Massimiliano Vurro

I have had one job since 1999 and it has changed name about ten times. I enter a field I do not know, learn it fast, and dig until I find something the specialists have stopped seeing. The field changes, the method does not. It went that way with industrial compliance, ecodesign, artificial intelligence, and soon quantum computing. My base trade is making a product fit to be on the market: compliant with standards and regulations, safe, competitive. I work between Europe and Asia on industrial machinery, service robotics, medical devices, consumer electronics, and software both embedded and standalone. In 2019 I turned the same lens on energy and built Seetalabs, which listens to large power transformers and works out when they are in trouble. CERN in Geneva used it up to Long Shutdown 3, along with European utilities, steel plants and maintenance companies. Before Seetalabs I founded Ecotp, on ecodesign and compliance, and Quantic, on quantitative analysis. I taught Industrial Standardisation and Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, mentored for Techstars, and sat as an independent expert in the Plenary of the European Commission's Code of Practice for general purpose AI. I write here about transformer condition assessment: dissolved gas analysis, health indices built on CIGRE TB 761, and what the standards actually support.