Erik Van Ingen
Digital Innovation Consultant
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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SeniorErik Van Ingen is a Digital Innovation Consultant with 13 years of experience designing and deploying frontier technologies—AI, blockchain, remote sensing and data science—across UN agencies and international development programs. Based in Rome, he leads FAO’s AI agenda, co-chairs AI Champions, runs the FAO LLM project and founded FAO’s AI and blockchain communities of practice, demonstrating rare operational leadership in global AI governance. He combines deep technical chops (Java, Python, GIS/GEE, UAVs, SDMX) with agile, design-thinking facilitation to move pilots into production and shape policy-ready solutions for agrifood systems. His work bridges public and private sectors, forging BigTech and university partnerships and advancing practical applications like satellite-driven oracles and blockchain smart contracts for pastoralists. Not obvious from his title: he steers interdisciplinary teams to embed behavioural science, foresight and continuous hypothesis testing into innovation programs, turning complex research outputs into decision-ready tools.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English, Italian, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
sonarqube9
google9
sonarcloud8
java-programming8
natural-language-understanding8
analyzer8
pre-trained-model8
java7
sonarlint7
marine7
tensorflow7
bert7
natural-language-processing7
static-analyzer7
nlp7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openfigis/figis
Oct 2013 - Aug 2015
Contributions:115 commits, 58 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 10 months
openfigis/vme
Feb 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1013 commits, 35 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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