For the upcoming edition, on June 24th, 25th, and 26th, 2026, at BolognaFiere, WMF returns with the E-commerce Festival: a comprehensive program featuring educational events, business and networking initiatives, dedicated exhibition areas, and recruitment services for the online sales world.
WMF has always placed a strong emphasis on the e-commerce industry, hosting representatives from companies that stand out on both the Italian and international stages for their success in online trade."
The Exhibition Area of WMF - We Make Future, International Fair and Festival on AI, Tech & Digital Innovation, will host world-renowned e-commerce platforms, payment systems, and price comparison tools. Past editions have featured industry leaders such as Shopify, Nexi, Amazon, Yith, Transactionale, Trustpilot, Trusted Shops, Zalando, Booking.com, lastminute.com, Lotto, Alitalia, Intrend, luisaviaroma.com, Adidas, and many others.
The “Startup & VC Plenary” stage at WMF - We Make Future 2026 is the space where the concept of Build What Matters takes shape: a meeting ground for startups, SMEs, investors, and corporates from all over the world, united by the desire to generate real impact.
Through panel discussions and continuous dialogue, the program explores the evolution of the innovation ecosystem, bridging global scenarios, local opportunities, and Italian success stories.
Backend & Cloud
The stage dedicated to backend development and cloud infrastructure, sponsored by DEVPUNKS, where scalability, performance, and modern architectures take center stage.
Here you’ll find best practices, real-world use cases, and solutions to design robust, distributed systems ready for the future.
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Digital Marketing & Business Solutions
The stage dedicated to digital marketing strategies and business solutions, where innovation meets performance and growth.
Here you’ll discover tools, case studies, and insights to optimize campaigns, drive results, and scale your business effectively.
Machine Learning
The stage dedicated to Machine Learning, focusing on techniques, models, and practical applications in real-world projects.
Here you’ll explore expert insights and case studies to understand how to implement effective ML solutions.
Advertising
The stage dedicated to digital advertising, focusing on advanced tracking, complex funnels, and high-performing campaigns in key sectors such as healthcare.
Here you’ll explore real case studies and practical tools to optimize your advertising strategies and maximize results.
Start the Future
The stage dedicated to inspiring and guiding participants toward the future, focusing on innovation, leadership, and new opportunities.
Here you’ll discover vision, ideas, and insights to shape your path and anticipate the changes ahead.
Content Marketing
The stage dedicated to content marketing and digital storytelling, focusing on micro-content, communities, and using AI to tell authentic stories.
Here you’ll explore practical methods, case studies, and tools to create effective and engaging content even in fast-paced, complex contexts.
Startup Arena
The stage dedicated to founders who design innovative solutions to the major challenges of the future.
Robotics & Physical AI
The stage dedicated to robotics and AI applied to the real world, focusing on hands-on projects and building intelligent robots.
Here you’ll explore demos, workshops, and real-world cases to see how AI can be applied to the physical world in innovative and engaging ways.
Social Media Strategies
The stage, powered by Social Media Strategies, dedicated to social media strategies in the age of the endless feed, where attention is the real competitive advantage.
Here you’ll discover practical insights, emerging trends, and tools to create effective and engaging content.
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AI Marketing
The stage dedicated to using AI in marketing, focusing on continuous simulations, campaign optimization, and data-driven decision making.
Here you’ll explore practical examples and tools to transform marketing strategies, test concepts in real time, and enhance results.
AI Commerce
The stage dedicated to artificial intelligence applied to e-commerce, covering innovative strategies, personalization, and sales optimization.
Here you’ll explore case studies and practical tools to transform e-commerce with AI and maximize business results.
Search & AI
The stage dedicated to the evolution of search in the AI era, where SEO, new answer engines, and digital visibility converge.
Here you’ll explore strategies, case studies, and tools to optimize your online presence across traditional search and AI-driven systems.
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AI & Business Transformation
The stage dedicated to providing a vision of how Artificial Intelligence will shape the future of work, business processes, and society.
Here you’ll explore perspectives, insights, and real examples to understand how AI could transform the world ahead.
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Music & Art
The stage dedicated to the future of music and art, focusing on AI, creativity, and innovations in festivals and live performances.
Here you’ll explore AI tools for music, artist promotion, and event management, along with insights to discover new artistic expressions.
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Entrepreneurship
The stage dedicated to the future of entrepreneurship, focusing on trust, learning, and new business models in the AI era.
Here you’ll explore ideas, tools, and perspectives to innovate and lead change in the startup and business world.
Partner Events
Coding Frontend
The stage dedicated to frontend development, focusing on new AI-driven coding paradigms and autonomous workflows.
Here you’ll explore real examples and innovative tools to automate testing and optimize the development of modern interfaces.
Data & Analytics
The stage dedicated to data analysis and using AI to extract deep insights and predict future trends.
Here you’ll explore real case studies and practical tools to turn data into a competitive advantage and optimize business performance.
AI Solutions
The stage dedicated to advanced AI solutions, focusing on scalable, human-centric platforms for enterprise applications.
Here you’ll explore real examples, strategies, and tools to design and implement effective and sustainable AI solutions.
GovTech
The stage where power dynamics are redefined in the age of AI.
From new forms of democracy to geopolitical shifts, from the future of work to next-generation cities, this stage brings together institutions, policymakers, companies, and research leaders to explore how technology and AI are reshaping rules, processes, and decision-making models.
From AI in justice and security to innovation diplomacy, from agentic government to new urban and regional governance models: not just vision, but direction.
To understand who will lead change — and how.
Management & Leadership
The stage dedicated to leadership and management in the AI era, focusing on strategies to lead teams and complex processes.
Here you’ll explore real cases, insights, and tools to innovate, make effective decisions, and develop visionary leadership.
Journalism
Lo stage dedicato al futuro del giornalismo, tra innovazione digitale, AI e nuovi format narrativi.
Qui troverai prospettive, casi studio e insight da giornalisti e creator per comprendere l’evoluzione del settore.
Content Creators
The stage dedicated to digital creators, YouTubers, and artists, where creativity and storytelling become practical tools to engage audiences. Part of the Social Media Strategies event and built with the support of industry agencies, this stage offers practical examples, personal experiences, and insights to grow as a content creator and build your community.
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EduTech
The stage dedicated to innovation in education, focusing on AI, cognitive mentoring, and lifelong learning.
Here you’ll explore practical examples and case studies to understand how technology can support and enhance human learning.
UX & UI
The stage dedicated to user experience and interface design, in partnership with Architecta, focusing on practical strategies to create intuitive and engaging digital products.
Here you’ll explore real examples, case studies, and expert tips to design top-level user experiences.
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Space Economy
The stage dedicated to the space economy, focusing on innovations, opportunities, and technologies shaping the future of space.
Here you’ll explore insights from experts and industry mentors, and real-world cases to understand the dynamics of orbital and beyond-Earth economies.
Impact To Business
The stage dedicated to impact business models, which focuses on the inseparable link between profit and sustainability.
Here you will find outstanding case studies and strategies for implementing regenerative models, offering an in-depth overview of positive-impact growth opportunities.
Tech For Business
The stage dedicated to technological innovation for business, focusing on tools and strategies to grow startups and companies.
Here you’ll explore talks by founders and CEOs, real-world cases, and practical insights to apply technology effectively and strategically.
Mainstage
The Mainstage is the heart of WMF - We Make Future. It is the festival’s primary stage, hosting a dynamic lineup of keynotes, panels, and roundtables focused on future trends, alongside live shows, entertainment, and exclusive product launches. It is a space for deep-seated reflections and interviews on innovative topics with high social impact.
As the symbolic gathering place for the WMF Community, the Mainstage brings together leading global players and experts to explore the frontiers of technology and society. Together, we chart the course toward a better, shared, inclusive, and sustainable future.
The program is currently under development and may be subject to changes and updates.
Digital Strategy
The stage dedicated to innovative digital strategies, focusing on digital media, AI, and new adaptive growth models.
Here you’ll explore insights, case studies, and tools to plan effective campaigns and tackle the ever-evolving digital landscape.
Brand Strategy
The stage dedicated to brands and corporate strategy in the AI era, focusing on AI literacy, the ability to guide intelligent systems, and creating real competitive advantage.
Here you’ll explore practical insights, case studies, and tools to understand how AI can transform brand management and strategic communication.
Work & HR
The stage dedicated to the future of work, focusing on AI, new organizational models, and emerging skills.
Here you’ll explore insights, real-world cases, and strategies to prepare for professional changes and innovate the way we work.
Cybersecurity
The stage dedicated to cybersecurity, focusing on AI to optimize threat modeling and assist security architects in risk analysis.
Here you’ll explore case studies, tools, and strategies to protect complex systems and reduce cognitive load in managing cybersecurity.
Legal Tech
The stage dedicated to legal innovation, focusing on AI, algorithms, and digital systems applied to law and regulatory compliance.
Here you’ll explore case studies, best practices, and insights to understand how technologies are transforming the legal sector and supporting businesses and professionals.
Book Presentation
In this stage, visionary authors will present their books on digital and social innovation and the future of marketing. A unique opportunity to discover new ideas and perspectives through stimulating dialogues and in-depth discussions on cutting-edge topics.
The goal: to inspire reflection and personal growth by exploring the narratives that will shape the future.
Agentic AI
The stage dedicated to Agentic AI and Agentic Experience Architectures, focusing on context-aware, adaptive intelligent systems that go beyond single-task automation.
Here you’ll explore examples and concepts on structuring autonomous AI flows for complex, personalized user experiences.
Non-Profit
The stage dedicated to technology for the non-profit sector, focusing on digital tools, VR, and video games to enhance social impact and resilience.
Here you’ll explore practical examples and innovative projects to support education, inclusion, and social action through technology.
Fintech & Digital Assets
The stage dedicated to the future of finance and fintech, focusing on AI, payment innovations, and new business models.
Here you’ll explore insights and perspectives on how technology is transforming the financial sector and the emerging opportunities for companies and startups.
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Innovation Film Fest
The stage dedicated to innovative cinema and audiovisual content, focusing on digital storytelling, emerging technologies, and narratives exploring the future.
Here you’ll explore screenings, case studies, and discussions with directors and creatives to discover new forms of cinema and media.
Digital Health
The stage, in partnership with FONDAZIONE GIMBE, dedicated to digital innovation in healthcare, focusing on AI, molecular modeling, and tools to improve treatments and hospital processes.
Here you’ll explore expert talks, case studies, and innovative projects to see how technology is transforming health and medicine.
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Social Advertising
The stage dedicated to social advertising, focusing on advanced performance measurement, experimentation, and creative optimization across major platforms.
Here you’ll explore real case studies, testing frameworks, and repeatable workflows to improve conversions, ROAS, and campaign impact.
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AI Tourism
The stage dedicated to Artificial Intelligence applied to tourism, focusing on experience personalization, data analysis, and service innovation.
Here you’ll explore case studies, tools, and strategies to transform the travel industry and enhance the traveler experience.
Geopolitics
In an era of global shifts and evolving balances, the Geopolitics Stage provides a compass for navigating international dynamics. This space is dedicated to analyzing global scenarios, new power structures, and the challenges reshaping the boundaries of politics and economics. It is a vital meeting point for understanding the forces governing our present and anticipating the developments of an increasingly interconnected future.
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AI for Civil Engineering
Artificial intelligence has entered the world of construction and civil engineering not as a future promise, but as a transformation already underway: from structural design to material optimization, from computational BIM to infrastructure monitoring, all the way to reliability and safety assessment. This revolution, long foretold, now demands to be guided with competence, critical thinking, and vision. This stage brings together academia, the construction industry, and institutions for an afternoon to take stock of where we truly stand and where we are heading. The goal is not to celebrate technology, but to discuss honestly what AI can do today, what it cannot yet do, and the responsibilities—technical, regulatory, and ethical—that this transformation brings with it, while keeping the quality and safety of works at the center.
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Tech & Digital Insights
The meeting point between technological evolution and strategic vision. This stage is designed to explore the digital tools and trends redefining the market, providing the instruments needed to drive change. Through the voices of entrepreneurs, founders, and managers, you will discover real-world case studies and operational insights to transform innovation into a concrete competitive advantage.
Made in Italy Futures
Within the WMF – We Make Future, Philip Morris International aims to promote a space for discussion to spark reflection on the future we are building for Made in Italy and for the SME system. A future that is not only about the economy, but also about the social resilience of local territories, the evolution of work and its relationship with artificial intelligence, generational transition, and the hidden innovation that thousands of companies produce every day without being able to communicate it. Under the patronage of Fondazione per l’innovazione COTEC, CNA Artigiani e Imprenditori d’Italia, and Confindustria Emilia-Romagna.
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Mainstage
Co - Hosting
Veronica Maffei
Journalist
Cosmano Lombardo
Chairman
WMF - We Make Future
Guglielmo Scilla
Content Creator
Mainstage
Live Concert!
I Patagarri
Mainstage
Opening Ceremony WMF 2026!
Surprise Guest
Mainstage
Welcome to WMF 2026!
Cosmano Lombardo
Chairman
WMF - We Make Future
Mainstage
Institutional Greetings
Matteo Lepore
Mayor
City of Bologna
Vincenzo Colla
Vice President with responsibility for Economic Development and Green Economy, Energy, Vocational Training, University and Research
Emilia-Romagna Region
Claudio Melchiorri
Professor, Delegate for relations with companies and industrial research
University of Bologna
Mainstage
AI and Digital Industry: The European Vision for the Future
Lucilla Sioli
Director for "Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry"
Directorate-General CONNECT, European Commission
Mainstage
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Marco Belinelli
European Basketball Legend and NBA Champion
Mainstage
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Dell Technologies
Mainstage
Enabling the Future of Innovation: From Research to Industry Impact
Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli
Professor of EECS
University of California, Berkeley
Start the Future
To Care, to Bear Witness, to Resist
During a humanitarian emergency, in contexts marked by conflict, hunger, and violence, words become an integral part of medical action. Denouncing injustice, bearing witness to survivors' stories, and celebrating their resilience is a form of care, especially in the many places far from the media spotlight. This is what the field staff of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) learn—a humanitarian organization that, for over 50 years, has combined medical action with the act of bearing witness. When silence is more terrifying than bombs or epidemics, words can become both healing and defense.
Francesca Fiorini
Medical Coordinator
Medici Senza Frontiere
Mainstage
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Randa Ghazy
Journalist, Author & Media Specialist
Start the Future
Building Revenue Engines for Impact: from Mission to Measurable Growth
Mission-driven organizations rarely fail for a lack of vision. They fail for a lack of structure in growth. After more than 15 years between international corporates and non-profits, building teams that have generated millions of euros for environmental and social projects, I have learned that impact is not scaled with enthusiasm, but with architecture: clear objectives, defined roles, sales and fundraising systems, strategic partnerships, and results-oriented leadership. In this session, I will share the practical framework I use to transform mission into sustainable growth, without compromising identity and credibility. We will talk about revenue engines, corporate partnerships, team organization, and the main mistakes that block impact-driven entities when they try to grow. This is not a motivational talk. It is an operational method for those who truly want to scale.
Susanna Finardi
Head of Corporate Partnerships | Executive Growth Advisor
Oxfam
Advertising
Four-Wheel Drive Lead Generation: Scaling Volumes and Quality with PMax for Vehicle Ads
n the automotive market, the challenge is clear: scaling volumes while keeping quality high. Through a real-world case study using PMax for Vehicle Ads, we will explore how an innovative test-and-learn approach can completely transform performance in a highly sensitive market. We will cover: technical setups, data-driven approaches, best practices, and concrete results.
Carlotta Bernardi
Performance Team Lead
Making Science
AI & Business Transformation
Where is AI?
Massimo Chiriatti
Chief Technical & Innovation Officer
Lenovo
Agentic AI
Beyond the Magic. From the “wow” demo to production: designing sustainable, controllable, and measurable AI agents
After the initial “wow” effect of demos, AI agents face their toughest challenge: production.Autonomy, reasoning, and tool calling promise powerful applications, but without proper control they can lead to high costs, latency, contextual noise, and unpredictable outcomes.This talk explores what happens when an agent moves from prototype to a real operational system.The journey starts from a concrete use case, highlighting the main bottlenecks: context overload, tool bloat, payload management, and web search.It also examines strategies to reduce context without sacrificing quality, guide tool usage effectively, and introduce budgeting logic.The focus is on designing lighter, more targeted, and more sustainable functions.The goal is not to limit the agent’s intelligence, but to provide it with a more controllable architecture.The session will also cover monitoring, automated quality controls, and future scenarios ranging from SLM + LLM systems to code execution.Because a sustainable AI agent is not improvised — it is built through deliberate design choices.
Alessio Pomaro
Head of AI
Search On Media Group
Mainstage
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H.E Abdulla Ali Ateeq Obaid Alsubousi
Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to The Republic of Italy
Embassy of the United Arab Emirates
Mainstage
Information and Journalism in the Digital Era
Enrico Mentana
Journalist & Director
La7
Start the Future
Who Tells the Truth? Media, Identity, and New Narratives in the Digital Age
Contemporary crises reach us through images, headlines, and often fragmented content, filtered by the logic of media and digital communication. In a context where information, propaganda, and public perception are constantly intertwined, it becomes crucial to question who shapes collective narratives and which stories remain invisible. Spanning social media, journalism, and new forms of communication, this interview reflects on the relationship between identity, memory, and representation, starting from an analysis of the books by Randa Ghazy and Pegah Moshir Pour.
Pegah Moshir Pour
Activist & Writer
Randa Ghazy
Journalist, Author & Media Specialist
Mainstage
Beyond Every Border: War and Society in the Technological Age
Cecilia Sala
Journalist
Chora News
Mainstage
Closing Session 1!
Day 1
Start the Future
From artificial intelligence to hybrid intelligence: new ideas for better interaction with AI Technologies
We live alongside machines that write, suggest, diagnose, and make decisions with us. But the real question is not how intelligent these systems are: it is what we become when we learn to use them at their best. Focusing on how to design better hybrid intelligence encourages us to move beyond both enthusiasm and fear, and allows us to understand how to build more lucid and responsible collaborative relationships between people and the technologies they use to work, stay informed, and create value.
Federico Cabitza
Associated Professor & Co-Founder
Università Milano-Bicocca & RedOpen SRL
AI & Business Transformation
Frontier Transformation: Turning AI into Competitive Advantage
In a world where AI is everywhere, the real challenge is not adoption—it’s turning it into a measurable competitive advantage. This session explores how leading organizations are leveraging AI to move beyond experimentation and drive real business transformation. Discover the Frontier Transformation approach, where AI evolves from a technology capability to a strategic engine for innovation, productivity, and sustainable growth.
Maria Vittoria Tomaini
Cloud & AI Lead for Italy
Microsoft
Advertising
One funnel, endless paths: zero data loss in healthcare with Google Ads custom variables
Our client, a leader in the Italian healthcare sector, manages a highly complex funnel: users often enter through campaigns targeting specific facilities or specializations but complete their conversion elsewhere. To accurately track this journey, we implemented custom variables via Google Tag Manager (GTM), enabling us to monitor the facility, specialization, and physician throughout the entire funnel.
Sveva Coltellacci
Head of Performance Marketing
Pro Web Consulting (Cerved Group)
Automation & CRM
Precision Automation: Workflow Architectures for Niche Markets and Advanced Audiences
In niche markets, where audiences are highly aware and relevance is the only true driver of conversion, mass marketing becomes a risk. The real challenge is using automation to scale a relationship that must feel individual and tailored. In this talk, we will explore how to design complex workflows to manage non-linear customer journeys, typical of those seeking specific, high-quality products.
Marianna Caravatta
Advertising Specialist
Digital Clef
Agentic AI
Micro language models for distributed agents: efficiency, privacy, and sustainability
In the era of autonomous AI agents, relying solely on large language models (LLMs) can become inefficient. LLMs require costly infrastructure, consume significant amounts of energy, and are not well suited for edge devices. In addition, sending sensitive data to the cloud introduces latency, bandwidth costs, and privacy risks. This talk introduces small language models (SLMs): models with millions—rather than billions—of parameters, designed for specialized tasks. These models consume less energy, provide faster inference, and can run directly on edge or embedded devices. Thanks to techniques such as quantization, pruning, and efficient fine-tuning, SLMs make it possible to move intelligence from the cloud to the edge, reducing latency while protecting local data. I will present use cases where SLMs are integrated into distributed architectures, from collaborative robots to IoT devices and federated systems designed for privacy preservation. I will also compare costs and performance with LLM-based approaches, illustrate optimization techniques, and introduce a method for migrating agents from general-purpose LLMs to specialized SLMs, following insights from recent NVIDIA studies. The goal of this talk is to demonstrate that micro language models are not only powerful enough for most agentic AI functions, but also represent a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative to general-purpose models, enabling a more democratic and widely accessible AI ecosystem.
Luca Bianchi
CTO
LIDIA
Start the Future
Davide Dattoli
Founder & Executive Chairman
Talent Garden
Start the Future
The synthetic truth: trust, deepfakes, and the future of information in the age of AI
Deepfakes are redefining the boundary between what is real and what is false. Through a study on users’ reactions to AI-generated content distributed by sources perceived as trustworthy, we will explore how trust is built in the age of synthetic media. Even when flagged, deepfakes are often misunderstood or ignored, amid polarized emotions and limited critical awareness. What happens to truth when everything can be generated?
Elvis Tusha
Senior AI Consultant & Divulgatore
Freelance
Agentic AI
Do It For Me: When Agents Make the Decision
Between the customer’s desire and the right product, there is now a new player: the AI agent. It discovers, chooses, and purchases — alongside people, before people, for people. Agentic traffic has grown by 8,000% in one year. But these are not just numbers: 72% of customers want more immediate shopping experiences, guided by agents that compare, select, and filter out brands. Traditional SEO is no longer enough: brands must now be chosen both by users and by agents. While marketing is being reinvented externally, a new organizational model is emerging inside companies: the Frontier Firm — an organization where humans and agents collaborate, transforming ambition, ideas, and intelligence into new business models. Two parallel transformations that, together, are redefining competitive advantage in the agentic era.
Monica Orsino
Sn Learning and Development Manager
Microsoft
Advertising
Using AI agents to boost PPC productivity
AI agents are the shiny new toy. Everyone’s talking about them. Very few are using them in a way that actually drives Google Ads profit. This session cuts through the noise. You’ll learn how to build a safe, reliable system of AI agents that can take real PPC work off your plate, boost productivity, and help you scale without drowning in more accounts, more tasks, or more chaos. No vague theory. No AI fluff. Just a clear, practical framework for deploying autonomous workflows that improve performance and free up your time. After this session, you’ll know how to: Build agents that help manage and optimize PPC accounts Understand the difference between true agents and basic LLMs Choose the right tools for your agent stack Follow a step-by-step path to implementation Start using agents to grow your business and improve client profits If you want to stop watching the AI hype train fly by and actually put it to work, this session is for you.
Nils Rooijmans
Google Ads Automater
AI & Business Transformation
From Digital Transformation to AI Transformation
Most organizations are still running digital transformation programs inside an operating model built for human limitations. They made existing processes faster and more visible, but the underlying structure - siloed roles, narrow specialization, and fragmented decision-making - remained largely unchanged.AI transformation is different. It doesn’t just accelerate work; it removes the constraints that made the old model necessary. When systems can hold and connect knowledge across domains that no human can master simultaneously, the old boundaries between functions and disciplines start to lose their purpose. Execution can be handled by agents. Human work shifts toward orchestration, judgment, and defining outcomes rather than performing tasks.This is not an efficiency story. It is an architectural one. Organizations that continue using AI primarily to reduce headcount or speed up existing processes will stay trapped in the logic of the past. Those that redesign how work is structured around what AI can now do will move from an economy of reduction to one of creation -discovering new possibilities instead of simply optimizing what already exists.The real transformation begins when leaders stop asking how AI can improve the current model, and start asking what the model should become.
Yuval Dvir
Commercial Executive
SandboxAQ
Automation & CRM
CASE STUDY: 6 Emails, 7 Days, 147 Customers
Stefano De Carlo
Esperto di Automazioni & CEO di AutomatiKing.com
CEO @AutomatiKing.com
Start the Future
Building Scalable Control Systems for Next-Generation Quantum Computers
Quantum computing is not only qubits and algorithms: control electronics is the layer bridging quantum and classical, and a determinant of scale. Drawing on a decade at Zurich Instruments, this talk frames the four challenges for next-generation control: fidelity, real-time error correction, cost per qubit, and software scaling. It closes with an industry view on how vendors, integrators, and end users must co-evolve the stack to unlock the Second Quantum Revolution.
Andrea Orzati
CEO
Zurich Instruments
Start the Future
Responsible, Inclusive, Viable: Rethinking AI for a Sustainable Future
The current trajectory of AI is increasingly unsustainable -- the growing computational demands of AI systems carry significant environmental impacts, the deployment of AI can reinforce and amplify existing inequities, and the escalating costs of developing and maintaining large-scale AI models raise concerns about long-term viability and equitable access. Together, these challenges suggest the need to rethink how we design, build, and deploy AI systems—prioritizing broader sustainability considerations to ensure that future AI innovation is responsible, inclusive, and viable over the long term.
Sasha Luccioni
AI and Climate Researcher
Agentic AI
Beyond Red Teaming: Building a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework for conversational AI
As enterprises rush to deploy AI agents in customer-facing operations, most rely on one-time audits and manual testing. This approach offers limited coverage, surfaces problems only after the damage is done, and typically focuses on safety while ignoring accuracy, user experience, and operational efficiency. This session presents a practical framework for continuous AI monitoring and evaluation, drawn from deploying automated testing infrastructure across major European enterprises. Attendees will learn why point-in-time testing isn’t enough, how to implement live monitoring that catches failures before they become widespread, and what the EU AI Act actually requires in terms of ongoing oversight versus pre-deployment testing.
Maria Yolanda Bilé Nlang
Data scientist & Conversational AI Engineer
Brise
Advertising
Amazon Ads: How to Dominate CPC Inflation and Beat Low-Price Competitors in the Child Safety Industry
In a market where CPC has tripled year-over-year, how can a leading brand maintain its efficiency? We will analyze an international case to understand how a surgical catalog management approach can help overcome the growing pressure from low-price competitors. In this speech, we will explore the strategy that enabled Britax to position itself at the 55th percentile in spend compared to top sellers, while reaching the 90th percentile in attributed sales—turning rising costs into a competitive advantage
Marco Guerra
Senior Client Lead
Precis
Automation & CRM
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Daniele Sghedoni
Senior Manager
Publicis Sapient
Mainstage
Live Show!
Francesco Cavestri
pianist, composer and producer
Start the Future
You can’t say anything anymore… or can you? Marketing, Journalism and Publishing in conversation
A round table bringing together journalism, marketing, and entertainment to explore the role of language in shaping social perception. Through case studies and real-world examples, the panel addresses topics such as neurodivergence, gender stereotypes, body shaming, and racism in contemporary media and communication. Moving across news, advertising, and digital content, the session combines critical analysis, practical insights, and satire.
Marianna Tramontano
Consulente di Marketing Digitale & Comunicazione
Marketing On Demand
Daniela Losini
Art Director & Gender Editor
Grazia Factory
Valentina Ternullo
Giornalista & Senior Content Producer
Radio 24
Assane Diop
Content Creator & Comico di Zelig
Mainstage
Opening Session 2!
Day 1
Mainstage
Rockin’1000: When a Thousand People Become One Band – From a Wild Idea to a Global Movement
Fabio Zaffagnini
Founder
Rockin'1000
Agentic AI
Agentic Experience Architectures
Agentic Experience Architectures (AEA) shift AI from task-based automation to journey-structured, context-aware, adaptive intelligence. Agents are organized by user journeys, splitting into: Journey agents that guide intent and decisions, Utility agents that provide memory, retrieval, reasoning, and governance. AEA introduces a layered orchestration model — planner → orchestrators → routers → agents — enabling traceability, safety, and efficient multi-agent collaboration. It fits best where reasoning and user experience must co-evolve (copilots, analytics, Vertical Saas, healthcare, creative tools, enterprise platforms). Security becomes zero-trust, policy-bound, and identity-based across all stages. AEA uses shared state and intent schemas to synchronize reasoning and UX, allowing adaptive, explainable interfaces. With reusable templates, observability, and continuous learning loops, AEA significantly improves: latency, containment, trust, explainability, cost, and multi-agent yield.
Viktoria Bovtenko
AI Architect
Bovtenko.AI
Automation & CRM
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Moreno Bonechi
CEO
Snyffo
AI & Business Transformation
Abby: ABB's Internal, Award-Winning AI Platform
The session illustrates how ABB moved from a Gen AI proof‑of‑concept to a scalable platform adopted by 40,000+ employees, driving a shift in mindset and ways of working. The audience will learn about: -Technology setup: how Abby is built, secure cloud hosting of 15 LLMs, privacy, compliance and system integrations. Capabilities and adoption: user features, Agent Marketplace, APIs, and adoption at scale. Governance and education: global rollout in an agile, decentralized organization supported by education initiatives.
Giulio Pizzuto
Global Digital Marketing Leader
ABB
Simone Zambetti
Data Science Manager
ABB
Advertising
Forms lie, sales don’t: the guide to Value-Driven Search
The goal is to show how to evolve lead generation by optimizing for value rather than volume. Through a case study in the Education sector, I will explain how integrating CRM data allows Search and Performance Max algorithms to learn from advanced funnel stages such as SQLs and Opportunities. We will see how Value-Based Bidding increased the lead-to-appointment rate from 11% to 39%, while eliminating out-of-target leads.
Leonardo Cioli
Digital Advertising Strategist
WMR Group
Mainstage
GETEC - Shaping the energy transition
Arthur Gebhardt
Senior Manager Business Development & New Technologies
GETEC PARK.SWISS
Mainstage
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Luca Carabetta
Country Manager Italy
Trade Republic
Luigi Traldi
Head of Southern Europe
Klarna
Mainstage
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Surprise Guest
Start the Future
The Pink Tax: The Price of "Tech for Her"
Why does a splash of rose gold often cost an extra 20%? From pastel laptops to "feminine" smartwatches, tech marketed to women frequently carries a steeper price tag without any boost in technical specs. How does the "Pink Tax" manifest in the digital age, and in what ways do superficial aesthetic shifts mask price gouging? What is the psychology behind gendered branding, and why should "shrinking and pinking" a gadget result in a premium? This session explores how we can demand equity in both hardware and the price tag.
Sana Afouaiz
Founder & CEO
Womenpreneur
Mainstage
The Future of AI Infrastructure: Bologna and the European AI Ecosystem
Francesco Ubertini
President
Cineca
AI & Business Transformation
Tiarne Hawkins
AI Leader & Host
You & AI - Stealth Mode
Agentic AI
From AI Hype to ROI: A Business Framework for Reliable AI Agents
The current landscape of AI technologies often feels like a Swiss Army knife: incredibly powerful, but business leaders are left guessing which tool to use for which problem. Furthermore, early enterprise attempts to deploy AI often rely on fragile, monolithic instructions that lead to unpredictable results, hallucinations, and high costs. This actionable session cuts through the hype to provide a practical, executive-level framework for building reliable AI solutions.First, we establish clear, strategic rules of thumb by walking through relatable enterprise scenarios, from field operations to executive data dashboards. We will demystify core AI architectures by focusing purely on their business utility: when to use AI for secure data retrieval, when to integrate it safely as hands within your existing enterprise systems, and when to deploy autonomous teams of agents to handle complex, multi-step workflows. Next, we introduce a paradigm shift in AI deployment: Agentic Skills. Instead of building unpredictable AI from scratch, attendees will learn how to implement modular, plug-and-play capabilities. These act as strict rulebooks and quality-assurance checkpoints, reducing errors and operational costs. Business leaders will leave this session equipped with the strategic clarity needed to stop experimenting with fragile AI and start deploying scalable, cost-effective solutions that drive tangible enterprise value without getting lost in the technical acronyms.
Debanshu Das
Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead
Google
Mainstage
Title Soon Online
Francesca Albanese
UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur
Mainstage
Title Soon Online
Surprise Guest
Mainstage
Robotic Natives: Imagining a World Shared with Robots
Manuel Catalano
Head of the NuBots Research Unit and Coordinator of JOiiNT LAB
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Mainstage
Stereotypes, Irony, and Other Serious Matters
Pierluca Mariti
Comedian
Mainstage
Title Soon Online
Giuseppe Lombardo
Deputy Public Prosecutor
Court of Reggio Calabria
Mainstage
The New Public Information Architecture: AI, Media, and Politics
Corrado Formigli
Journalist
La7
Mainstage
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Day 1
Start the Future
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Automation & CRM
Program in progress!
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AI & Business Transformation
Program in progress!
New Speakers Coming Soon
Mainstage
Co - Hosting
Cosmano Lombardo
Chairman
WMF - We Make Future
Veronica Maffei
Journalist
Alicia Hanf
Head of Institutional Ecosystem Partnerships
LG NOVA - LG Electronics
Mainstage
Live Concert!
N.A.I.P - nessun artista in particolare
Mainstage
Opening Ceremony - Day 2!
Surprise Guest
Mainstage
Title Soon Online
Surprise Guest
Mainstage
Institutional Greetings
Elena Mazzoni
Regional Minister for the Digital Agenda, Promotion of a Culture of Legality, Poverty Reduction, and the Solidarity Economy
Emilia-Romagna Region
Dimitri Tartari
Director of Digital Agenda Policies
Emilia-Romagna Region
Elisabetta Bracci
Manager
Service Innovation Clust-ER
Mainstage
Title Soon Online
Alberto Barachini
Undersecretary of State to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers with responsibility for Information and Publishing
Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Italy
Mainstage
Living the Future: The City of the Fourth Space
Maurizio Carta
Councillor for Urban and Strategic Territorial and Coastal Planning
Municipality of Palermo
Mainstage
Humanistic Capitalism: Enterprise, Sustainability, and the Creation of Human Value
Brunello Cucinelli
Founder & Chief Executive
Brunello Cucinelli
Mainstage
Three Lessons from Two Decades Inside Google
Aprajita Jain
Chief Brand
Google
Start the Future
Reclaiming Our Shared Humanity: Navigating Global Fragility Through Dialogue, Dignity, and Collective Responsibility
In an era where international law is increasingly undermined, multilateral trust is eroding, and power rivalries threaten global stability, the very fabric of our shared humanity is being tested. Dr. Siyabulela Mandela’s keynote explores how today’s fractured world can rediscover its moral compass by re-centering diplomacy on empathy, justice, and mutual respect. Drawing from the legacies of peacebuilding and the enduring wisdom that liberty and humanity are inseparable, this address calls for a renewed commitment to bridge divides between North and South, state and citizen, progress and principle. Through a lens of diplomacy, human rights, and humanitarian action, Dr. Mandela will illuminate how inclusive dialogue and collective responsibility can reshape the international system, not merely to manage crises, but to transform fragility into an opportunity for lasting peace, shared prosperity, and restored global trust.
Siyabulela Mandela
Founder
Mandela & Associates Consulting
Mainstage
Dual-Use Technologies and Strategic Sovereignty Across AI, Cybersecurity, and Capital Ecosystems
Federico Menna
Chief Executive Officer
28 Dgtl
Adam Durica
General Partner
Zero One Hundred VC
Ivan Cazzol
Partners Growth Lead
Zest Group
Start the Future
For us, by us: how no-code tools are empowering activism
I'll share how non-profit and grassroots organizers are using no-code tools to build powerful digital infrastructure for their movements. Drawing from my experience in digital organizing and no-code development, I'll show how these accessible technologies are revolutionizing activism by putting technical power directly in people’s hands. Through real-world examples and practical insights, I'll show how no-code solutions are helping build more sustainable and independent movements.
Alix Heuer
No-Code Strategist for Social Movements
Agence Rouge Le Fil
Mainstage
The Business of Global Success: Music, Brands and Leadership
Mathew Knowles
Founder & CEO, Strategic Consultant, Keynote Speaker, and Corporate Trainer
Music World Entertainment (MWE)
Start the Future
They’re stealing your future: why people who work today are poorer than their parents (and how to reverse the trend)
Italy ranks 36th out of 39 OECD countries in financial literacy. AI promises to multiply productivity and incomes, but also to accelerate wealth inequality. In this talk, Marco Casario — entrepreneur and financial educator — uses data and real-world examples to show why those who don’t understand the numbers behind their own lives risk becoming the real losers of the digital revolution, and outlines the four essential financial skills every professional in the AI era must possess.
Marco Casario
Founder
Quantaste.com
AI Marketing
Continuous Discovery for the Digital Age: From Guesswork to Simulation
Marketing teams still make many decisions based on gut feeling or late post-campaign data. This session shows how AI-driven customer simulation enables continuous discovery, giving marketers always-on insight to test concepts, messaging, and journeys daily rather than quarterly. Drawing on enterprise examples from automotive, banking, telco, and energy (where AI panels delivered over 1 billion simulated responses in 2025), the talk focuses on when AI supports human insight, why different questions need different AI approaches, and how to embed continuous insight into modern marketing workflows.
Kamila Zahradnickova
Founder & CEO
Lakmoos AI
Advertising
What I’ve Learned About Search Engine Advertising in My First 20 Years
Having personally managed hundreds of Google Ads accounts and screened every case study presented at ADworld Experience over the last 14 years, I have gained a near-unique perspective on what works—and what doesn’t—in the Pay-Per-Click industry across a vast range of sectors. In this session, I will summarize the key lessons I’ve learned (often the hard way), while offering some predictions for the future of the field.
Gianpaolo Lorusso
Founder
ADworld Experience
E-commerce
E-commerce in Italy 2026: Research Findings and the AI Revolution in Digital Commerce
Today’s value of Italian e-commerce, where it is growing, and how artificial intelligence is transforming it. An exclusive preview of the findings from the Ecommerce in Italia 2026 research by Casaleggio Associati: market data, sector performance, app evolution, and consumer behavior. A focus on the adoption of generative AI among Italian merchants — across catalog management, marketing, customer support, and logistics — and on how to rethink strategy and organizational structures to avoid falling behind in the three-year period ahead.
Davide Casaleggio
CEO & Partner
Casaleggio Associati
Mainstage
Title Soon Online
Nino Cartabellotta
President
Fondazione Gimbe
Giorgio Metta
Scientific Director
IIT Italian Institute of Technology
Mainstage
Reasoning Models for Physical AI
Marco Pavone
Director of Autonomous Vehicle Research
NVIDIA
Start the Future
AI and the Future of Scientific Discovery
Artificial intelligence is profoundly transforming the way science is conducted, accelerating discovery, expanding analytical capacity, and opening up new forms of interdisciplinary research.
This roundtable brings together forward-looking experts and young researchers from the fields of robotics, medicine, deep learning, economics, and fundamental physics to discuss how AI is redefining the production of scientific knowledge: from computational models to clinical research, all the way to frontier experiments in nuclear physics.
Olga Bogachek
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Free University of Bolzano
Gianluca Mondillo
MD Pediatric Resident
Università L. Vanvitelli Napoli
Mainstage
Title Soon Online
Filippo Caccamo
Comedian & Content Creator
Chimera Agency
Mainstage
Closing Session 1!
Day 2
AI Marketing
AI Decisioning: The Missing Layer Between Data and Activation
Modern marketing stacks are rich in data and increasingly powered by machine learning, but a critical layer is often missing: decisioning. This talk introduces AI Decisioning as a structured approach to bridging the gap between predictive models and marketing execution. By combining first-party data, predictive signals (such as customer value and intent), and decision logic, organizations can automate key marketing actions across channels. We will propose a clear framework to understand how data, predictions, decisions, and activation systems interact, along with practical examples of how this approach improves efficiency, reduces wasted spend, and drives higher-quality outcomes.
Paolo Dello Vicario
Co-Founder & CEO
ByTek - Datrix
E-commerce
Agentic Commerce: AI Levers to Grow Your Business Today
How AI is rewriting the rules of e-commerce: from "scroll & click" to "ask & buy". Discover what it takes to be visible — and sell — on ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Copilot, featuring a live demo of Sidekick, the AI assistant integrated into Shopify.
Federico Mazzoni
Senior Solutions Engineer
Shopify
Advertising
Branded keywords on Google Ads: from a waste of budget to fuel for demand generation
The goal is to provide a practical framework for measuring the incremental impact of branded campaigns on Google Ads. Through a case study, I will demonstrate how to avoid cannibalizing organic traffic, freeing up budget to reallocate toward demand generation. The audience will learn how to design incrementality tests, optimize their media mix, and stop paying for conversions already guaranteed by organic positioning. A data-driven approach to maximize true ROI
Valerio Ronchi
CEO & Founder
Fragos Media
Start the Future
The communicators of the future and CC2035 Table Key skills
In a context shaped by rapid transformations—between AI, climate change, and shifting global balances—anticipating the future becomes a lever for making better decisions today. This talk presents the results of a research project conducted by Sapienza University of Rome in collaboration with A2A, which led to the publication of the book “The Communicators of the Future.” Through interviews with experts and the use of futures studies methods, the CC2035 Table was developed—a map of the key skills required of the new “architects of meaning” in marketing and communication in 2035
Alessio Di Leo
Assistant Professor
Sapienza Università di Roma
AI Marketing
The AI-Augmented Strategist: How AI is Redesigning Strategy
Generative AI is changing the strategist’s work more profoundly than it appears. It’s not just about speed; it’s about changing how we think, explore, and decide. This session explores how AI transforms every stage of marketing and communication strategy—from research to insight, from concept to prototyping—and why the real leap isn’t just using the tools, but rethinking the process itself. We will explore what happens when the strategist stops searching for answers and starts asking better questions; when an idea can be tested the moment it is imagined; and when the boundary between thinking and producing finally dissolves.
Matteo Sbarra
Gen AI Director
[Alkemy]+
Advertising
From Search to Answers: AI Agents are redesigning online marketing
Search no longer shows links, it tells stories. AI responds, recommends, and makes choices. In a world where people rely on intelligent assistants to decide what to buy, watch, and trust, brands must learn to be present in answers, not just in search results. A journey into the future of discovery, where advertising influences decisions even before questions are asked.
Pierpaolo Morgante
Sr. Client Director
Microsoft Advertising & AI
E-commerce
AI-Powered CRO: How artificial intelligence is redefining conversion rate optimization
A speech exploring how artificial intelligence is redefining the way we analyze, design, and optimize digital experiences. Starting from real cases and concrete data, the talk shows how CRO is evolving from a tactical approach into a strategic lever, thanks to the integration of behavioral insights, continuous experimentation, and predictive models.The goal is clear: to make faster decisions, reduce uncertainty, and turn every user interaction into measurable business value.A session designed for those who want to go beyond best practices and start truly working with data, testing, and AI.
Angelo Antonio Annibaldis
CEO & CRO Specialist
Iride
Start the Future
Superinnovation: What It Really Takes to Build the Future
We live in an age of hyperinnovation: algorithms, data, and artificial intelligence are redefining the economy, work, and society. However, technological progress alone is not enough to generate development and competitiveness. In this conversation, Gianmario Verona and Daniele Manca offer a reflection on what makes authentic innovation possible: culture, strategic vision, organization, and the ability to transform change into the future.
Gianmario Verona
Full Professor of Innovation Management
Bocconi University
Daniele Manca
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Corriere Della Sera
AI Marketing
Agentic Moment of Truth: the era in which AI decides with and for the consumer
AI is not just changing how we search for products. It is redefining who we are as consumers and who brands must become to exist in this new world. P&G gave us the First Moment of Truth (the shelf). Google gave us the Zero Moment of Truth (search). Now, we are in the Agentic Moment of Truth: the moment when AI surfaces needs the consumer didn't even know they had, builds a narrative around the choice, and returns 3-5 options. Anyone who doesn’t appear in those 3-5 is simply absent.The Agentic Moment of Truth is not about search; it’s about discovery. The consumer delegates to AI not just the selection of options, but the very definition of the need. This talk presents the results of the first systematic Italian research—combining quantitative data, qualitative interviews, and focus groups—to begin understanding this phenomenon in its entirety.
Mirko Bruni
CEO
The Fool
Andrea Bellomi
AI Integration Specialist & Market Consultant
The Fool
Advertising
Product Clustering: Optimizing the Catalog to Maximize ROI and Profit Margins
Not all products are created equal, and promoting them in the same way is a costly mistake. In this session, we will explore the logic behind Product Clustering: how to dynamically segment your inventory based on real performance data. We will discover how to identify "bestsellers," manage low-engagement items (the so-called "zombies"), and allocate budget strategically to protect margins and scale sales across the entire e-commerce store.
Ivan Cicconi
Senior Client Lead
Precis
E-commerce
How to invest in high-performing content with AI
The average brand produces dozens of social media contents every month, yet only a small portion truly performs. The problem is not quality — it’s that we decide where to invest without knowing what will actually deliver results. In this talk, we will explore why the metrics we look at every day can be misleading, how AI identifies the patterns that predict content performance, and a practical method for investing budget only where it generates real return. Attendees will leave with a framework that can be applied immediately.
Marco Santesso
Head
Selll
Mainstage
Live Show!
Valerio Lundini & I Vazzanikki
Advertising
Google Ads today: a mandatory tax, a growth engine, or are you just paying to exist?
In 2026, Google Ads is no longer just a channel—nor the growth engine we once relied on. It has become a closed system that reshapes rules, margins, and visibility. With AI Overviews and zero-click search, clicks are declining, costs are rising—and control is shifting elsewhere. The uncomfortable question is: are you building a competitive advantage, or fueling a dependency? We’ll explore how to leverage first-party data to regain control and drive sustainable performance.
Matteo Collesi
Co-founder e CEO
Green Click Media Italia srl
AI Marketing
When AI recommends: is your brand ready to be chosen by AI?
More and more purchase decisions start inside AI conversations. This session will show how to measure and improve a brand’s LLM visibility by analyzing real Italian cases (Ferrari, Illy, Veralab, Moncler). Attendees will learn a practical framework to understand how AI models cite, describe and recommend brands — and how to turn AI presence into traffic, conversions and sustainable competitive advantage.
Luca Fratesi
Partner & Head of Italy
OMMAX
Mainstage
Opening Session 2!
Day 2
Mainstage
International Panel
A. Burak Dağlıoğlu
President
Investment and Finance Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye
Leyla Elchekhly
TV Presenter
Al Jazeera Media Network
Start the Future
Signals from the Dark Universe: How We Search for What We Cannot See
Elena Pinetti
Astroparticle Physics
Simons Foundation
AI Marketing
Trust Is the New Algorithm: Why the Brands Winning in 2026 Are Measuring What AI Cannot See
AI accelerates content, but it can't create trust. This session uses the AIR™ Method (Authenticity, Inspiration, Relatability) to show you how to measure trust as a business asset and win in a market flooded with content no one believes.
Jeanniey Walden
Founder
Liftoff Enterprises
Mainstage
Title Soon Online
Filippo Ghirelli
Infracorp
Investor and Explorer
Start the Future
Introduction to the Google Product Expert Program
Discover the Product Expert (PE) Program, Google’s global community of super users. Join more than 1,300 Product Experts, passionate individuals who dedicate their time to helping other users across Google Help Communities. PEs provide over one million answers every year. In return, you can gain exclusive benefits: direct connections with Googlers for feedback and updates, beta testing opportunities, branded merchandise, and the chance to participate in annual summits around the world.
Luca Bove
Founder, CEO, Local SEO Expert
Local strategy
Mainstage
Startup Competition - The Final
The Final of the largest International Startup Competition
Mainstage
The 28th Regime: One Market for Innovation
Gianmarco Carnovale
CEO & President
Scuter & Roma Startup
Lucien Burm
Boardmember
Allied for Startups
Tomáš Pospíšil
Chief Analyst
Czech Startup Association
Mainstage
Startup Competition Awards Ceremony
The Final of the largest International Startup Competition
Mainstage
Closing day 2!
Day 2
Start the Future
Program in progress!
New Speakers Coming Soon
E-commerce
Program in progress!
New Speakers Coming Soon
Mainstage
Co - Hosting
Veronica Maffei
Journalist
Cosmano Lombardo
Chairman
WMF - We Make Future
Gabriele Vagnato
Host, Comedian & Content Creator
Mainstage
Urban Impression Live Concert
Dardust
Producer & Artist
Mainstage
Opening Ceremony - Day 3!
Surprise Guest
Mainstage
Institutional Greetings
Henna Virkkunen
Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy
European Commission
Mainstage
Title Soon Online
Claudio Iacopino
Head of Φ-lab Explore Office
ESA
Mainstage
When Earth Speaks, Satellites Listen: Local Events with Global Echoes
Veronica La Regina
Space Mentor
Start the Future
AI: Scaling from (linguistic) models to (economic) markets
The real challenge for businesses in the future will be to shift from model training to market design, from focusing on the engineering and "agency" capabilities of the linguistic model itself to the organizational complexity of the "instituting" assembly that instantiates and enhances it. This shift from "models" to "markets," however, will require a cultural and strategic innovation effort, a radical shift in the paradigms of value co-creation between automation, amplification, and coordination.
Cosimo Accoto
Research Affiliate | Adjunct Professor | AI Advisor
MIT | UNIMORE | POLLICINO AIDVISORY
Mainstage
Title Soon Online
Karma B
Drag Artists
Mainstage
Beyond AI: Creativity, Intuition, and Judgment
Matteo Mille
Chief Sales Enablement & Operations
Microsoft Italia
Start the Future
Future of Music and the Next Global Entertainment Ecosystem
Music is no longer just entertainment: it is technology, branding, community, and cultural influence. In this session, Mathew Knowles reflects on how the music industry is being reshaped by AI, digital communication, streaming platforms, and new audience behaviors. Through real-world experiences and strategic insights, the talk will explore how artists and companies can build global impact, create sustainable business models, and navigate the future of entertainment.
Mathew Knowles
Founder & CEO, Strategic Consultant, Keynote Speaker, and Corporate Trainer
Music World Entertainment (MWE)
Mainstage
Europe’s Strategy for Deep Tech and Innovation Leadership
Michiel Scheffer
President of the Board
European Innovation Council | European Commission
Mainstage
Physical AI: The Next Work Revolution
Daniele Pucci
CEO
Generative Bionics
Bryan Madden
Global Head of Developer, Sovereign AI & Physical AI Marketing
AMD
Claudio Cisilino
EVP Operations, Corporate Strategy and Innovation
Fincantieri
Digital Strategy
Experiential Marketing: How to Organize a Pop-Up and the Media Strategy to Promote It
In a landscape dominated by advertising saturation, what truly remains etched in memory is not the message, but the emotion it evokes. Experiential Marketing represents the strategic response to a context of widespread inattention: an approach that places individuals at the center, transforming the consumer into an active protagonist of the brand experience. Yet, how does one organize an effective Pop-Up, and how is it promoted at a media level?
Sara Barbi
Media & Experiential Marketing Expert
AI Commerce
From Insight to Action in 90 Seconds: The future of digital marketing for eCommerce
What if your store could wake up every morning, read everything—customer sentiment, competitor ads, cohort trends, and ad performance: identify the single most profitable action available, and hand you a ready-to-approve brief? That's not a vision. It's already being built. Valentin Radu, Founder of Omniconvert, walks you through the architecture of an autonomous growth platform that replaces the Monday morning meeting: how AI agents ingest five data layers simultaneously, surface True Profit signals instead of vanity metrics, and generate executable strategy.
Valentin Radu
CEO & Founder
Omniconvert
Agentic AI
3 Agents, 60% Less Grunt Work: AI Agent in Action Across the Supply Chain
Supply chain teams spend countless hours on weekly reporting, transfer planning, and answering repetitive questions — high-frequency, low-value work that drains time and energy. We tackled these pain points with 3 purpose-built AI Agents: one auto-generates supply chain weekly reports, compressing hours of data collection and writing into minutes; another simulates transfer plans, rapidly producing multiple scenarios for decision-making; and a third serves as an always-on supply chain assistant, handling routine inquiries that once flooded inboxes. In this talk, I'll break down the design logic, implementation journey, and real-world results of each Agent — giving you a replicable playbook for bringing AI Agents into your own supply chain operations.
XU HE
Data Scientist
Mainstage
AI and Labor: Between Transformation and New Social Challenges
Pierpaolo Bombardieri
General Secretary
UIL
Cosmano Lombardo
Chairman
WMF - We Make Future
Start the Future
In Praise of (Ab)normality
"You are not normal" is a phrase that almost everyone has heard at least once in their life, and certainly not as a compliment. But is it always true that it’s better to be "normal"? Above all, what does "normal" actually mean, and why is this adjective often used as a sort of club to marginalize those who don't fit certain models?
Vera Gheno
Sociolinguist
Mainstage
Title Soon Online
Surprise Guest
Mainstage
Sky-High Clash: the 1st European Drone Soccer Championship
Drone Soccer
Mainstage
Closing Session 1!
Day 3
AI Commerce
Neuroscience of Desire: Transforming Products into Objects of Longing Before the Customer Seeks Them
AI tools are becoming the filter between user and product: if desire is not cultivated upstream, the AI will decide for the customer. In this presentation, I will demonstrate how purchasing desires originate and how to transform them into branding and e-commerce leverage. Drawing upon neuroscientific research, case studies, and agency testing, I will elucidate the formula for activating desire and rendering your store and products objects of aspiration, rather than mere functional alternatives.
Andrea Saletti
Neuromarketing & Marketing Manager
Pronesis srl
Digital Strategy
AI Is Rewriting Digital Media Economics: Measurement, Identity, and Adaptive Growth
Digital media business models were built on deterministic tracking and fragmented measurement. That foundation is collapsing under privacy regulation and signal loss. This session explores how AI driven identity layers, probabilistic modeling, and adaptive feedback systems are rebuilding digital media economics. Attendees will learn how to design measurement architectures that power sustainable growth across acquisition, retention, and monetization.
Nikhil Mehra
Senior Product Manager
My Code
Agentic AI
Casting AI Actors for Learning: How We Script, Direct, and Evaluate Roleplay Agents
Participants will learn how to design AI roleplay agents as multi-agent systems. Rather than just building chatbots with a persona, they will understand how to structure scenario logic, define behavioral rules, and evaluate AI performance against learning objectives. The talk provides a reusable blueprint (covering architecture, alignment, and failure modes) that participants can directly apply to build, pilot, or evaluate AI-based simulations in their own training, education, or L&D programs. Participants will leave with a practical framework to design, test, and evaluate AI roleplay simulations in their own learning environments.
Francesco Giacalone
Learning Innovation Unit
IESE Business School
Start the Future
Why AI for Product Teams Needs to Be Multiplayer
AI has transformed what one person can do. But building great products has never been a solo sport. In this talk, Dave Ross explores how product teams are adapting — moving from fragmented AI usage to collaborative, agent-powered workflows. Using real examples from Miro, he’ll show how teams are rethinking how they work, build, and learn together. And why, despite all the change, the fundamentals still win: strong culture, good judgement, and the environments that help teams learn faster — from hackathons to Fail Nights, and the informal moments where the best ideas often emerge
Dave Ross
Chief Evangelist
Miro
Agentic AI
From Billable Hours to Outcomes: Building Agent Practices That Actually Make Money
The enterprise applications services industry is facing its most significant business model disruption in decades. McKinsey now earns 20–25% of global fees from outcome-based pricing. They’ve deployed approximately 12,000 AI agents internally and shrunk typical project teams from 14+ consultants to 2–3 consultants plus AI agents. Meanwhile, 42% of companies abandoned most AI initiatives in 2025, and the average enterprise scrapped 46% of AI pilots before production. This speech delivers a practitioner’s playbook for system integrators building AI agent practices that actually make money. Drawing from a decade of enterprise software experience across multiple continents and ecosystems, the speaker introduces the Culture–Context–Code framework and a realistic 90-day sprint to first agent in production, followed by a 9-month transformation roadmap. Attendees will leave with a concrete operating model, specific pricing structures with real numbers, a step-by-step execution timeline, and a clear understanding of how to navigate the EU AI Act, DORA, and NIS2 regulatory landscape while building AI agent practices.
Ajaz Ahmed Siddiqui
GTM for AI Business Solutions
Microsoft
AI Commerce
AI Content Machine. Every content asset an e-commerce requires. Not merely those you are capable of producing.
An e-commerce business cannot scale if content production remains a bottleneck. AI Content Machine transforms catalogs and data into product descriptions, photography, video, SEO optimizations, creative assets, and advertising, social, and DEM copy within hours. it generates precisely what is required, when required, while adhering to brand voice, visual identity, and established guidelines through proprietary knowledge. On scale. On demand. On brand. On knowledge.
Claudio Tonti
Co-founder, VP of AI & Innovation
Websolute
Digital Strategy
How to use AI embeddings and semantic spaces for market research
Large language models don't just generate text. They have absorbed an enormous amount of human culture, and hidden inside their embedding models is an implicit map of how concepts, brands, consumer opinions, and ideas relate to each other. This talk presents an original methodology and a visual exploration tool created to read that map: with a little geometry, we can navigate embedding space to surface insights on brand positioning, market perception, and broader cultural associations. The result: a new way to interrogate how AI models represent our world, useful for both cultural and market research.
Enrico Altavilla
AI & Search Consultant
MindSoup
Start the Future
From HTML to AI: the evolution and strategy of a digital-native compan
A journey through the fundamental milestones of digital business, from the early days of the web to today’s challenges. Massimiliano Valente shares his entrepreneurial journey, analyzing how market dynamics have evolved and the strategies required to stay competitive in a constantly transforming ecosystem. A clear-eyed analysis of what it means to build a business today, balancing long-term vision with the speed of technological adaptation
Massimiliano Valente
CEO
BlazeMedia
Start the Future
Who am AI? How Artificial Intelligence is redefining the Creative Director's role
Guido Callegari
Senior Art Director & AI Specialist
Michele Cireddu
Creative & Innovation Lead
Leo Italia
Flavia Russo
Local Ambassador & Creative Director
Emilia Romagna ADCI
Manuel Alvaro
Senior Creative & Trainer
Digital Strategy
The Death of Trends: why brands must stop chasing trends
At the end of the talk, participants will have learned an operational framework, “Brand Cultural Intelligence,” designed to help them stop chasing trends and start interpreting the cultural shifts that redefine brand meaning over the long term. They will be able to distinguish cultural signals from algorithmic noise, understand their strategic implications, and translate them into concrete positioning decisions—especially in an era where AI agents will mediate an increasing share of purchasing decisions.
Emanuela Ciuffoli
Brand Strategist e Formatrice
Emanuela Ciuffoli
Agentic AI
Contextual Intelligence: People, Culture, and Sovereignty in the AI Era
AI is evolving rapidly: from support technology to an agent capable of analyzing, designing, and acting within processes.In this scenario, the value of people is transforming: the importance of skills, the ability to interpret change, and leadership capable of giving direction, meaning, and responsibility to innovation are growing. Our role increasingly becomes one of orchestrating skills, data, technologies, and responsibilities, contributing to the governance of decisions augmented by artificial intelligence.The quality of this transformation also depends on the context in which AI operates: the culture it reflects, the values it incorporates, the data it is trained on, the infrastructures and platforms it relies on, and the rules that govern it. This is why digital sovereignty is the ability to choose and build a safe, reliable AI that truly serves people, businesses, and the national system.Let's explore the new role of leadership in the age of agentic AI: guiding innovation, developing skills, preserving human judgment, and moving from theory to action. Because governing AI means understanding it, experimenting with it, and transforming it into sustainable solutions, with a conscious, courageous, and hands-on approach.
Marco Pennarola
Head of CEO Office, Investor Relations & Business Insights
Fastweb
AI Commerce
European marketplaces 2026: how brands can regain control amid algorithms, resellers, and new Global competitors
Amazon, Zalando, Miravia, Temu: the European marketplace landscape has become fragmented. Resellers are eroding margins and controlling the Buy Box instead of brands. This speech analyzes the main European marketplaces, explains visibility and pricing algorithms, and provides a multichannel framework in which the brand sets the rules. Participants will map their competitive positioning, identify algorithmic levers, and build a channel policy to reduce reseller activity and maximize margins.
Giovanni Cappellotto
Consultant
M101
AI Commerce
From transactional e-commerce to agentic commerce: how Zalando is reinventing the discovery of fashion and beauty shopping online
The speech will focus on how Zalando is leveraging AI to transform online shopping: from AI-generated marketing content and predictive logistics to personal matchmaking and the conversational Zalando Assistant. The educational goal is to demonstrate how data, technology, and agentic AI can make the customer experience more personalized and efficient, opening new frontiers in the e-commerce and retail sectors.
Eloisa Siclari
General Manager
Zalando
Agentic AI
Why agents fail (and how design saves them)
Why does AI agent design fail? More often than not, the issue is not the technology itself, but the design behind it. Service Design provides a framework for building agents that truly work: journey mapping, touchpoint design, and integration into existing workflows. MCP servers represent a key infrastructural layer, enabling agents to connect with external data and services while unlocking new experiences that transform software into intelligent collaborators and establish more advanced interaction models. From service blueprint to production, the approach is systemic, combining design and development through tools such as Figma, Claude Code, Replit, and vibe coding. A real-world case study on the design of an AI agent will also be presented.
Luigi Greco
CEO & Founder
Conflux
Digital Strategy
Gamification of consent: how AI is rewriting the rules of persuasion
AI does not persuade: it designs environments in which we convince ourselves.At the intersection of game theory, variable rewards, and behavioral design, a new paradigm for marketing emerges: gamified consent.An operational framework for building funnels that engage without manipulating, measuring behavior before conversion, and using artificial intelligence as an architect of experiences rather than a digital megaphone.
Noemi Taccarelli
Growth hacker | Founder
_balnk growth agency
Mainstage
Live Show!
Surprise Guest
Mainstage
Opening Session 2!
Day 3
Mainstage
Language and Storytelling in the Age of AI
Stefano Massini
Author & Playwright
Start the Future
AI and strategic infrastructures: from experimentation to large-scale adoption across finance, public services, and public administration
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly evolving from an experimental field into a strategic driver of national competitiveness. In Italy, the real leap in scale depends on critical infrastructures, financial services, public administration, and large public platforms. This panel brings together firsthand experiences from highly complex environments, including public services, digital banking, strategic investments, and cross-industry implementations. The goal is to examine what is truly required to bring AI into large-scale production, including within public-sector contexts. From data management to governance, and from the role of public institutions to private enterprises, the discussion will highlight the conditions needed to transform AI into a structural driver of the country’s economic and industrial development. A practical discussion featuring those already building AI at a national scale, including adoption models within public administration. The panel compares four key perspectives from the Italian AI ecosystem.
Cosimo Birtolo
Head of Artificial Intelligence Hub
Poste Italiane S.p.A.
Annalisa Ceccarelli
Head of Competence Center IA e Digital Tech
CDP
Mainstage
Organized Crime, Technology, and the New Frontiers of Crime
Nicola Gratteri
Public Prosecutor
Court of Naples
AI Commerce
The Authenticity Paradox: Solving Fashion's Fit Crisis with GenAI
I've managed high-volume photoshoots across Asia. Traditional workflows break at scale. GenAI fundamentally changes this: shoot once, generate authentic variants across diverse bodies, regions, and contexts—eliminating the need for multiple shoots. The real margin killer isn't just production cost—it's returns from fit anxiety. This talk reveals how GenAI reduces shooting frequency while enabling authentic diversity, closing fashion's returns loop. It's not about replacing photographers with AI. It's about replacing repetitive shoots with intelligent content multiplication at scale through new systems.
Yanie Durocher
Founder & AI-Native Content Production Studio
POMPOM
Digital Strategy
Strategic thinking toolbox: strategic instruments for guiding processes in the age of AI
In the age of AI, there is a fundamental need for both action and expertise. We will examine over 20 canvases designed to guide specific actions, ensuring maximum leverage of AI without succumbing to its pitfalls. These are strategic compasses derived from design thinking, tailored for branding, content, marketing, product development, and organizational structure.
Federica Brancale
Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Marketing Freaks
Mainstage
Title Soon Online
Surprise Guest
Mainstage
The Italian Dream: from Cultural Heritage to Global Innovation
Alec Ross
Distinguished Adjunct Professor
Bologna Business School
Mainstage
Innovation & Design in the Digital Era
Chris Bangle
Managing Director & Former Design Lead
Chris Bangle Associates & BMW
Mainstage
Europe: The World's Largest AI Use Case. A System Destined to Win
Uljan Sharka
CEO
Domyn
Mainstage
No Filter: The Complex Relationship Between Social Media and Authenticity
Camihawke
Content Creator
Mainstage
Beyond the Algorithm: The Evolution of Digital Creativity
At WMF, you will find stages entirely dedicated to the E-commerce and Customer Engagement world: featuring a lineup of speeches on AI applied to e-commerce, along with Italian and international Marketing Managers, Customer Experience, and Brand Experts.
In the exhibition area, you will find a vertical district dedicated to E-commerce industry professionals, featuring areas specifically designed for Business Matching between buyers and sellers.
Throughout the three-day event, a recruitment service will be available to facilitate in-person job interviews, streamlining the matching between digital professionals and companies attending the Fair with open positions in the e-commerce sector.
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