Mission Statement
Passionate about shaping human-centered AI that empowers society, protects rights, and ensures technology serves the public good—ethically, transparently, and inclusively.
Biography
Marcello Coppa (Italy) is a strategic designer with 15 years of experience in innovation advisory, focusing on design-driven innovation, meaningful innovation, and open innovation.
He is CEO of Feel, an accelerator for innovation in the public system and GovTech.
Marcello is also an entrepreneur in the area of professional services and software-as-a-service. He has worked with more than 100 organisations and 300 startups. He designed and launched the first civic hackathon in Italy, in the city of Legnano, in 2014, and has consulted for several public administrations and government-owned companies on improving citizen services, participation, place branding and developing local innovation ecosystems.
Questionnaire
Where do you want to foster change and why?
Emerging technologies, climate change, and the geopolitical landscape present unprecedented challenges. Future scenarios are not predetermined. The future depends on the choices we make today – public policies, social behaviour, and individual actions can make a difference.
What or who influenced you during your professional career?
“No man is an island”: ackowledging interconnection and interdependece is the starting point for a different, more pragmatic, approach to strategy.
We all have those significant moments or situations (success or failure); which one was yours, and what did you learn from it?
I started my first company from scratch, leading it to an M&A with a larger group. I consider every single client we acquired a success gained on the field. This has taught me that if you aim to do exceptional things no matter what the immediate gain is, it will pay off in the long run.