Francesco Calabrese is Head of Data Science with 16+ years of international experience in top companies and research institutions, working on Big Data, data science, artificial intelligent and data monetization.

He is currently Group Head of Data Science at Richemont, where he leads a team of Data Scientists and Machine learning engineers to Leverage Data and AI to optimize decision making across the value chain across the Group, driving competitive advantage in business performance, anti-fragility and new customer centric business models.

He was previously Lead Big Data & Analytics Scientist at Vodafone Italy and Advisory Research Staff Member at IBM Research in Dublin, Ireland.