Simone Brunozzi

Past: Simone co-founded Fabrica.city, a software platform to digitize real estate assets. Simone Brunozzi served as a Vice President and Chief Technologist (global role) at VMware Inc., focusing on Cloud technology (vCloud Hybrid Services). Simone's role included public speaking, relationships with key clients, strategy and roadmap, driving innovation inside the company, managing a team of Solutions Engineers to drive adoption of VMware’s Cloud products. Simone is an Investor and Advisor of CloudAcademy.com (knowledge platform) and Synoptek, a Managed Service Provider. Simone has a technical background in Computer Science, experience as an entrepreneur, professor and has worked in the industry for 15+ years, focusing on Cloud Computing since 2006. Simone grew up in Italy and after having been a four-times entrepreneur in Italy, a University professor at the young age of 26, a Chief Technology Officer and after having written two technical books and two novels, he left Italy to join Amazon Web Services in March 2008 as the first Technology Evangelist for Europe (EMEA), to raise awareness about Cloud Computing and help developers build applications. Simone has been a very popular speaker in Europe, United States, Asia, Oceania and Africa, speaking at more than 600 events (and collecting a huge amount of airline miles).