Theme: Italia Patria della Bellezza

The goal is to investigate about Italian identity, from its best in class to its talents, to discover Italy as Land of Beauty

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Alberto Broggi

Alberto Broggi is Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering of the University of Parma. He is a pioneer in the application of computer vision to smart vehicles. He is the founder and President of the laboratory VisLab, which is now a spin-off university project and a global benchmark for research in the field. Speaker in several international conferences, he is Editor-in-Chief of the main scientific journal about intelligent transportation and President of IEEE ITS Society. In 2008 and 2012 he’s been awarded with two prestigious grants from the European Research Council.

ALESSANDRA BALLERINI

Alessandra Ballerini

Civil lawyer. Alessandra is a civil lawyer, working in Genoa. She deals with issues as immigration, women victims of violence, entrusting of minors, protection of marginalized and vulnerable groups. Alessandra is also consultant for the "Human Rights Commission" of the Italian Senate working on the monitoring of reception centers and detention for foreigners. In 2006, in the same commission she supported the drafting activities of the White Paper on Italian CPTA (temporary centers for detention and assistance). Alessandra is the author of "Il muro invisibile" (ed. Fratelli Frilli, 2002) and participated along with other lawyers of the Genoa Legal Forum to the book "Dalla parte del torto”.

Annamaria Testa

Communication Consultant: Annamaria is an expert of communication and creativity. She is a journalist since 1988 and founded the company “Progetti Nuovi” in 2005. She collaborates with various newspapers and several media companies, including Italy's national public broadcasting company–RAI. She has taught at major Italian universities and since 2007 she has been teaching at Bocconi University. In 2012 she joined the Hall of Fame Italian Art Directors Club, as the first woman working in the advertising sector over twenty-five years of activity of the Club. Since 2008 she has been managing the “Nuovo e utile” website, a no-profit initiative devoted to theory and practice of creativity. Since 2012 she has been writing every week for the weekly newspaper “Internazionale”. Since 2013 Annamaria is a member of the Board of Directors of “La Permanente” located in Milan. She wrote a book collecting short stories and several essays about creativity and communication.

Davide Dattoli

Entrepreneur. Davide Dattoli is CEO and CoFounder of Talent Garden, a Milan-based company that is developing and managing the largest network of CoWorking, with over 10 campuses in Europe. Recently, New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has nominated Talent Garden as one of the TOP 5 innovations for developing the local community in New York city. Davide is selected as one of the TOP 5 WIRED Italy innovators and is often speaking at local and international events, such as Wired Festival, TEDx, Ambrosetti Forum, ect.

Don Antonio Loffredo

Catholic Priest. Don Antonio Loffredo is the parish priest of “Rione Sanità” and director of Catacombe in Napoli. In ten years he was able to create from nothing a service held from the local people whereby turists can visit the fascinating and mysterious Catacombe of San Gaudioso, San Gennaro and San Severo, the treasures of Churchs of Sanità and more. President of the Committee of Community “San Gennaro” Foundation, he has successfully experimented this approach to the Culture as common good, that rises from the relations between people. Don Loffredo puts in the middle People and Territory. For “Beautiful” creates Work.

Elena Zambon

Entrepreneur. Elena Zambon graduated in Business economics at Bocconi University, married and mother of four children. She’s President of Zambon SpA, Italian family business born in the 1906 in Vicenza, that operates in the pharmaceutical and fine chemistry sector. She’s Vice President of Zach, Zambon Chemical. She’s President of Secofind SIM, the Multi Family Office. She’s part of board of directors in Italcementi, Italian Strategic Found, IIT – Italian Institute of Technology and Invernizzi Foundation. Vice President and member of the Executive Commitee of Aspen Institute Italy. President of Aidaf, Italian Association of family entrepreneur companies.

Farian Sabahi

Farian Sabahi is a writer, journalist and university professor, an expert of Middle East issues. Farian is a lecturer on "History of Islamic Countries" at the University of Turin, as well as she taught in Geneva and Bocconi University. She writes about Islamic issues for the cultural pages of "Sole 24 Ore", is Middle East columnist for "Il Corriere della Sera", writes for the supplement "Io Donna" and collaborates with Radio Rai and Radio Popolare. She is the author of several books, including "History of Iran", "Islam: the restless identity of Europe", "We women of Tehran."

Gustavo Ollitta

Gustavo Ollitta is a Brazilian artist, specialized in acrobatics and juggling with fire and LED, featured guest of TEDGlobal 2014. He has performed at the most important arts and circus festivals, as well as performed on TV all around the world - in Italy at Colorado Cafè and Italy's Got Talent. Gustavo is among the few jugglers using the Buugeng, a prop exploiting optical principles in order to create amazing hypnotic forms.

Luca Malaspina

Luca Malaspina is a musician graduated in Musical Aesthetics, and devoted to the study and research of ethnic percussion, sound and movement. He is a versatile poli-musician, playing djembèe, balafon, kora, digeridoo, berimbao, electronic pads and hang drum. Luca is the artistic director and music designer of a company called Kolon Kandyà, creating performances for events and cooperation projects in Burkina Faso.

Massimo Banzi

2.    Massimo Banzi is an interaction designer, an educator and a supporter of Open Source Hardware. He is the co-founder of project Arduino. He started the first Italian FabLab/Makerspace in Turin where “Officine Arduino” were created. He spent 4 years teaching as Associate Professor at the Interaction Design Institute of Ivrea (Italy). Massimo Banzi is the author of the book “Getting started with Arduino” published by O’Reilly. He collaborates with the Italian edition of “Wired” and “Che Futuro”.

Maurizio di Robilant

Entrepreneur. Maurizio di Robilant is president and founder of “Italia Patria della Bellezza” Foundation. Professor and Consultant, he cooperates with Domus Academy, SDA Bocconi, MIP Politecnico of Milano, The European House Ambrosetti. After 30 years of experiences in branding consultant for Companies and a long-time activity to support the Made in Italy, Maurizio decided to put his skills to work for create a competitive identity for Italy.

Maurizio Robilant

. Entrepreneur. Maurizio di Robilant is president and founder of “Italia Patria della Bellezza” Foundation. Professor and Consultant, he cooperates with Domus Academy, SDA Bocconi, MIP Politecnico of Milano, The European House Ambrosetti. After 30 years of experiences in branding consultant for Companies and a long-time activity to support the Made in Italy, Maurizio decided to put his skills to work for create a competitive identity for Italy.

Mauro Magatti

. Sociologist. Mauro Magatti teaches Principles of Sociology, Sociology of Collective Phenomena and Analysis of the Institutions of Contemporary Capitalism at the Catholic University of Milan. He holds several positions within foundations devoted to economic and social development, and he has been visiting professor at many universities. He wrote many books, including the last titled "Generative of the world unite! Manifesto for the society of the free"," The stroke of the global economy", "A new prosperity. Four ways for an integral growth".

Paolo Troilo

Artist. Starting his career in 1997, till 2009 Paolo Troilo worked for several international advertising agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi, and Arnold Worldwide, as Art Director and Creative Director. He won many prestigious awards in the industry and in 2007 was nominated Italy's best creative by ADCI. Starting drawing at the age of four, self-taught, he started his artistic career in 2005. His creativity led him to paint with your fingers. In 2011 he was selected for the 54th Venice Biennale. His works have been exhibited in San Francisco, Miami, Istanbul, Paris, Madrid, Milan, Rome, Florence, Berlin, Basel, Singapore and Tel Aviv.

Roberto Zanna

President of Sant’Egidio, Milan office. After years of research, activities and living abroad (Paris, London and Istanbul to be mentioned), he settled down in Milan, teaching Contemporary History and Eastern Europe’s History at the Cattolica University and Modern and Contemporary History at the San Raffaele University. Moreover, he’s been professor at the ISPI(International Politics Institute), Politecnico and University of Milan. Del Zanna is the President of Comunità Sant’Egidio since 2010.