Antonio Corradi graduated from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, and from Cornell University, USA. He is a Full Professor of Distributed Systems at the University of Bologna. His research interests include distributed and parallel middleware, Cloud computing and multi Cloud, microservices and microcontainers, Industry 4.0, IIoT, 5G, IT vs. OT, infrastructures for Industry 4.0, Big Data system support, crowdsourcing, and mobile crowdsensing. He is the chair of the Emilia Romagna CLUST-ER for service innovation and is very involved in internationalization and technology transfer. Prof. Corradi is a member of ACM and IEEE.