19 Jan Four Salentines in Las Vegas: innovation by Weave
The start-up presented in Las Vegas Weave 4.0, a new machine learning solution to find talent and give value to people.
Coming home is not a simple backward journey. It is putting together all the experiences, the big and small things learned on the journey, and making sense of them. "To create by ourselves the conditions not only to return, but also and above all to stay and to ensure that the departure, of us and of those who will come later, is not obligatory", he welcomes us with a breath of optimism and trust, even if only on the phone, Alessandro Persano, one of the founders of Weave Srl.
Weave was born in 2016 in Sellalab in Lecce directed by Angelo Tafuro, the innovation platform of the Sella group, created to support the digital transformation and open innovation processes of companies. The start-up, founded by Alessandro Persano, Gabriele Perrone, Fabio Masillo e Alessandro Leo, deals with "scouting and continuous experimentation of frontier technologies", or consultancy and digital innovation to support companies in choosing the technological and organizational solutions closest to their needs.
The four Salento people flew, even if only virtually, to the convention of Consumer Electronics Show 2021 in Las Vegas, the leading technology fair in the world dedicated to consumer electronics, which this year was held from 11 to 14 January, thanks to the announcement of the government agency for the promotion abroad and the internationalization of Italian companies, which every year it selects a group of SMEs and startups of excellence in the field of new technologies and innovative ideas.
The company presented in Las Vegas Weave 4.0, a solution designed for businesses and public administration which, through machine learning algorithms, aims to enhance talents, individuals, their work and their time. A condition that, at Weave, is already a reality. Innovation here, in fact, is also in the organization of work: "well before the pandemic, we practice smart working, we have employees all over Italy", explains Alessandro. "We work from Monday to Thursday, while Friday is dedicated to personal projects, which still bring growth to the company". And if the management of time is enviable, so too is that of space. "The Municipality of Melpignano it allowed us to take over an empty space, which we refurbished at our expense ".
Thus it was born co-working space M23, bright and spacious rooms, colorful furniture, white walls, light and green plants in the flower beds, planted by the guys from Weave. A real hub, a business and ideas incubator that serves as the headquarters of about 25 professionals, coming from the most disparate areas. “The best ideas are born around the coffee machine”, he says, “basically here in the South we have everything we need for co-working: lots of empty spaces and lots of talents". For example, the idea of the Lambda-kit of the Calimera lamppost: a kit that can be reproduced with a 3D printer, ideal to be packed or manipulated by children, to build a real lamppost of the Calimera festival of lights. "During the months of the pandemic, however, we worked a lot with municipal administrations, implementing digital solutions for bureaucratic procedures". Between these, WellFood, application for the provision of municipal shopping vouchers placed free of charge at the service of citizens.
Innovation goes hand in hand with training and scouting.
"We strongly believe in the institution of school-to-work alternation", continues Alessandro, "we involve the boys and girls of the technical institutes of the province in our projects". Shortly before the health emergency, the M23 space was transformed into a real Google hub, with the event HashCode2020, welcoming dozens of young people. “We also had the children build, under our supervision, the site of the Municipality of Melpignano”. And there are also many matching opportunities at Weave: “we are always looking for talents, people with new skills and competences”. In five years, Weave has grown, welcoming professionals from all over the world to the spaces of M23. The employees of the company, born with four units, have become ten, "all with a regular and permanent contract", says Alessandro proudly. The journey home has just begun and he promises to be full of adventures.
article taken from quiSalento.it - by Valeria Nicoletti