Training, new generations and agri-food at the center of the Festival of the Future

20-11-2021 | Featured in HP, News

Training, lifestyles and agri-food at the center of the last morning of the Festival of the Future, the initiative of the Athesis Publishing Group, Corporate Excellence and Harvard Buiness Review Italia. The session dedicated to agri-food was opened by the European parliamentarian Paolo De Castro, which defined the geographical indication of products as a tool that gives strength to the economy by enhancing the raw materials that are born in our territories. In confirmation of his words on stage Stephen Berni, managing director of the Grana Padano Consortium, Luca Giavi, managing director of the Prosecco Consortium who illustrated the case of their products. Followed by the president of Coldiretti Ettore Prandini he stressed that "we need a mechanism to bring innovation to the whole agri-food system, where large groups must be a driving force so that the entire supply chain can benefit from it".

The announcement of the innovation hub in Verona on agri-food

And speaking of innovation, agriculture and the food industry Luigi advise, president of Gea and one of the world's leading agri-food experts, speaking with Piero Manzoni, CEO of Neorurale Hub, Vincenzo Russians, CEO of e-Novia e Andrew Zorzetto, Italy's managing partner of Plug & Play, announced the project to bring to Verona an innovation hub of technological offer for the Italian agri-food ecosystem to bring together big agri-food companies with promising new business initiatives. This is the ambitious challenge launched today from the stage of the Festival of the Future. As Andrea Zorzetto pointed out, "it is Plug & Play's goal to offer large companies a pool of startups that can meet their needs, but we realized that it is necessary to bring them to the home of these industries, in order to be able to stimulate them. ". An experience, that of Plug & Play, which starts from Silicon Valley and aims to connect startups looking for funds and companies worldwide.

How skills evolve

The morning had opened with a reflection on formation. What are the new skills needed on the job? They answered this question Maurizio Milan, president of the Italian Association of Trainers, Odile Robotti, sole administrator of Learning Edge, Aurelio Queen, president of Fondimprese, Pierangelo Scappini, human resources and organization manager of Poste Italiane, Andrew Laudadio, Head of Human Resources at Tim Academy, development & recruiting, e Cesare Onestini, director of the European Training Foundation. In the future, the workforce will be increasingly hybrid: machines will erode the spaces previously reserved for human beings.

What will remain the prerogative of man, however, will be social and emotional skills, creativity, the ability to deal with unforeseen events, to motivate. Not only. Critical thinking, the propensity to learn will be fundamental, considering that technical skills tend to have an increasingly shorter life, but also the ability to work in teams made up of different talents, knowing how to manage one's attention, emotions, priorities. , and also the "restartability", the ability to start over several times in life, because the career will hardly remain the same.

Today the closing with Minister Giovannini

As for the new generations, on the other hand, they talked about it Francesco Morace, founder of Future Concept Lab, Roberta Artuso, Fastweb brand empowerment, Gianpiero Calzolari, president of Granarolo, Linda Gobbi, sociologist, co-founder and research director of Future Concept Lab, Claudio Marenzi, CEO of Herno. In their interventions they analyzed the lifestyles and consumption styles and the differences of baby boomers, millennials and generations Z and Alpha. In the afternoon the festival continues speaking of inclusiveness, energy, decarbonisation. and climate change. To close the Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, Enrico Giovannini.

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