ENGAGE — Three ways to work together

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01 / STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

Nobody grows alone.

Silicon Valley runs on relationships and trust between people who build.

We are living through the rise of AI and a new wave of US industrial reshoring. Together, these shifts create an unprecedented opportunity for European expertise in advanced manufacturing, precision engineering and industrial automation.

From Palo Alto, we can build relationships with technology partners, research labs and prospective customers. The goal is a lasting position in the ecosystem, with multiple paths to growth.

Leandro with speakers and researchers at an INNOVIT space event — Let's create opportunities in SPACE, DUAL-USE TECH, IoT & ROBOTICS, PHYSICAL AI

02 / SCOUTING & TECH TRANSFER

Silicon Valley, translated.

Find what matters.
Bring it into your company’s decisions.

A promising technology only matters if your team can actually build something with it.
In Palo Alto, innovation isn't read in trend reports—it’s seen in the wild. That proximity provides an honest filter: you see firsthand which tools deliver real return, which ones carry hidden risks, and what is pure marketing noise.
The real danger isn't missing the next big thing, but getting paralyzed by the sheer volume of hype. The point is to make Silicon Valley work at your scale: delivering practical insights, prototyping and testing together, and bringing results home without disrupting daily operations.
That is what these three seasonal programs do: no army of consultants, no endless slides. Just focused briefings, clear working sessions, a fixed fee, and a schedule set from day one, built to fit naturally into your work calendar.

Program	Start	Finish	Duration	What you take away
STRATEGIZE What to fund next.	September	December	4 months	A shortlist of technologies, prototypes and partners, with a decision brief for next year’s budget.
EXPLORE Find your next direction.	November	March	5 months	A strategic briefing and shared purpose, with early prototypes to clarify priorities and the cultural change needed.
APPLY Turn learning into practice.	March / May	July / August	5 / 4 months	Hands-on workshops and prototypes, grounded in a shared purpose, to build capabilities and support cultural change. Includes a Silicon Valley Camp in Italy.

Scouting touchpoints

Autumn: TechCrunch Disrupt.
Winter: CES and NVIDIA GTC.
Spring–Summer: NVIDIA GTC insights and Automate, followed by the Silicon Valley Camp.

Each program combines ongoing scouting with selected events, working sessions and knowledge transfer.
Technology becomes useful when an organization can absorb it.

03 / CPO/CDO FOR STARTUPS

Build the product.
Build the company.

Hands-on product strategy and design leadership for deep-tech founders.

Ambition, product and market develop at different speeds. Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) describe technical maturity; adoption and business readiness need their own evidence. Prototypes, pilots and products answer different questions.

The work connects purpose, positioning, customer testing and product design, while building the team’s ability to deliver. Product, engineering and commercial development grow together around shared priorities.

I’ve worked on shipping dozens of products, seen successes and failures up close, and watched more than 350 companies come to Silicon Valley. That experience helps us recognize patterns and choose what to test, build or change next.

A workshop whiteboard connecting ambition, product and market, from recurring challenges to practical actions — Empowering matrix | Just another Design Thinking extension by PASC3

Razorfish, Design Group Italia, NTT, Frontiers, INNOVIT, SRI, MMN Bechtle Group, ABB, MultiplyLabs, D.gree

INNOVATION MODELS / FROM SCOUTING TO ENGAGE

Innovation has a price. Finding your direction can start small.

Every organization needs to see what's coming, map it, build the skills to use it, and size the risk before it arrives.

There are many ways to invest in innovation: a venture fund, an accelerator, an innovation lab or a design sprint. Each serves a different purpose and requires a different commitment of budget, people and time.

Scouting starts with a focused commitment: one person on the ground in Silicon Valley, reporting back. A fixed fee, a clear scope and a defined duration make it possible to explore opportunities before committing to a larger innovation program.

Finding the signal is the easy half. Getting it inside the company is the work.

That transfer has been built and run at very different scales — a briefing note, a remote course, a workshop on site, a post on the company's own social channels. The format follows the organization, not the other way around.

Nearly every model on this map has been run first-hand. Scouting is where most companies should start.

HIGH INVESTMENT ↑

← BUSINESS FIRSTINTERNAL PEOPLE FIRST →

Venture Fund

Structural partnership

Innovation Lab

Transformation

External Accelerator

Co-development track

Internal Accelerator

Center of Excellence

External incubator

Co-experimentation track

Internal incubator

Community of practice

Scouting

Co-creation Session

Design Sprint

Innovation Training

↓ LOW INVESTMENT

Stanford campus with Hoover Tower, in black and white

PEOPLE / ORGANIZATIONS / AMBITION

Who I Work With

Founders, business leaders and institutions navigating a next chapter. Each engagement starts with a decision, a team and a practical way forward.

Leandro and a colleague beside a KUKA industrial robot

Deep Tech Founders

From the pioneering days of fog computing to the medical robotics of MultiplyLabs. Today, in the era of Physical AI: Cognivix, one-shot robot learning; Ganiga, AI for waste recognition; D.gree, evolving superyachts into sea robots; Aurasensae, human presence sensing around industrial arms.
Every assumption you test helps you make better use of your runway.

A Blue Lagoon project team visiting a construction site in Iceland

Bringing AI & Robotics to Small and Medium-Sized Companies

Manufacturers, family businesses, mid-size firms with no AI department and no robotics team. Here I wear every hat: strategy, scouting the right tech partners, first prototype, training the people who will run it.
No AI team yet? For a while, I'm it.
RAIN

A workshop team discussing ideas around a table in Kuala Lumpur

De-Risking Enterprises

Large organizations are pushed to embed AI & Robotics everywhere, and they already have the teams and the processes. Silicon Valley has tested more, faster, and earlier, and we can apply its lessons to rethink, strategize, find a technology or even a partner. I take one role and go deep, inside your structure. One role. Focused commitment.
ABB | NTT Disruption | MMN Bechtle

Speakers and researchers together at an INNOVIT space event

Institutional Partnerships & Custom Programs

At SRI International, I lead AI and robotics partnerships for Europe. With INNOVIT, the Italian Government Innovation Center in San Francisco, I've worked with cohorts of Italian deep tech startups. Connect your company to Silicon Valley through the network we've built over a decade.