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.
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
Backend & Cloud
Star Trek or Black Mirror: The AI Crossroads for Enterprise
Companies have experimented heavily with AI, often in a fragmented way, and rightly so. Now it’s time to clean up the drafts and scale things properly. To do this, clear principles are essential to avoid building an internal Black Mirror dystopia. A talk on dev culture, organizations, and collective intelligence.
Simone Sabba
CTO & Head of AI Squads
Devpunks
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
UX & UI
Discovery, Architecture, Content: designing a web ecosystem with AI — the AISM experience
How we integrated artificial intelligence into the design process of the complex ecosystem of AISM, the Italian Multiple Sclerosis Association: from defining the discovery mix to synthesizing insights, from the information architecture to content models, all the way to generating prototype content. Through a real case study, we will walk through the workflow, the tools, and the moments where AI added value—as well as those where human judgment remains essential. For now.
Nicola Bonora
Digital & UX Strategist
Websolute Spa
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
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
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
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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
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
UX & UI
Wearable Revolution: What It Means to Design for Biometric Sensors and Smart Glasses Displays
Discover the future of wearables and what it means to create digital experiences for smart glasses. This session explores the revolutionary opportunities of always-on displays and gesture control through neural wristbands (EMG). It includes real-world prototypes and a Q&A session on the vision of the future. Perfect for designers, developers, and innovators interested in the next chapter of human interaction.
Federico Francioni
Strategy & Design Director
Meta | Microsoft and PwC Alumni
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
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
Mattia Marinangeli
Freelance Design System Designer
Backend & Cloud
Inverting the Architecture: Breaking a Fantasy Football League out of a single tournament
The World Cup is the biggest sporting event in the world, and developers everywhere build apps around it to bring fans closer to the action. We wanted to join in, so we built a fun serverless fantasy football app for the tournament, one that handles unpredictable traffic surges every time a game kicks off. Then we asked: what if this wasn’t just for one tournament, or even one sport?We inverted the architecture, extracting a single-event app into an extensible multi-sport engine. You’ll see the production application and the real code behind it: how we isolated per-sport traffic with multi-tenancy patterns, modelled flexible data structures in serverless databases, and used event-driven patterns to survive game-day traffic spikes while keeping the frontend responsive.No abstract theory. We open the repo and show you best practices for building scalable serverless frontends and backends and that hold up when it matters most.
Julian Wood
Principal Developer Advocate
Amazon AWS
Salih Güler
Senior Developer Advocate
Amazon AWS
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
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
UX & UI
Beyond the Homepage: Designing E-commerce for the "Undecided"
Most e-commerce users land on a Product Detail Page (PDP) or a Product Listing Page (PLP), rather than the homepage. Yet, the majority of sites are still designed as if the customer journey were linear. This session explores the "Discovery Gap": the disconnect between the experience a site assumes and the one the user actually encounters. Through Storeis case studies, A/B testing, and UI patterns, we will examine how to rethink PDPs, PLPs, and internal search to transform every landing point into an effective hub for discovery and conversion.
Giulia Zagagnin
Head of UX&CRO
Storeis Srl
Anna Albanese
UX & CRO Specialist
Storeis Srl
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
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
UX & UI
Service Design Drinks Bologna as a living lab: comparing theory and reality in the discipline
Through the insights gathered from the Service Design Drinks Bologna—open, informal meetups designed to connect designers and innovators—we will explore the gap between methodologies, the ideal impact of the discipline, and the complexities brought by companies. A collective journey through tools, stakeholder management, and open innovation to analyze how the Bologna business ecosystem shapes the community and redraws the method directly in the field.
Marianna Carbone
Service Designer & Design Thinking Facilitator
Service Design Drinks Bologna
Andrea Camurani
Service Designer & UX Researcher
Service Design Drinks Bologna
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
UX & UI
Accessibility and UX in Practice: From Training to Assessment of a Digital Ecosystem
How do you build internal accessibility skills and apply them to a real-world project? In this session, we present a concrete case study developed alongside a client in the digital financial services sector (payments, prepaid cards, and top-ups), featuring their direct perspective on stage. We will start with the training experience provided to the client’s team, designed to foster autonomy in accessibility analysis: from official guidelines (UNI CEI EN 301549 and WCAG) to the use of tools, screen readers, and evaluation methodologies. We will then dive into the actual assessment of the website and app, which identified over 160 unmet success criteria across various touchpoints and devices. We will show how these findings were translated into concrete design requirements, leading to a remediation plan and formal accessibility documentation. The presentation will be enriched by the client’s direct contribution, sharing challenges, organizational impacts, and the value generated. The goal is to offer a practical, replicable framework on how to integrate training and design to make accessibility a structural part of UX processes.
Emmanuel Mazzucchi
Partner & Head of UX
Conflux
Sara Gandini
Head of Design
Mooney
Backend & Cloud
From Telemetry to Tests: Building Agentic QA Loops with MCP and Playwright
The way we build E2E tests is changing. We are moving from static test suites and copy-pasted AI snippets toward agentic workflows where autonomous agents can explore applications, generate tests, validate assumptions and repair failures directly inside the development environment. In this talk we will explore how Model Context Protocol (MCP), Playwright Test Agents and runtime telemetry can be combined to create a real agentic QA loop driven by production signals and user behavior. Starting from a simple application, we will build a practical workflow where telemetry and real user flows are transformed into dynamic test specifications consumed by autonomous Playwright agents. Through live examples we will analyze:- Planner Agents that convert runtime signals and human intent into structured test plans- Generator Agents that produce executable Playwright tests while validating selectors and assertions live- Healer Agents that automatically repair unstable or broken tests- how telemetry and observability data can influence testing priorities- the guardrails needed to safely govern autonomous QA workflows The focus of the session is not “AI that writes tests faster”, but how QA Engineers can evolve from test script authors into orchestrators of quality systems powered by agentic loops and runtime feedback.
Ludovico Besana
Senior Test Engineer
Nearform
Mainstage
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Francesca Albanese
UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur
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
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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
Closing Day 1!
Day 1
Start the Future
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
Machine Learning
The Agent Needs a Product. What changes when agents start using your software
Agents are becoming a new kind of user. They read docs, call tools, run commands, inspect state, and act on someone’s behalf. That changes how software should be built. Using examples from Codex and OpenAI’s plugin ecosystem, Corey Ching will show how to make products useful to agents: when to reach for a skill, MCP server, app, CLI, or a focused combination. The best agent experiences provide the right capabilities that give the agent the missing piece it needs to finish the job.
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
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
Coding Frontend
If It Runs on Grandpa's Phone, It Runs Anywhere: Performance and Optimization for Real-Time 3D Web Scenes
Andrea Baino
Founder & CTO
Tredo
Machine Learning
Real-world challenges of building AI agents: what tutorials don't tell you
Building AI agents in regulated industries is not about the model, but the system around it. In this talk we share how we built a scalable RAG pipeline over hundreds of thousands of documents across many data sources, with strong security guardrails, observability and evaluation. We cover architecture decisions, UI/UX tradeoffs for compliance, dynamic interfaces, and how we use user feedback to continuously improve the system.
Alfonso Graziano
AI Lead
Nearform
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
Coding Frontend
Modern Fonts: The Hidden Potential of Web Typography Abstract
I bet you’re underusing your fonts, and you may not even realise it. We use web fonts every day, but often treat them as simple assets to load. In reality, modern CSS provides powerful and well-supported tools to control metrics, fallbacks, text rendering and readability. At the same time, it’s important to understand what fonts actually contain (or don’t): from language support and OpenType features to the axes of variable fonts and the palettes of colour fonts. A look at recent techniques at the intersection of CSS and typography to improve layout stability, reading experience and performance, and to build stronger, more effective interfaces.
Giulia Laco
Web typography consultant, designer, developer
giulialaco.com
Machine Learning
TheFork’s Journey into Generative AI Adoption
Generative AI has redefined the user experience at TheFork, revolutionizing how we help people discover their next favorite restaurant. In this talk, we’ll take you behind the scenes of our journey, sharing a filter-free look at how we navigated the complexities of governance, technical challenges, and organizational hurdles. Whether you are a Product Leader or an engineer, you will leave this session with a concrete strategy to integrate GenAI and build products that are not just functional, but truly intelligent.
Francesco Lerro
SW Architect
TheFork
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
Coding Frontend
Accessibility from design to code: 3Bmeteo’s journey for website and app
A case study on the journey undertaken with 3Bmeteo to integrate accessibility into the redesign process of both website and app. From design reviews and alignment to defining guidelines on structure, semantics, and interactions, through to implementation validation, I will present an iterative and collaborative workflow designed to identify barriers before release and turn accessibility into a shared practice between design and development.
Diana Bernabei
Accessibility Engineer, UI/UX designer & Web Developer
Inclusio
Machine Learning
From Apps to Agents: The Next Wave of Digital Transformation
From monoliths to microservices, and from data centers to the cloud, every wave of digital transformation has reshaped how we build and run technology. Today we stand at the next wave: the shift from apps to agents. Explore how agentic architecture changes system design and see that journey in action through a live demo showcasing how modern agents interact with APIs, tools, and existing systems.
Matheus Guimaraes
Senior Developer Advocate
Amazon AWS
Arnaud Jean
Developer Advocate
AWS
Coding Frontend
AI-ccessible: how to use artificial intelligence without breaking the web
AI can generate code in seconds. It writes copy, creates layouts, and suggests components. It’s fast, persuasive, and often… completely inaccessible.Invented ARIA roles. Non-existent color contrast. Incorrect semantic structures. Generic or missing alt text. Forms without labels. AI doesn’t know what it doesn’t know, and it produces outputs that look correct but exclude millions of users.The problem isn’t AI itself. It’s that it’s being used by people who don’t yet have the tools to evaluate its output from an accessibility perspective. And when the reviewer doesn’t know what to look for, errors slip unnoticed into production.In this talk, we’ll cover:The most common accessibility issues generated by AI (with real examples).How to ask the right questions to get more accessible outputs.How to use AI as an ally in testing and reviews.What every digital professional needs to know to avoid blindly trusting generated code.Because the future of the web isn’t about choosing between speed and inclusivity. It’s about learning to demand both.
Manuel Ricci
Full stack Developer & Trainer
WebTea
Mainstage
Live Show!
Valerio Lundini & I Vazzanikki
Coding Frontend
Reactive Apps without Frameworks
Meet a framework-free, zero-deps app stack powered by the near-future web: a tiny signal-based store, DOM-first rendering, and tagged template literals for expressive, safe views. Sketching an observable state core aligned with the TC39 Signals proposal, with a look to the future to bind it to the DOM using emerging “DOM Parts” ideas for precise updates, finally layering a minimalist template-literal engine that makes JSX feel optional. The result is a reactive, component-capable architecture you can understand in one file, portable from today’s browsers to tomorrow’s platform APIs. Come for the WOW, leave with a starter kit for building real apps in vanillaJS. (Proposals: TC39 Signals, DOM Parts, both in active exploration and limited availability.)
Emiliano Pisu
Senior Frontend Engineer | Speaker | Mentor
Freelance
Machine Learning
AI Safety and emergent misalignment: The new frontier for companies adopting AI
An aligned AI model is trained on a specific task. The result: it begins to behave in risky and unpredictable ways. This is emergentmisalignment, a phenomenon we have replicated on real models.Traditional validation strategies are not enough: awareness, continuous evaluation, and red teaming are neededThe goal is to build an understanding of AI Safety: we will present first-hand experimental data and concrete tools for adopting AI without leaving hidden vulnerabilities.
Gaia Gambarelli
AI educational expert & instructional designer
Fondazione IFAB
Ivan Gentile
Senior Data Scientist
Fondazione IFAB
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
Machine Learning
Algorithms in Motion: Computer Vision, Pose Estimation, and Interactive AI for Aerial Dance
This project presents the methodological architecture and software development of a Computer Vision system optimized for recognizing and classifying highly geometrically complex human poses, using aerial dance as a testing ground and stress-test for predictive models. The objective is to demonstrate how time series of body coordinates can be translated into metric data, enabling the automation of interaction design systems (reactive visuals) and multimodal digital accessibility solutions (audio descriptions).
Erica Occhionero
AI & Data Scientist, Artist
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
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
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
Beskar Cyber Sec
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
Nomad Developer
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
Robotics & Physical AI
The State of Humanoids in 2026, Hype or Paradigm Shift - Capabilities & Constraints
Humanoid robots are moving rapidly from research labs into real-world applications, sparking both excitement and skepticism. This keynote examines where the technology truly stands in 2026, separating marketing narratives from measurable progress. It explores current capabilities, technical and economic constraints, and what must change for humanoids to deliver sustained, large-scale value across industries.
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
Vibe Coding
Agentic Engineering: How the best developers stopped writing code
Vibe coding has changed everything, but most teams are using it the wrong way. What does it really mean to move from “asking AI for code” to managing agents that work for you? This talk explores workflows that genuinely boost productivity, the most common mistakes that turn speed into technical debt, and what sets apart those who use AI as a multiplier from those who simply generate code and hope it works
Ivan Ambla
Vibe President & Senior Frontend Engineer
Humans.tech
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
Where AI Meets the Real World: Arduino Ventuno Q
Arduino is on a mission to democratize physical AI to help more people turn imagination into action, and ideas into things that move, sense, and make a difference. With Arduino Ventuno Q, AI gets into the physical world, making intelligent robotics accessible to a whole new scale of developers: by combining powerful AI software, precise real-time control, and built-in ROS 2 support in an easy-to-use platform, Ventuno Q lowers the barriers to building robots that can see, decide, and act. From camera-guided manipulation to autonomous systems, it empowers creators, students, researchers, startups, and industrial innovators to move beyond AI experimentation and become builders of real-world intelligent machines.
Marcello Majonchi
Chief Product Officer
Arduino
Vibe Coding
From Writers to Reviewers: Rethinking Junior Developer Roles in the Age of AI Coding
Vibe coding is here. AI-generated code is everywhere. And many organizations are responding by cutting Junior developer roles — a short-sighted strategy that will backfire. This session challenges that assumption and presents an alternative framework: rather than eliminating Junior roles, evolve them into a critical new function — the expert AI code reviewer. The talk explores why AI-generated code (from Copilot, Claude, Gemini, and others) is still frequently low-quality, incorrect, or incomplete on the first try; why blindly trusting it is a strategic mistake; and how Junior developers, trained properly, can become the human layer that ensures code quality and reduces the senior-level firefighting caused by unreviewed AI output. A real consulting case study underpins the framework. Learning Outcomes: Attendees will understand a concrete workforce strategy for the AI coding era: how to evolve (not cut) Junior talent, what the "AI code reviewer" skill set looks like and how to train it, why this model is more cost-effective than full Senior reliance, and how it future-proofs the organization regardless of how AI coding tools evolve. This is immediately actionable for engineering leads, CTOs, and people managers navigating the AI transition.
Matteo Comin
Senior TPM - Operations and Process Consultant
MomillaLab
Cybersecurity
Vibe coding & Code Security
From vibe coding to AI security, two new frontiers that both companies and individuals should begin exploring. This talk will cover the two main approaches to vibe coding — natural language to code and natural language to product — highlighting not only the opportunities they offer, but also the challenges they introduce, especially in the field of security. While vibe coding can significantly accelerate development processes, it must be used with awareness and proper understanding. We will therefore also explore code scanning practices and security-oriented approaches to vibe coding.
Rodolfo Rollo
Solutions Architect, Cloud
Palo Alto Networks
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
Robotics & Physical AI
When AI gets a body: social robotics and new forms of reality
If AI is a simulation of human intelligence and robotics a simulation of the body, what happens when the two come together and enter our reality? From social robotics to guide robots for the visually impaired, Physical AI is transforming the relationship between people and machines. A journey through physical presence, human interaction, and new forms of intelligence in the real world.
Luca Andrea Marazzini
Founder & CEO
OMAI.cloud
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.
Francesco Morelli
Certified Information Security Manager
Vibe Coding
How Spec-Driven Development Is Changing the Way We Program
Generating code via chat is fine for prototypes, but in real projects it leads to hallucinations and technical debt. Debugging AI now often takes more time than writing code itself. The industry is moving toward Spec-Driven Development (SDD). In this talk, we will explore how to replace vague prompts with structured specifications written in Markdown. You will learn how to define clear contracts to govern AI agents, reduce context rot, and produce verifiable code on the first attempt—stopping the need to rewrite everything from scratch.
Matteo Baccan
Head of Development
Rivoluzione Digitale Srl
Robotics & Physical AI
Marco Pavone
Director of Autonomous Vehicle Research
NVIDIA
Cybersecurity
When Machines Manipulate: The Weaponization of AI
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the global security landscape faster than institutions can adapt. In this talk, cybersecurity expert David Silva explores how AI is increasingly weaponized to manipulate information, automate cyberattacks, and influence societies. Through real-world examples, attendees will understand the risks of AI-driven manipulation and learn practical strategies that organizations, governments, and citizens can adopt to detect, mitigate, and defend against these emerging threats.
David de Paula Santos Silva
Founder & CEO
CyberX - The Ethical Hacking Services
Vibe Coding
When Your Team is AI: Designing Multi-Agent Workflows
In modern software teams, the critical parts of the development lifecycle — code reviews, requirement clarification, and test design — are still manual, inconsistent, and hard to scale. What if these responsibilities could be delegated to a team of AI agents? In this talk, it is presented a real-world system built using n8n and OpenClaw that augments the software development lifecycle through collaborative AI agents. We start from a practical use case: an AI-powered code review agent triggered on Bitbucket pull requests. This agent analyzes code changes, validates them against internal guidelines, and checks alignment with Jira tickets and acceptance criteria. From there, we evolve the system into a multi-agent architecture: - a Product Manager agent that refines and structures requirements, - a Developer agent that performs context-aware code reviews, - a QA agent that generates test cases and identifies edge scenarios. Rather than relying on a single general-purpose LLM, this approach models how real teams work: through specialized roles, structured artifacts, and coordinated workflows. The talk will cover: - how to design agent responsibilities and boundaries, - how to orchestrate agents using workflow automation, - lessons learned from building and running such a system, - and common pitfalls when moving from single-agent to multi-agent architectures. Attendees will leave with practical design patterns to build their own AI-driven development workflows — and a new perspective on what “AI teammates” can actually mean in production systems.
Simone Mutti
AI Engineer e Mobile Technical Lead
COMELIT
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
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
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Expert professionals in Frontend Coding, Backend & Cloud, UI/UX, Machine Learning, and Cybersecurity share their expertise featuring content designed for practical application in real-world development environments.
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Our recruiting service is active now on the event's web app, allowing you to post job openings and receive applications. A free service designed to bridge the gap between supply and demand in the tech job market. *Included with all event tickets.
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During the three days of WMF, various side events are organized to facilitate networking among companies, investors, stakeholders, professionals, and ecosystem partners.
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