One day live from a new future appointment on may 30 at the apollo theater in Lecce

wired digital day 2023

wired italia returns to puglia for the fifth edition

of wired digital day

One day live from a new future

appointment on may 30 at the apollo theater in Lecce

the event is free upon registration athis link

Milan,22May 2023 - Fifth edition of Wired Digital Day in Puglia: an event organized by Wired Italia in collaboration with the Puglia Region and Puglia Sviluppo with the aim of raising public awareness on issues of the immediate future and celebrating innovation, technology and excellence as key elements for the economic, cultural and social growth and development of our country.

The Wired Digital Day, 2023 edition, will be held on May 30 at the Apollo Theater in Lecce, from 10 to 13 and from 15 to 17:30. Admission is free.

A whole day together with entrepreneurs, professionals, economists, academics, researchers and artists to discover the future to understand how sustainability, energy transition, digital transition, manufacturing 4.0, healthcare, transport and aerospace are changing the rules of the world. Who leads the change will tell how to build a society that respects the environment, is creative and capable of looking beyond traditional boundaries.

The new materials that science makes available to industry, the hydrogen that will power factories over the next decade and the micro-satellites that will assist us from low Earth orbit are an opportunity for the economic development of territories. Technological innovations that find their home in Puglia thanks to companies, scientific and biomedical centers that work to found the Italy of 2050.

The goal is precisely to tell how the Puglia region and all of Southern Italy have todaya lot to say about the big issues that are shaping the future.

"The Puglia Region strongly believes in the power of innovation to generate progress, well-being, new prospects for the territory, for young people and for the entire community"explains the president of the Puglia Region Michele Emiliano. ”The Wired Digital Day is therefore an event that is always eagerly awaited, which from year to year is touching the various Apulian provinces. This year's edition, which will be held in Lecce, will explore themes that are central to us. Because all of our work is aimed at building, through innovation, a society that is increasingly respectful of the environment and people. And Puglia, from the south, has a lot to tell about how far we've come and the new challenges we have before us".

“The fifth edition of Wired Digital Day will allow us to explore a theme very dear to us at Wired: the relationship between innovation and territory. In order for a city, a province or a region to be innovative, i.e. to be able to look to the future in the interest of citizens and the territory, a systemic outlook is needed that brings together politics, businesses, universities, the research system, school and world of work. A necessary challenge and all the more urgent with the advent of technologies that are transforming every sector of society. Precisely this challenge will be the common thread that will link all the interventions of this year's event ".says Federico Ferrazza, director of Wired Italia.

“Believing in innovation and committing to enhance it. This is the meaning of an event of national scope that has its heart in Puglia".Underlines the regional councilor for economic development Alessandro Delli Noci. “We are in full technological and digital transformation and Puglia wants to be at the center of this process. Our companies, encouraged by regional subsidy measures, have used 42% of their investments for research and innovation. For this reason, themes of Wired Digital Day 2023 such as artificial intelligence, mobility of the future, biotechnologies, research in the field of hydrogen, new space economy, new materials, cybersecurity and innovative entrepreneurship are also key themes of our policies".

During the day, after the initial greetings of the Mayor of Lecce Carlo Maria Salvemini, there will be the opportunity to attend speeches by the protagonists of the world of innovation.

The complete program is available at:https://eventi.wired.it/digitalday2023/home

Admission is free, but registration is required at the following link: https://eventi.wired.it/digitalday2023/begin

The entire event will be streamed live on Wired Italia's Facebook pagehttps://www.facebook.com/wireditalia/and on the sitehttps://www.wired.it

Official event hashtag:#WiredDigitalDay

THE GUESTS OF WIRED DIGITAL DAY 2023

Among the guests who will take the stage, Roberto Viola, Director General for digital policies of the European Commission (DG Connect) and author, together with Luca De Biase, of the volume “The innovation code. The European charter of digital rights and the sense of innovation” (Sole 24 Ore, 2023); the economist expert in impact investing and president of the Global Thinking Foundation Claudia Segre; Luciano Floridi, professor of Philosophy and Information Ethics at the University of Oxford, who will give a lecture on the new digital humanism in the age of artificial intelligence; the President of the Puglia Region Michele Emiliano, Luca Isetta, Chief Operating Officer of NTT Data, a leading Japanese multinational in the IT sector, which has invested, in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Bari, in the technological skills of the South with the opening of a research office in Bari; Alfonso Fuggetta, managing director and scientific director of Cefriel, author of “Un bel lavoro. Giving meaning and value back to what we do” (Egea, 2023) which investigates the evolution of the world of work and skills in the light of the technological and digital transformations underway; Diletta Huyskes, CEO & co-founder of Immanence and Head of Advocacy of Privacy Network, expert on artificial intelligence and its impacts on society; Severina Grozeva, Global Communications & PR Director of Dronamics, the first drone cargo airline to obtain an operating license in Europe; again to talk about the future of mobility, this time in the field of industrial logistics, Ilario De Vincenzo, R& D Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Apulian company Code Architects Automation, which has created an innovative wheel for robot-vehicles at the service of companies; Euclide Della Vista, president of the ITS Apulia Digital Make Foundation and Antonio Ficarella, director of the Innovation Engineering Department of the University of Salento, on the other hand, to talk about training and evolution of skills; Diego Tornese, Chief Operating Officer of Teoresi Group, an international engineering group that has closed an agreement with UniSalento for training on the mobility of the future for 200 students of the Innovation Engineering Department; Alessandro Delli Noci, Councilor for economic development of the Puglia Region, to talk about innovation policies and governance; Louis Cream, Director of the Sustainable Energy Center of the Bruno Kessler Foundation and President of Hydrogen Europe Research (HER), the most important European research organization in the field of hydrogen, made up of over 130 universities and international research centers and a 1.2 billion program of Euro; Massimo De Vittorio, Director of the Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center of the Italian Institute of Technology in Lecce, professor at the University of Salento and one of the founders of the Salento Biomedical Center, a platform for the development of biotechnological culture, pooling academic and industrialists with the aim of creating value in the healthcare sector; Alessandro Sannino, full professor of Materials Science and research delegate at the University of Salento, as well as founder of various spin-off companies, including Gelesis, based in Boston and Calimera (Le), with a total fund raising of approximately 300 million dollars and a first product approved by the US Food and Drugs Administration; Vittorio Pellegrini, President of the Executive Committee of the Flagship Graphene, the largest European project on new materials, with a funding of one billion euros over ten years and co-founder of the start-up Be-dimensional; Angelo Corallo, professor of the Department of Innovation Engineering at the University of Salento; Caterina Ciminelli, professor at the Bari Polytechnic who carries out research in the field of photonics and signal processing in space, bioengineering and telecommunications applications; mario cosmos, Science and Research Director of ASI - Italian Space Agency; Francesco Topputo, aerospace engineer from Brindisi and full professor of Space Systems for the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at the Milan Polytechnic; Danilo Caivano, professor of computer science at the University of Bari and cybersecurity expert; Rosita Galiandro, manager of the Exprivia Cybersecurity observatory; Cristina Angelillo, CEO of Marshmallow games and president of InnovUp, the association that represents and promotes the ecosystem of innovative entrepreneurship through advocacy, networking and knowledge activities; Federico Menna, CEO of EIT Digital, a leading European organization for digital innovation and entrepreneurship education driving Europe's digital transformation; Valeria Stefanelli, professor in Economics of Financial Intermediaries in the Department of Economic Sciences of the University of Salento; Gianluca Dettori, Chairman and General Partner of Primo Ventures, one of the main managers of early-stage venture capital funds for investments in digital technologies and in the new space economy; Antonio DeVito,General Managerral of Puglia Sviluppo SpA, an in-house company of the Puglia Region which has been entrusted with the mission of promoting the economic development of the regional context; Luisa Torsi, professor of chemistry at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Vice-President of the Scientific Council of the National Research Council and winner of the 2021 Wilhelm Exner Medal for her pioneering research in the field of organic bioelectronics; Nicolò Andreula, Founder of Disal Consulting, will talk about how the world of work changes with artificial intelligence; Roberto La Forgia, CEO of BeForPharma, will bring his commitment to the development of innovative care systems at the service of patient health to the Apollo stage.

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