In this interview, Luca La Brocca, Business Development Manager, explains how the Villanova project applies federated generative AI to real-world sectors such as healthcare, tourism and precision agriculture. Unlike isolated AI demonstrations, Villanova develops composable and reusable building blocks designed to operate securely across distributed cloud-edge environments. La Brocca presents a practical tourism use case in which specialized language models analyze online reviews and social media content to identify traveler sentiment and emerging trends, providing destination managers with intelligent decision-support tools. The interview also explores Villanova’s contribution to the European research ecosystem, its focus on data sovereignty, privacy and AI Act compliance, and its medium-term objective of transforming research results into scalable, sustainable and market-ready AI solutions.