Andrea Losso

Let me start from where I am today, then tell you how I got here. What occupies my thinking right now is the gap between AI's potential and actual business readiness. After years of building enterprise platforms, integrating complex systems and leading digital transformation across multiple countries, AI feels like a natural evolution — not a separate discipline. The foundational work matters more than the tools: process mapping, data architecture, workflow clarity. These determine whether AI delivers value or adds expensive complexity. Most businesses in the 5–200 employee range don't have a clear path between "AI sounds important" and "here's where to start." That gap is where I focus. I write here about this intersection: technology strategy, AI in real operations, and what it takes for growing companies to adopt AI effectively. — How I got here. I started my first company as a university student in 1997. Over 25+ years I've founded and led technology companies across the UK, Italy, Germany and Latvia — K3 System, Ubooker, Karma3, Netech, Impact — as CTO, investor, partner and advisor. 1,000+ clients across finance, retail, fashion, tourism and food. At Ubooker we attracted investment from Renzo Rosso's Red Circle (Diesel Group) and Stefano Martinetto (Tomorrow London). Max Benedetti (YNAP–Yoox Net-a-Porter) joined as partner and advisor. As founder of Karma3, I turn early-stage ideas into operational businesses — from strategy and architecture through product delivery, team building and scale. Most recently as CTO and IT Advisor at Tomorrow — a global fashion accelerator with showrooms in Milan, London, Paris, New York and warehouses across multiple countries — I led a digital transformation program: enterprise architecture around a new ERP core, integration layer connecting order management, CRM, marketplaces and custom portals, and end-