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#WeAreLeonardo, in the digital twin world with Nico and Luigi

12 December 2024

Different experiences and professionalism, two distinct teams united towards a common goal. Nico Di Domenica, Head of Big Data & Advanced Analytics, and Luigi Capone, Head of In Cloud Data Engineering, talk about their paths and the synergy that made the development of the digital twin of Leonardo’s helicopters possible.

A passion for technology and the desire to challenge themselves in new environments are two of the elements that link the personal and professional paths of Nico Di Domenica and Luigi Capone. Both, at different times, spent part of their education abroad, between England, France and the United States. Places where they also took their first professional steps.

A sort of common thread that guided them back to Italy and join Leonardo. Nico joined the Group in 2020 to contribute to the company’s digitalisation path, and since 2022, he has been part of the Digital Transformation Department in Cascina Costa (Varese, Italy). Luigi has been working at Leonardo’s site in Genova Fiumara since 2021, when the company was looking for people with expertise in distributed computing and simulations, with the aim of building the supercomputer davinci-1.

Thanks to the joint effort of their teams, the digital twin of Leonardo’s helicopters was created. The project is a perfect example of the value in sharing expertise between different parts of the company. When thinking about their respective teams, Nico and Luigi imagine them as small "start-ups" or "multipliers of skills" within a much wider context. Both have found in Leonardo an environment where challenging and disruptive projects can be pursued every day at the international level.