Emiliano Soda

Head of Digital Factory & AI Factory

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

About

Responsible for both the Digital Factory and the AI Factory, leading end-to-end delivery of digital, AI, and data-driven initiatives across the Group. Driving the development of AI capabilities through large-scale digital execution. Managing a multi-layer organization of 17 people including delivery managers, AI specialists and data engineers, with full accountability on execution, scalability and alignment with business strategy. Within the AI Factory, leading two core domains: - AI & GenAI model development (ML, LLM, RAG) - Data Engineering & Innovation (data platforms, pipelines, experimentation) Partnering with top management to define and execute the digital and AI transformation roadmap, driving initiatives from strategy to industrialized delivery.

Experience

  • Italgas (Full-time · 1 yr 10 mos)
    • Head of Digital Factory & AI Factory
      Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

    • Head of AI Factory
      Sep 2024 - May 2026 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Bludigit (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
    • Head of Analytics & AI
      May 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    • Delivery Manager - Data & Analytics
      Jul 2021 - Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Data scientist at Digital Factory at Italgas
    Apr 2019 - May 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Consulente at CESI
    Dec 2013 - Mar 2019 · 5 yrs 4 mos

  • Intern at CESI SpA
    May 2013 - Oct 2013 · 6 mos

    Analysis of methodologies for load forecasting; Development of a new short term load forecasting algorithm for the Italian TSO.