"Smart Puglia: investments, innovation and development. All the opportunities of a dynamic region".

"Smart Puglia: investments, innovation and development. All the opportunities of a dynamic region".

Assolombarda, Milan, 12 June, 3 - 6 pm. Participation online or in person.

Date: 09/06/2023

Innovation, research, incentives and innovative finance: the Puglia ecosystem offers a series of tools and interventions to companies that decide to invest in the region. Renewable energies, aeronautical and aerospace sector, technological start-ups, biotech. And then again collaboration between the university world and the business world, strategies for the ERDF and FSE 2021-27 funds. All attractive drivers for those who choose entrepreneurial and scientific dynamism and quality of life "made in Puglia". An overall picture of the opportunities of the Apulian system will be offered by the "Smart Puglia" event, organized by the Puglia Region in collaboration with Il Sole 24 Ore, which will take place on Monday 12 June from 3 to 6 pm at the Giorgio Squinzi Auditorium of Assolombarda. "We organized this event to enhance, in a region like Lombardy, so full of opportunities, the attractiveness of Puglia and the countless advantages for those who choose our territory as a destination for their investments", said the Councilor for Development economist of the Puglia Region Alessandro Delli Noci. “The representatives of large groups such as Bip Consulting, De Nora, Edison, Exprivia, Fincons will accompany us in this meeting. Leonardo, Rina, Siemens and Tim. An event not to be missed for those who want to seize the challenges and opportunities of the immediate future by investing in a territory, Puglia, which offers a dynamic innovation ecosystem and all the opportunities of the facilitating instruments of the next programming. A region where it is also wonderful to live as well as work”. The works will be opened by the speeches of the director of Sole 24 Ore Fabio Tamburini, of the Vice President of Organisation, Development and Marketing of Assolombarda Alvise Biffi, of the Director of the Economic Development Department of the Puglia Region Gianna Elisa Berlingerio, and of the Councilor for Economic Development of the Region Puglia Alessandro Delli Noci, which will be followed by a round table entitled "Smart Puglia: the axis with Lombardy on the road to digital transition": Francesco Moretti, Group Deputy Ceo & Ceo of International Fincons Group, Claudio Pellegrini, Sales Local Government & Health Director of Tim, Gianni Sebastiano, Director of Strategy & Compliance, Investor Relator of Exprivia, and Marco Taisch, President of Made – Competence Center Industry 4.0. The following focus will be dedicated to the Digital Transformation in the Apulian manufacturing sector, a topic on which Giuseppe Biffi, Business Development Manager Digital Enterprise Digital Industries Siemens will intervene in dialogue with the Sole 24 Ore journalist Alberto Grassani. The work of "Smart Puglia" will continue with two in-depth moments: the first dedicated to the theme of the growth of Apulian SMEs on the financial markets, on which Antonio De Vito, General Manager of Puglia Sviluppo, Alessandro Sannino, CEO of Gelesis, and Marta Testi, CEO of Elite Group Euronext, the second focused on the role of research, training and tutoring for the skills of the future, a topic that will be explored with the Rector of the Lum University Antonello Garzoni , Francesco Giordano, Delegate of the Rector of the Aldo Moro University of Bari, and with Carlo Salvato, Dean of the Graduate School & Deputy Rector of the Bocconi University. The works of "Smart Puglia" will close with two focuses on two supply chains in which companies from Puglia and Lombardy collaborate: the first, dedicated to renewable energy, will see the intervention of Lorenzo Antozzi, Energy Transition & Hydrogen Director Industrie De Nora, Davide Dotti, Business Innovation Director of Edison, Luca Martignoni, Energy&Industrial Senior Partner of Bip Consulting, and Natalia Pierozzi, Carbon Reduction Excellence Technical Manager of Rina; the second, dedicated to the aerospace sector, will be attended by Stefano Corvaglia, R&D Manager & IP Manager of the Leonardo Aerostructures Division, Francesco Cupertino, Rector of the Bari Polytechnic, and Giuseppe Quaranta, Deputy Director of the Aerospace Science and Technology Department of the Milan Polytechnic. Participation, both online and in presence, is free upon registration on: 24oreventi.ilsole24ore.com/smart-puglia-2023/. At this address it is also possible to consult the detailed program of the meeting.