About
Marco Balduini is CEO of Quantia Consulting and co-founder and COO of Motus ml. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Politecnico di Milano and works where research meets industry: Knowledge Graphs and semantic data integration, generative AI systems organizations can trust and run, and machine learning that learns continuously at the edge.
His research roots are in semantic technologies and stream reasoning. Within the FP7 LarKC project he was a main contributor to BOTTARI, an augmented-reality app for tourists in Seoul powered by continuous social media analysis, which won the Semantic Web Challenge 2011. Between 2012 and 2018 he worked on the analysis of heterogeneous urban data streams — social media, mobile telecommunications, IoT — in EIT Digital and H2020 projects with industrial partners including Telecom Italia and Siemens. The CitySensing dashboards he co-developed were exhibited at Milan Design Week 2014 and at EXPO Milano 2015, and the related paper received the IEEE MultiMedia Best Paper Award 2016.
In 2015 he co-founded Fluxedo, a startup focused on continuous visual analytics. In 2019 he led the foundation of Quantia Consulting, and in 2023 he co-founded Motus ml, a benefit company and spin-off of Politecnico di Milano.
At Quantia Consulting he designs data platforms and semantic data integration solutions, and leads the design and delivery of data and AI programs for companies and professionals, from data foundations to AI project management.
At Motus ml he runs operations and delivery for a company bringing machine learning where the data is: streaming models that learn incrementally and run on resource-constrained devices for predictive maintenance, and generative AI systems for industrial quality — including a self-hosted RAG platform running open models on private GPU infrastructure, and AI tools for test-report analysis, defect analytics, and visual inspection in the aerospace sector.
In research, he led WP9 (Tools, Training and Implementation) of the Horizon 2020 project Equal-Life, developing the Equal-Life Toolkit, leads data enrichment, integration, and dashboard activities in the Horizon Europe project TRIAD, and coordinates data work in AIS4UM, a Regione Lombardia project on AI safety for smart urban mobility.
Timeline
- 2011 BOTTARI wins the Semantic Web Challenge (FP7 LarKC)
- 2012–2018 Stream reasoning and urban data science research at Politecnico di Milano (EIT Digital, H2020)
- 2014–2015 CitySensing at Milan Design Week and EXPO Milano 2015
- 2015 Co-founds Fluxedo
- 2019 PhD in Computer Science, Politecnico di Milano; leads the foundation of Quantia Consulting
- 2020–2025 Equal-Life (Horizon 2020), WP9 lead: Equal-Life Toolkit
- 2023 Co-founds Motus ml, Politecnico di Milano spin-off
- 2025– AIS4UM (Regione Lombardia)
- 2026– TRIAD (Horizon Europe), WP7 lead