Paolo Azzoni is the Secretary General of INSIDE Industry Association (formerly Artemis-IA), the Industry Association that serves as the European Technology Platform for research, design and innovation on Intelligent Digital Systems, their technology ecosystems and applications. INSIDE is one of the three private members of the Chips-JU, the tripartite partnership between the European Commission, the Participant States and private entities, mobilizing more than 11 billion euro to safeguard, consolidate, and strengthen the Electronic Components and Systems value chain in Europe.
In this context, he is the lead delegate in the Chips-JU Governing Board and the co-chairman of the ECS Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, a funding-agnostic document describing the major challenges and priorities in the Electronic Components and Systems domain for the next 10 years. He is the Head of European Technology Programmes at EUROTECH Group, planning and directing industrial research projects, in the areas of cyber-physical systems, intelligent systems, machine-to-machine technologies, edge computing, internet of things and digitalization solutions. Before joining EUROTECH, he was involved in academic lecturing and research in the areas of hardware formal verification, hardware/software co-design and co-simulation, advanced hardware architectures and operating systems. He holds a Master Degree in Computer Science and a second Master Degree in Intelligent Systems.
