Innovation editor of Sole 24 Ore and Nova24 ( which he founded and ran from October 2005 to June 2011, taking up the reins again in 2013); editor of Vita Nòva, a magazine on tablets
Lecturer on the communications science masters course at the University of Padua; member of the scientific committee of the communications science masters course at the SISSA Institute in Trieste; member of the scientific committee of the Big Data analytics masters course at the LUISS private university in Rome
Contributor to Edge.org, Annual Question since 2012
Co-founder of the ItaliaStartup association
Member of the Commission on the guarantees, rights and obligations for the use of the internet, for the Chamber of Deputies, 2014; Member of the Scientific Committee for the Digital Agenda in Emilia Romagna, 2014; in 2012 he worked with the Italian Ministry for Economic Development in a task force dedicated to improving the ecosystem of innovative startups; in 2013 he was a member of the task force on the Italian Digital Agenda for the Prime Minister
he was Chairman of the Ahref Foundation, a centre for research into the quality of information in social media from its founding in 2010 until April 2014, but he continues the work on civic media
Member of the Commission on Big Data of the National Institute of Statistics
Member of the board of directors of the Golinelli Foundation of Bologna
Member of the board of trustees at Nexa
Member of the scientific committee of the Think! Foundation
Member of the Governing Body of the Netcomm self-regulation code, an Italian e-commerce consortium
Curator of TEDxRoncade
Member of the State of the Net steering committee
Luca has been invited to speak on numerous occasions by the OCSE of Paris, the StsForum of Kyoto, MIT-Medialab of Cambridge Massachusetts, the Atomium Culture of Brussels, the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Falling Walls of Berlin, the Italian University of Switzerland and State of the Net of Trieste. He has taught courses to teachers at Sciences Po, Paris, Master of Public Affairs from 2007 to 2012.
Web Italia Prize 2012, Città Impresa Fabbricatore di idee Awards 2012, Cultura di Rete Prize 2007, Sele d’Oro Prize 1994; for Vita Nòva: Moebius 2011, The Lovie Awards 2011, M20, Spd, iTunes Rewind 2011.