Speakers

Riccardo Staglianò was born in Viareggio in 1968 and is a foreign correspondent for La Repubblica. He began his career in New York, working for the monthly publication « Reset », before moving to « Corriere della Sera ». He won the Ischia prize for journalism (youth section). For ten years he taught new media studies at the Terza […]

Corporate communicator. Past experience: Company Manager, Managerial Consultant, Lecturer at La Sapienza Rome, Manager responsible for the subject of safety at work for periodicals, Event Curator. His projects have twin objectives/aspects: “communication” as a fundamental cross-discipline skill for managers and “social media” as advertising, educational and neo-creative tools. He has taken part from the start […]

Mario Tedeschini Lalli is the international manager of the Online News Association, the world’s largest organisation of digital journalists. After almost twenty years working for press agencies and daily papers, mainly dealing with foreign news coverage, in 1997 he moved to digital journalism and led the editorial offices of Repubblica.it, CNNItalia.it and Kataweb.it, where he […]

Francesco Toniolo is a PhD Student at the Cattolica University of Milan. His research interest focuses upon the intersections between video games and other forms of art and narration. He has publications related to this topic in journals and books.

Luca Tremolada is from Genoa, and is a journalist and a gamer. He has worked in television, radio, agency, internet, and print media; chiefly dealing with economy, science, and technology. He is currently a coordinator of technology and occupies himself with journalism data, scientific writing, innovation, technology, and creativity in the science department of the […]

Dario is one of Balzo’s co-founders. He’s in charge of videomaking, sound design and public relations. He’s been a metal guitarist, electronic musician and has been working on video post-production for preschoolar cartoons. Many people believe that he’s actually a machine

Riccardo Trubiani is a data platform and analytics solution specialist for Microsoft. After a degree in economics and finance at Sapienza University in Rome, he began his career working as a data analysis consultant and general auditor for EY. In 2014 he started an MBA at the SDA Bocconi School of Management where he got […]

Federico Unnia holds a PhD degree in Political Science and Jurisprudence. He is a consultant in institutional communication and conflict resolution, a journalist and author of essays on communications law and personality rights. He regularly collaborates with the state University of Milan. He enjoys responsible deep-sea fishing.

Claudia Vago defines herself as a social media curator; she works in the news sector, with the motto ‘if you see something, say something’. Among her projects, she was an instigator of ‘OccupyChicago’, a journalistic mission financed bottom-up via a subscription by the followers of her account, which allowed her to report on events in […]

His current life began in 1961, but not even he knows how many previous lives he has had. What’s certain is that with his sharp eyes and innate sense of curiosity he has always been ready to catch the right emotion at the right time, making him one of the best food photographers in the […]

After graduating as an illustration student, Florian worked on a free game for the National Film Board & ARTE, after which he spent a year working on a new version of a game jam game made with some friends. Feeling a little burnt-out on that project, Florian decided to make a small personal, relaxing narrative […]

Ivan Venturi was born in 1970 in Bologna, Italy. He began developing video games in the early ’80s, publishing his first videogame in 1987. He co-founded the first italian video game software house (Simulmondo) and he was Production Director till 1993. Then he founded his own video game company (Colors Arti Multimediali) in 1994, producing […]