Giuseppe
Di Franco
A digital manager and author, he discusses artificial intelligence as a driver of competitiveness for Italy and Europe.
A vision that starts with people, businesses, and institutions, and reaches digital sovereignty.
Who is Giuseppe Di Franco
Giuseppe Di Franco leads Lutech, one of Italy's largest players in digital technology and artificial intelligence, with six thousand people across Italy, Spain and Albania. He drives its growth by combining industrial vision with a concrete focus on results.
A graduate in Management Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1992, he devoted his early career to mergers and acquisitions, digital and outsourcing projects across Europe. In 2005 he joined the Siemens Group as Senior Vice President and advanced through international roles, going on to manage over two billion euros in revenue across seventy countries.
In 2013 he took over the leadership of Atos Italia as Chief Executive Officer, quadrupling its revenue, and later assumed global-level responsibilities. In 2023 he designed the acquisition of Atos Italia by Apax: a transformative operation that led Lutech to become the new, major hub of Italian digital technology, which he now leads as Chief Executive Officer.
Giuseppe Di Franco collaborates with the Politecnico di Milano as an Adjunct Professor at the University's Graduate School of Management, a Board Member of the GSoM, and a Top Influencer Alumnus. He is a member of several associations, including the Ambrosetti CEO Club, Canova, Elis, and Diplomatia, where he also serves on the Board of Directors. In March 2026 he signed with Mondadori Piemme «Artificial Intelligence for the Future of Italy»: an essay that explores AI as a lever of competitiveness for the country and for Europe, with a firm focus on digital sovereignty.
The company
Giuseppe Di Franco leads the Lutech Group as Chief Executive Officer, one of the leading Italian players in digital technology and artificial intelligence.
Lutech designs, builds and manages solutions for the digital transformation of businesses and Public Administration. Its expertise covers the entire digital value chain: artificial intelligence and data, cloud, cybersecurity and high performance computing, with a deep knowledge of the processes of different industries.
Since 2023, the operation that led to the acquisition of Atos Italia by Apax has given rise to a new, major Italian technology hub. Within a few years the group has firmly established itself among the leaders of digital technology and AI in the country, with a presence that combines Italian roots and an international outlook.
Artificial Intelligence for the Future of Italy
Skills, use cases and value in an innovating Europe.
Innovation, skills and digital transformation are the levers on which the country's competitiveness is played out today. Giuseppe Di Franco's essay starts from this conviction: Italy has the resources to open a new season of growth, and artificial intelligence can be its accelerator, provided it is adopted with strategic vision, responsibility and concreteness.
It is not an academic treatise, but a book oriented towards the concrete and scalable adoption of AI. Through real cases of businesses and administrations that have already embarked on transformation, it shows that AI is neither an abstract promise nor a privilege for a few multinationals: it is a strategic necessity for Made in Italy and for the relaunch of the country's system.
Focus On
For Giuseppe Di Franco, digital sovereignty is first and foremost an industrial opportunity: the possibility, for Italy and for Europe, to choose where to take a leading role and to build value, autonomy and competitiveness starting from data, infrastructure and skills.
An asset to be valorised
The data of Italian businesses working for Italian businesses: a wealth to be brought together into a system.
Infrastructure on which to build innovation
Cloud, computing power (HPC and Quantum) and European networks.
Widespread skills and talent
What turns technology into real value.
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Two directions and a European vision
Where we start from
Italy and Europe have every card to play a leading role: a solid industrial legacy, valuable data and widespread human capital ready to be put into play.
What it takes to build it
A stance to take, together. What's needed is an industrial policy for artificial intelligence: investing in research, computing power and talent, and building a European alliance for digital sovereignty.
Where we start from
Italy and Europe have every card to play a leading role: a solid industrial legacy, valuable data and widespread human capital ready to be put into play.
Manufacturing, energy, healthcare and excellent public administration.
Large reserves of sector data waiting to be leveraged.
Creativity, resilience and widespread talent.
What it takes to build it
A stance to take, together. What's needed is an industrial policy for artificial intelligence: investing in research, computing power and talent, and building a European alliance for digital sovereignty.
Energy, edge computing and vertical supply chains where Europe can truly lead.
Interoperable European data spaces in healthcare, industry, energy and administration.
Computing, talent and governance growing together, as one integrated system.
A widespread digital culture is what gives value to every infrastructure.