Sebastiano Toffaletti is the Secretary General of the European DIGITAL SME Alliance since 2008. Sebastiano holds a Master Degree in Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering from the University of Bologna. He authored several articles and position papers on Intellectual Property Rights, Standards, e-Skills, Net Neutrality and Cloud Computing, and serves as an expert in EU working groups and task forces, such as the EU Multi-stakeholder Platform on ICT Standardisation.