Massimiliano Mauro

Massimiliano Mauro is the founder and Strategic Director of Pianeta.Studio, an Italian Benefit Corporation operating at the intersection of sustainable design, technology, and social impact. Innovation has been his throughline from the start, with ten years of practice in strategic design, communication, and digital production for organizations working at the border between climate, food, and digital sustainability. He holds a Master’s in Sustainability and a Master’s in Creativity from Talent Garden Milan, and founded Pianeta.Studio as a Benefit Corporation in 2023, writing the commitment to planet-centric design and common benefit into the company’s articles of incorporation. He runs the studio as a nomadic, remote-first practice across Catania, Milan, and Rome, and is the author of proprietary platforms for the Sustainability Web — Pianeta.Green (a digital ecosystem for measurably low-impact websites) and the Atlas Framework (an open ESG evaluation system that maps the Italian sustainability landscape through 80 indicator cards).

Artificial intelligence is increasingly central to how he works, both as a tool and as a matter of governance. Pianeta.Studio has built an operational AI Governance framework applied internally — transparent authorship of AI artifacts, a human owner for every system, explicit autonomy thresholds, a Human-in-the-Loop pattern applied at the filesystem level — and is preparing a public version of the framework as a methodological contribution to the Italian design and communication sector ahead of the EU AI Act coming into full force in August 2026. Mauro participates actively in Via Lattea’s advocacy work on AI Safety in Italy, and in 2025 completed a course at MAXXI in Rome on Accessibility and AI. He has a particular strategic interest in the agri-food sector, which he sees as one of the fields most deeply and unevenly affected by AI in the coming decade, and one Pianeta.Studio is working on concretely through its engagement with agroecology and food systems.