Francesco Marconi

Francesco Marconi is a computational journalist turned startup founder who built AppliedXL, a New York company that points the tools of investigative reporting at machine data to detect events before they become news. After serving as the first R&D Chief at The Wall Street Journal and co-leading AI strategy at the Associated Press, he wrote the field-defining book Newsmakers and now applies 'pre-news' event detection to clinical trials and biopharma, surfacing the earliest signals of trial risk for partners including STAT News and the Bloomberg Terminal.