Festival of the Future: starting on November 18 with health, space economy and sustainability

15-11-2021 | News

Festival del Futuro

There are only a few days left until the 2021 edition of Festival del Futuro, which will open on Thursday 18 at 9 am. After the initial greetings it will be the round table “The technological challenge: how to cope with the exponential pace of innovation”To open the three days dedicated to understanding tomorrow. On the stage of the Veronafiere Congress Center Fabio Moioli, Microsoft's head of consulting and services, Massimo Portincaso chairman of Hello Tomorrow, Anna Grassellino, Senior Scientist Director, e Rosary Sica, CEO of Open Knowledge-Bip Group, will address the issue from various aspects coordinated by the chairman of the session Umberto Bertelé, professor emeritus of the Milan Polytechnic.

The program of the first day

The second round table in the morning will also deal with technology and will do so by focusing on our country, trying to answer a question, which gives the panel its title: "Can Italy become a technological leader?". The answer is entrusted to a series of expert protagonists of Italian innovation, starting with the chairman of the session George Put, Scientific Director of the Italian Institute of Technology, who will talk with Joseph Paws, President Ansaldo Energia, Alexander Perego, Director of the Management Engineering Department of the Politecnico di Milano, Iain Mattaj, Director of Human Technopole, ed Ernesto Ciorra, Chief Innovability® Officer of the Enel Group.

Between the two round tables we will see an absolute preview of the story of the strategy technological which allowed the pasta factory Frog to exceed one billion in turnover in just a few years, winning the IRI-BCG title for three consecutive years as the fastest growing company on the American market ahead of Beyond Meat. It will be to illustrate it Giovanni Frog jr. innovation and technology manager of the company, interviewed by Luigi advise, president of GEA. After technology, space for health with the panel After the pandemic: how we will cope with future global crises where they will confront Roberto Giacobazzi, Professor and Pro-Rector of the University of Verona, Mario Nava, Director General for Reforms at the European Commission, Alberto Mantovani, Scientific Director, Humanitas, Sergio Abrignani, Lecturer at the University of Milan.

From health to space and new perspectives: The new frontier of the Space Economy they will talk about Roberto Fear, President of the Italian Institute for the Future, Raffaele Mauro, General Partner of Primo Space Fund, Mariangela Dejana, Institutional Business Development Manager of D-Orbit, Gennaro Russian, Director of the Center for Near Space, Italian Institute for the Future, Veronica Moronese, space law expert, Legal Director, ThinkOrbital and Chief Scientist CNS, e Luigi Pasquali, CEO, Telespazio. Closes the first day of Festival del Futuro a keynote speech by Maria Cristina Piovesana, vice president for the environment, sustainability and culture of Confindustria.

Future Arena

Debut also for Future Arena, the new format dedicated to start-ups and innovation within the Festival. At 1pm, live demo "Innovation versus Covid" where the startups will present themselves Fybra, Isinnova is Wi4b. At 6 pm, the talk Innovation Stories has for protagonist Enrico Pandian. Followed by a round table with the SpeedHub Foundation, Tech4Life Project, ICE Lab of the University of Verona and Massimo Pasquali, Head of Business Coordination of Banco BPM. Space then a Enactus, an international competition of social entrepreneurship projects for university students.

Startup spritz starts at 7 pm: aperitif and networking with a startup corner that will host the pitches of startups from Verona and Veneto.

How to follow the Festival and Future Arena

To participate in person, you need to register on the site www.FestivaldelFuturo.eu. The works can also be followed in streaming on L'Arena, Bresciaoggi, Il Giornale di Vicenza, Ansa and Futura Network, as well as on the Festival website.

To access the congress center it is necessary to show the green pass.

Scientific partners

Politecnico di Milano, Italian Institute of Technology, University of Verona, Humanitas, Italian Institute for the Future, Food Trend Foundatiom, Oxford Economics, ASSBB - Associazione Studi Banca e Borsa, Luiss, AIF - Italian Association of Trainers and European Training Foundation, Festival della Growth, University of Milan, Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Studies, Nedcommunity, Bocconi University ,, Eni Foundation - Enrico Mattei, AsVis, Futura Network.

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