Francesco is a full stack software developer, creative coder and interaction and lighting designer.  

He leads the Smart Buildings team at Arup in London, bringing software development and building systems design and commissioning skills. He also teaches Light and Lighting at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. 

His passion is to link the physical dimension of building systems and cities to the digital world of cloud infrastructure and web applications, creating multidisciplinary interactive hybrid physical and software solutions that augment and simplify the experience of buildings. 

His presentation, Back to the Future, explores why light is connected to any aspect of life in the universe. It is vision and information. It provokes biological events and emotions.

For hundreds of years, or maybe thousands, humans have tried to understand light. Also to conquer light by creating methods and technologies for generating it. A vast number of professionals and research roles gravitate around understanding, harnessing and applying lighting techniques to positively influence and improve our lives and processes. 

He believes we need to be homo sapiens, homo faber and homo ludens at the same time. We need to weave humanism into technology to make it meaningful, and light can be a way to bring a better user interface to our interactions with technology, going back to the future and following the principles of calm technology.