Projects | Giulia Solinas

Agentic AI

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Agentic AI

Building Smarter Teams, One Agent at a Time

I specialize in designing and deploying autonomous agent ecosystems that turn complex workflows into seamless, self‑organizing teams. Using IBM watsonx Orchestrate, I assembled a sandbox crew of business analysts who collaborate in real‑time to surface users stories, automate the identification of process requirements, and accelerate decision-making.

What makes me excited about this project: high degree of specialization, modularity, possibility to scale in tasks, smaller models for each specialized agents, ReAcT capabiliites, orchestration by design.

At the same time, I explored the Google SDK for Agent Building and crafted a sandbox project—a virtual podcast crew that researches, scripts, and narrates fintech news on‑the‑fly. The agents coordinate research, fact‑checking, and voice synthesis, delivering a polished, up‑to‑date podcast episode without human intervention.

What I learned from this project: each agent is supported by a different foundation model like LLM for text creation, multi-modal models for information parsing (including imaging and IDP capabilities), and text-to-speech, each packed in diffrent agents as modular components.

Together, these experiences showcase my ability to:

Design modular agent architectures that integrate with existing data and NLP pipelines.
Orchestrate multi‑agent collaboration through clear role‑based interactions.

[NOTE!] My next chapter here in this area is AgentOps.

Do you want to co-develop with me? Just reach out.

WAID

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Women in AI and Digital — From Career Change to Community

Who I Am & Why I’m Here

I didn’t start out in tech. I walked into the world of IT with an academic hat on top, an interest in stats, data, and machine learning, and a green field in front of me where I had no experience. The moment I realized I wasn’t alone, people—mentors, fellow women building AI‑driven products, and allies who believed in my potential—started pulling the missing pieces together for me. Their guidance turned my curiosity into a clear identity as an AI practitioner and leader.

Because those lifelines saved my journey, I now pay it forward. I volunteer with Women in AI and Digital (WAID), where I moderate expert interviews and mentor emerging women as they navigate their own AI pathways. Every conversation, every piece of feedback, every “aha!” moment is a reminder that the tech ecosystem thrives when we lift each other up.

What WAID Does (in a nutshell)

Women in AI and Digital was founded to unite and support women navigating the evolving worlds of AI and digital work.
Our mission: Build an inclusive space where connection leads to opportunity and visibility fuels momentum.
How we do it: Peer‑to‑peer support, networking events, and shared learning that open doors to possibilities for learning, connecting, and growing.

Industry – Technology, Information & Internet
Founded – 2025
Specialties – Mentorship, Community Development, Product Management, Design Thinking for AI Experiences, Artificial Intelligence, Technology Leadership, Women in Tech, Women in IT

How You Can Join the Movement

Opportunity	What You’ll Experience
Attend an Interview Session	Live, interactive Q&A with AI leaders—ask anything, from model‑selection tricks to career advice.
Become a Mentee	A tailored mentorship plan that maps your technical goals and personal growth milestones.
Volunteer as a Mentor	Share your expertise, help shape the next wave of women leaders, and expand your own network.
Sponsor or Speak	Showcase your organization’s commitment to diversity and gain visibility among a highly engaged audience.

My Call to Action

If you’re reading this, you already have a voice.
Use it to mentor, to amplify, to sponsor, or simply to listen.
Together, we can transform the AI landscape from a space that talks about inclusion into one that lives it.

Quick Links

LinkedIn WAID Community Hub – Follow this for updates
Luma Online Meetup – Sign up for notifications for our online events.

🎉 Let’s Build a Future Where Every Woman Feels She belongs in AI.

I’m proudly volunteering with Women in AI and Digital, and I invite you to walk this path with me.

Digital Strategizing

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I contributed the research network “Digital Strategizing”, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Projekt number 422808692). The team leaders are Dr. Thomas Gegenhuber, Dr. Maximilian Heimstädt, Dr. Georg Reischauer, and Dr. Violetta Splitter.

Digital technologies increasingly affect the process of strategy-making – they impact how actors craft, understand, and execute strategies. In the context of digitalization, new strategy practices emerged, such as strategy blogging or crowdsourcing. With the rise of new digital technologies, strategy is increasingly open, including lower-level employees or outside stakeholders. Finally, algorithms and digital tools might increase the velocity of strategic decision making.

Taking stock of the current debate, we discuss and analyze how digital transformantion shapes:

strategy practices, which refer to sets of meaningful routinized activities related to strategy making;
strategy practitioners, who are the actors who deploy strategizing activities;
strategy praxis, which refers to the actual activities or performance of strategy practitioners in enacting their practices.

The research network is still ongoing and posts regularly its updates on the .

Platforms for good

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Platforms have become ubiquitous, and their economic relevance is prominent. They have transformed sectors, shaping the competitive advantage of long-standing players, their practices, and their dynamics.

Platforms have a crucial influence on market competitiveness, for example, among vendors or between platform providers. Instead, the contribution of platforms to social change is poorly examined despite an expanding array of public and private initiatives.

The microfinance industry has also seen an evolution due to the rise of digital platforms. Lendings that used to be granted in local networks can now aspire for a global reach; information transparency has increased.

In front of these fundamental changes, some relationships might change, while others remain unaltered. For example, the comparison between microlending institutions becomes more complicated. Organizations can benchmark themselves with the other peers active on the platform. Viceversa, culture should remain a stable trait that shapes interactions in the micro-lending industry, when this one goes digital. But is it the case?

Design platforms for grand challenges

What are the dimensions of a platform design that enables both sustainability and value generation for society and the platform’s market? I discuss this issue in this on Diagonalising.

Platforms and their Societal Impact. A Force for Good?

Platform businesses connect at least two sides, e.g. a buyer and a seller of a good or service, and have grown tremendously in importance in recent years. Indeed, platform business models form the basis of many household names in social media, ridesharing, operating systems and many more. The organization of such platforms is especially interesting because much of the value of a platform is created by complementary actors (individuals or firms) outside of the control of the platform business. This creates interesting dynamics between platform and complementors and between different platforms competing for the best complementors

During Fall 2021, I organized and moderated the online podium discussion “Platforms and their Societal Impact. A Force for Good?” in cooperation with the and the CAS Research Group’‘Platforms as Organizations’’.

I invited Dr. Anil Doshi (UCL/CAS Fellow), Fredrik Gulowsen (Nyby), Stina Heikkila (Boundaryless), Prof. Dr. Tobias Kretschmer (Head of CAS Research Group/LMU), and Prof. Gurneeta Vasudeva Singh (University of Minnesota/CAS Fellow) to discuss:

The paradox(es) of the platforms’ era.
The solutions that platforms offer to address societal problems: decentralization, governance, and the management of the communities.

How can platforms help fight grand challenges? Can they contribute to sustainability?

Mission-driven platforms like Amnesty International Decoder and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap are on the rise. These societal platforms address challenges such as fighting poverty, education, climate actions, and sustainable cities and communities on a large scale and at speed by orchestrating an ecosystem and creating value for the market and society.

Practice generally highlights that the platform’s philanthropic nature and the pro-social mission determine a very peculiar design and governance for those organizations. Yet, research in the field is still scarce.

On November 3rd 2021, I organized the workshop “Societal Platforms: Between Markets and Grand Challenges with Madeleine Rauch” (CBS), Georg Reischauer (WU Vienna), Sebastian Geiger (LMU Munich) and in cooperation with the Knowledge & Innovation Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society.

We asked Shaz Ansari (Cambridge University, UK), Carliss Baldwin (Harvard Business School, US), Anil Doshi (UCL, UK), Dror Etzion (McGill University, CA), and Gurneeta Vasudeva (University of Minnesota, US) to express their take on the topic.

Recordings are available on the Strategic Management Society channel.

Coordination in organizations

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I researched different facets of coordination in organizations. Firms can use different tools to coordinate internally and with partners. Yet, the ‘mix-and-match’ of those instruments might prove to be demanding. I am studying this issue in the context of innovation management.

In the setting of IP strategic management, I examine the combination of tools to coordinate the tasks’ structure with those to incentivize effort in the patents’ value chain. With Dennis Verhoeven (KU Leuven), we find that for a sample of 20 large organizations, coordination arises from three clusters of tools’ configurations. Each configuration highlights a distinct ‘mix-and-match’ in such a way as to enhance the qualities of paired tools and improve both the granting rate and speed for the patents portfolio. If you are interested in knowing more, read our working paper.

Another facet of coordination is the strategic management of partnerships. This issue is particularly relevant for innovation projects, where competences and capabilities may be not available in-house. With the outsourcing of tasks and processes, part of the responsibility for the products’ or services’ features shifts in the partners’ hands. That poses a natural challenge for the outsourcing organization, which loses full directionality and can maintain only partial supervision. How to take back control and insure a smooth coordination with the partners? With Dominique Demougin (TU Kaiserslrautern), we study how to solve this issue via the negotiation of indemnity clauses in outsourcing contracts with a formal model and an empirical analysis for the pharmaceutical industry.

Coordination is also crucial to alliances’ survival. Trust building and maintenance enable strategic alliances to survive when allies are peers and the partnerships unstable. My co-authors and I research this relationship with a lab experiment and document the significance of ‘’trust-building’’ in initial stages and ‘’trust repair’’ in later stages of strategic alliances with competitors.

Projects | Giulia Solinas

Agentic AI

Agentic AI

WAID

Women in AI and Digital — From Career Change to Community

Who I Am & Why I’m Here

What WAID Does (in a nutshell)

How You Can Join the Movement

My Call to Action

Quick Links

🎉 Let’s Build a Future Where Every Woman Feels She belongs in AI.

Digital Strategizing

Platforms for good

Design platforms for grand challenges

Platforms and their Societal Impact. A Force for Good?

How can platforms help fight grand challenges? Can they contribute to sustainability?

Coordination in organizations

Women in AI and Digital — From Career Change to Community