«Three years ago we started this project to tell the future and its impacts in a clear way. Especially for young people. Fear of tomorrow must turn into a curiosity for new opportunities. The work will increase and the necessary skills will change more and more. The Festival of the Future must bring a new story to boys and girls. From Brescia to Vicenza and then to Verona this is the message we want to send out ». Luigi Consiglio, President of GEA Management Consultants and Chief Executive Officer of Eccellenze d'impresa thus opened the works of Waiting for the Festival, event held yesterday, Wednesday 29 September, at the Brescia Chamber of Commerce (click here to review the event). There were two round tables on the issues of employment and young people, which involved industrialists, professionals, innovators and representatives of the academic world. The next appointment of Waiting for the Festival is scheduled for the end of October in Vicenza.
Waiting for the Festival: the interventions
In view of the Festival del Futuro - 18, 19 and 20 November in Verona and in streaming - Waiting for the Festival in Brescia he touched on some of the numerous themes of the event (the complete program is available on the official website). For over a year and a half, acceleration, digital and cultural, has contributed to changing the world of work, reshaping our daily lives. Keywords such as transition ecological is transition digital they mean investments, new jobs and opportunities, but also essential changes in mentality. "Digital, even before the pandemic, has thawed two variables of work: space and time - he said Marco Bentivogli, coordinator of Base Itala, among the guests of Waiting for the Festival in Brescia - today we need what I call the architects of work ».
THE Young people and talents who enter and will enter the world of work must be valued and this is one of the urgencies that most emerged during yesterday's appointment. "When I do an interview I don't focus on skills," he said Barbara Ulcelli, president of IMG Machine -. Young people have vision, so they must be placed in roles of responsibility. We must let them do and make mistakes ». To the Festival del Futuro training will also be discussed and teachers and researchers will be present. «The academy has always thought about long and slow times - he added Francesco Castles, Deputy Rector of theUniversity of Brescia - Today we are experiencing an acceleration of needs never seen before in the thousand-year history of the Italian university ».
A different narrative of tomorrow
The Festival del Futuro aims to propose a different narrative about tomorrow, where risks and difficulties exist, but the opportunities offered to the new generations thanks to digital, new jobs, technologies and a different way of doing business - greener and attentive to social responsibility - place young people in a condition of great potential. On the work agile, for example, the change of pace is final and the barriers of the past have now fallen. “In the end we learned to adapt to smart working - the words of Francesco Morace, sociologist and panel chairman From generation to generation: the rebirth of Italy in the comparison between lifestyles, consumption, work scheduled at the Festival del Futuro - Italy is far ahead of what could have been imagined. We have to convince ourselves of one thing: in experimentation we are the fastest to adapt ».
