Laura Morgagni

Head of Enterprise Acceleration Department, Torino Wireless Foundation

Laura Morgagni was born in Turin in 1974, where she took her master degree in Management and Industrial Engineering in 1998, at the Politecnico di Torino. After graduating, she began her working experience at the management consultancy firm Ernst & Young Consultants (now Capgemini), where she dealt with the implementation of ERP systems; writing of proposals for consultancy projects regarding business processes reengineering, ERP systems implementation, suppliers and customers relationship management systems design and implementation; analysis and design of organizational structures focused on sell-side and buy-side processes. In October 2004 she joined the Torino Organising Committee of the XXth Olympic Winter Games (TOROC) as project manager in the “Games Planning & International Olympic Committee Liaison” unit. In January 2005 she joined the Fondazione Torino Wireless, a public-funded non profit organization founded to govern the ICT district of the Piemonte county, where she is currently head of the “Enterprises Acceleration Department”. Within the department she is in charge of the following lines of activities: selection and rating of high potential enterprises that could benefit from the Fondazione interventions; design and delivery of projects aimed at supporting enterprises in their technology innovation developments; design and management of clustering projects to develop effective collaboration among district companies for innovative product development goals. She is responsible of the overall decisional process that starts from the selection of high potential companies and arrives to the approval of interventions for that companies. She is involved in financing technology innovation projects that rely on new business opportunities and technologies; managing co-design and delivery of technology innovation projects; managing coach and support activities (e.g. market and competitors analyses, value proposition design, business planning and go-to-market strategy design) to help enterprises get access to public and private funds; teaming with government agencies in defining new initiatives aimed at helping small-medium enterprises grow.