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Antonio Giarrusso. I bring AI into companies, and make people actually use it.
Antonio Giarrusso is an Italian entrepreneur, founder of Userbot and Head of AI at the smeup group. He helps companies adopt AI with clear rules.
The forms are in Italian, but you can write in English.
In short.
- Founded Userbot in 2017, before ChatGPT. Today it is the Italian platform for governed AI adoption in companies, part of the smeup group, and is cited in nine 2026 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ reports.
- Head of AI at the smeup group.
- Co-inventor of an AI patent (IT102019000000526) on a system that learns from conversations between agents and customers.
- Member of the Forbes Technology Council since 2024.
- Created iMathematics, an educational app named Apple App of the Year, and apps with more than 5 million downloads overall.
- 50+ talks at conferences, keynotes and panels, including Intesa Sanpaolo, UniCredit, Borsa Italiana and AGID.
Speaking topics.
- 01AI in the enterprise, beyond the demoHow companies move from pilots to everyday use, and why the hard part is not the technology.
- 02Shadow AI: banning it is not a strategyPeople already use AI with personal accounts. How to bring that use back within clear rules.
- 03AI agents and new operating modelsWhat changes when AI stops answering and starts doing work inside business processes.
- 04From idea to product: how AI compresses timeLessons from building apps, startups and AI products, with real examples.
Keynotes, panels, workshops and on-stage interviews.
Not to be confused with.
Antonio Giarrusso, founder of Userbot, is a different person from others with the same surname, such as Italian politicians. Userbot (userbot.ai) is not the “userbot” software for Telegram.
Contact.
Write to ciao@antonio.ai, or use the forms on the contact page: the page is in Italian, but you can write your message in English. More in Italian: full bio with sources, speaker page, Userbot case studies.