Speakers

Journalist, enthusiast about and researcher of the various means of communication that are in steady decline. In Switzerland he writes for the daily newspaper LaRegione and he is an advisor for the European Journalism Watchdog at the University of Lugano. In Switzerland he is CEO of the communications company yourMedia. In 2010 he launched “youcapital”, […]

Giulio Rubino is one of the founders of the Investigative Reporting Project (in) Italy (IRPI), a center of investigative journalism that has its headquarters in Italy. He is also a journalist for Correct!v, a journalism center with its headquarters in Berlin. Giulio has a Master’s degree in journalism that he obtained at Università di Roma […]

Massimo Russo has been the director of Wired Italia since June 2013. Prior to this he worked as a contents editor and founded the visual desk at the digital division of the Espresso Publishing Group. Massimo started working as a journalist in 1990 and it took him 10 years of working for daily newspapers before […]

Francesco Saliola (born in 1967) has been working in the cultural heritage management using applied digital solutions, especially as far as archaeological remains and books as artefacts are concerned. His main focus has gradually shifted from technologies to processes and methodologies, with a peculiar interest for the Lean/Agile approach that is becoming widespread in the […]

Born in 1982, I’m a graphic/game designer and digital art enthusiast. I’ve been working for a decade as UX designer and art director in corporate and educational environments. I founded a game and app development company named Balzo. Now I’m a Ux and Game Design freelance consultant, graphic designer and developer for user interfaces and […]

Federico Santi has been working in security since 2000. Before his current job as Security Principal for Southern Europe at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, he has worked for Anderson and Deloitte, particularly in the areas of the Public Sector and Energy & Utilities. His idea of security corresponds to a multidisciplinary and business-oriented approach, focusing his […]

Giulia Scarpaleggia is a Tuscan food writer and food photographer. She lives in the countryside, in between Siena and Florence, in the same house that was built by her gran-grand father. This is where she teaches Tuscan cooking classes for foreign and local people, food writing and food photography workshops with her partner Tommaso. She […]

Giorgio Scarpelli holds a Degree in Mathematics at University of Calabria. His current position is Chief Technology Officer and Innovation in NTT DATA Italy. Among his goals, there’s the promotion of the Innovation trends in the Italian market and to contribute to NTT DATA global R&D strategy by collaborating with NTT DATA Corporation in Japan. […]

Slawka G. Scarso graduated with honours in Economics from LUISS Guido Carli in Rome. She completed her studies as Wine Sommelier and Oil Sommelier with AIS and since 2004 works in the food & wine sector as a marketing and communication consultant and translator. She published two creative non fiction books titled Il vino a […]

Silvia Conti is part of the Democomica comedy group. At night she writes her blog www.violascintilla.wordpress.com and appears on stage at some of the worst cabarets in Milan. During the day she has a very serious job.

I am a lawyer, a lecturer on digital rights at the University of Bologna and the Lateran University, a freelance journalist and President of the Institute of innovation policy. I write several blogs on Il Fatto Quotidiano, L’Espresso and Il Sole 24 ore; I also write for Il Corriere delle Communicazioni and I am the […]

I am 33 years old and have been living in Italy for 23 years. Since my arrival in Italy, I have had the pleasure of experiencing some of the great opportunities that this country has to offer, but I have also experienced the great difficulties that foreigners encounter here with bureaucracy, though it has also […]

Stefano Semeraro was born in Bologna in 1963 where he still lives today. He loves travelling, tennis, rugby, motorsport and the history of sports in general. From 1986 to 1996 he was the editor of the tennis magazine Matchball before moving on to the motorsport fortnightly publication Rombo. He has been covering tennis for La […]

Claudia Sirchia, 25 years old, photographer and content creator. She lives in Palermo, where she was born. She has studied in Milan and Rome where she attended the first Master in Photography at Scuola Romana di Fotografia e Cinema. She loves to be not too much connected with cities, it’s what allows her to live […]

Carlo Sorrentino is Professor of Sociology of Cultural Processes and Communications (SPS08) at the Department of Political and Social Science at the University of Florence. He teaches Sociology of Cultural Processes in the Political Science program and Strategies of Journalistic Communications in the Strategic Communication program. Since 2014, he has been the director of the […]

Graduated in Computer Science from the University of Genoa , Department of Computer Science ( DISI ) in 2005 , Matteo Sosso has always been driven by a strong passion for video games . He works for a year as an employee at Silent Bay Studios in Genoa where he is responsible for the management […]

Luciana Squadrilli has earned a degree in Communications Sciences at Rome University La Sapienza. Journalist and food writer, she contributes to several Italian and international guides, websites and magazines. Since 2011 she works – as well as a free lance journalist, writer and food critic – as a communication consultant for food companies and restaurants. […]

Luisa Stagi is senior lecturer in Sociology at DISFOR, University of Genoa (Italy). Her research topics are gender, the body and food. She is co-director of the international journal of gender studies, AG-About gender and co-founder of the Laboratory of Laboratorio di Sociologia Visuale in Genoa.