Andrea Carafa is an Italian entrepreneur, design thinker, and educator committed to addressing social and global issues through innovation. He founded two ventures and researched, prototyped, and lectured about entrepreneurship and human-centered design at Stanford and the University of Milan Bicocca, among others. He also advocated the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations, chaired the Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative at President Obama's Global Entrepreneurship Summit, was an EU Marie Curie Fellow in emerging technology for social impact, co-created an EU-funded program aimed at spurring innovation and venture creation in European universities, and inspired CERN to launch a data analytics platform that accelerates the technology transfer from physics labs to society. Andrea is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence with the Blackstone Launchpad powered by Techstars and a Lecturer at UCSC and for the NSF Innovation Corps. His focus areas are digital, AI and science-based innovations tackling social, health, finance, and environmental issues. He was named a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, an MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Ambassador and Judge, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, a member of the Partnership on AI, and a delegate to the UN Science, Technology & Innovation Forum.
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