About

Gian-Luca Savino is a researcher, speaker, and consultant at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute in Zurich, where he works on how AI reshapes society, business, and the future of work. On the side, he builds software tools to explore what's possible with AI agents.

Previously, he was a Senior Researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of St. Gallen, where he led a research project on sustainable navigation technologies and taught courses in HCI and Algorithms & Data Structures.

Gian-Luca holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of St. Gallen, awarded summa cum laude, and a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Bremen.

AI Pulse — Fully automated knowledge pipeline that discovers, transcribes, and analyzes AI leader interviews from the web, extracts predictions and risk signals, and serves them as interactive visualizations. Built to explore agentic workflows for automating knowledge work at scale.

LocalWhisper — Open-source Mac app for private, offline speech-to-text using locally running AI models. Built as a daily driver and the way I interact most efficiently with the many AI agents I work with simultaneously every day. I also built it to learn and explore local LLMs.