Perilli

Alessandro Perilli is a technology researcher, entrepreneur, and creator whose work explores emerging technologies and their effects on business and society. He is a Vice President of Research at IDC, where he focuses on the economics of artificial intelligence and enterprise adoption worldwide. His background includes research and leadership roles at Gartner and Red Hat, founding the virtualization publication virtualization.info, advising major global companies, and contributing to cybersecurity research and education.

Perilli’s projects make advanced technology accessible through practical tools and media. Open Creative Studio is a free ComfyUI workflow for generating text, images, video, voice, music, sound effects, and lyrics. Other projects include demonstrations of deepfake technology, a synthetic podcast, a YouTube channel about AI capabilities, and Synthetic Work, a newsletter on AI’s influence on jobs, productivity, and business operations. He also shares research, essays, curated startup insights, and generative AI artwork. His work spans artificial intelligence, automation, cloud computing, cybersecurity, open source, and synthetic media, alongside interests in art and the future of life.