Emanuele Della Valle is Program Manager of CEFRIEL’s Semantic Web Activities, lecturer of Knowledge Engineering” at Università dell’Insubria, Service Coordinator for "Testbeds and Challenges service" of Semantic Technology Institute - International and author of the first Italian Semantic Web book.

His activities include research, consultancy and education. His major research interest is in understanding business strategy and in translating theoretical semantic technology results into business applications. He performs research that is justified and guided by business opportunities. He is Project and Scientific Manager of the European project Service-Finder. He is Technical Manager of the European Project SEEMP. He participates to the research activities of the research projects LarKC, NeP4B and TripCom.

Hi consultancy activities to bring innovation in enterprises and public bodies include strategic evolution of ICT systems; feasibility studies for Web portal, search engines and document management systems; support in developing portal and search engines that combines Semantic Technologies and Web 2.0; and support in integration of information systems combining SOA, Web 2.0 and Semantic Technologies.