Giuliano Pozza, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Short bio

Giuliano Pozza is the Chief Information Officer of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He is a biomedical engineer and he has extensive experience in IT strategy, governance, change and program management in complex environments, specializing in higher education, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors. He acquired certifications in DASSM (Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master), ISACA CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) and CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT). He is a trained coach (following ICF standards). He was the President of the Italian Association of Healthcare Information System Professionals (AISIS), the CIO of Ospedale San Raffaele, Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus and Istituto Clinico Humanitas. At the beginning of his career, he joined Accenture working for healthcare institutions and pharmaceutical companies. He likes hiking and mountaineering in the Alps, running marathons, reading and sometimes writing. He is an EUNIS Ambassador and the co-leader of the AI4ALL EUNIS Special Interest Group.

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Motivations:

  1. Why do you want to join the EUNIS Board?

    During my career I always tried to leverage networking for improving my skills and sharing my knowlege. I discovered EUNIS three years ago and I find it an ideal environment: not to small to be claustrophobic, not to big to be distracting.

    I am working with AI4ALL SIG and I experience an high level of energy in all the professionals involved.

    I believe that with my experience and leadership I could bring a contribution to the board if necessary.

  2. How will you contribute to EUNIS and its strategic priorities?

    Strategic priority n. 1 is “Empower digitalisation professionals as strategic enablers of digital transformation in their institution for European higher education and research.” in order to be able to: “meet the challenges of today and tomorrow, technology leaders must be central to institutional strategy, beyond representing IT alone.”

    I do believe that to empower EUNIS professionals we need to add, to everytthing wonderful we are already doing, a new strategic initiative: DEEEP (Development of EUNIS Education and Empowerement Plan).

    Cornestones of this initiative will be:
    – Learning paths designed specifically for EUNIS professionals on methodology, technology, governance, soft skills…
    – Coaching and mentoring initiatives
    – (in future) Learning Paths for NON IT Executives in Higher education on digital culture and governance
    – Scolarships for outstanding professionals (young professionals and women in IT could be the first focus)
    – Certifications and open badges.

    I think we could inspire ourselves in part to what EDUCAUSE is doing (collaboration could be interesting).

    CAVEATS: to complete the “mission” there are a few enablers:
    – Defined role inside the borad to support DEEEP (a Vice President for Education) – non necessarily myself
    – Adequate Budget (to be estimated)
    – Support from the President.