Alessandro Flaborea

I started in Udine, with a degree in computer science and six months in Sweden that took away any idea of staying put. Then Rome: a master's in data science and a PhD at Sapienza's Perception and Intelligence Lab, where I spent three years on a problem that can be summed up like this — teaching a computer to watch somebody working and understand what they're doing.

In the middle, a winter in Amsterdam working on a geometry different from the one we're used to, and four years in the classroom as a teaching assistant, which is where I found out that explaining something difficult to somebody who doesn't know it is a trade of its own.

That research then became a product. I co-founded Procedo and was its CTO for two years: video shot on the shop floor turning into written procedures, inside real companies, with customers who paid and complained when something didn't work. That's where I learned the part you don't learn at university, which is how much of what you write in a paper survives contact with a factory floor.

I left the operational role in mid-2026 and today I work on my own. What interests me is the part where you walk into a company you don't know, look at how it works and see where the time goes: on my own I get to do it more often, and in different companies.

I still write code every day and publish what I learn. If you call me, the person who comes to your company and the person who then builds it are the same one.