Theme: Tailor-made

We wish to talk about how a tailor-made approach to life has become a basic building block of modern reality due to new emerging technologies and the desire for a better life experience. The universality and breadth of the theme allows also reflecting other sides, including the ethical aspects and the implications of mass personalization on the individual and on society.
From technology, entertainment, and design - to science, business, and global issues.

Palazzo dei Congressi
Piazza Indipendenza 4
Lugano, Ticino (it), 6900
Switzerland

Anna Vanzo

Performer

Anna approached dance with great enthusiasm from an early age, initially taking classical and modern lessons. Passionate about the subject, she extended her knowledge to various genres, such as hip-hop, funk, jazz, afro, and tap. Attracted by the performing arts, she then delved into singing and acting. In 2016, she also obtained a master’s degree in musical performing. A performer in various shows, she teaches musicals in elementary and middle school after-school courses.

Fabrizio Gramuglio

Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Empathy expert

Fabrizio is considered a passionate innovator, and an expert in the field of Human- Computer-Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Empathy. He enjoys helping companies to combine exponential technologies and human experiences to create a positive impact.

Fabrizio Tencone

Sports medicine doctor

Fabrizio has had a long experience as the professional football doctor of Juventus and he is now collaborating with the Isokinetic Medical Group, a leading international institution in orthopedics and sports rehabilitation. He is one of the precursor of modern methods of sport training and is passionate about harmonizing the approach used for professional and amateur sportsmen and sportswomen.

German Ramirez

Digital pioneer and entrepreneur

Visionary author, public speaker and branding expert, German Ramirez’s passion is the intersection between technology and humanity. Anticipating how technology will affect us as citizens, employees, investors, customers or individuals, and defining strategies to successfully cope with it.

Giulio Ravizza

Author and digital media expert

Giulio Ravizza worked for more than 10 years in the advertising industry, leading the marketing campaigns of major Silicon Valley multinationals. Passionate of languages of new media, he successfully completed a crowdfunding campaign financing the publication of his first novel.

Kirill Veselkov

Cancer researcher

Dr Kirill Veselkov is a researcher and lecturer in computational medicine at Imperial College London. Kirill brings together machine learning, mobile supercomputing and large molecular –omics datasets to tackle the growing epidemic of complex diseases such as cancer. He currently leads the multi-disciplinary project on #hyperfoods, #dreamlab and #food passport.

Manu Kapur

Professor of Learning Sciences

Manu Kapur is a Professor and Chair of Learning Science and Higher Education at the ETH Zürich. Before that, he taught and researched in Singapore and Hong Kong. He has been invited to present major keynote addresses around the world, and his work has been published in the top journals in the field.

Marissa Fayer

Global health and innovation expert

Marissa Fayer is a 20-year medtech executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She is the CEO and founder of non-profit HERHealthEQ and president of advisory firm Fayer Consulting, LLC. Marissa has been listed as one of the Top 100 Women in Medtech, a Top Woman Activist to Watch, awarded the 2018/9 Africa Development Award, and a Wonder Women in Medtech. Leading the #wealththroughhealth and #healthequityforwomen movements, she is dedicated to moving innovation and health forward throughout the world.

Michael Bronstein

Computer scientist

Professor Michael Bronstein is a scientist and serial entrepreneur. He is a professor of Machine Learning at Imperial College London and USI Lugano and also head of Graph Learning Research at Twitter. His main research interest is in the development of next-generation ML methods for network-structured data with applications to social media, biological data, computer vision and graphics. He has (co)founded multiple successful startup companies including Invision (acquired by Intel in 2012) and Fabula AI (acquired by Twitter in 2019).

Michelle Guiliano

Coach, consultant and rower

Michelle Giuliano is a rower, a former NCAA athlete and ivy league coach, a top 1% ranked executive search professional, an award-winning entrepreneur, and a master coach. She has competed in the Lac Leman rowing race in Geneva 5 times.

Omar Gueye

Performer

Omar Gueye was born on June 15, 1989 in Lausanne to a Swiss mother and a Senegalese father. After high school he graduated as a video editor in the field of cinema. He started a musical performer training in Milan and then he worked for a period in Germany. In 2013 he wrote and directed a Musical (Gymnasia) with the participation of 80 gymnasts. Currently, he is a vocal coach at the Prina Music School in Milan and acrobatic teacher at the circus school of Lidia Golovkova.

Pasquale Diaferia

Art projects / Creative chairman

Pasquale Diaferia is an accomplished copywriter, journalist, teacher and public speaker. He was creative director of Y&R Italy and Grey Interactive. He is a member of the Art Directors Club of Italy. He is the Aged Creative Chairman of his own Italian creative consulting agency, Special Team. He was a member of ADC New York, Member of the Board of Pubblicità Progresso (the italian Foundation about Public Service Advertising), and Professor about Mass Communication at the italian State University Insubria.

Patrizia Pfenninger

Creative

Patrizia Pfenninger successfully combines marketing, design and creativity to bring to life projects for international and local partners. She is the founder of Indica, a creative consultancy company focussing on visual communication. Being able to produce popular communication campaigns around Switzerland and Italy, Patrizia embodies the role of young creative and entrepreneur.