3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
conceptualization, build out, and scale up of a smart Third Industrial Revolution infrastructure
to transform their economies.
Since 1994, Mr. Rifkin has been a senior lecturer at the Wharton School's Executive Education
Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where he instructs CEOs and senior management on
transitioning their business operations into sustainable economies.
Francesco SECHI
Francesco graduated in transport engineering at the University of Cagliari; since 1997 he has
been working in the field of Transport Planning, taking part to several projects concerning
private and public transport issues at national, regional, provincial and urban scale with the role
of Planner, Project Manager or Scientific Supervisor.
Mainly the projects were related to the evaluation of major infrastructure projects, such as
highways, underground metro, light-rail and tramway, mobility plans, traffic impact
assessment, forecast of passenger and freight demand, innovative transport systems. These
studies were mainly supported by predictive simulations through the use of transport
simulation models. He also acquired a thorough understanding of economic and financial
assessment of transport system interventions funded by the European community.
From 2002 to 2011, he has been consultant of Systematica spa firm where he has directed and
coordinated the team of the local headquarters of Cagliari (with a workforce of up to 15
engineers). In 2002 he co-founded the local office in Cagliari of Systematica, of which he is a
partner since 2005.
In 2012 he co-founded the company "Systematica Mobility Thinklab srl" ("Mlab" in short), an
engineering firm based in Cagliari, specialized in planning and feasibility studies of transport
systems, addressing both traditional and innovative systems. Currently he is chairman of the
board of directors of Mlab.
He is also collaborating with the chair of "transport planning" of the faculty of engineering and
with the course of "project management" of the faculty of economics of the University of
Cagliari.
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