Alessandro Marianantoni is Exec. Director and Founder at M Accelerator in Los Angeles, offering programs to serve the international startup ecosystem providing students, early-stage and later-stage founders with skills to grow their startups. Over the last 25 years, Alessandro has researched, designed and developed numerous projects in many fields: entertainment, engineering, art, and healthcare, receiving public and private funds from a number of organizations including UCLA, Google, Siemens, Marriott, Universal Studios, Disney, Italian Government and the City of Pasadena. Alessandro studied Computer Science at the University of L’Aquila, with a thesis on computer vision at the USC Integrated Media System Center.