Davide Calì is an Italian executive, researcher, and founder, who during his twenty-five years long career, successfully delivered over five hundred IT projects. More than thirty of them were executed in cooperation with Fortune 500 companies. 

He led and participated in over twenty research projects, some of which resulted in Intellectual Property patents. He wrote a dozen of international IT scientific papers, specifically addressing AI-related areas such as Smart Agents, Expert Systems, NLP, Ontologies, and Machine Learning. 

 From 2001 to 2015 he was CTO/CEO and partner of seven Technology and Artificial Intelligence Start-ups (four Italian and three International). In 2010, he was chosen as the software expert for the Italian government delegation at the World Exhibition in Shanghai and after few years of cross border projects, in 2015, he permanently relocated to Shanghai. 

In 2016 he co-founded EXPAND, a Technology Accelerator for early-stage start-ups focusing on Deep Tech, Digital Science, and Smart Industry.