We Make Future

WMF - We Make Future is the largest international B2B trade fair and festival on Innovation, AI, Tech, and Digital Marketing, held annually at BolognaFiere and bringing together over 73,000 attendees from 90 countries.

Dates
Jun 24 – Jun 25, 2026
Location
Bologna, Italy
Industry
Digital

Event Sponsors

49 sponsors on record

Main Sponsor· 2

Intel

intel.com

Philip Morris Italia

pmi.com

Main Partner· 1

Emilia Romagna Turismo

emiliaromagnaturismo.it

community_partner

Premium Sponsor· 40

28Digital

28digital.eu

Allumee

allumee.com

Alten

alten.it

ART-ER

art-er.it

community_partner

Aruba

business.aruba.it

AWS

aws.amazon.com

BNP Paribas

bnpparibas.it

Chateau d'Ax

chateau-dax.it

Clust-ER Agrifood

agrifood.clust-er.it

community_partner

Clust-ER Build

build.clust-er.it

community_partner

Clust-ER Innovate

innovate.clust-er.it

community_partner

Clust-ER Tourism

tourism.clust-er.it

community_partner

CNR-IIT

iit.cnr.it

community_partner

Credem

credem.it

CRM Partners

crmpartners.it

e-Residency Estonia

e-resident.gov.ee

community_partner

ESA - Italy

esa.int

community_partner

eToro

etoro.com

European Patent Office

epo.org

community_partner

Fincalabra

fincalabra.it

Flazio

flazio.com

Green Click Media

greenclickmedia.it

Humans

humans.tech

Indicoo

indicoo.it

Interprefy

interprefy.com

Intesa Sanpaolo

intesasanpaolo.com

Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center

intesasanpaoloinnovationcenter.com

Invitalia

invitalia.it

community_partner

Italian Chamber of Commerce for Greece

italchamber.gr

community_partner

Italian Trade Agency

ice.it

community_partner

Lexroom

lexroom.ai

Michelin

michelin.com

Ministero della Cultura

beniculturali.it

community_partner

Ratti Auto

rattiauto.it

Regione Calabria

regione.calabria.it

community_partner

Reply (Cognita Reply)

reply.com

SearchOn

en.searchon.it

Sellalab

sellalab.com

Tesla

tesla.com

Universita di Bologna

unibo.it

community_partner

Sponsor· 6

Amnesty International

amnesty.org

community_partner

Billboard

billboard.com

media_partner

Dropbox

dropbox.com

Odoo

odoo.com

Qonto

qonto.com

Zoho

zoho.com

Sponsor figures are recorded as published, not independently guaranteed.

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Speakers

144 speakers on record

Showing 144 of 145 speakers (low-confidence data hidden).

speaker· 144

Ajaz Ahmed Siddiqui

GTM for AI Business Solutions, Microsoft

Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli

Professor of EECS, University of California, Berkeley

Alec Ross

Distinguished Adjunct Professor, Bologna Business School

Alessandra Antonaci

Strategic Programme Executive, European Association of Distance Teaching Universities

Alessio Crisantemi

President & co-founder, Gn Media

Alessio Marzilli

Alessio Sorrentino

Direttore Operativo (COO), Floox

Alicia Hanf

Head of Institutional Ecosystem Partnerships, LG NOVA - LG Electronics

Anastasios Avranas

Founder and Director, Interfima

Andrea Aureli

Co-Founder, Aiclo

Andrea Baino

Founder & CTO, Tredo

Andrea Basso

Managing Director, MITO Tech Ventures

Andrea Colamedici

Philosopher | Editor | Co-Founder, Tlon

Andrea Orzati

CEO, Zurich Instruments

Angelo Del Priore

HP

Anna Ascani

Vice President, Chamber of Deputies

Aprajita Jain

Chief Brand, Google

Ayumi Moore Aoki

Founder & CEO, Women in Tech® Global

Beatrice Rigillo

Brando Benifei

Member of the European Parliament, European Parliament

Brunello Cucinelli

Founder & Chief Executive, Brunello Cucinelli

Bryan Madden

AMD

Camihawke

Carlotta Bernardi

Performance Team Lead, Making Science

Caterina Damiano

Educational manager LdW Academy, SEO Strategist, LaPenna del Web

Cecilia Sala

Journalist, Chora News

Claudio Iacopino

Head of Φ-lab Explore Office, ESA

Corey Ching

Developer Experience, OpenAI

Corrado Formigli

Journalist, La7

Cosimo Accoto

Research Affiliate | Adjunct Professor | AI Advisor, MIT | UNIMORE | POLLICINO AIDVISORY

Cristian Frigo

Ecosystem Lead Southern Europe, 28 DIGITAL

Daniele Pucci

CEO, Generative Bionics

Davide Casaleggio

CEO & Partner, Casaleggio Associati

Davide Dattoli

Founder & Executive Chairman, Talent Garden

Debora Serracchiani

Member of the Justice Committee, Italian Chamber of Deputies

Denis Hristov

Fund of Funds in Bulgaria

Diego La Monica

CEO, Axio Studio S.r.l.

Enrico Mentana

Journalist & Director, La7

Enrico Pavan

Co-founder & President, Analytics Boosters

Enza Bergantino

Head of Digital & Partner, Jacleroi

Farnaz Behroozi

Head of Pharma, Huma

Federica Brancale

Artificial Intelligence Consultant, Marketing Freaks

Federica Fornaciari

Professor | AI & EdTech Researcher, National University in San Diego

Federico Cabitza

Associated Professor & Co-Founder, Università Milano-Bicocca & RedOpen SRL

Federico Francioni

Strategy & Design Director, Meta | Microsoft and PwC Alumni

Federico Menna

Chief Executive Officer, 28 Dgtl

Fernanda Faini

Professor of Legal Informatics, Pegaso University

Filippo Ghirelli

Infracorp

Filippo Trocca

Head of Data & Adtech, Making Science

Fjona Cakalli

Tech Reporter, Content Creator & Presenter, Techprincess.it

Florin Catalin

Silicon Allee

Francesca Braga

International Criminal Lawyer

Francesca Rossi

CEO, SirFred

Francesco Cracolici

CEO, Nomadic Minds

Francesco Paolo Schiavone

Head of Innovation & Development, Datlas Group

Francesco Ubertini

President, CINECA

Gabriele Contilli

General Manager, ISPD Italia

Gabriele Malaspina

Digital product designer & Founder, Solida Forma

Gabriele Pavanello

Diner Experience Staff Engineer & AI Champion, The Fork

Gabriele Vagnato

Giacomo Pompei

Digital Project Manager & Marketing Coordinator, AgriEuro

Giancarlo Vergine

OverVentures

Gianluca Misuraca

Founder of Inspiring Future, Inspiring Futures

Giorgio Metta

Scientific Director, IIT Italian Institute of Technology

Giorgio Taverniti

Co-Founder, COO Consulting, SEO, AI & Digital Marketing Expert, Search On Media Group

Giovanni Le Coche

CEO, SEO & Digital Marketing Manager, Arkys

Giuseppe Lombardo

Deputy Public Prosecutor, Court of Reggio Calabria

Guido Scorza

Tech Law Attorney

Henna Virkkunen

Executive Vice-President for Technological Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy, European Commission

Iulia Feroli

Physic AI & AI DevRel, Back to Engineering and Rerun

Ivan Maltsev

Partner, 3x Capital

Jordi San Ildefonso

Social Media Strategist, Metricool

Joya Scarlata

Marketing Director, InterraIT

Kamila Zahradnickova

Founder & CEO, Lakmoos AI

Karen Zhou

Member of technical staff, Anthropic

Leonard Burger

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Lenvi

Leyla Elchekhly

TV Presenter, Al Jazeera Media Network

Lorenzo Tondo

Journalist, The Guardian

Luca Castelli

Audience Lead, Chora & Will Media

Lucilla Sioli

Director for "Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry", Directorate-General CONNECT, European Commission

Lucka Bibic

Head of Article Pipeline Management, Springer Nature

Luigi Di Maio

EU Special Representative for the Gulf region, European Union

Luigi Traldi

Head of Southern Europe, Klarna

Madeleine Pilstrand

Create Business Incubator

Mara Dettmann

Senior Brand Strategist, the LEGO Group

Marcel Vulpis

Journalist, Sport Economy

Marco Maltraversi

CEO | SEO & AI Specialist, YourDigitalWeb

Marco Pavone

Director of Autonomous Vehicle Research, NVIDIA

Maria Yolanda Bilé Nlang

Data scientist & Conversational AI Engineer, Brise

Mariachiara Marsella

SEO & Digital Temporary Manager, Mariachiara Marsella

Martina Marchiò

Humanitarian Worker, Medici Senza Frontiere

Martina Pescioli

Founder & Creative Director, Mentarossa Comunicazione

Massimiliano Montefusco

RDS

Massimo Chiriatti

Chief Technical & Innovation Officer, Lenovo

Mathew Knowles

Music World Entertainment (MWE)

Matteo Giunchedi

CEO & Co-Founder, LIV4

Matteo Mille

Chief Sales Enablement & Operations, Microsoft Italia

Matteo Sbarra

Chief Strategy Officer & Gen AI Trainer, Connexia

Mattia Cittadino

Content Creator

Mattia Epifani

Global Digital Forensics Advisor, bit4law

Mattia Pace

Chief Marketing Officer & Board, Spoki

Max Brigida

Founder, La Tech Made in Italy

Michel Murabito

Tech Evangelist & Ambassador, Fractal Cloud & CNCF

Michele Basile

Michiel Scheffer

President of the Board, European Innovation Council | European Commission

Mohamed Deramchi

Entrepreneur, Investor & CTO, YouEver Srl

Monica Orsino

Sn Learning and Development Manager, Microsoft

Montserrat Cano

International Consultant & Trainer, MC, International SEO & Digital Strategy

Nadia Lauricella

Influencer & Activist

Nestor Maslej

Research Manager Human-centered, AI Stanford University

Nicola Gratteri

Public Prosecutor, Court of Naples

Orazio Schillaci

Ministro della Salute della Repubblica Italiana, Ministero della Salute

Oreste Pollicino

Full Professor of Constitutional Law, Bocconi University

Paolo Pellegrini

Partner, Metyis

Pegah Moshir Pour

Activist & Writer

Piergiorgio Marini

Senior Manager External Affairs, Philip Morris Italia

Piero Dominici

Professor & Scientific Director, CHAOS: International Research & Education Programme - Univ. of Perugia

Piero Ingrosso

Coopfond

Pierpaolo Bombardieri

General Secretary, UIL

Pierre-Philippe Mathieu

Head of the Φ-lab Explore Office, ESA - European Space Agency

Riccardo Magi

Member, Italian Chamber of Deputies

Roberto Saviano

Sasha Luccioni

AI and Climate Researcher

Silvi Nuñez

Co-Founder, Optimational

Simone Bianco

VP, Physics, Molecular & Hybrid Modeling, Altos Labs - Institute of Computation

Simone Desantis

Chief Technology Officer, Openapi Spa

Simone Sabba

CTO & Head of AI Squads, Devpunks

Siyabulela Mandela

Visiting Prof. Politics & International Relations, University of Kurdistan Hewlêr

Stefano Besana

Partner | Human Capital, Deloitte Consulting

Stefano Borghi

Chief Technology Officer, Dilaxia S.p.A.

Stefano Massini

Author & Playwright

Stefano Onofri

Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Cubbit

Stefano Parini

Senior Security Architect Manager, Sky Italia

Susanna Camusso

Senator, Senate of the Italian Republic

Susanna Finardi

Head of Corporate Partnerships | Executive Growth Advisor, Oxfam

Sveva Coltellacci

Head of Performance Marketing, Pro Web Consulting (Cerved Group)

Tiarne Hawkins

AI Leader & Host, You & AI - Stealth Mode

Valentin Radu

CEO, Omniconvert

Valeria Lazzaroli

Chairperson, ENIA - Ente Nazionale per L'Intelligenza Artificiale

Vera Gheno

Sociolinguist

Veronica Gentili

Social Media Expert, Glisco Marketing

Veronica La Regina

Space Mentor

Veronica Maffei

Journalist

Viktoria Bovtenko

AI Architect, Bovtenko.AI

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Agenda

66 sessions on record

Day 1

From Billable Hours to Outcomes: Building Agent Practices That Actually Make Money

breakoutAI for FutureAI for Future

12:00 AM

Speakers: Ajaz Ahmed Siddiqui

Dov'è l'attenzione sui social media nell'era del feed infinito?

breakoutSocial Media StrategiesSocial Media Strategies

12:00 AM

Speakers: Jordi San Ildefonso

Cognitive Mentoring as EdTech: Human Agency, AI, and Lifelong Learning

breakoutEduTechEduTech

12:00 AM

Speakers: Federica Fornaciari

Beyond AI Citations & Hype: When AI Mentions Hurt Your Brand

breakoutSEOSEO

12:00 AM

Speakers: Montserrat Cano

Continuous Discovery for the Digital Age: From Guesswork to Simulation

breakoutAI MarketingAI Marketing

12:00 AM

Speakers: Kamila Zahradnickova

Organizzazione è complessità sociale. Per una sintesi complessa tra intelligenze, naturali ed artificiali, ed ecosistemi.

breakoutEduTechEduTech

12:00 AM

Speakers: Piero Dominici

Using AI towards new medical breakthroughs: Building the (virtual) cell

breakoutDigital HealthDigital Health

12:00 AM

Speakers: Simone Bianco

Tracciamento avanzato in sanitario: monitoraggio completo del funnel con variabili custom in Google Ads

breakoutAdvertisingAdvertising

12:00 AM

Speakers: Sveva Coltellacci

CRO & AI: Vedere l'Invisibile per Scalare il Business

breakoutData AnalyticsData Analytics

12:00 AM

Speakers: Enrico Pavan

La Tua AI Guida a 150 all'Ora Fissando lo Specchietto Retrovisore

breakoutData AnalyticsData Analytics

12:00 AM

Speakers: Filippo Trocca

AI-Augmented Strategist: come l'AI sta ridisegnando il modo di fare strategia

breakoutAI MarketingAI Marketing

12:00 AM

Speakers: Matteo Sbarra

Will Media: da follower a maker. Come trasformare una community in un ecosistema che si autoalimenta

breakoutSocial Media StrategiesSocial Media Strategies

12:00 AM

Speakers: Alessio Sorrentino, Luca Castelli

Building Revenue Engines for Impact: from Mission to Measurable Growth

breakoutStart the FutureStart the Future

12:00 AM

Speakers: Susanna Finardi

Chatbot e adolescenti: relazioni simulate e eventuali rischi

breakoutLegal TechLegal Tech

12:00 AM

Speakers: Francesca Braga

Telegram Bot: l'interfaccia No-Code per accedere ad oltre 400 servizi API

breakoutBackend & CloudBackend & Cloud

12:00 AM

Speakers: Simone Desantis

The sound of silence, why you won't hear pegasus spying you

breakoutLegal TechLegal Tech

12:00 AM

Speakers: Mattia Epifani

Tra azione e parola: lavorare con Medici Senza Frontiere – da Gaza al mondo

breakoutStart the FutureStart the Future

12:00 AM

Speakers: Martina Marchiò

Il metodo per iniziare a comunicare con contenuti efficaci, anche se non hai tempo

breakoutContent MarketingContent Marketing

12:00 AM

Speakers: Mattia Cittadino

Trasformare i limiti in forza

breakoutContent CreatorsContent Creators

12:00 AM

Speakers: Nadia Lauricella

Allenare l'empatia: come usare con cura l'AI nel web editing

breakoutContent MarketingContent Marketing

12:00 AM

Speakers: Caterina Damiano

Day 2

Agentic Experience Architectures

breakoutAgentic AIAgentic AI

12:00 AM

Speakers: Viktoria Bovtenko

Beyond Red Teaming: Building a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework for conversational AI

breakoutAgentic AIAgentic AI

12:00 AM

Speakers: Maria Yolanda Bilé Nlang

The Agentic Loop: Revolutionizing E2E with MCP and Playwright Agents

breakoutCoding FrontendCoding Frontend

12:00 AM

Scaling Content Across Languages in the AI Era: Speed, Risk, and SEO Reality

breakoutSEOSEO

12:00 AM

Speakers: Silvi Nuñez

Neuroscienze del desiderio: trasformare i prodotti in desideri prima che il cliente li cerchi

breakoutAI CommerceAI Commerce

12:00 AM

How I built my own intelligent Robot Arm from Scratch

breakoutRobotics & Physical AIRobotics & Physical AI

12:00 AM

Speakers: Iulia Feroli

Your Brand May Be Fluent in AI - But That Doesn't Mean it's Literate

breakoutBrandBrand

12:00 AM

Speakers: Joya Scarlata, Mara Dettmann

Stop Buying Intelligence. Start Building Context

breakoutMachine LearningMachine Learning

12:00 AM

Speakers: Gabriele Pavanello

Il futuro dell'imprenditorialità: fiducia, apprendimento e distribuzione nell'era dell'AI

breakoutFuture of EntrepreneurshipFuture of Entrepreneurship

12:00 AM

Il bilancio è un dinosauro: l'impresa AI che si auto-misura in tempo reale

breakoutFuture of EntrepreneurshipFuture of Entrepreneurship

12:00 AM

Il progetto "Moneyball 2.0": un synthetic sase study nell'AI Sports law

breakoutLegal TechLegal Tech

12:00 AM

Il tuo business non è tuo. Come difendersi dal potere delle piattaforme che possono spegnere una PMI con un click

breakoutLegal TechLegal Tech

12:00 AM

AI Content Machine. Tutti i contenuti che servono a un ecommerce. Non solo quelli che riesci a fare.

breakoutAI CommerceAI Commerce

12:00 AM

For us, by us: how no-code tools are empowering activism

breakoutStart the FutureStart the Future

12:00 AM

The Architecture of Meaning in a Noisy Market - Every Brand Begins as a Question, Not a Logo

breakoutBrandBrand

12:00 AM

Nostalgic Brand

breakoutBrandBrand

12:00 AM

SEO Audit Agentico +veloce, +preciso, +scalabile

breakoutSEOSEO

12:00 AM

Corporate Venturing, Robotics, and Deep Tech Frontiers in Japan

breakoutOpen Innovation & International EcosystemOpen Innovation & International Ecosystem

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

The Billion-Scale Code: Digital Infrastructure, Frugal Innovation, and the Next Indian Unicorns

breakoutOpen Innovation & International EcosystemOpen Innovation & International Ecosystem

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM

The K-Tech Fast Lane: Government Backing, Hardware Fusion, and Scaling Global Frontiers

breakoutOpen Innovation & International EcosystemOpen Innovation & International Ecosystem

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Beyond the Valley: Hyper-Scaling, Next-Gen VC, and the Future of American Open Innovation

breakoutOpen Innovation & International EcosystemOpen Innovation & International Ecosystem

12:20 PM - 12:40 PM

AI, rave e creatività: come l'algoritmo sta cambiando musica elettronica e festival

breakoutFuture of Music & ArtFuture of Music & Art

12:00 AM

Why Smart Tech Professionals Need a Communication HACK (and It's Not About AI)

breakoutTech For BusinessTech For Business

12:00 AM

Il CV è morto: nasce LaborLumen Passport, l'identità professionale verificata

breakoutTech For BusinessTech For Business

12:00 AM

Business senza Filtri: Come vedere l'invisibile e automatizzare l'impossibile

breakoutTech For BusinessTech For Business

12:00 AM

Balkan Tech Rising

breakoutOpen Innovation & International EcosystemOpen Innovation & International Ecosystem

3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Enterprise SaaS, Gaming DNA, and Poland's Cross-Border Ascendancy

breakoutOpen Innovation & International EcosystemOpen Innovation & International Ecosystem

3:30 PM - 3:50 PM

B2B Innovation, Biotech Hubs, and Networking the Heart of Europe

breakoutOpen Innovation & International EcosystemOpen Innovation & International Ecosystem

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM

Day 3

From Spider Venom to Strategy: Leading the "Identity Economy" in the AI Era

breakoutManagement & LeadershipManagement & Leadership

12:00 AM

Speakers: Lucka Bibic

AI enhanced threat modeling: come diminuire il carico cognitivo di un Security Architect, senza perdere il controllo

breakoutCybersecurityCybersecurity

12:00 AM

Speakers: Stefano Parini

How AI Is Changing Engineering Leadership

breakoutManagement & LeadershipManagement & Leadership

12:00 AM

Il lavoro del futuro: come semplificare l'incontro tra chi cerca lavoro e chi cerca persone

breakoutFuture of EntrepreneurshipFuture of Entrepreneurship

12:00 AM

Corporate Brand Strategy

breakoutBrandBrand

12:00 AM

Speakers: Aprajita Jain

Elogio dell(a)normalità

breakoutStart the FutureStart the Future

12:00 AM

Speakers: Vera Gheno

Il nonprofit è un mercato enorme e sottoutilizzato: come entrarci con partnership che funzionano

breakoutTech For No ProfitTech For No Profit

12:00 AM

YouEver: come la tecnologia può custodire memoria, affetti e identità nel tempo

breakoutFuture of EntrepreneurshipFuture of Entrepreneurship

12:00 AM

The Nordic Tech Wave

breakoutOpen Innovation & International EcosystemOpen Innovation & International Ecosystem

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

The Golden Triangle & Beyond: Fintech Capital, AI Hubs, and the UK's Agile Investment Landscape

breakoutOpen Innovation & International EcosystemOpen Innovation & International Ecosystem

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM

The Pix Effect & Beyond: FinTech, AgTech, and Fueling LATAM's Mega-Market Ecosystem

breakoutOpen Innovation & International EcosystemOpen Innovation & International Ecosystem

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM

La French Tech 2.0: Sovereign AI, Massive State Support, and the Deep Tech Mandate

breakoutOpen Innovation & International EcosystemOpen Innovation & International Ecosystem

12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

Industry 4.0, Hardware Startups, and the German Co-Innovation Playbook

breakoutOpen Innovation & International EcosystemOpen Innovation & International Ecosystem

12:20 PM - 12:40 PM

Fintech Capital, AI Hubs, and the UK's Agile Investment Landscape

breakoutOpen Innovation & International EcosystemOpen Innovation & International Ecosystem

3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

The African Tech Leapfrog

breakoutOpen Innovation & International EcosystemOpen Innovation & International Ecosystem

3:30 PM - 3:50 PM

Crypto Valleys & Deep Tech Peaks: University Spin-offs and Wealth-Backed Innovation

breakoutOpen Innovation & International EcosystemOpen Innovation & International Ecosystem

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM

È Arte!

breakoutContent CreatorsContent Creators

12:00 AM

Day 4

Title Soon Online

breakoutSocial ADVSocial ADV

12:00 AM

Speakers: Veronica Gentili

Sponsorship Packages

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ROI Benchmarks

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