representing Milan’s stakeholder ecosystem, including universities, associations, and businesses of all sizes, as well as startup
Sandro Formica, Ph.D., is the lead professor of the Hospitality Leadership major and the principal executive education trainer at Florida International University, specializing in Positive Organizational Behavior and Human Capital Development. He has designed, tested, and implemented Positive Organizational Interventions (POIs) to help companies in the U.S. and internationally enhance performance, trust, engagement, belonging, and teamwork in a sustainable way.
He is also the creator of the H+AI FLOW™ methodology, a practical framework that helps organizations thrive by aligning human potential and emotional agility with the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence.
Sandro has trained executives and entrepreneurs across a wide range of industries—including logistics, energy, manufacturing, hospitality, and human resources—for companies such as DHL, Philip Morris, Accor, Manpower Group, and LVMH. As a keynote speaker, he has delivered talks to leading organizations including PwC, Illy Caffè, Forbes, and Expedia.
Karen Guggenheim is a pioneer in the global happiness movement and a leading voice in promoting the science and practice of wellbeing. She is the founder and CEO of WOHASU®, and the visionary behind the World Happiness Summit®—recognized by Forbes as one of the “Top 5 Leadership Summits in the World.” Since its launch in 2016, WOHASU has grown into a global movement uniting thought leaders, expanding transformational ideas, providing training, and increasing social connection across cultures and industries.
After experiencing a profound personal loss, Karen made the life-changing decision to dedicate her work to creating a legacy rooted in wellbeing and purpose. That choice led her to become an unexpected entrepreneur, founding WOHASU in 2016 to launch the first World Happiness Summit. Today, WOHASU’s in-person events have reached thousands of attendees from over 80 countries.
Karen creates transformative experiences that blend evidence-based science, storytelling, and community building. She works with multinational corporations, nonprofits, and school systems to embed wellbeing into leadership, culture, and education.
In 20225, Karen created the Tech for Good™ Human Flourishing in the AI Era to add to WOHASU’s Summit Collection and expand on its mission to expand the ripples of the science wellbeing.
She spearheaded the WOHASU® Wellbeing Leadership Certification, a groundbreaking initiative launched in the third-largest public school district in the U.S., reaching over 400,000 students and 34,000 employees. The program equips leaders with practical tools to reduce burnout, increase engagement, and build happier, more resilient schools.
Karen is also the founder of the WOHASU Wellbeing Foundation, a nonprofit focused on systemic change. Through the foundation, she created the World Wellbeing Policy Forum, an international platform to elevate the conversation on the economics and public policy of wellbeing in business, education, and government.
She is the author of Cultivating Happiness: Overcome Trauma and Positively Transform Your Life, a TEDx speaker, a board member of the World Wellbeing Movement, and an advisory board member of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA).
Karen holds an MBA from Georgetown University. Her work has been featured in CNN, CNN en español, The Financial Times, The Telegraph, BBC, Univision, Forbes, Fast Company, and other global media. She lives in Miami and speaks internationally in both English and Spanish.
Emanuele is an Innovation & Technology Director with over 15 years of experience leading digital product strategies and driving the implementation of Artificial Intelligence solutions. He is passionate about digital transformation and pioneering technological innovation to shape the future of business.
Fernanda Maio is a trainer and consultant specializing in soft skills development for public
administrations. She designs and delivers programs that strengthen collaboration,
communication, time management, adaptability, proactivity, and problem-solving, with a
focus on experiential and transformative learning approaches.
In parallel, she designs and leads Digital Wellbeing programs for companies, individuals,
schools, and public institutions, promoting healthier relationships with technology and
supporting both personal and organizational sustainability. She is President of Mindfultech,
an association dedicated to advancing digital wellbeing culture in Italy through research,
events, and community initiatives, and collaborates with international networks such as
Consciously Digital. Since 2019, she has been facilitating digital detox initiatives that
enhance mental health, strengthen human connections, and foster sustainable digital
practices.
She co-created Benesseri Digitali (2024), an event exploring technology’s impact on mental
health, and co-organized the Digital Detox Festival (2025), a national gathering on mindful
disconnection, sleep, digital balance, and parenting in the digital age.
Her work lies at the intersection of education, social innovation, human sustainability, and
digital citizenship, contributing to healthier and more future-oriented workplaces and
communities.
Iliana Grosse-Buening is an entrepreneur, author, advisor and speaker, working at the intersection of technology, ethics, and human flourishing.
With over a decade of experience leading human-centred innovation across Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, Iliana advises Fortune 500 companies, global charities, and universities on digital well-being, AI ethics, and responsible innovation.
Iliana is the Co-Founder & CEO of Deeply Human Innovation, a strategy, research and design firm helping organisations embed humanity-centred thinking into strategy, systems, and next-generation technologies.
She is an Adjunct Professor for Digital Well-being at IE University & Business School, an Affiliate to the IE UNESCO Chair for AI Ethics & Governance, and on the Committee of the IEEE Global AI Systems Well-being & Flourishing Initiative. Her research has been published in leading journals, including Springer Nature and De Gruyter.
Matteo Trovo is the founder of StepsConnect, an AI-based HR Tech platform that helps companies transform their recruitment processes, making them more efficient, fair and skills-oriented. Thanks to a data-driven approach and new conversational AI technologies, StepsConnect supports HR teams in improving the candidate experience and identifying the right talent more quickly and sustainably.
Filipa Marrecas Ferreira is the Director of the Technical Advisory and Investment Promotion Office at the Municipality of Oeiras, Portugal, where she oversees national (PRR, PT2030) and European (Horizon Europe, CERV, LIFE) financing programs. helps position Oeiras as a leading hub for innovation and international cooperation. She directs the municipality’s Technical Advisory and Investment Promotion Office, where she manages national financing programs such as PRR and PT2030, as well as European funds including Horizon Europe, CERV, and LIFE. Her office also oversees Oeiras’ international and institutional relations, cooperation agreements, and twinning initiatives with other cities, creating opportunities to exchange knowledge and collaborate on joint projects. In addition, she supports entrepreneurs and investors seeking to establish in Oeiras, strengthening the city’s role as a destination for growth, sustainability, and strategic development.
With a background in sustainability, startups, and venture capital, he has expertise in mentorship, fundraising, acceleration programs, and strategic consulting. He connects corporates and startups to foster innovation and sustainable growth. Graduated in Oenology and Viticulture at the University of Milan, Stefano started in the agri-food sector before specializing in Project Management and Business Data Analysis. His multidisciplinary approach enables him to deliver impactful, sustainability-driven results.
Vincenzo Mansi is the Co-Founder of This Unique, a company recognized for its innovative approach in the sustainable consumer goods space. Selected among Forbes Under 30, he was part of LVenture’s Winter Batch 2020/2021, where he helped accelerate the company’s growth and market positioning. Vincenzo is also an Applied Researcher of Economics at I-AER, focusing on the intersection between innovation, behavioral economics, and sustainability.
A journalist since 2007, Cristina holds a bachelor’s degree in Sports Science from the University of Milan. She enhanced her education with several continuing education courses in documentary filmmaking, video storytelling, and social media management at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, where she lived for 12 years. After a 20-year career in journalism—with articles published in some of Italy’s most prestigious magazines—she is now applying her storytelling skills in a new role as a Public Relations and Communications Manager.
Sara Ceriello is Marketing & Digital Director at Clarins Italy, a premium beauty brand renowned for its natural ingredients and strong commitment to environmental sustainability. She leads the brand’s strategic positioning and growth across skincare and makeup, overseeing product, instore implementation, media and ecommerce, while ensuring that all marketing and communication efforts reflect Clarins’ core values of quality, responsibility, and authenticity.
With a Master’s Degree in Publishing and Communication from the University of Bergamo and 15 years of experience in beauty, fashion, retail, and luxury sectors, Sara has held strategic roles in leading companies such as RCS, Calzedonia, Pandora and Miroglio, managing projects locally and across Southern Europe.
Passionate about books, TV series, sports and music, she lives in Milan with her husband and two little “troublemakers,” Alessandro and Andrea.
Carlo Rinaldi brings together marketing, technology, and music around a core value: listening.
A computer science engineer from Politecnico di Milano, he also studied piano at the Conservatory of Foggia and went on to refine his skills in vocal technique, composition and arrangement. He attended executive programs in marketing at the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago. His career weaves together art, innovation and communication, with over twenty years of experience in digital marketing. He has held leadership roles in international companies such as Microsoft, where he led digital marketing for both consumer and enterprise segments.
Specialized in ad-tech and data-driven innovation, he has worked across media, HR-tech, and AI sectors, contributing to the growth of technology ventures in Italy and abroad.He is currently Director of Marketing and Communications at Humans.tech, where he leads an ecosystem that bridges artificial intelligence and human value. A TEDx speaker (Rovigo, 2023 and Lecco, 2025) and author of the book Sensitive Intelligence (Egea, 2025), he explores the potential of relational listening as a generative force for both human and artificial intelligence.
He conducts a gospel choir, volunteers in Africa, and tends a garden—believing that the most authentic innovation is born in the space of resonances, where we move from ego to eco, from the solo voice to the harmonic one.
Micah Kaats is a PhD candidate in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He also serves as a Research Associate for the Wellbeing Research Centre at Oxford University and Senior Analyst for the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen. His research focuses on the determinants and downstream effects of social connections and subjective wellbeing. He has designed, implemented, and supervised studies of more than 20,000 participants in over 24 countries. His research has been published in the United Nations World Happiness Report and featured in the Financial Times and the Economist. Micah holds Master’s degrees in Applied Ethics and Economic Policy from Utrecht University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from UPenn.
Leonardo Capotosto holds a Master’s degree in Management from ESCP Business School and has gained professional experience in leading multinational companies. In 2022, driven by his entrepreneurial spirit, he co-founded FunniFin, a B2B HRTech startup on a mission to improve employees’ financial wellbeing through innovative digital solutions that empower people to manage their finances with confidence and clarity.