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Andrea Dianetti

Actor, host

After coming close to winning Maria De Filippi's talent show Amici, Andrea Dianetti quickly made a name for himself as an actor, director and author in TV dramas, theatre and cinema, with prestigious roles. He is also very popular on social networks and is an ambassador for prestigious brands, who choose him for his authenticity and irony, but also for the attention he pays to green issues. He is a great friend of Diana Del Bufalo, with whom he often enjoys doing live Instagram feeds, some of which have reached peaks of 40,000 connected users.

Chiara Piacenza

ISS Payload Engineer

The only challenge in the world that could involve Chiara to the point of leaving, studying in France and then in Germany and choosing the path of aerospace engineering was the human exploration of space. Born in 1992 and now Aerospace Engineer at Argotec, Chiara contributes to the study of space exploration, trying to break down the boundaries of the possible. To accomplish it, she also studies Space Medicine in the Netherlands, and joins the Italian Red Cross, leading the Turin Committee, focusing her research to the human beings, their health and their well-being. She succeeds in becoming the first aerospace engineer to join the Australian Space Forum's Biomedical team for simulated space missions to Mars in Israel. Since 2018 she represents Argotec at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where human flight began. Because the company and Chiara have the same vision: the future is among the stars, and it will be highly technological and, above all, extremely human.

Consuelo Pecchenino

Concept Artist

Consuelo Pecchenino has made a reality out of a utopia: inventing worlds. After completing her studies in fashion design in Florence, she realized that her path was different. So she took the decision to move to Germany, where she began to work in the corporate fashion world for important companies and to study concept art as a self-taught. She returned to Italy after five years and began to illustrate novels and create concept art and illustrations for national and international clients. In 2018, she wins the podium at the Project Mars Art competition organized by NASA.

Francesco Sauro

Explorer, geologist, speleologist

Francesco Sauro is an Italian explorer and speleologist, recognized by Time Magazine as one of the millennial that are having an impact in the future of science and planetary exploration. He's contracted Professor of Planetary Geology at the University of Bologna, with a peculiar interest in caves and subsurface exploration. With over twenty year of caving activity, Sauro has explored tens of kilometers of caves in any different lithology on Earth, including ice. He has lead over thirty expeditions in several countries among which: Greenland, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Philippines, India, Uzbekistan, France, Spain, Poland, Greece. About thirty papers about his researches and explorations have been published in peer reviewed scientific magazines. In 2014 he won the Rolex Award for Enterprise with an exploration project in the Guyana highlands of South America. He's technical director of the course CAVES and PANGAEA programs organized by the European Space Agency for training astronauts.

Irina Potinga (Spazio Grigio)

Creator, Blogger, Youtuber

Irina is the representative of minimalism in Italy, the creator of the blog www.spaziogrigio.com and the Youtube channel Spazio Grigio about minimalism, sustainability and personal development. She is convinced that living a well-lived life is possible and she shows the instruments to do so. She called her space Grigio (grey) because the answer and the best solutions are in the middle - a shadow of grey. Irina graduated in accounting and foreign languages at high school, in economics at university and has a master degree in marketing but after a couple of years working a 9 to 5 office job, she decided to reinvent herself and become a creator. She is now dedicated to the creation of digital content, eBooks, courses and sustainable products.

Luca Rossettini

Chief Executive Officer at D-Orbit

Luca Rossettini is CEO and Founder of D-Orbit, Expert at the Space Advisory Group of the European Commission, President of AIPAS (space SME industrial association) and Board member of Confindustria Florence. He is also board member and founder of The Natural Step Italia. In 2008, Rossettini co-founded Imaging and Research Technology Association, where he held the position of President until 2011. He is an aerospace engineer with a Ph.D. in advanced space propulsion, awarded with honors by Politecnico di Milano. He holds a master in Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability and a Certificate in Technology Entrepreneurship from Santa Clara University, California.

Massimo Claudio Comparini

Deputy CEO, Senior Executive Vice President, Observation, Exploration and Navigation in Thales Alenia Space and CEO of Thales Alenia Space Italy.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering at the Sapienza University of Rome and in Strategy at the Graduate School of Business of the American University of Stanford, Comparini began his career related to Space in 1983 in Selenia Spazio (later Alenia Spazio), covering various managerial positions until becoming Chief Technology Officer. Author of more than 80 publications, in the field of space and microwave technologies, innovation and technology management, he is member of several steering committees and board of directors in scientific associations and international events. Over the years he has held several academic chairs in the engineering departments of well-known Italian universities.

Maurizio Malano + Maria Messina

Musician, Guitar Player, Arranger

"Music can do" how real is this statement. This is demonstrated by Maurizio Malano who was born as a guitarist "Rock-Blues" inspired by "Hendrixian" and over the years he became passionate about the study of Jazz, earning with honors a degree in Jazz Guitar at the Conservatory. He holds the course of Modern Guitar in various music schools and, in addition to the activity of "One Man Guitar", is the lead guitarist of "Let's Beat! The Acoustic Beatles Tribute", of the "Jazz Tape Duo", of the "Bright Size Trio - Pat Metheny Tribute". He has been composer and musician for many theatrical shows, including "Sporting" and for theater companies such as CAST and "Municipale Teatro" of Turin. From the meeting with Maria Messina several artistic and professional collaborations were born, to which is added the one for TEDxTorino, born in order to create a personal arrangement of the song "Life On Mars" by David Bowie, which will be presented and performed for the event in February 2021.

Max Casacci

Producer, Guitar Player

Massimiliano Casacci known as Max Casacci is known to the public as the producer and founder of Subsonica as well as a talented Italian guitarist. He is composer and author of most of the lyrics of the famous group, sound engineer, former director of Traffic - Torino Free Festival, member of the collective of music for scientific conferences: Deproducers, and the electronic project Demonology Hi-Fi. Very interesting are his experiments with music using sounds and noises of nature and urban scenarios.

Pasquale Acampora

CEO blackship, Mental Coach

Pasquale graduated with honors in Engineering, but then changed his path and started working in consultancy. The part of the engineer that still lives in him exploits the schematization of problems, the one as a consultant teaches him to simplify them. After the creation of his first start-up (which turned into a multinational in the luxury tourism sector), today Pasquale Acampora is the CEO and Founder of Blackship and enjoys mixing and contaminating business, coaching and sport by working with international organizations and athletes. His dream is to "liberate" himself and others by challenging them to be, give and become their best.

Raissa & Momo

Content creators

"Raissa & Momo" is a digital project consisting of Raissa Russi and Bayed Mohamed Ismail, two young people who decided to share their experience being a mixed couple on the web. The aim of the project is to raise awareness and dispel clichés, fighting hatred and prejudice through self-irony. Raissa, born in 1996, is an Italian girl from the province of Turin, while Momo, born in 1993, was born in Morocco and moved to Italy at the age of 6. They have been together for two years, and in the spring of 2020 they began to share their daily lives online, attracting a great deal of attention for their ability to represent the situations that characterise the everyday life of mixed couples. In just a few months, Raissa & Momo have become so popular that they were mentioned by the writer Sandro Veronesi, during the Terra di Tutti Festival, as an example of this new generation that is improving the world with their social content that counteracts stereotypes and messages of hate.

Simona Ricci

Direttore Abbonamento Musei

Museums are one of the world's greatest human heritages. What better than these can teach us to face the future? With a degree in History of Modern Art from the University of Turin and a specialisation in the management and valorisation of museum heritage, Simona Ricci has been a member of the staff of the Abbonamento Musei Association since 2003, of which she became Director in spring 2017. She has managed important publishing and exhibition projects such as L'Atlante dei giardini del Piemonte edited by Renata Lodari (2016) and the exhibition Il Rinascimento di Gaudenzio Ferrari edited by Giovanni Agosti and Jacopo Stoppa (2018).