As part of the Apple Talks Series initiative, the Practice & Apply Lab at the College of Europe in Natolin hosted a discussion on the Naples Developer Academy with Professor Giorgio VENTRE, Full Professor of Computer Networks at the Department of Information and Electrical Engineering, University of Napoli Federico II.
Professor VENTRE delivered a brief presentation on the University of Napoli Federico II, the mission of the Naples Developer Academy, its activities, opportunities for collaboration, and student placement within the Academy.
The presentation was followed by a Q&A session with the students.
About the speaker:
Prof. Giorgio VENTRE is Scientific Director of the Apple Developer Academy, a partnership between Federico II and Apple to train the developers of the future. He is also CEO of Campania NewSteel, a start-up incubator born as a partnership between Federico II and Città della Scienza, the largest Science Museum and Innovation Center in Italy. He is co-leading the acceleration program on Bio-Economy of Terra Next, an initiative launched by CDP Venture Capital SGR, Intesa San Paolo, Cariplo Factory, Fondazione per il Sud and other industrial partners.
He is author of more than 250 research publications in the areas of Computer Networks, Multimedia Systems, Distributed Computing and has served as Conference Chair or member of the Organizing and Scientific Committees for several international conferences in these areas. He also served as Editor for research journals.