2024 programme
Visionaria It will be held from 20 to 22 November, from 9.30 to 20.00, at the ‘D. Becci’ exhibition pavilion at the Marina di Pescara marina, transformed for the occasion into a vibrant space full of activities. Each day will offer an intense program, designed to involve and inspire participants with workshops, conferences, exhibitions and networking moments, in areas dedicated to each event.
On the third and last day, Visionaria will host SMAU Abruzzo, which will animate the entire pavilion with its prestigious programme. SMAU will bring to Pescara the best innovations and startups in the region, further enriching the event with meetings and showcases on emerging technologies and opportunities for businesses.
For the duration of the event you can also immerse yourself in VisionArt, an experiential area where you can touch the future. A space where equipment and experts are available to show how new technologies can be applied to the craft sector.
VisionART is an innovative initiative that aims to integrate new technologies, with a focus this year on Artificial Intelligence, with the craft sector.
The event will conclude, as usual, with the long-awaited award ceremony of the 2024 Hackathon, which celebrates the talent and creativity of the participants, confirming Visionaria as a reference event for innovation and collaboration.
Plenary: The main hall, the largest, with a large stage, will be the space where visionaries will confront each other, sharing ideas and perspectives on a more sustainable future. Round tables and awards will take place here, in an environment designed to foster dialogue and inspiration.
the Academy Room: a space dedicated to in-depth study and specialist training, designed to involve a cross-cutting audience and promote key skills to face the challenges of tomorrow.
Talk area: a dynamic and informal space, designed for debate and discussion on current issues, dedicated to specific targets. Here, networking and the exchange of ideas become fundamental resources for personal and professional development, creating an ideal environment to establish connections, share experiences and inspire each other.
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the program may be subject to changes
Institutional greetings
Plenary
Modera: Stefania Pinna, TV presenter for Sky tg24
Institutional greetings
- Gennaro Strever – President of the Chieti Pescara Chamber of Commerce
- By Carlo Masci — mayor of the City of Pescara
- Diego Ferrara — mayor of the City of Chieti
- Andrea Prete — President of Unioncamere
Opening by:
Antonella Santuccione Chadha – neuropsychiatrist, founder and CEO of Women’s Brain Foundation
Energy and environmental transition: where we are
- Gennaro Strever – President of the Chieti Pescara Chamber of Commerce
- Alberto Geri – Full Professor of Electrical Systems for Energy at La Sapienza University
- Roberto Spice – Terna S.p.A. Technology Manager
- Stefano Cianciotta – AD Fira Spa and technical expert at the European Committee of the Regions on the energy transition
- Claudia Canevari – Head of Unit DG Energy – European Commission
- Enzo Di Salvatore – Full Professor of Constitutional Law – University of Teramo
- Paolo Arrigoni — President GSE Energy Services Manager SpA
The evolution of environmental sustainability: ESG approaches for the future
- Gennaro Strever – President of the Chieti Pescara Chamber of Commerce
- Edoardo Alesse – Rector of the University of L’Aquila
- Carmine Puglielli – Director of the Abruzzo Business Area of Intesa San Paolo
- Ilaria Bertini – Director of the Department of Energy Efficiency Unit (DUEE) of ENEA
- Antonio Romeo – Director-General of Dintec – Consortium for Technological Innovation
- Francesco De Luca, Professor of Business Economics, ‘G.d’Annunzio’ Chieti Pescara University
IDeparture
Presentation of the I Riparto 2025 edition.
Guests: Barbara Gasperini and Luca Tremolada
Presentation HACKATHON 2024
Presentation of the challenge, proposed by FATER Spa, to design a solution that uses AI and ML tools to generate insights on a dataset of promotional folder images made available by the company.
Speakers:
- Francesca Mazzoni – sales & digital business analyst manager – Fater Spa
- Silvia Fracassi – trade market & people insights manager – Fater Spa
Artificial Intelligence Model Creations
Academy
Artificial Intelligence Model Creations
Interactive workshop for university and high school students.
Curated by:
Piero Savastano — Data Scientist and Disseminator on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Presentation meetings at ITS schools
Talk area
Presentation meetings at ITS schools
Presentation meetings at ITS schools, with a focus on the innovative aspects of their path.
The planned meetings are:
9:00-9:30 ITS ACADEMY TOURISM AND CULTURE
9.40-10:10 ITS ACADEMY ENERGY
10:20-10:50 ITS ACADEMY MECHANICAL & COMPUTER SYSTEM
11:00-11:30 ITS ACADEMY FASHION SYSTEM
11:40-12:10 ITS MOST ACADEMY FOR SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
12:20-12:50 ITS ACADEMY AGRO-FOOD SYSTEM
VISIONARIA Award
Plenary
VISIONARIA Award
The prize is aimed at start-ups and the idea of the most innovative company in Abruzzo. A prize for the most talented companies that have surpassed other competitions in terms of innovation such as: Business in pink: What a story!, StartCup Abruzzo, Changes of Cna Abruzzo, Oscar Green of Coldiretti regional and InnovAzioni of Confindustria Abruzzo Medio Adriatico
They conduct:
Nino Germano
Journalist Rai, deputy editor-in-chief, host of news and radio newspaper
Augustus Coppola (disambiguation)
President of InnovAction Lab and Professor of Digital Entrepreneurship
Opening of works:
- Gennaro Strever – President of the Chieti Pescara Chamber of Commerce
- Ivano Lapergola – President of the Development Agency of the Chieti Pescara Chamber of Commerce
- Antonella Marrollo – Chair of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Committee of the Chieti Pescara Chamber of Commerce
- Paolo Campana – Vice-President Confindustria Abruzzo Medio Adriatico
- Roberto Rampazzo – Director Coldiretti Abruzzo
- Savino Saraceni – pCNA Abruzzo resident
- Federico Fioriti – Director of the Innovalley Association of Innovation Promoters
15.20
Presentation of projects
18.00
Award ceremony
18.45
Closure of works
- Tiziana Magnacca – Regional Councillor for Production Activities, Abruzzo Region
Artificial Intelligence and Innovation: Technological developments and the role of the human being
Academy
Artificial Intelligence and Innovation: Technological developments and the role of the human being
Curated by:
- Fabio Righetto, Territorial Development Center of UniCredit S.p.A.
- Ivan Luciano Danesi, Flagship 8 Project Manager – Rome Technopole
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Masterclass on Digital Marketing tools through GPT Chat
Curated by:
Digital Business Point – Chieti Pescara Chamber of Commerce
AI Applications in Engineering: Security, Management and Future Visions
Talk area
AI Applications in Engineering: Security, Management and Future Visions
Curated by:
Order of Engineers of Chieti (recognition of professional credits is foreseen)
Institutional greetings
- Gennaro Strever – President of the Chieti Pescara Chamber of Commerce
- Massimo Staniscia – President of the Order of Engineers of Chieti
Speakers:
- Damiano Bauce – AI applications for safety and fire prevention
- Antonio Teti – rHead of Information Systems, G. D’Annunzio University and member of the AI Governance Committee
- Alessio De Fabritiis – The anthropological implications of artificial intelligence
- Alessia Amelio – Researcher, INGEO Department, ‘G.d’Annunzio’ Chieti Pescara University
Alternating Stories and Skills Award
Plenary
Alternating Stories and Skills Award
Present:
Maura Di Marco and Paolo Di Lullo, Chamber of Commerce Chieti Pescara
Initiative promoted by the Chambers of Commerce and Unioncamere with the aim of enhancing the pathways for transversal skills and quality guidance for students of Italian schools in the second cycle of education and the ITS Academy.
9.30
Institutional greetings
- Gennaro Strever – President of the Chieti Pescara Chamber of Commerce
- Giuliano Bocchia – technical manager of the Abruzzo Regional School Office
- Cesare Gabrielli – Labour Development Italy
The following spoke: Emanuele Sacco, winner of the Tecnopia Award 2020
Working table of the Italian Chambers of Commerce on innovation and digital services
Academy
Working table of the Italian Chambers of Commerce on innovation and digital services
In collaboration with InfoCamere Scpa, a consortium of the Italian Chambers of Commerce for IT
Speakers:
- Paolo Ghezzi – Director-General Infocamere Scpa
- Domenico Tarantino – Head of Statistics and Evolved Data Analysis
- Giovanni Bianchi – Head of organisational structure – Service and Process Management. Directorate Chambers of Commerce Services on Demand and Territorial Initiatives
- Giulia Miotello – executive assistant, contact person for InfoCamere for Open Innovation initiatives for the chamber system
Dialogue on corporate and institutional communication trends
Talk area
Dialogue on corporate and institutional communication trends
Speakers:
Francesco Di Costanzo – journalist, founder and president of PA Social and Fondazione Italia Digitale
Giuseppina Manente – journalist, head of digital communication for the Province of Teramo and founding partner of ./cogita
Francesco Teodori – founder of Popup, a digital customer experience platform
Export Flying Desk Abruzzo special edition: Focus on African markets
Academy
Export Flying Desk Abruzzo special edition: Focus on African markets
15.00 intervention by ECI Cairo (Egypt)
15.30 intervention of ICE Addis Ababa (Ethiopa) contact also for Uganda and Somalia
16.00 Presentation of ECI digital services
16.15 Presentation Export Flying Desk
16.30/18.00 One-to-one meetings with companies according to a fixed agenda of meetings
Artificial intelligence for the chamber system
Plenary
Artificial intelligence for the chamber system
Modera:
Giampaolo Colletti, professional journalist, director of StartupItalia, writes about marketing and innovation on the pages of Sole24Ore
- Gennaro Strever – President of the Chieti Pescara Chamber of Commerce
- Paolo Ghezzi – Director-General of Infocamere
- Alessio Misuri – Senior innovation manager of Dintec – Consortium for technological innovation
- Paolo Cortese – Head of Observatories on Development Factors at Centro Studi Tagliacarne
16.20
5 minutes with...
Federico Pomponii, Co-founder of Cogita and Frontend Engineer in Silicon Valley
16.30
Innovation and creativity: New frontiers of artificial intelligence for public administrations
- Antonio Teti – Head of Information Systems, University of Chieti-Pescara ‘G. d’Annunzio’ and member of the Government Committee on AI
- Francesco Di Costanzo – Founder and President of PA Social and Fondazione Italia Digitale
- David Fazio (disambiguation) – Professor of logic and philosophy of science at the University of Teramo
- True Knaves – Professor of Administrative Law at the ‘G. d’Annunzio’ Chieti-Pescara University and expert in Ai Government
17.20
5 minutes with...
Andrea De Giorgio, founder of the startup Eworking
17.30
Artificial intelligence for SMEs: future challenges
- Irene Dideo – contact person for the Artificial Intelligence Observatory of the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano
- Massimiliano Falcone – Professor of International Strategy and Strategic Communication at IULM University
- Sara Moccia – Associate professor in bioengineering at the ‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ Chieti-Pescara University and co-founder of Gaia s.r.l. – AI Ethics & Governance
- Hyacinth the Flower – Disseminator, co-founder of Artificial Intelligence Explained Simple and co-organiser of AI Week
- Raffaele Jaw – Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Teramo
- Stefano Za – Associate Professor of Business Organisation at the ‘G.d’Annunzio’ University of Chieti Pescara
The following spoke: Alberto Acito – Director of Innovit (connected from San Francisco)
Cybersecurity and protection for businesses – How to protect corporate data and avoid cyber-attacks
Talk area
Cybersecurity and protection for businesses – How to protect corporate data and avoid cyber-attacks
Speakers:
Fabio Fioravanti – Professor of Cybersecurity, G. D’Annunzio Chieti University of Pescara
Stefano Moscatelli – Infocamere Scpa, a consortium of the Italian Chambers of Commerce
The seminar is reserved for companies with registered office and/or local units in the province of Chieti or Pescara. up to a maximum of 50 participants.
Participants in the seminar (it is not enough to register on the form but to attend the seminar) will receive a free IT Security Check report promoted by the PIDs of the Italian Chambers of Commerce and Infocamere.
The IT Security Check, with the Cyber Exposure Index Report, verifies whether and how cybercriminals have come into possession of the data of a particular company and what information they have available to be able to attack it.
The Cyber Exposure Index is calculated from the website from the company's inbox, takes an exact picture of the company through 3 primary factors:
- Quantity of services displayed on the internet
- List of potential externally exploitable vulnerabilities (already known to cybercriminals)
- Data leakage relating to company-related users and passwords
The companies participating in the seminar, within a few hours after the seminar, will be sent the report that will be repeated after six months in order to provide a monitoring of the state of cyber risk over time.
It is mandatory to have a company website and email in order to access the service.
For information: pidchietipescara@chpe.camcom.
17.00
Born to Grow: START UP & BEST PRACTICES CAMERAL SYSTEM
The cases: Ulisses, Trace Technologies and Aria Insoles
Solutions: Development Agency with M&T Italia srl and Beople srl
SMAU ABRUZZO
Plenary
