Francesco Cremonesi holds a PhD in computational neuroscience obtained at the Blue Brain Project in the École Polytechinique Fédérale de Lausanne and has professional experience as a project manager and data engineer. Francesco is knowledgeable in artificial intelligence applied to medical data, especially the aspects related to data management, transformation, curation and the necessary software infrastructure supporting the training of machine learning models. Francesco is a firm believer and supporter of data standardization, interoperability, and sharing. Francesco has been active in the EU project GenoMed4All and others to build a bridge between the clinical rare disease world, including ERNs and registries, and the artificial intelligence community. Francesco believes the field of rare diseases could highly benefit from an environment that enables and promotes sharing of data for epidemiological, analytical and predictive purposes.