Fabrizio Sestini European Commission, DG CONNECT, Senior Expert, Digital Social Innovation

Fabrizio Sestini is currently leading the DG CONNECT initiative on CAPS, which aims at stimulating bottom-up innovative ideas exploiting network effects (in networks of people, knowledge and sensors) to include citizens, grassroots organisations and civil society in participatory social innovation processes. In his career with the European Commission he has enjoyed launching and managing several research initiatives related to different aspects of Internet research, policies and developments, including SAC, FIRE and, more recently, Internet Science.