Massimiliano Maria Longo is creative director and philanthropist, @MMLongo AKA #CancerHacker, is among the most influential and award-winning digital communication experts in Italy. He is also co-founder of Homo ex Machina, AuroraFellows and IF! #ItaliansFestival, Ambassador and Proboviro ADCI, Art Directors Club Italiano and, after crossing the Sahara by motorcycle during chemotherapy, Yamaha Ténéré Spirit Ambassador.

From 2002 to 2018 he is Creative Director of digital@JWT, RMG Connect, Possible, Wunderman and J.W. Thompson Italy (WPP) for which he creates award-winning digital and integrated campaigns for Fortune100 brands. In 2018 he discovers a multi-organ metastatic tumor and after 17 years leaves WPP to join as Creative Partner in yourDIGITAL and focus on integrative therapies, also supported by AI. In 2023 he faces a new recurrence and dedicates himself to the Franco Longo Foundation for Generative and Digital Arts with his family and his father: the artist Franco Longo.