Fabio Bellifemine is a senior member of IEEE and a project manager and focal point at the Innovation Department of Telecom Italia. Since 2006 he is responsible for the R&D Project on Smart Grid Applications.
He is Managing Director and Legal Representative of Energy@home, a no-profit association that he founded on 2012, on behalf of Telecom Italia, with Enel, Electrolux and Indesit, with the mission of valuing the demand-side energy flexibility through a proper communication infrastructure. The Association counts today 22 member companies including SME’s and other large companies.
His previous research interest was in the field of software agent technology. In this field he launched the JADE Open Source Project and he led the Architecture Board of FIPA, Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents, an international alliance of companies which developed technology standards in this field.