Previous strategic speakers

Emanuele Santo leads Snam Global Solutions, a business unit focused on supporting global gas infrastructure operators in their journey towards decarbonization, digitalization, and “hydrogen readiness” of their infrastructure. Under his leadership, Snam supported several TSO’s in assessing the readiness of their infrastructure to hydrogen blending, leveraging the pioneering experience that Snam gained in completing the assessment on its high pressure gas transport pipeline and underground gas storage assets, and in delivering pilot projects on hydrogen blending.Prior to that, Emanuele gained extensive international experience in service & equipment manufacturing, engineering & construction, and industrial IoT companies. He started his career in reservoir evaluation operations with Schlumberger in Mexico, before joining General Electric Oil & Gas (today Baker Hughes), where he spent +11 years leading several functions and businesses across product development, sales and commercial, strategy and marketing; most recently he managed the Digital Solutions Service business in Europe and Russia CIS. He holds a MSc. in Mechanical Engineering, with dissertation in Aerospace, at Polytechnic Institute, Italy and École Normale Supérieure, France and a MBA at IMD International Business School, Switzerland.