First Speakers of WMF 2025

Meet the change makers

JUNE 4 · 5 · 6 - 2025 / BOLOGNAFIERE

The WMF - We Make Future returns to BolognaFiere from June 4 to 6, 2025, welcoming speakers and personalities from around the world to discuss Artificial Intelligence, technological, digital, and social innovation through inspirational talks, training sessions, case studies, and testimonials.

Experts and companies from the AI & Digital-Tech sector, researchers, creators, institutional representatives, activists, journalists, Open Innovation stakeholders, VCs, and many more—true change-makers—will take the stage at WMF 2025 to share future development paths through the conscious, sustainable, and inclusive use of technological and digital innovation tools.

Discover the first announced speakers among the 1,000+ you’ll meet at WMF 2025, and don’t miss this edition! Get your Full Ticket now!

Featured Guests

Alan Friedmanis an American journalist, author, and television producer. he has worked for important publications such as theFinancial Timesand the New York Times and has been awarded multiple times for his journalistic work. he has also worked for BBC Newsnight, Rai, and Sky TG24 and is the author of several best-selling books on economics and politics, including Ammazziamo il Gattopardo, My Way. Berlusconi si racconta a Friedman, This Is Not America, and Questa non è l'Italia. He has collaborated with various Italian journalistic publications, including Panorama, Il Corriere della Sera and La Stampa.

Valeria Sandei, CEO of Almawave, is a Councillor of OBDA Systems and Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Fondazione Musica per Roma and of ELIS Fellow. A member of the Advisory Board of B7 and the Astrid Observatory on Artificial Intelligence and co-author of 3 US Patents, she is part of the Scientific Committee of the MBA AI & Business Strategy of the RCS Academy Business School. At WMF, she will present Velvet, an all-Italian LLM that has been trained entirely on Leonardo, the supercomputer of the Bologna technopole.

Simonetta di Pippo is an astrophysicist from 2008 to 2011 she was the director of the Human Flight programs of the European Space Agency and for eight years she led Unoosa, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. SInce 2022 Di Pippo has also been the director of the Space Economy Evolution Lab at Sda Bocconi and has been inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Astronautical Federation.

Matt Navarra is one of Europe's best known and in-demand social media consultants. With 20+ years industry experience, he has worled with some of the world's biggest brands. His previous clients include Google, ITV, United Nations U.S. Government, 10 Downing Street. In 2018, he founded "Geekout", his ever-expanding community and suite of resources for social media professionals. Navarra also writes a weekly Geekout Newsletter for social media industry expert commentator.