Speaking and teaching

I make the case for data monetisation in keynotes, executive briefings and the classroom. These are the rooms where the argument gets tested: where boards, executive teams and graduate students push back, and where the ideas in my writing get sharpened.

What I speak about

Value capture in data businesses. Where the value goes when a company turns data into revenue, why it so rarely stays with the data owner, and the five decisions that settle it.

Data monetisation: routes to value creation. How organisations turn data assets into durable revenue, valuation and customer outcomes.

Platform economics and network effects. Three waves of platform value creation, and how to engineer network effects rather than hope for them.

From SaaS to agentic AI. What changes for product, pricing and organisations as software shifts to autonomous agents.

Retail media, advertising platforms and data. Lessons from launching some of the world's largest retail-media platforms: what works, what does not.

In the classroom

• Bologna Business School, guest lecturer: AI, platforms and data monetisation
• LUISS Business School (Rome), guest lecturer: AI, platforms and data monetisation
• Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, guest lecturer: AI, platforms and data monetisation

Selected venues

• Forbes
• Richmond IT Director Forum and Richmond CFO Forum
• Confartigianato Imprese
• Confcooperative

English and Italian. Tailored to the room: board off-sites, leadership workshops, keynote stages and university lectures. Speaking enquiries: gianluca.carrera@gmail.com.