Nicola B.

Nicola B. currently serves as a Senior Director of Engineering at Meta, where leadership is provided for an engineering organization of over 700 individuals, focusing on advanced machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques aimed at protecting a community of over 3 billion users across EMEA and NORAM. Responsibilities include overseeing product integrity for AI initiatives, account access and control systems, detection systems for account security, verifying behavior compliance, and ensuring privacy in data collection. Additionally, Nicola holds the position of Executive Advisor on Machine Learning at W1T LTD, serves as a Board Advisor at Uptime Industries, and has previously held significant engineering roles at Spotify, SoundCloud, and Google. Academic qualifications include a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence from Università degli Studi di Padova and a certificate in Organizational Leadership from Stanford University.