On June 24, 25, and 26, 2026, at BolognaFiere, Koders Fest returns to WMF. This vertical event is dedicated to developers, system administrators, cloud engineers, and tech professionals looking to connect within a global innovation ecosystem.
Koders Fest brings together expertise, professionals, and leading tech companies, bridging the core pillars of development - Frontend & UI/UX, Backend, Cloud Architectures, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence. Featuring international speakers and experts, the program offers specialised stages for Cybersecurity, Frontend Coding, Backend & Cloud, Machine Learning, and UX & UI, showcasing real-world case studies, solutions, and applied approaches.
As part of WMF, Koders Fest creates a unique hub for developers and companies: job seekers can connect with businesses scouting for talent, while companies can meet highly qualified profiles. The event provides dedicated services such as Digital Job Placement, Business Matching, and B2B networking spaces, alongside an exhibition area focused on platforms, services, and developer tools.
Discover the first speakers and stages for Koders Fest. Grab your Full Ticket now at the special price of €149 + VAT - offer valid only until April 24th!
The First Speakers of Koders Fest 2026
Machine Learning
Corey Ching
OpenAI Developer Experience
Machine Learning
Karen Zhou
Anthropic Member of technical staff
Robotics & Physical AI
Marcello Majonchi
Arduino Chief Product Officer
Machine Learning
Gabriele Pavanello
The Fork Diner Experience Staff Engineer & AI Champion
Backend & Cloud
Michel Murabito
Fractal Cloud & CNCF Tech Evangelist & Ambassador
UX & UI
Federico Francioni
Meta | Microsoft and PwC Alumni Strategy & Design Director
Robotics & Physical AI
Iulia Feroli
Back to Engineering and Rerun Physic AI & AI DevRel
Mainstage, Robotics & Physical AI
Bryan Madden
AMD Global Head of Developer, Sovereign AI & Physical AI Marketing
Robotics & Physical AI
Marco Pavone
NVIDIA Director of Autonomous Vehicle Research
Mainstage
Daniele Pucci
Generative Bionics CEO
Start the Future
Sasha Luccioni
AI and Climate Researcher
GovTech, Robotics & Physical AI
Giorgio Metta
IIT Italian Institute of Technology Scientific Director
Cybersecurity
Stefano Parini
Sky Italia Senior Security Architect Manager
Start the Future
Federico Cabitza
Università Milano-Bicocca & RedOpen SRL Associated Professor & Co-Founder
Coding Frontend
Diana Bernabei
Inclusio Accessibility Engineer, UI/UX designer & Web Developer
Cybersecurity
Piero Dotti
Mònade Tech Lead
UX & UI
Nicola Bonora
Websolute Spa Digital & UX Strategist
Start the Future
Manuel Alvaro
Senior Creative & Trainer
Coding Frontend
Andrea Baino
Tredo Founder & CTO
UX & UI
Gabriele Malaspina
Solida Forma Digital product designer & Founder
Backend & Cloud
Cristian Belli
Humans.tech Team Lead & Backend Lead
Coding Frontend
Francesco Monti
Humans.tech Team Leader & Senior Frontend Engineer
The stage dedicated to the Startup & VC world, where the ambition of founders and the vision of investors meet.
Here you will find pitch sessions where founders will present their innovative projects, alternated with exclusive roundtables with the protagonists of international Venture Capital.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Open Innovation & International Ecosystem
The stage dedicated to Open Innovation, where global strategies and local ecosystems meet.
Here you will find sessions that explore the international innovation ecosystem in detail, offering an in-depth overview of expansion opportunities and the dynamics of foreign markets.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Future of Work
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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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Mainstage
Co - Hosting
Veronica Maffei
Journalist
Cosmano Lombardo
Chairman
WMF - We Make Future
Guglielmo Scilla
Content Creator
Alicia Hanf
Head of Institutional Ecosystem Partnerships
LG NOVA - LG Electronics
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
Vincenzo Colla
Vicepresidente con delega a Sviluppo economico e green economy, Energia, Formazione professionale, Università e ricerca
Emilia-Romagna Region
Mainstage
Lucilla Sioli
Director for "Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry"
Directorate-General CONNECT, European Commission
Mainstage
Francesco Ubertini
President
CINECA
Mainstage
Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli
Professor of EECS
University of California, Berkeley
Mainstage
Surprise Guest
Start the Future
Between action and word: working with Doctors Without Borders – from Gaza to the world
In humanitarian emergencies, you quickly learn that treating wounds is not enough. There are places — Gaza, Afghanistan, Congo — where the loss of human life fails to make the news, or is told through a filtered, dehumanizing lens. Yet, in these places, words can become an extension of the hands that heal: they can shake consciences, pierce the wall of indifference, and remind the world that silence is complicity. Being a humanitarian worker today means coupling the word of advocacy with medical action. But speaking out is not simple. It requires rigor and institutional courage, not just individual bravery. And it requires people willing to listen, even when what is being said is uncomfortable.
Martina Marchiò
Humanitarian Worker
Medici Senza Frontiere
Mainstage
Dell Technologies
Mainstage
Cecilia Sala
Journalist
Chora News
Backend & Cloud
The Last Cell - designing the human in the era of AI
For years, we’ve viewed automation as the ultimate goal: eliminating human intervention. Yet, in every system, there is always a 'last cell'—a point where someone makes a decision. The problem isn’t that this cell exists, but that it’s often left unplanned. Natural language has become code, and we risk moving from 'Excel chaos' to 'prompt chaos.' The real difference lies in knowing how to design where and how the human stays in the loop. A talk on AI, the dev mindset, and human-machine collaboration.
Simone Sabba
CTO & Head of AI Squads
Devpunks
UX & UI
Discovery, Architecture, Content: Designing a Complex Website with AI
How we integrated Artificial Intelligence into the design process of a complex website: from setting up the discovery mix to synthesizing results, and from the sitemap and content models to the generation of prototype content. Through a real-world case study, we will outline the workflow, the tools, and the specific moments where AI added real value—as well as those where human judgment remains decisive. For now.
Nicola Bonora
Digital & UX Strategist
Websolute Spa
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
Mainstage
Randa Ghazy
Journalist, Author & Media Specialist
Mainstage
Surprise Guest
Backend & Cloud
Telegram Bot: the No-Code interface to access over 400 API services
What if you could access over 400 API services and millions of data points on companies worldwide with the same simplicity as sending a voice message? The CTO of Openapi shows how the Telegram ecosystem can become a conversational interface for hundreds of digital services, transforming a chat into a true control center for accessing data, performing checks, and developing automations. A practical talk on how the union between API marketplaces and instant messaging can redefine access to digital services.
Simone Desantis
Chief Technology Officer
Openapi Spa
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
Closing Session 1!
Day 1
UX & UI
Federico Francioni
Strategy & Design Director
Meta | Microsoft and PwC Alumni
Start the Future
Federico Cabitza
Associated Professor & Co-Founder
Università Milano-Bicocca & RedOpen SRL
Backend & Cloud
Infrastructure has broken the Space - Time continuum
Is it 2025 or 1885? For apps, we are SOLID architects, but infrastructure is still in the Old West, caught between fragile YAML and procedural scripts. Let's get into the DeLorean: let's bring the wisdom of the "Past" into the "Present" of infrastructure through Platform Engineering! We will stop "configuring" and start designing Infrastructure as true Software. You don't need a 1.21-gigawatt lightning bolt to beat technical debt: all it takes is the same care you dedicate to your applications.
Michel Murabito
Tech Evangelist & Ambassador
Fractal Cloud & CNCF
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
PwC Italy
UX & UI
From Web to TV: The Design System as a Shared Language
Designing for different platforms by finding common ground. A firsthand account of building a design system engineered to live across web, mobile, and TV. A complex, ongoing project, shared as it takes shape.
Gabriele Malaspina
Digital product designer & Founder
Solida Forma
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
Backend & Cloud
Incompetence as a Systemic Risk: The Hidden Cost of Technical Debt in the Banking Sector
The Cloud was supposed to be a land of flexibility and savings, but for many organizations in Italy, it has turned into a black hole. Why? The truth, unfortunately, lies in structural incompetence. We are not talking about a lack of effort, but rather the organizational capacity to navigate at speeds that differ from technological ones. In this talk, we will examine real-world data and examples from the banking sector to determine the actual costs of these issues: from Monoliths in the Cloud, explaining why migrating legacy problems to new environments doubles costs without adding value, to "Hoped-for" Security and the economic risk of delegating security to individual goodwill rather than automating it on the platform. Finally, we will explore the solution through Platform Engineering: how to create a "software factory" that protects the company from human error and scales in terms of cost-effectiveness rather than price. A thought-provoking session for CEOs and CTOs who want to put an end to the costs of inefficiency and take control of defining the future.
Nicolas Fantoni
Platform engineer
Imola Informatica
Mainstage
Live Show!
Surprise Guest
Backend & Cloud
Backend in the age of AI: becoming a 10x developer with Claude and MCP
Being a great backend developer isn't enough anymore. The top 1% now works AI-first: leveraging their seniority to lead, while using tools like Claude Code and MCP to execute 10x faster. Join me to see exactly how I do it, in practice.
Cristian Belli
Team Lead & Backend Lead
Humans.tech
Mainstage
Opening Session 2!
Day 1
Mainstage
Arthur Gebhardt
Senior Manager Business Development & New Technologies
GETEC PARK.SWISS
Mainstage
Al Jazeera
Mainstage
A. Burak Dağlıoğlu
President
Investment and Finance Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye
UX & UI
Accesibility & UX (title soon online)
Emmanuel Mazzucchi
Partner & Head of UX
Conflux
Mainstage
Trade Republic
Mainstage
Manuel Catalano
Head of the NuBots Research Unit, Physical AI Technologies for Human-Robot Co-Evolution
IIT
UX & UI
Design ROI: Reducing CAC and Boosting LTV Through UX
Startups often underestimate how design impacts growth metrics. Drawing from 150+ product launches with YC and Stanford StartX alumni, Sergey Krasotin shares actionable UX/UI strategies that directly cut customer acquisition costs and increase lifetime value. Expect real case studies, tested frameworks, and practical methods you can apply tomorrow.
Sergey Krasotin
Design Director & CEO
Humbleteam
Mainstage
Klarna
Mainstage
Pierluca Mariti
Comico
Mainstage
Fabio Zaffagnini
Founder
Rockin'1000
Backend & Cloud
Program in progress!
New Speakers Coming Soon
Mainstage
Surprise Guest
Mainstage
Corrado Formigli
Journalist
La7
Mainstage
Closing Day 1!
Day 1
Start the Future
Program in progress!
New Speakers Coming Soon
UX & UI
Program in progress!
New Speakers Coming Soon
Mainstage
Co - Hosting
Cosmano Lombardo
Chairman
WMF - We Make Future
Veronica Maffei
Journalist
Tiarne Hawkins
AI Leader & Host
You & AI - Stealth Mode
Mainstage
Live Concert!
N.A.I.P - nessun artista in particolare
Mainstage
Opening Ceremony - Day 2!
Surprise Guest
Mainstage
NVIDIA
Mainstage
Mathew Knowles
Founder & CEO, Strategic Consultant, Keynote Speaker, and Corporate Trainer
Music World Entertainment (MWE)
Mainstage
Brunello Cucinelli
Founder & Chief Executive
Brunello Cucinelli
Start the Future
Davide Dattoli
Founder & Executive Chairman
Talent Garden
Mainstage
Maurizio Carta
Professor
Università di Palermo
Mainstage
Ayumi Moore Aoki
Founder & CEO
Women in Tech® Global
Start the Future
Siyabulela Mandela
Founder
Mandela & Associates Consulting
Mainstage
Filippo Caccamo
Comedian & Content Creator
Chimera Agency
Mainstage
Aprajita Jain
Chief Brand
Google
Start the Future
Pegah Moshir Pour
Activist & Writer
Machine Learning
Corey Ching
Developer Experience
OpenAI
Coding Frontend
AI-Native frontend: one year later, what has truly changed
A year ago, I spoke about MCP as an accelerator. Today, the ecosystem has exploded: agents, memory, design-to-code. In this talk, I’ll take stock of the current state of AI in frontend development and share how our workflow has evolved. Less hype, more reality: what works, what doesn’t, and where we are heading.
Francesco Monti
Team Leader & Senior Frontend Engineer
Humans.tech
Mainstage
Orazio Schillaci
Ministro della Salute della Repubblica Italiana
Ministero della Salute
Mainstage
Surprise Guest
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
Closing Session 1!
Day 2
Start the Future
Luisa Rizzo
Drone Racing Pilot
Coding Frontend
Andrea Baino
Founder & CTO
Tredo
Machine Learning
Karen Zhou
Member of technical staff
Anthropic
Coding Frontend
The Agentic Loop: revolutionizing E2E with MCP and Playwright Agents
The era of Chat-Oriented Programming, characterized by copying and pasting from ChatGPT to the IDE, is rapidly hitting its limits. A new paradigm is emerging: the Agentic Workflow, where AI doesn’t just suggest code, but plans, executes, validates, and autonomously repairs tests directly within our development environment. In this talk, we explore how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables a new generation of quality tools, transforming Playwright from a simple automation library into a platform for autonomous testing agents. Through concrete examples, we will analyze the architecture of three Playwright Test Agents collaborating in a controlled agentic loop.🎭 The Planner: An agent that explores the application and translates human intent into structured Markdown test plans, bridging the gap between requirements, PRDs, and test strategy. 🎭 The Generator: An agent that converts plans into executable code, validating selectors and assertions in real-time directly on the application. 🎭 The Healer: A self-healing agent that intervenes on failures, analyzes the DOM, and corrects flaky tests without human intervention. The focus is not on writing tests faster, but on rethinking the role of the QA Engineer. In this model, QA evolves from a script author to an agent orchestrator, while the true source of truth becomes the natural language specification, not the TypeScript code. We will conclude by showing how to configure these agents via MCP in VS Code and how to govern the agentic loop to avoid drift, ensuring that AI builds the quality we want, not just what it is capable of generating.
Ludovico Besana
Senior Test Engineer
Nearform
Machine Learning
Stop Buying Intelligence. Start Building Context
Every organization has access to the same AI. So why are results so different? The gap isn't the license, it's the infrastructure surrounding it. This session dismantles the assumption that AI performance is a procurement problem, and why Context Engineering is where ROI actually lives. Steal a diagnostic framework to find where your AI budget is leaking value today.
Gabriele Pavanello
Diner Experience Staff Engineer & AI Champion
The Fork
Start the Future
Gianmario Verona
Full Professor of Innovation Management
Bocconi University
Daniele Manca
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Corriere Della Sera
Coding Frontend
Diana Bernabei
Accessibility Engineer, UI/UX designer & Web Developer
Inclusio
Mainstage
Live Show!
Surprise Guest
Coding Frontend
Emiliano Pisu
Senior Frontend Engineer | Speaker | Mentor
Freelance
Mainstage
Opening Session 2!
Day 2
Mainstage
Giuseppe Lombardo
Deputy Public Prosecutor
Court of Reggio Calabria
Mainstage
Enrico Mentana
Journalist & Director
La7
Machine Learning
Program in progress!
New Speakers Coming Soon
Mainstage
Stefano Onofri
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Cubbit
Mainstage
Startup Competition - The Final
The Final of the largest International Startup Competition
Mainstage
The New Innovation Thesis: Co-creating the Future of Business
Mainstage
Startup Competition Awards Ceremony
The Final of the largest International Startup Competition
Mainstage
Closing day 2!
Day 2
Coding Frontend
Program in progress!
New Speakers Coming Soon
Start the Future
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
European Space Agency - ESA
Mainstage
Veronica La Regina
Space Mentor
Mainstage
Michiel Scheffer
President of the Board
European Innovation Council | European Commission
Mainstage
Bryan Madden
Global Head of Developer, Sovereign AI & Physical AI Marketing
AMD
Mainstage
Daniele Pucci
CEO
Generative Bionics
Mainstage
Humanoid Robotics & Physical AI
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
Robotics & Physical AI
How I built my own intelligent Robot Arm from Scratch
Are you tired of the same old AI, LLM, buzzword sessions and wondering if there is still anything new and cool out there we can do with AI? Do you crave an exciting, slightly ridiculous project that's just a lot of fun - while also learning about a whole new field with lots of promise? Don't miss this session! Physical AI is about bringing together all the amazing breakthroughs (yes, like large language models) into the fields of robotics and embedded systems. We can make autonomous robots and systems that can generate their own movement instructions and evolve, without having to painstakingly define all the complex code or even tiny physics-engine implementations to get going. But first - we need to build actual robots! As someone coming from the data science field - this may sound like a bit of a leap. However, with a "I'm sure it can't be that hard" attitude, a bunch of electronics components, and an uncontainable enthusiasm - I set out to do just that. I will share the story of building my own Robot Arm from 0 to an incrementally more complex prototype, and how I started giving it some "AI superpowers", and what's next in this exciting field!
Iulia Feroli
Physic AI & AI DevRel
Back to Engineering and Rerun
Cybersecurity
AI-Enhanced Threat Modeling: How to Reduce the Cognitive Load of a Security Architect Without Relinquishing Control
This talk presents the blueprint of a system based on RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and LLMs designed to accelerate threat modeling activities. The objective is to create a "cybersec tactical droid" that assists the security architect by processing large volumes of input—such as documentation, configurations, diagrams, and code—transforming them into an evidence map. Utilizing a predefined set of questions or "investigative rules" (STRIDE/PASTA/DREAD) mapped to NIST and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks, the assistant proposes the queries most pertinent to the context represented by the ingested documentation. Depending on the operational mode, the security architect may choose to utilize the question list in a traditional investigative manner or delegate the generation and autonomous execution of investigative prompts to the cybersec tactical droid. Fortunately, the Death Star engineers lacked this droid model; otherwise, they would have identified a small thermal exhaust port leading directly to the reactor core.
Stefano Parini
Senior Security Architect Manager
Sky Italia
Vibe Coding
A team of AI agents working while I sleep: hype or does it actually work?
I tried letting AI build a complete app overnight while I slept, providing the project specifications and tracking task progress as if it were a traditional team. The result was better than I expected. In this talk, I will show you the method I use every day to create complex projects with AI—from prototyping and design to actual development and validation—while avoiding security loopholes. We will explore this through real-world examples from professional app developers to understand why "Vibe Coding" today is much more than just asking an AI to "build me an app."
Giuseppe Funicello
Freelance Developer
Mainstage
Nicola Gratteri
Public Prosecutor
Court of Naples
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
Closing Session 1!
Day 3
Robotics & Physical AI
Mehrdad Farimani
Co-Founder & CTO
Merphi Consultants
Cybersecurity
Agent Breaker: non mi rompere gli agenti
Gli agenti AI sono in grado di svolgere compiti complessi, ma quanto sono davvero robusti? In un mondo in cui questi strumenti diventano sempre più pervasivi, è fondamentale comprendere le potenziali vulnerabilità e come difendersi da esse. In questo talk esploreremo il prompt injection, una delle tecniche più diffuse per manipolare applicazioni basate su GenAI per scopi malevoli, come ad esempio: - Farsi fornire le informazioni di configurazione (es: il system prompt) - Ottenere informazioni "protette" o segrete - Aggirare i filtri di allineamento - Attaccare sistemi collegati Dopo una breve introduzione su attacchi e rimedi e vedremo qualche esempio concreto, sia da casi realmente avvenuti, sia provando live alcuni attacchi sulla piattaforma di Lakera, pensata per fare da playground a chi vuole approcciare questa disciplina.
Piero Dotti
Tech Lead
Mònade
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
Robotics & Physical AI
Ventuno Q (Title Soon Online)
Marcello Majonchi
Chief Product Officer
Arduino
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
Robotics & Physical AI
Bryan Madden
Global Head of Developer, Sovereign AI & Physical AI Marketing
AMD
Cybersecurity
AI, Deepfakes, and Cybercrime: When Reality Becomes a Vulnerable Infrastructure
The goal is to provide a strategic analysis of the new landscape where generative AI and deepfakes transform reality into a vulnerable infrastructure. Participants will understand how conflict is shifting from a technical dimension to a cognitive one, and why cybersecurity is now an architecture for economic, political, and democratic stability. Governing trust becomes the new frontier of security.
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