"Data First, Talk Later" - for Alessio Re, that's not a tagline: it describes how he actually works.

He is the founder of Klartika and co-founder of Elegia, helping hotels unify fragmented tech stacks into data architectures they own, then running AI orchestration on top to turn that data into revenue decisions.

His career started in IT and open-source software, moved through search and performance marketing, and then eleven years building hospitality technology at Xpitality. The throughline was always the data. Getting it clean, owning it, using it to make actual decisions.

That background still shows in how he builds things: portable, vendor-neutral, no lock-in.

Outside work he follows OSINT and geopolitics with the same obsessive attention to sources he applies to data pipelines. He has lived in seven countries and traveled through more than eighty, which probably explains both the geopolitics habit and the strong opinions on specialty coffee and craft beer.

Based in Zagreb.

Alessio is panel expert of the Digital Marketing in Hospitality and the Information Technology panels.