Thought Leadership
This page showcases my contributions to the technology and fintech sectors, including public speaking, technical reviews, and academic research.
Speaking Appearances
| Date | Event | Role | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2025 | Beyond the Commit | Interviewee | The evolving role of the CTO in the Fintech industry |
| 2023 | Cloud Day | Speaker | Cloud computing for startups and enterprises |
| 2023 | FC Hub Interview | Interviewee | The evolution of consumer credit and Open Banking |
| Mar 2023 | APSP Seminar | Speaker | The "as a service" model in the financial ecosystem |
| Nov 2022 | Salone dei Pagamenti | Speaker | Open Finance and the credit experience |
| Jun 2022 | AWS Startup Loft | Speaker | Scaling a startup with AWS |
Manuscript Reviews
Technical reviews for Manning Publications since 2019.
| Year | Title | Author | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Spring Security in Action | Laurentiu Spilca | Pub. Oct 2020 |
| 2019 | Spring Microservices in Action, Second Edition | John Carnell and Illary Huaylupo Sánchez | Pub. Jun 2021 |
| 2019 | API Security in Action | Neil Madden | Pub. Nov 2020 |
| 2019 | Pulsar in Action | David Kjerrumgaard | Pub. Oct 2021 |
| 2020 | GitHub Actions in Action | M. Kaufmann, R. Ros, and M. de Vries | Pub. Early 2026 |
| 2022 | Amazon Web Services in Action, 3rd Edition | Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig | Pub. Mar 2023 |
| 2022 | Functional Programming in Scala, Second Edition | Michael Pilquist | Pub. May 2023 |
| 2023 | Architecture Modernization | Nick Tune and Jean-Georges Perrin | Pub. Feb 2024 |
| 2023 | Think Like a Software Engineering Manager | Akanksha Gupta | Pub. Aug 2024 |
| 2024 | Data-Oriented Programming in Java | Chris Kiehl | Pub. Jun 2026 |
| 2024 | Automating API Delivery | Ikenna Nwaiwu | Pub. Jul 2024 |
Academic Publications
My research focuses on the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and formal verification.
| Year | Title | Authors | Publication |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Virtualization on embedded boards as enabling technology for the Cloud of Things | Bardhi, Barjam and Claudi, Andrea and Spalazzi, Luca and Taccari, Gilberto and Taccari, Leonardo | Internet of Things. Principles and Paradigms |
| 2015 | A Federated Cloud of Things for Emergency Management | Taccari, Gilberto | Università Politecnica delle Marche |
| 2014 | Embedded Real-Time Virtualization: State of the Art and Research Challenges | Taccari, Gilberto and Taccari, Leonardo and Fioravanti, Agostina and Spalazzi, Luca and Claudi, Andrea | 16th Real-Time Linux Workshop (RTLWS 2014), At Dusseldorf, Germany |
| 2014 | A semantic-based federated cloud system for emergency response | Manno, Giuliano and Smari, Waleed W and Spalazzi, Luca and Taccari, Gilberto | Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience |
| 2014 | A federated cloud of things for emergency management | Taccari, Gilberto | Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2014 International Conference on |
| 2014 | An Internet of Things ontology for earthquake emergency evaluation and response | Spalazzi, Luca and Taccari, Gilberto and Bernardini, Andrea | Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2014 International Conference on |
| 2013 | Reasoning with Temporal ABoxes: Combining DL-Lite_core with CTL | Pagliarecci, Francesco and Spalazzi, Luca and Taccari, Gilberto | 26th International Workshop on Description Logics |
| 2012 | Application of SWSAL in Semantic Annotation of RESTful Web Services | Pagliarecci, Francesco and Spalazzi, Luca and Taccari, Gilberto | Proceedings of the 5th Interop-Vlab.It Workshop on Complexity of Systems, Complexity of Interoperability (INVIT2012) |