Maddalena Amoruso

Group Data Office at Poste Italiane, accountable for data strategy, analytics & AI, customer profiling and marketing automation program. Graduated in physics at the University of Pisa, she has more than 20 years of experience in consulting, software, telco and technology firms working on digital and data driven transformation.

James Brusseau

is with the Pace University (New York, USA) and visiting Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science ( University of Trento). Earliest work explored conceptions of selfhood built on a metaphysics of difference (Nietzsche, Bataille, Deleuze). Subsequent work conceived philosophy after French Nietzscheanism as decadent. Current work engages the human dilemmas of artificial intelligence intersecting with privacy, authenticity, freedom, and personal identity.

Allaine Cerwonka

Allaine Cerwonka is Director of Turing International. She leads in the development in the Institute’s international strategy. She is responsible for Turing’s international activities which include international research collaborations, a visitors’ programme, and delivering the international AI leadership as set out in the UK’s AI Strategy. As Associate Director of the research programme AI for Government & Science (ASG), she co-leads a large-scale programme which aims to extend the benefits of AI to the public sector and discovery science, including offices of the national government, local government, the healthcare sector and scientific agencies and labs. Included in the programme’s work are the development of digital twins for industry and urban planners; and the co-design of ethical frameworks and guidelines with government and third sector stakeholders.

Giovanni Comandé

is Full Professor of Private Comparative Law at Scuola Superiore S. Anna Pisa, Italy. PhD. SSSA, LLM Harvard Law School, Founder and Director of the LIDER-LAB (www.lider-lab.it). Attorney at law (Pisa since 1995); (New York Bar since 1997). Mediator mediation trainer. He is currently a Consultative Member of the American Law Institute for Information Privacy (www.ali.org); Member of the European Group on Tort Law for drafting Principles of European Tort Law (PETL); Member of the European Center for Law and Insurance (www.ectil.org, Wien); Member of The European Law Institute (ELI) www.europeanlawinstitute.eu.

Rita Cucchiara

is a full professor in the Department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari" at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where she is Director of the AI Research and Innovation Center (AIRI) and coordinates AImagelab for research in computer vision and multimodal deep learning. She has been in 2016-18 President of Italian Association CVPL and in 2018-21 Director of the CINI Lab AIIS. She is ELLIS Fellows and director of the ELLIS unit in Modena. She is affiliated at IIT-CNR institute and Member of the Board of Director of Italian institute of technology. She is member of the Advisor Board of IIS Max Planck (D) and CVC Barcelona. (S) GChair of ICVR20, ECCV22, ACMMM23 and CVPR24.

Ernesto Damiani

is President of the National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics (CINI), Full Professor at Università degli Studi di Milano, Director of Center for Cyber Physical Systems (C2PS) within the Khalifa University and leader of the Big Data area at Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Center. He is also part of the ENISA Ad-Hoc Working Group on Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity, where he serves as Rapporteur.

Giuseppe De Pietro

Presidente della Fondazione FAIR e Direttore dell’Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni del CNR. Precedentemente è stato docente presso la facoltà di Ingegneria dell’Università di Napoli “Federico II”. Consulente del Ministero per le Riforme e Innovazioni nella Pubblica Amministrazione, per la definizione delle strategie di diffusione delle nuove tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione nell’ e-government. Esperto del Ministero per lo Sviluppo Economico. E’ stato anche membro della commissione bilaterale DigitPA – CNR e della della commissione bilaterale tra DigitPA e CNR per i processi di innovazione tecnologica ed e-government. Presidente del C.D.A. di Ehealthnet scarl e rappresentante del CNR nel Laboratorio pubblico/privato ehealthnet. Membro Italiano dell’e-Infrastructure Reflection Group. Esperto designato dal MIUR Pianificazione Reti di Ricerca Europee. Consigliere del C.D.A. del Centro di Competenza Regionale per l’ICT – CeRICT. Rappresentante del CNR nel CeRICT.national.

Paolo Errico

CEO & Founder Maxfone. Vice Presidente per Innovazione e Transizione Digitale Piccola Industria Confindustria.
Imprenditore, autore e contributor, esperto di Big Data e intelligenza artificiale (AI), promotore della filosofia data driven, ma soprattutto costante ricercatore del disruptive. Negli anni Paolo Errico consolida le sue competenze in campo ICT attraverso ruoli direttivi e collaborazioni con istituti nazionali ed internazionali altamente qualificati. Dal 2010 è alla guida di Maxfone, primo data provider europeo indipendente specializzato nell’analisi delle esperienze di funzionamento delle macchine (IoT) e nell’analisi delle esperienze di consumo di brand e prodotti (IoB). Insieme al team Maxfone, Errico porta la società a sviluppare una metodologia di analisi proprietaria che nel 2018 riceve il primo brevetto italiano in Big Data analysis.

Francesca Galli

Dirigente di ruolo di II Fascia presso la Segreteria Tecnica del Ministro, Gabinetto MUR.

Nicola Gatti

is Professor in Artificial Intelligence at Politecnico di Milano. He is EurAI Fellow and AAIA Fellow. He is co-director of the Ellis Unit at Milano, co-director of the AI Research and Innovation Center of Politecnico di Milano, and co-director of the Italian Observatory Artificial Intelligence. Since 2023, he is the Coordinator of the Spoke 4 of FAIR Project.

Alistair Knott

works in the areas of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI). He studied Philosophy and Psychology at Oxford University, then did postgrad and postdoc work in AI at the University of Edinburgh. He has been based in Aotearoa New Zealand since 1998, first at Otago University, and now at Victoria University of Wellington.
Ali has always been interested in the ethics and social impacts of AI. At Otago, he co-founded the Centre for AI and Public Policy, where he conducted research on Government uses of AI in New Zealand, and on the impact of AI on jobs and work in New Zealand. In Wellington, he coordinates a regular seminar on AI and Society, bringing together experts from many university departments with government stakeholders. Beyond New Zealand, Ali is a member of the Global Partnership on AI’s Responsible AI Working Group, where (with Dino Pedreschi) he co-leads a project on social media governance, focussing on recommender systems, harmful content classifiers and large language models. Ali has also contributed to the Christchurch Call’s Algorithms Workstream, and has participated in working groups at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism.
Ali also works in the AI industry. He joined the NZ-based AI company Soul Machines as an academic contractor when it was founded in 2016. At Soul Machines, Ali works on a large-scale project to build a simulated embodied brain, for use in the company’s main product (a human-computer dialogue system), and also in a research system (a simulated baby, BabyX). Ali also has primary responsibility for the company’s ethics policy.

Mirko Lalli

Fondatore e il CEO di The Data Appeal Company SpA (ex Travel Appeal), acquisita nel 2022 da Almawave Spa,del gruppo Almaviva, per la quale è Chief Group Digital Strategy Officer. L’obiettivo della società è quello di democratizzare e semplificare l’uso e la comprensione dei dati, per aiutare aziende e istituzioni a prendere decisioni efficaci e consapevoli e accelerare il progresso verso un mondo più sostenibile e inclusivo. Ha fatto parte del Comitato Innovazione Turismo del Ministero del Turismo e ha collaborato all’ideazione e alla realizzazione di BTO - Buy Tourism Online. Nel dicembre 2017 ha partecipato all’Executive Program di Singularity University in Silicon Valley.

Marco Malvaldi

Chimico e scrittore, ha esordito nel 2007 per Sellerio con La briscola in cinque, primo degli otto volumi dedicati ai “vecchietti del BarLume”, divenuti nel 2013 una serie televisiva e seguiti da una lunga serie di romanzi e di saggi di divulgazione scientifica. Per Giunti ha da poco pubblicato Oscura e celeste, La misura dell’uomo (2018) e – a quattro mani con Paolo Cintia – Rigore di testa (2021). I suoi ultimi libri, scritti insieme a Samantha Bruzzone, sono Chi si ferma è perduto (Sellerio, 2022) e La molla e il cellulare (Raffaello Cortina, 2022). Nel suo saggio "Per ridere aggiungere l'acqua" (BUR, 2018), ha trattao il tema del linguaggio in relazione all'umorismo.

Daniele Nardi

Direttore del Laboratorio Nazionale di Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems del CINI e Professore Ordinario di Intelligenza Artificiale (Artificial Intelligence) Sapienza Università di Roma.

Roberto Navigli

is Professor of Computer Science at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he leads the Sapienza NLP Group. He is one of the few researchers to have received two prestigious ERC grants in AI on multilingual word sense disambiguation (2011-2016) and multilingual language- and syntax-independent open-text unified representations (2017-2022), selected among the 15 projects (out of 10,000) through which the ERC transformed science. In 2015 he received the META prize for groundbreaking work in overcoming language barriers with BabelNet, a project also highlighted in The Guardian and Time magazine, and winner of the Artificial Intelligence Journal prominent paper award 2017. He is the co-founder of Babelscape, a successful company which enables Natural Language Understanding in dozens of languages. He served as Associate Editor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal (2013-2020) and Program Chair of ACL-IJCNLP 2021. He will serve as General Chair of ACL 2025.

Alessandro Nicolosi

received the B.Sc. degree in computer engineering and the M.Sc. degree in control engineering from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Early in his experience he has worked in the field of industrial research and development mainly focused on unmanned aerial vehicle control systems and flight dynamics parameters estimation. Since 2015, he has been working in the field of computer vision and deep learning technologies, applied to video analysis, security, real time systems and predictive maintenance products. Currently, he is the Head of AI Research Area of Leonardo Labs.

Francesco Saverio Nucci

is Director of Application Research at Engineering SpA company. He served as external high level expert for different governmental and private institutions, such as Italian Ministry of Economic Development, European Commission DG Connect and international industrial boards and committees. He has been member of the high level expert group for the definition of the Italian Strategy for Artificial Intelligence. He has been teaching associate at many Italian universities, such as Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and “La Sapienza” of Rome. Actually, he is professor at International Telematic University Uninettuno for Information Processing Systems.

Ellie Pavlick

is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, and a Research Scientist at Google. She is interested in understanding how language models (especially large, neural networks models) work under the hood, and in characterizing how the representations and algorithms they use reflect and differ from those of humans.

Lucilla Sioli

is the Director for “Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry” within Directorate-General CONNECT at the European Commission. She is responsible for the coordination of the European digitisation of industry strategy and for policy development in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). The directorate also supports R&D&I in key digital industrial technologies including microelectronics, photonics, robotics and AI. Ms Siolo has been a civil servant with the European Commission since 1997.

Carlo Tacchetti

is Professor of Anatomy at Vita-Salute University of Milan, Director of The Experimental Imaging Centre of the IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Coordinator of the Microsoft/UniSR/HSR AI strategic program.
Education: Medical Degree (1982) cum laude, and residency in Oncology (1987) cum laude at the University Federico II, Naples (IT)
Research training abroad (5 years): Weizman Institute of Science, Rehovot (IL); NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Md, (USA); EMBL, Heidelberg (D); CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris (F).
Academic and scientific career in Italy: Staff scientist - Natl. Inst. Cancer Res Genova (I)), Associate Professor and then Full professor of Anatomy (2000), University of Genova; Principal Investigator - IFOM-IEO campus (c/o University of Genova) (2002/2012).
Major research interest: development of advanced bioimaging, from microscopy to diagnostic imaging, applied to many fields of cancer research. More recent research interest: artificial Intelligence applied to healthcare. Carlo Tacchetti is author of 136 peer reviewed scientific publications, many in top impact journals.