Computational Journalist and CEO @AppliedXL | Prev @WSJ @AP | Author "Newsmakers: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism" @ColumbiaUP

Francesco Marconi’s Biography

Francesco Marconi is the manager of strategy and corporate development at the Associated Press, where he identifies new investment and partnership opportunities for the news agency. Francesco studied business and journalism at the University of Missouri and completed his post graduate work as a Chazen Scholar at Columbia Business School’s Media Program. In 2014 he joined Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society as an affiliate researcher studying the impact of data in journalism. Francesco started his career at the United Nations researching science and technology solutions for developing countries, resulting in the publishing of his first book and TED talk on Reverse Innovation.