Alberto Tripi is a member of the Confindustria Presidential Committee, where he is Special Advisor for Artificial Intelligence, and Head of ICT Studies and Strategies at Anitec-Assinform. An entrepreneur with a degree in Electronic Engineering from La Sapienza University in Rome, he joined IBM Italy in 1966 and left IBM EMEA in 1983, where he was responsible for the company's development in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, to found COS/ISI Italsistemi per l'Informatica, now Almaviva. He is currently the majority shareholder and Chairman of Almaviva Spa.