On the eighth floor of 417 Fifth Avenue, seat of the Transatlantic Innovation Hub, the Olympic champion of judo Fabio Basile and entrepreneur Francesco Rulli told a project that interweaves sports, artificial intelligence and managerial training: the Basile Method, a framework designed to bring resilience built on tatami into the classrooms of corporate formation.
To moderate the meeting was Ornella Fado, founder of OK Productions and creator and conductor of the television program Briniamo!, aired on NYC-TV since 2005, flanked by the president of Transatlantic Innovation Hub Simone Tarantino, who hosted the event in Midtown Manhattan space.
Basile, born in Rivoli in 1994, won the Olympic gold in the 66 kilograms in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, the 200th gold medal of the Italian Olympic history. Since then he has returned several times on the international podium, with European bronze in Kazan in the same year and gold at the Grand Slam in Antalya in 2021. Only a few months ago, in May, he conquered silver at the Grand Slam of Astana, in Kazakhstan, confirming that he was still racing towards Los Angeles 2028. In the course there was no lack of difficulty: two years ago a serious neck injury forced him to intervene with the insertion of two titanium vertebrae, after which the doctors told him that his last encounter was already behind him.
On stage, Basile insisted on a point: the value that Olympic sport can transfer to the world of work. He spoke of resilience, of the ability to rise after a defeat, but also of balance, the ability to remain lucid both in victory and in defeat, and of respect, the first teaching that receives anyone on a tatami. For him these values do not remain confined to sport: they can serve both a manager and a young athlete with the first weapons.
At his side, Francesco Rulli told the technological part of the project. Founder and CEO of Querlo, a company based in New York specializing in the development of digital assistants based on artificial intelligence, Rulli built a digital twin with Basile, a virtual assistant capable of answering questions from fans and judo fans in dozens of languages, trained on the basis of Basile’s autobiographical book, The impossible does not exist, and on years of interviews and materials collected on his sports path.
Rulli, who leads Querlo from his New York office and lists among his clients some great international names such as HSBC, Pfizer and IBM, explained how the project was born from a personal meeting between the two, also linked to a common experience in the martial arts world. He said he had discovered, working alongside Basile, how his knowledge base was unusually rich and structured compared to many other customers, a detail that made it easier to build his digital twin.
During the meeting, the two also discussed how the judo has a huge diffusion in areas of the world unrelated to sports in Italy, such as Central Asia, where countries like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan consider it national sport. Precisely from this observation the idea of a cultural and economic bridge between these regions and Italy was born, a theme on which Rulli and Basile are already working together with some universities in Central Asia.
Los Angeles 2028 remains the stated goal of Basile on tatami. Outside tatami, the project with Rulli points further: bringing the Olympic mentality where, until today, it had never arrived.
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