My new life in the Dolomites

About me working and living around the Dolomites

From Milan to Ritten/Renon (BZ)

I’m a project manager living in South Tyrol (Italy).
I’ve studied design, worked in packaging, tourism, branding and project managment. I am now a freelance.
Interested in design, social media and entrepreneurship. I am a great fan of mountains (Dolomites, of course!), skiing, travel and photography.

Photo © Marco Lamberto

Freelance Project Manager

Freelance Project Manager of Digital Events in collaboration with the Tech-Transfer Digital team of NOI Techpark , such as SFSCON (since 2018), NOI Hackathon (since 2018), Barcamp Südtirol (2018 & 2019).
Part of the Open Data Hub community building team and AlpineBits Alliance Executive Director.

Photo © Marco Parisi

Instagramers Alto Adige Südtirol

Local Manager of Instagramers Alto Adige Südtirol from 2018 and board member of the association Instagramers Italia ETS from 2020.
Instagramers Italia brings together the official communities of the Instagramers network in Italy, part of the international network created by Phil González in 2011. The network includes 520 communities located all over the world, 70 of which are in Italy, managed with commitment by Local Managers, voluntary members who live in the area and who take care of keeping the community active.

The main purposes of the association are the organisation of events to promote the Italian territory and cultural landscape and to spread photographic culture and mobile photography through meetings (instameets), training sessions (instagramers academies) and challenges.

(above) Photo © Camilla Pizzini - (below) Photo © (1,2) Emily Louise Simonis (3,4) Camilla Pizzini

Dolomiti

My experience in tourism is due to my work in Dolomiti.it Srl, a company which is active in the field of Multimedia Communication and Tourism Marketing, owner since 1996 of the www.dolomiti.it portal and of a series of vertical portals including: www.dolomiticlass.it, www.dolomitimeteo.it, www.dolomitiunesco.it.

From 2015 to the end of 2017, I was brand manager and partner in the development project "One Land One Brand".

Photo © Emily Louise Simonis

Packaging & design consultant

with a degree in Industrial Design (2006) from the Milan Politecnico University and a Master in Management and Business Strategy (2013) from the Business School of Il Sole 24 Ore in Milan.

After founding Asterisco*lab designstudio (where I worked from 2007 to 2014) - an independent packaging and design studio - I worked with graphic design, communication and design studios on the development of new projects and new business, specialising in the development of start-ups. Between 2014 and 2015, I was involved in the set-up of the design company-laboratory Incipit Lab.

(above) Photo © One More Pack - (below) Photo © asterisco*lab designstudio s.n.c.