Arrival, Registration and Welcome Coffee

Valerio De Molli – Managing Partner & CEO, The European House – Ambrosetti

Chair: Alberto Di Minin – Associate Professor of Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa

Sam Pitroda – Former Advisor to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; Founder and first Chairman, India’s Telecom Commission

Fu Xiaolan – Director of the Technology and Management Center for Development (TMCD); Professor of Technology and International Development and Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford University

Erel N. Margalit, PhD. – Founder & Chairman, JVP; one of the chief architects of the Startup Nation

Debate

Networking Break and Tech Experience with YuMi by ABB

Chair: Alberto Di Minin – Associate Professor of Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa

The Rise of New York: Becoming one of the World’s Top Innovation Hubs
Gianluca Galletto – Senior Advisor, Smart Cities New York; Advisor, New York City’s Mayor’s Office for International Affairs

India: The 10 Trillion Dollar Startup
Utkarsh Amitabh – Business Development, Microsoft; Founder, Network Capital

R&D Partnership in China – starting-up
Marco Spinetto – Head of Strategic Innovation and R&D, Pirelli Tyre

Debate

Presentation of YuMi, the dual-arm Robot of ABB
Michele Pedretti – Business Development Manager, ABB Robotics Italy

Luncheon, Coffee Networking and Tech Experience with YuMi by ABB

Chair: Stefan Gabriel – Former President, 3M New Ventures

Innocenzo Cipolletta – President, AIFI
Fabio Tentori – CEO, Enel Innovation Hubs
Laly David – Partner & VP of Business Development, OurCrowd
Juliane Schiefer – Head of Venture Capital, CECONOMY
Agostino Santoni – General Manager, Cisco Italy

Debate

Chair: Maria Chiara Carrozza – Professor of Industrial Bioengineering in The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna – Pisa; Scientific Director, Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi

Michele Guarnieri – Co-founder and Executive Director, HiBot Corporation
Bazmi Husain – Chief Technology Officer, ABB
Justin Stanwix – Chief Revenue Officer, Nanotronics
Mauro Ferrari – President & CEO, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute – Texas, USA
Antonio Samaritani – General Director, Digital Italy Agency (AgID); Curator, AI Task Force

Discussants

Lorenzo Zaniboni – Operations Director, Agrati Group
Benjamin Jolivet – Regional Manager, Citrix; Country Manager, Citrix Italy

Debate

Closing remarks

Valerio De Molli – Managing Partner & CEO, The European House – Ambrosetti