Meet Paolo De Rosa, CTO - Italian Government - Department of Digital Transformation, who has been nominated for our prestigious European Digital Leader of the Year 2023 Award! Register here 👉 https://www.cionext.com/ to meet all finalists at #CIONEXT on the 26th of October, where the winners in the Finance & Government categories will be announced!

In this Leadership Deep Dive interview Paolo talks with Hendrik Deckers about the National Strategic Hub, a dedicated cloud infrastructure that addresses national security and digital sovereignty needs of public administration. Paolo also explains how he and his team developed Immuni, an open source digital contact tracing App and the EU Digital Covid Certificate (Green Pass). Paolo strongly believes that technology requires certain principles and when used properly can contribute to a better world.

Table of contents

01:27 | Introduction and Paolo De Rosa’s background

04:24 | Three pillars of the National Cloud Strategy

10:55 | National Strategic Hub

12:58 | Huge budget for a huge plan

14:22 | Ambitious digital compass from European Commission

18:24 | Paolo’s role as CTO

20:49 | The biggest challenge

23:29 | Green Pass

31:34 | Collaboration across Europe

34:22 | Urgency as motivation

35:13 | Digital Transformation Department and its role

41:02 | Organizational model

43:37 | Paolo’s role as CTO

44:29 | Building strong teams

47:50 | Paolo’s leadership style

50:48 | MBTI: the Entrepreneur

55:30 | Paolo’s mentors

56:30 | The best and worst moments in Paolo’s life

58:19 | The most brilliant mistake

01:00:56 | Paolo’s passions

01:01:44 | The most exciting technologies

01:04:04 | Advice for people starting out