About Tatiana Rizzante
Tatiana Rizzante, Chief Executive Officer of Reply, has discussed the company's organizational model and approach to innovation in interviews. In a 2021 interview, she stated that Reply's biggest advantages include its ability to keep up with innovation, its "networked enterprise" organizational model, and its diversity. She said that to manage an industry, one must understand the job and learn how things are done, adding that she believes an entrepreneur must learn a job, not just how to invest money. In a 2022 interview, she noted that Reply is part of the Euronext Tech Leaders index and that the company is focused on areas including artificial intelligence and the automotive industry.
In earlier appearances, Rizzante discussed the company's investments in the "Internet of Things" and an incubator for startups. In a 2014 interview, she said that the "Internet of Things" would create "infinite niches of specialization" and that Reply had invested in a platform to build different vertical applications. She also stated that while Italy has "peaks of excellence" in technology, the country is behind in overall ICT spending and exports of high technology. In a 2010 interview, she described the market as complex but noted that some segments were growing by 20-30% per year, and that the key was for a company to identify the right areas to invest in.
Source: AI-verified profile updated from Tatiana Rizzante's recent appearances.
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Transcript (9 segments)
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Interviewer0:01
Special top workshop. A greeting again from Cosmo Media Plaza by Orlando Ferraris. Important guests follow who talk about innovation, digital innovation. In this case with us is the CEO of Reply, Tatiana Rizzante. Good morning, thank you for being with us. So let's talk about innovation. We are inside an important fair. Earlier we also heard the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Turin, Barberis, who cares a lot about this fair, which is a locally important fair. Because with many resources this year, it managed to open up to all of Italy and even abroad. So the impression is that it can grow, that it becomes a true showcase for comparison between new technologies and innovation. You, regarding innovation, are the ones very well positioned. Yes, among other things, they did a great job this year at Taws, very very nice, very well organized, and certainly a growing fair, yes.
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Tatiana Rizzante1:08
We can, we tried to bring some new things we are doing, so all the world to the platform.
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Interviewer1:13
Congratulations on the stand.
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Tatiana Rizzante1:17
All the world of the platform for the Internet of Things, then some software as a service of the group, in particular the part of warehouse management, social networking, which among other things is what is also used here at TAWS on the hillside, and the management part with our reference partner Microsoft, this is very important.
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Interviewer1:39
Earlier we also heard the CEO of Microsoft, he said how important, in any case, a fair like this of Cosmo, which he says is in some way localized in Piedmont, Turin, but that has a vision thanks to 150, 160 exhibitors and companies, therefore to collect and connect all the innovations of the sector. Among other things, the territory is representative in many aspects because the work done in recent years, the relaunch of the segment, both with projects like Turin Wireless and with the entire infomobility component, with the commitment of the authorities and the Polytechnic, has been an absolutely outstanding work, and today it is a reference hub in the Italian territory. So, what is the response you expect from the market in this very frenetic and difficult time, even to program and plan immediate responses?
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Tatiana Rizzante2:48
This is an absolutely difficult question. Certainly the market is complex, but in my opinion at very different speeds because it is true that there are segments that decrease by, choose, minus 8, minus 10, minus 3, let's play the numbers game, but there are also segments that grow by 20, 30 percent per year. So the issue is not just 'oh my God, there is a crisis, depression, etc.', but it is to understand for one's own company what are the right areas to invest in, and above all to remember that there are moments like this of strong transformation with sectors with enormous opportunities. This is the bet of this territory.
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Interviewer3:37
In closing, a question about your products. I haven't been able to go into all of them, but what is the Internet of Things?
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Tatiana Rizzante3:49
The Internet of Things, in our opinion, is an important part of the future of our work. Because what we believe is that computing and communication, therefore connectivity, moves from mass-market devices like PCs and cell phones to all things, materials, sensors, specialized devices such as those for medicine, infomobility, and so on. So this opens up infinite niches of specialization. We have chosen to first of all invest in a basic platform, which is a MAC platform, that allows us then to build the different verticalizations. And I am convinced that in the coming years, this is one of those segments of very high development, not trivial, but that offers great opportunities.
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Interviewer4:46
Certainly within Cosmo, and often you will hear talk about the future and challenges. And speaking of challenges, Tatiana Rizzante will be tonight at the round table organized by Federmanager in the red room, and there we will talk about challenges for the future, especially for managers. Yes, a protected category. Thanks again, then, see you soon, always from Media Plaza, good day and good work. Thank you, goodbye. Special top workshop.
