Paolo is a builder, ethicist, and founder whose work begins with a simple conviction: at the heart of life lies connection. We are here to connect, create, and grow. And yet, every day, we forget what matters, duplicate what already exists, and make worse collective decisions than we are capable of. Not because we lack intelligence, but because the infrastructure for sharing it has never existed. Our Resources stay hidden. Our Networks go unmapped. Our Knowledge disappears the moment it is created.
His path to this question runs through digital ethics, sustainability, and AI systems, including time as Digital Ethicist at IKEA, where he worked on ethical AI frameworks and knowledge graph applications across global operations. Shaped by over a decade living and building across borders as an immigrant, he developed a deep belief that technology at its best does not replace human capacity. It makes it visible, actionable, and shareable, so that we may finally act together rather than in parallel.
That belief became Sumbios, the trusted coordination layer for human intelligence. Sumbios builds the AI-native infrastructure where memory captures, context surfaces, and orchestration acts, all on a foundation of data sovereignty, privacy, and human dignity. Allowing Resources, Networks, and Knowledge to finally be visible, shareable, and actionable, with trust as its foundation. Not productivity software. The architecture for how human intelligence connects, compounds, and becomes something greater than any individual or organisation could produce alone. Sumbios 1+1= ∞
A philosophy, made infrastructure.
At AI+ you will meet Paolo at stage on AI+Mesh where he will speak
about Technology in Service of Life.
What happens when the technologies we design forget the people who they are meant to serve? Paolo spent fifteen years navigating structural holes between countries, bureaucracies, and identities, living the consequences of systemic and technological decisions made without the human being in mind. That experience gave him a lens most builders never get: the view from the other side of the systems and technologies that leave people behind. In this talk, he connects the human cost of exclusion-by-design to the choices facing everyone building AI today, and makes the case for digital sovereignty as a design principle rooted in three conditions: the choice to move forward, the support to make good decisions, and the conditions to connect, create, and grow. A call for ambition of the right kind, measured not by what technology captures, but by what it makes possible for others.