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Wired Next Fest 2020, the final appointment – Italian Cuisine

Wired Next Fest 2020, the final appointment


From Digital to a New World is the theme of the final days of Wired Next Fest live from the IBM studios in Piazza Gae Aulenti in Milan on 9 and 10 October

The Wired Next Fest, the largest free participation event in Italy dedicated to innovation, organized in collaboration with Audi, closes its 4-month journey with an appointment scheduled for 9 and 10 October live from IBM Studios of Piazza Gae Aulenti, in the Porta Nuova area of ​​Milan.

We spent months talking to each other only through a screen. Digital technologies have allowed us to shop, order a pizza, see a movie without going to the cinema. And they allowed our children to continue studying. The lockdown measures imposed to contain the new coronavirus pandemic have changed our habits, helping us to build a new normal, made of daily gestures amplified by technology.

For the final days of Wired Next Fest, Wired has chosen to tell the life after the pandemic, the restart after months of lockdown spent closed at home (re) building a normality thanks to the screen of a smartphone. That is the passage From Digital to a New World.

"In these months of 2020 we have often heard repeated how the Coronavirus affair has accelerated various digitization processes. That's what happened at the Wired Next Fest. After the 2019 edition, we decided to transform this event into a television format as well, behaving like a broadcaster. This is what we have done, using the Net and social networks. The goal was to make this project unique, with a mix of digital and live experience. An experience that returns in the last leg of the Wired Next Fest 2020, on 9 and 10 October ", he explains Federico Ferrazza, director of Wired Italia.

On stage, interviewed by the journalists of the editorial staff of Wired, writers, intellectuals, artists and university professors will take turns, called to try to imagine what people's daily lives will be like after the pandemic. Among these: the famous sociologist of technology Zeynep Tüfekçi, engaged in studying the impact of big data and artificial intelligence on society, Jim Al-Khalili, physicist and popularizer, face of science on the BBC, Cory Doctorow, journalist and writer, philosopher of network and co-editor of the famous blog Boing Boing, the 15-year-old activist Marlene Dias, who at ten with the hashtag # 1000blackgirlbooks in support of female empowerment was received at the White House, the novelist William Boyd, considered one of the greatest writers living English, the Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo, whose novel "Three floors" inspired the screenplay of the next film by Nanni Moretti, the bestselling author Joël Dicker, the president of Alitalia TAI Francesco Caio, the singer of Primal Scream Bobby Gillespie , Sara Pastor, System Engineer at ESA who is designing the modules to live on the Moon, Danilo Coppe, the explosivist who coordinated the demolition of the Morandi bridge, the journalist expert on American things Simona Siri, Dan Gerstein, political analyst and founder of one of the most important ghostwriting agencies in America, Geppi Cucciari, TV presenter and AIRC ambassador, actor Alessio Boni, who will talk about "Revenge room", documentary on revenge porn presented in Venice, the handyman Piero Scaruffi, Luca Parmitano, ESA astronaut, the Italian who has spent more time on board the International Space Station, the data scientist Francesca Dominici, than at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health uses big data to research health policies and climate change, the Norwegian explorer and writer Erling Kagge, the first man to reach the South Pole alone, the economist and former INPS president Tito Boeri with the journalist Sergio Rizzo, authors of the book “Take back the state. How Italy can start again, Guido Silvestri, pathologist, immunologist, virologist, science writer, Raffaele Alberto Ventura, journalist and writer, the English illusionist with millions of clicks Luca Gallone, Leo Gassmann, songwriter and winner of the Sanremo Youth Festival 2020 , the actress and singer Margherita Vicario, Sofia Viscardi, founder and artistic director of Venti, Helio Di Nardo, CEO of Show Reel Factory, the rapper Frah Quintale, who in June released the first part of the double album "Banzai", Ceri, one of the most important producers of contemporary Italian music, the singer, musician and producer Cosmo, Franco "Bifo" Berardi, essayist, philosopher and cultural agitator, who will present the "Lullabies of the Apocalypse" written with the musician Marco Bertoni, the science fiction writer Dario Tonani, author of the Mondo9 saga, the singer Cristina D'Avena, an icon for three generations of children, the youtubers of Casa Surace with their irony on habits and customs of the South, the stand-up comedian Valerio Lundini, Anna, a rising star of the Italian rap scene, the songwriters Colapesce and Dimartino, who this year climbed the charts with their album "I mortali", the singer-songwriter The Sleeping Tree, the influencer with over a million followers on Instagram Camihawke, Giorgio "POW3R" Calandrelli, the most popular professional gamer in Italy who is about to publish an autobiographical book, the hard actor Rocco Siffredi together with his son director Lorenzo Tano, the cartoonist symbol of a Zerocalcare generation, Marco Villa, former director of SpaceX operations, now engaged in a search for potentially dangerous asteroids for the Earth, Chiara Montanari, the first Italian to have led an expedition to Antarctica, the bass player by Jovanotti Saturnino and the biotech scientist Ennio Tasciotti who will present Medicine Rocks, a fundraising project to support research on immunotherapy and named in memory of the record producer Tommaso Cavanna, the new promises of Italian music between pop and electronic Hån, aka Giulia Fontana, and LIM, aka Sofia Gallotti, and then, Kety Fusco, internationally recognized electronic harpist, Generic Animal , a musical project suspended between trap, rock and hip hop by Luca Galizia, a rising figure of the Italian indie who boasts important collaborations from Ketama126, Rkomi, Mecna, pretty Solero up to Massimo Pericolo and Franco 126, the singer-songwriter and musician Andrea Laszlo De Simone, whose latest album "Immensity" was critically acclaimed, Riccardo Pasqua, managing director of Pasqua vineyards and cellars, Nexi Dirk Pinamonti's Head of e-commerce and Mastercard's Vice President Business Development Luca Corti, who will talk about prospects for digital payments, the designer and creative Ludovica Basso, aka Clorophilla, Izzy Du, a 21-year-old designer who works on intelligent garments made with a inaction of enabled fibers and lotus effect technology, so as to keep clean autonomously Carolina Giorgiani, who deals with upcycling of cigarette butts to create a sustainable and biodegradable material called Butt-e, Marcel McClinton, who has developed an app for the Generation Z with the aim of increasing voter literacy and involvement by aggregating content and resources on a single platform, Filippo Spiezia, Founder & Curator Digital Design Days & Awards, Tudor Laurini aka Klaus, content creator and music producer who has made social media its ecosystem by creating a privileged channel of communication with his generation, the "ultrapop" illustrator Gio Pastori, famous for his use of the collage technique, who will hold a workshop entitled "How to make an illustration ? ".

The appointment will be broadcast and disseminated on Wired.it, on Next.Wired.it, the Wired portal dedicated to its events, and on Wired Italia's social channels.

As in past editions, Audi will be present at the Wired Next Fest, with which it shares the drive for continuous innovation and the commitment to improve the future, through the development of avant-garde technologies that have always characterized its DNA. On this occasion, Audi will take stock of We generation, the project dedicated to young people, developed together with H-FARM, to support the culture of innovation and change.

The Wired Next Fest, with the patronage of the Municipality of Milan, is also made possible thanks to the support of some partners:

Mobile Partner: Huawei;
Main Partner: E-Distribuzione, Mastercard, Nexi, UniCredit;
Event supporter: Easter vineyards and cellars;
Production: Plan B;

AIRC Foundation is content partner of the Wired Next Fest.

At the end of the 6 digital events, the results of the wired next fest testify to the great participation of the new digital event, totaling 155,000 views of live streaming, over 250,000 video views via social platforms, 6 MIO impressions and finally a social reach value equal to 5 MIO .

Wired Next Fest, the third appointment on July 9th – Italian Cuisine


The Wired Next Fest, the largest free-of-charge event in Italy dedicated to innovation, created in collaboration with Audi, has changed its skin becoming an online and on-site festival lasting 4 months, from June 4 to October 11.

On June 18, the second digital appointment was held with a day dedicated to sustainability which recorded over 96k video views between the site and social networks, reaching 910k impressions and 820k social reach.

The day of the Wired Next Fest scheduled for July 9th, the third of the six online events that characterize the edition of this year, pending the two on-site days on the bill on 10 and 11 October in Milan.

Open innovation is one of the ways in which innovation is declined. An expression that arises within the start-up ecosystem and indicates a model for generating innovation for which companies, but not only, can and must use both external and internal sources to encourage the generation process of new ideas.

On the stage of the Wired Next Fest, open innovation will become one of the keys to telling what the world will be like after the Covid-19 pandemic. Behind this choice the conviction that only multidisciplinarity, a collaborative approach that knows how to combine varied and even distant experiences, is the key that can generate authentic innovation.

From 13:30 to 19:00, innovators, experts and opinion leaders of national and international importance will alternate on the Wired channels, figures who have made multidisciplinarity the beacon of their activity, on a day dedicated to the story of how only through a collaborative and open approach it is possible to generate authentic innovation.

A day to analyze, compare and share experiences, tools and solutions from which to start again and which focus attention on responsible innovation and the issue of digital transformation as an opportunity to respond to the social, economic and cultural changes taking place .

Among the guests: the Nobel Prize Muhammad Yunus, economist and banker, who became famous worldwide for his revolutionary micro-credit system; the father of open innovation Henry Chesbrough, economist, professor and executive director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley; Elsa Fornero, professor of Economics at the University of Turin, scientific coordinator of the CeRP-Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies of the Collegio Carlo Alberto and Minister of Labor and Social Policies with responsibility for Equal Opportunities in the Monti government (2011-2013); Claudia Vassena, Head of Digital Channels of UniCredit; Riccardo Zacconi, co-founder and president of King.com, the company that invented Candy Crush Saga, the most popular game on smartphones in the past fifteen years; Mario Boselli, president of the Italy-China Foundation; Francesca Gaudino, Partner Information technology & Data protection of Baker McKenzie Italia; Evan Greer, US activist, transgender punk musician and campaign director of Fight For the Future; Paolo Stella, influencer, actor and writer; Marco Gay, CEO of Digital Magics and president of Anitec-Assinform; Pierpaolo Gambini, Producy & Technology Innovation manager by Leonardo; the artist and curator Francesco Vezzoli; Francesca Giulia Tavanti, Program Leader of Art of the Istituto Marangoni Firenze; Alessandro Tommasi, co-founder & CEO at Will Media; the TV reporter Barbara Serra, authoritative voice on international politics and new socio-cultural dynamics and face of the evening news for Al Jazeera English in London; Alessandro Piccioni, Nexi Head of Strategy & Innovation; Massimo Folador, ethics expert and professor of Business Ethics and sustainable development at LIUC University; Giada Messetti, sinologist, TV author and writer who recently published "In the head of the dragon. Identity and ambitions of the new China "(Mondadori, 2020); Sara "Kurolily" Stefanizzi, Twitch gamer and variety streamer, as well as host the “House of Esports” broadcast linked to the world of competitive gaming broadcast on DMAX; Giorgio “Pow3r” Calandrelli, the most famous tricolor gamer and icon of the "Fortnite generation".

The appointment will be transmitted and disseminated on Wired.it, on Next.Wired.it, the dedicated Wired portal at its events, and on the social channels of Wired Italia.

As for the previous ten editions, this year too Audi supports the event with which it shares the drive for continuous innovation and the commitment to improve the future through the application of the technological vanguard at the service of the community.

On this occasion, Audi will talk about the A-Head project that looks towards progress with the new Audi A3 Sportback.

The Wired Next Fest is also made possible thanks to the support of some partners:

Mobile Partner: Huawei;

Main Partner: E-Distribution, Mastercard, Nexi, UniCredit, Vodafone;

Educational Partner: Istituto Marangoni Firenze;

Technical Partner: Sts

Production: Plan B

AIRC Foundation is content partner of the Wired Next Fest.

The Wired Next Fest opens its digital programming with the third edition of Wired Health – Italian Cuisine

The Wired Next Fest opens its digital programming with the third edition of Wired Health


The Wired Next Fest, the largest free participation event in Italy dedicated to innovation, changes its skin, transforming itself into an on-line and on-site festival lasting 4 months, from June 4 to October 11.

The Festival opens its digital programming with the third edition of Wired Health, which will be held on June 4th and 5th. The two days, in addition to focusing on the current global health emergency linked to the pandemic of COVID-19, will aim to tell the most recent and relevant innovations and trends in digital healthcare, and the opportunities that lie at the intersection of medicine, technology and new lifestyles.

An initiative aimed at managers, public administrators, scientists and researchers, professionals, policy makers and end users who aim to be updated on how and how much digital is transforming the health sector, from its business models to new research and products, therefore to the choices of patients, managers, doctors, citizens.

Numerous national and international experts and opinion leaders will take turns during the two days:
Stella Kyriakides, European Commissioner for Food Health and Safety; Alberto Mantovani, doctor and immunologist, the most quoted Italian scientist in the world, emeritus professor at Humanitas University and scientific director of the IRCCS Humanitas Clinical Institute, who recently published "The inner fire: The immune system and the origin of diseases" (Mondadori, 2020); Ralf Kuhlen, Chief Medical Officer of Helios Health, one of the major hospital and outpatient treatment centers in Europe with 110 hospitals distributed throughout Germany and a strong presence also in Spain and Latin America; Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS); Stefano Bini, Chief Technology Officer of the University of California Department of Orthopedic Surgery (UCSF), member of the UCSF Health Hub Advisory Board, president of the Digital Orthopedics Conference and professor of Orthopedic Clinic at the University of California; Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Visiting Assistant Professor and Marie Curie Global Fellow of the MIT Media Lab of Boston and of the University of Zurich, where he deals with Covid-19 disinformation; Massimo Galli, infectious disease specialist, professor of Infectious Diseases at the Milan State University and director of the infectious diseases department of the Milanese Luigi Sacco Hospital; Walter Ricciardi, professor of Hygiene and Public Health at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, scientific advisor of the Ministry of Health, member of the Executive Committee of the World Health Organization, president of the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) and president of the Mission Board for Cancer of the European Union; Ilaria Capua, virologist and director of the One Health Center of Excellence of the University of Florida; Noemi Bitterman, founder and director of the Masters in Industrial Design focused on the medical design of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, which will address the issue of smart hospitals and design at the service of prevention and management of emergencies, from monitoring and intervention devices to healthcare facilities portable; Päivi Kerkola, CEO of Pfizer Italia; Nino Cartabellotta, doctor and president of the GIMBE Foundation, which since 1996 has been promoting the integration of the best scientific evidence into all political, managerial and professional decisions that affect people's health; Assaf Shapira, scientist and Lab Manager of the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine of the University of Tel Aviv, where the world's first vascularized heart was engineered and 3D printed, using the cells and biological materials of a human being; Giuseppe Testa, director of the Neurogenomics Center of Human Technopole in Milan and director of the Stem Cell Epigenetics Laboratory of the European Institute of Oncology; Claudia Molteni, Marketing & Customer Innovation Manager of Roche; Matteo Della Porta, professor of Hematology at Humanitas University and head of the Leukemia and Myelodysplasie section, at Humanitas Research Hospital, with him he will discuss the issue of using artificial intelligence for the diagnosis and treatment of leukemias; Alessandro Vespignani, computer physicist, one of the greatest experts in computational epidemiology, is the director of the "Laboratory for the modeling of biological and Socio-technical Systems" of the Northeastern University of Boston; Pierluigi Paracchi, CEO of Genenta Science, a spin-off of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan that deals with immunotherapy and gene therapy which has so far raised 32.1 million euros in three rounds; Luciano Ravera, managing director of the IRCCS Clinical Institute Humanitas to talk about how to reorganize hospitals so that they are ready to face a new pandemic; Michele Perrino, president and CEO of Medtronic Italia; Roberta Villa, journalist with a degree in medicine and surgery, research fellow for the Ca 'Foscari University of Venice, where he collaborates on the European QUEST project for the communication of science in Europe, member of the task force of the Council Presidency against disinformation on Covid-19 ; Marta Gaia Zanchi, founder & Managing Partner of Nina Capital, a fund that invests in European entrepreneurs by creating technological solutions for healthcare needs; Eva Runggaldier, Director of clinical research Janssen Italia; Roberto Ascione, CEO of Healthware International, entrepreneur and international opinion leader in the application of digital technologies to health, is very active in the ecosystem of start-ups in digital health, holding various roles as advisors in Europe and the USA; Eugene Borukhovich, Founding Board Member, YourCoach.Health, point of reference in the world of Health Coaching, an approach that combines medical-scientific and coaching skills; Federico Protto, CEO of Retelit; David Vannozzi, director of the CINECA Interuniversity Consortium, which is developing a system to simulate the behavior of proteins that allow the SARS-CoV-2 virus to multiply to identify the most effective molecules to stop it; Giacomo Cuttone, nuclear physicist and research manager in Catania of the Southern National Laboratories (LNS) of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), where he directs the Anti-Covid Lab for the verification of the functional qualities of fabrics intended for the realization of masks and other PPE for the prevention of contagion in the COVID-19 emergency; Nicoletta Luppi, President and CEO of MSD Italia. Ilaria Prato, Associate Director Public Affairs of Biogen Italia; Andrea Crisanti, professor of Microbiology at the University of Padua who worked on the Venetian strategy to combat Covid-19; Rodolfo Perriccioli, Marketing Manager of Molteni Farmaceutici; Salvatore Giancane, medical toxicologist of the Ser.T of Bologna and professor of the School of specialization in psychiatry; Alfio Lucchini, psychiatrist and member of the FeDerSerD National Bureau; Cristina Le Grazie, Executive Director Medical Affairs of Gilead Sciences; Franca Melfi, professor of the Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular Pathology and of the Critical Area of ​​the University of Pisa, thoracic surgeon and director of the Multispecialistic Center of Robotic Surgery of the University Hospital of Pisa; Alessandro Gandolfi, an internationally renowned photographer, four-time winner of the National Geographic Best Edit Award, who conducted a photographic investigation on the theme of longevity and the challenge of lengthening life and many others.

All appointments will be transmitted and disseminated on the social channels of Wired Italia (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok) and on Next.Wired.it, the Wired portal dedicated to its events.
Wired Health is made possible thanks to the support of some partners.

Scientific partner

L'IRCCS Clinical Institute Humanitas It is the first Italian polyclinic certified for quality by Joint Commission International and considered by Harvard University to be one of the four most innovative hospitals in the world. It is the reference point for research on diseases linked to the immune system, from tumors to rheumatoid arthritis. Humanitas University is the international University dedicated to Life Sciences closely integrated with the hospital.

Headline partner

Biogen, a pioneering biotech company in neuroscience, has the largest portfolio of multiple sclerosis drugs in the world, the first therapy for SMA and is at the forefront of research against Alzheimer's. It provides digital solutions for the patient communities and the scientific community of all its therapeutic areas.

Janssen is the pharmaceutical company of the Johnson & Johnson Group that concentrates its activity in six key therapeutic areas for global health: neuroscience, infectious disease, onco-hematology, immunology, pulmonary hypertension, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Implement collaborative strategies in step with the times to contribute to the sustainability of the health system.

L. Molteni & C., founded in 1892, is a leading company in the opioid drug market, always engaged in the research and development of solutions for the treatment of pain and addictions.

MSD is the Italian subsidiary of Merck & Co, a multinational pharmaceutical company founded 129 years ago and a world leader in the health sector. The company provides innovative healthcare solutions through its ethical drugs, vaccines, biological therapies and animal health products, the result of heavy investments in Research & Development activities.

For 170 years, Pfizer researches, manufactures and markets drugs to improve people's health and well-being. He has always collaborated with institutions, patient associations, medical-scientific societies, universities, start-ups. A Wired Health will talk about what it means to innovate, but always looking at the needs of patients #Breakthroughs that change patients' live.

Present in Italy for over 120 years, Roche S.p.A. it is a leader in biotechnology and research. He rewrote the history of medicine thanks to innovative drugs in oncology, hematology, neuroscience and rare diseases.

Partner

Medtronic is a leading company in medical technologies, innovative services and solutions that improves the lives of two people every second. Its goal is to collaborate with stakeholders from all over the world to contribute synergistically to increase the efficiency of Healthcare Systems.

Retelit, the Italian operator of digital solutions, infrastructures and ICT, facilitates and supports the digital transformation of healthcare professionals with an integrated offer aimed at the world of healthcare which includes technologies, security, platforms and applications.

Event supporter

Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company based on research and committed to the discovery, development and marketing of innovative drugs for very serious diseases. The therapeutic areas we focus on include HIV / AIDS, liver disease, hematology and oncology, inflammatory and respiratory diseases.

Insurance partner

Generali Italy It is the best known insurer in Italy with over 23 billion total premiums and a widespread network of 40 thousand distributors, in addition to online and bancassurance channels. 13 thousand employees, 120 billion of assets under management. Generali Italia is headed by Alleanza Assicurazioni, Das, Genagricola, Genertel and Genertellife, Generali Welion and Generali Jeniot.

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