Giancarlo has dedicated his entire career serving the education community. He has worked with students as young as pre-k all the way through to University and his unique lens of seeing learning through technology placed him at one of Ontario’s first one-to-one schools. Recognizing the value and importance of scaling innovative practices he served as consultant to almost all Ontario school districts as they transitioned to digital, then did the same across North America and internationally. Giancarlo is currently the Global Education Strategist at SMART Technologies and reports directly to the CEO. He engages with education thought leaders, researchers, policy organizations and government officials to gain insight and influence trends in the k-12 education space. He actively mines and synthesizes insights to influence the direction and decisions made within R&D, product development, marketing and sales teams and is the "face" of SMART at high-profile meeting, events, and media interactions.
He serves on the board of directors of
C21 Canada- an organization promoting 21 Century learning across Canada, Chair of the
Samuel Beatty Fund at the University of Toronto – promoting the study of STEM subjects and is part of the OECD advisory group on the study of
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Skills, the world’s first international assessment of SEL skills.
