Identity Between
Memory and
Forgetting

Journalist and writer, born in Novara in 1984. After graduating in Political Science, he made his debut on RAI 3 as a TV analyst for TV Talk and in 2010 moved to Jerusalem to work at the television center of the Custody of the Holy Land. Returning to Milan in 2013, he takes care of communications for the Association pro Terra Sancta and writes about the Middle East in several Italian newspapers of national importance. In 2012 he published the book “Clinging to the Roots. Stories and faces of Christians in the Holy Land” and in June 2015 Kikot, the most important game.

Artist and teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Verona, where he teaches Painting and Digital Image Processing and coordinates the three-year course in New Art Technologies. He has a degree in Computer Science and a diploma in Painting from the Brera Academy. His artistic research fuses visual art, pop culture and technology, with particular attention to digital languages. He has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad. It also collaborates with university institutions on research projects on generative artificial intelligence for images, exploring its expressive and critical potential. His works are part of public and private collections. He is also active in the curation of exhibitions dedicated to young artists and interdisciplinary experimentation.

Milan, born 1978, graphic designer, artist and freelance calligrapher, considered one of the reference figures in the world of modern calligraphy. He has been teaching with the Italian Calligraphic Association since 2007 and collaborating with leading design schools, including IED, NABA, Domus Academy and, since 2017, Raffles Design Milano. He has given workshops and lectures all over the world. His works have been exhibited in European galleries, in solo and group exhibitions and are part of permanent collections such as those of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and the Harrison Collection at the San Francisco Public Library.

Writer, screenwriter, curator, comics historian, editorial director of If Edizioni. He writes, among others, for Dampyr, Dylan Dog, Martin Mystère, Nathan Never, Odessa, Le Storie. Also by him are: Don Camillo in comics, Unique clue the tennis shoes, G&G, Josif, Paputsi and The Queens of Terror – The girls of the Milanese class who created Diabolik.

Architect, graduated from the Polytechnic of Milan where she is currently a PhD student in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, with a PhD Scholarship funded by PNRR and FNM to explore the potential of the railway area and its surrounding spaces as a research topic. For several years now, she has been collaborating with the Department on research and project activities and as a tutor in project-based teaching.

Born in 1975 in Bergamo. An essayist and photography critic, he has curated exhibitions and monograph books on some of the most important contemporary Italian photographers. In 2024, he published for La nave di Teseo the volume Viaggiatori ai margini del paesaggio. Ghirri, Barbieri, Basilico, Chiaramonte, Cresci, Guidi, Jodice, dedicated to the collective experience of Viaggio in Italia.

His artistic career began between 1996 and 1997, during which he won several prestigious competitions for young comedians including Il Cabaret del Cabaret, Bravo Grazie! and the Ugo Tognazzi Cabaret Festival. In 1997, he made his screen debut with the film Incontri proibiti with Valeria Marini, under the direction of Alberto Sordi.

An entrepreneur and expert in communication and innovation, he began his career in the 1990s at Von Klier Associati (Olivetti Group), and then became Development Manager and Partner in the PDC agency. Today, he is the founder and CEO of the content company ONLIFE Media, and presides over the Festival dell’Energia, which he founded in 2008. In 2018, he founded Beulcke+Partners, an agency that integrates corporate and digital strategy, and has initiated other major festivals and productions such as Il Verde e il Blu Festival and WE-Women’s Equality Festival. He is the author of several publications and TV programmes.

Graduated in Law in Como and enrolled in the Milan Bar Association, he has been working in the field of Privacy and Compliance since 2013. He additionally refines his skills in IP Rights and ICT contracts. In 2019, he obtained UNI 11697:2017 certification as a Personal Data Protection Officer and currently plays this role for several entities that are part of the FNM Group.

Focuses on growth and innovation, with experience in various Italian and international startups. He is a fellow at Tortuga Think Tank, where he explores the future of work and technology. He is an advisor to technology companies and lecturer in GenAI for executives and professionals. He enjoys understanding how things work – and making them work better.

Graduated in 1980 with a degree in Philosophy, in 1989 he obtained a Doctorate in Economic and Social History at the Luigi Bocconi University of Milan. From 2000 to 2025 he was a lecturer in the courses of Economic History at Bocconi University and from 2016 to 2025 also of that of Contemporary Italy at the same university. Since 2012, he has been director of the ISEC Foundation (Institute for the History of the Contemporary Age).

Journalist for SkyTG24, he hosts the morning news and press review. He deals with artificial intelligence, from its technical foundations to its social, political and economic consequences. He has held seminars on the use of AI in journalism for universities and training schools.

A historian and scholar of comics, he is the author of Guida al fumetto italiano (www.guidafumettoitaliano.com), Topolino 80 anni insieme, Fumetto!, I Bonelli and other volumes on the ninth art. He founded Edizioni if and created the MUF (Museum of Comics and Imagery of Lucca).

Born in Varese in 1963, he has served as a priest in the diocese of Milan since 1987. Among the positions he currently holds in June 2012, he was nominated by Card. Angelo Scola, Episcopal Vicar for Culture, Charity, Mission and Social Action of the Diocese of Milan, is also President of the Sant’Ambrogio Foundation.

Born on 29 October 1962 in Parma, where he lives, he is married and has two daughters. Since December 2014 he has been Director of the Milan Cathedral Construction Sites for the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo, as well as Director of the Candoglia Quarry, from which the precious marble used to build the great Cathedral has been extracted since 1387. In this role he manages the three construction sites that have always been active (Cantiere Duomo, Cantiere Marmisti and Cava di Candoglia), coordinating the approximately 100 highly specialized workers of the Veneranda Fabbrica.

Lawyer, Professor of Artificial Intelligence Law (Bocconi University, Link University, European School of Economics) and Director Legal and Strategy Google.

He is professor of Italian linguistics at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He trained in Milan, Pisa, London, Leuven and Saarbrücken, and taught for several years at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. He has published books and articles on the history of the Italian language and the dialects of Italy from the Middle Ages to the present day, working mainly on ancient Milanese, the history of grammar, and the language of the 19th century.

Managing Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy since 2009. Since January 2020, he has been the majority shareholder and Deputy Chairman of Synergo SGR S.p.A., and since April 2019, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of Tesmec S.p.A. He was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic from February 2012 to March 2013.

Photography curator and critic. He is the artistic director of Le Stanze della Fotografia in Venice and of Deloitte PhotoGrant. He is the author of numerous essays on photography: Capire la fotografia contemporanea, l’arte del futuro e Il mosaico del mondo, la biografia di Maurizio Galimberti for Marsilio Editori. Collezionare Fotografia for Contrasto Editore. He has curated exhibitions in Italy and abroad of many Italian and foreign photographers. Among them, Ferdinando Scianna, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Franco Fontana, Helmut Newton, Robert Capa, Sabine Weiss, David Lachapelle. He is curator of the Bibbiena Italian Photography Festival and the Capri Photography Festival.

Chief White House Correspondent for Gray Television, the second largest television station in the United States. He has been following presidential politics for more than 30 years.

She graduated from the State University of Milan and received her specialization in Art History from the Catholic University, also in Milan. Since 2001 she has been Conservator of the Diocesan Museum in Milan, where she is in charge of the permanent collection and exhibition projects of ancient art.

Formed at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice at Atelier F. On December 1, 2025, his first mural painting In the Swing of Freedom was unveiled on the former Setificio Colle Masotti on the occasion of the Centenary of the Maria Dolens War Memorial Bell, the result of a collaboration between the l Municipality of Rovereto, Mart, Museum of Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, the Autonomous Province of Trento and the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage and Activities. Recognized as one of the most promising voices in contemporary Italian painting, in 2025 he was selected among the nine artists commissioned to create one of the official art posters for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. In the same year he took part in an international traveling exhibition (2025-2027) curated by the Milan Triennale and promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

Born in Milan in 1985. He graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic of Milan, a university where he carried out teaching and research in the field of computational design and digital manufacturing. He worked as an interior designer and as a consultant in the marble field in Carrara. He subsequently embarked on his journey at Alessi, where today he holds the role of Design Director, guiding product development and aesthetic research. Member of the fourth generation of the Alessi family, he is also responsible for the Alessi Museum, experimental projects and workshops created in collaboration with universities and brand partners.

Born in 1989, he has been deaf since the age of three. He is a teacher of physical education in secondary school, a basketball coach and president of the ENS Varese Sports Group since 2017, with a renewed term for two additional positions. He has served as chairman of the Eurocup 2024 organizing committee. He is also a trainer for FSSI (Federation of Deaf Sport Italy).

Rector of “La Zolla” in Milan, Headmaster of the First Grade Secondary School in the same institute and teacher of Humanities. He is involved in teacher training, formerly in the qualifying courses promoted by the Catholic University, writing (with a personal itinerary ranging from video game reviews to popular non-fiction), as well as theater, mostly youth.

Physicist, writer, playwright, stage actress, science communicator, journalist, and TV presenter. She graduated in nuclear physics from the University of Milan with a thesis on the experimental study of the propagation of fast electrons in a vacuum chamber. She then worked for two years at the École polytechnique Palaiseau research centre in Paris. She is director of the first Physics Festival in Italy.

He graduated from Marina Spreafico’s Arsenale Theatre School. Since 2010, he has collaborated with Il Terzo Segreto di Satira and since 2013 he has been impersonating Il Signor Imbruttito in the Milanese Imbruttito collective. He participated as an actor in films such as Mollo tutto e apro un chiringuito and Ricomincio da Taaac. He has worked with major radio stations, teaches as an adjunct professor at Bicocca University and is founder of HBE – Humour Business Experience.

Massimo Locatelli teaches Film Studies and History at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. He is a specialist in the history of film culture. Cinema e scienze. La cultura del film e il sogno della conoscenza illimitata is being published by Morcelliana.

As the social and health director of VIDAS, she combines this role with providing palliative care support for adults nearing the end of life. She is a member of the Italian Palliative Care Society, which gathers professionals involved in palliative care in Italy, including doctors, nurses, social workers, and psychologists. Author of L’ultima cosa bella (2017), Biotestamento (with Barbara Rizzi, 2020) and Prendersi cura. Per il bene nostro e degli altri (2022).

Director of Osservatorio Startup Thinking, Politecnico of Milan.

Full professor of contemporary history at the University of Siena, where he teaches history of transport and tourism and history of economics and territory and where he was director of the Department of Political and International Sciences. He also held the role of councilor for Mobility and Urban Planning of the Municipality of Siena. His knowledge of the world of transport is also practical, as he was a train conductor and traffic policeman for some years. Among his books, published by the Mulino, are “History of transport in Italy” (2009), “The railways” (2017), “Mutual assistance Cesare Pozzo. 140 years of solidarity” (2017) and “Sustainable mobility” (2020).

Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer and member of the Executive Committee of Fastweb + Vodafone from January 2025. Joining Vodafone in 2012, Magnino has held positions of increasing responsibility in both Vodafone Italy and Vodafone Group in Marketing & Sales and as Head of VGE Southern Europe. Since 2021 he has held the position of Head of Vodafone Global Enterprise Italy & Public Sector at Vodafone Italy. Since May 2024, he has been the Business Director Italy and member of the Executive Committee of Vodafone Italia.

Formerly Professor of Modern Art History and Museology at the Polytechnic of Milan, where he is now an Honorary Professor, he was Vice-Director of the Brera Art Gallery and co-director of the restoration of Leonardo’s Last Supper. President of the Ente Raccolta Vinciana, Castello Sforzesco, Milan. He has numerous publications to his credit. He was a member of the National Committee for the celebrations of the Fifth Centenary of Leonardo’s Death (1519-2019) and organised exhibitions in Amboise, Milan, Bologna, Parma, and Vinci that year, collaborating on the Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition held at the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei awarded him the Tartufari Prize for Art Criticism and Poetry in 2023.

Born in Cremona, graduated in Theoretical Philosophy from the State University of Milan. He has worked in publishing for decades and for more than thirty years, director of mainly educational videos, creator of communication campaigns, founder and owner of Studio Calabiana video-graphic. He has been teaching at IED since ’93 (courses on film language and film history, course on TV series, course Mass Media Theory and Method, organization and management of Cineforum for film history, thesis advisor) and since 2005 at IES Abroad in Milan (courses: The cinema of Milan, The Gender in Italian Cinema and Visual Storytelling). He has organized and organizes for public and private agencies and associations courses and reviews on the salient themes of his research and teaching activities. He published in 2015 for Mimesis the essay on the films of Milan, La nebbia non c’è più and in 2020 for Ledizioni, Keepwatching: a small guide to television series. He lives and works from always in Milan.

Scientific Director of the Italian Institute of Technology. He was one of the three Italian representatives at the 2018 G7 forum on artificial intelligence and one of the authors of the Italian Strategic Agenda on Artificial Intelligence. He coordinated the development of the iCub robot, the reference platform for “Physical AI” research.

Academician of the Lincei, is professor of general linguistics at the Scuola Normale in Pisa and IUSS in Pavia. A specialist at the University of Geneva, he was a visiting scientist at Harvard and MIT as a Fulbright student. He studies the syntax of human languages, particularly the phenomena of symmetry breaking, and the neurobiological correlates of impossible languages. With his first novel, The Secret of Pietramala, he won the Flaiano Prize in 2018, which was followed by Fifty-one Days in 2024.

He teaches Urban Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca where he was Director of the Department of Sociology and Social Research from 2015 to 2021. In 1994, he founded and has since then been the editor of the magazine Città in Controluce.

He was, among other things, a photocomposer, graphic designer, and radio presenter. Since the 1990s, he has been writing comics for L’Intrepido, Martin Mystère and Focus Junior, among others. He is co-author of more than one hundred episodes of Diabolik, with which he has collaborated since 2000, and of which he has, in the meantime, become editor-in-chief.

Born in Genoa, a bookseller by family inheritance, then a educator and executive coach, today she is involved in writing and education. In Italy, she has published around twenty titles, including narrative and picture books, and comic biographies. With the Ararat label, she does editing, ghost-writing and literary coaching. Since 2022, he has been part of the Majestic literary agency.

Graduated in Political Science and a graduate of the Master in Public Policy Analysis (Corep, Turin). He has been involved in analysis and facilitation of decision-making processes, public communication and mediation of environmental conflicts for over twenty years. He has supervised public engagement and mediation activities in urban redevelopment processes and location of major public works. A member of Avventura Urbana since 1997, since 2020 he has been an adjunct lecturer in Government Science at the University of Turin (Luigi Bobbio Chair. Governance and Alternative Conflict Management).

Graduated in Political Science and a graduate of the Master in Public Policy Analysis (Corep, Turin). He has been involved in the analysis and facilitation of decision-making processes, public communication and mediation of environmental conflicts for over twenty years. He has supervised public engagement and mediation activities in urban redevelopment processes and location of major public works. A member of Avventura Urbana since 1997, since 2020 he has been an adjunct lecturer in Government Science at the University of Turin (Luigi Bobbio Chair. Governance and Alternative Conflict Management).

Mathematician, professor of Numerical Analysis at the Polytechnic of Milan. He is the founder of MOX at the Polytechnic of Milan and the first director of MATHICSE at EPFL. Lecturer at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and Director of the Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. In 2022, he was ranked no. 48 in the Top Scientist-Mathematics, no. 1 in Italy.

An art historian, she graduated from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, where she also specialised in Art history. After a training period at the Louvre, she started working at the Diocesan Museum in 1999, even before its opening to the public in 2001. She assumed the role of Director in 2017.

Psychologist and PhD, she is a Research Associate and Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan where she carries out teaching and research activities in the fields of personality, music therapy, and new technologies (such as Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence) applied to dynamic psychology.

CEO of NTT DATA Italia, has led the Italian branch of the Japanese group since 2013. He gained twenty years of experience in the world of IT solutions, consultancy, and security in Italy and abroad, serving as Vice President Consulting Western Continental Europe at Oracle Corporation and Group Vice President EMEA Consulting at Siebel Systems, Inc. Author of the books Il Codice del Futuro. L’Italia e la sda giapponese dell’innovazione, Marsilio editori (2017). Italia 5.0. Un nuovo umanesimo per rilanciare il Paese, Mondadori (2020) and L’Azienda Gentile. Come Bellezza, Gioia e Benessere plasmeranno le aziende del futuro, Mondadori (2023).

Born in Milan, Italy, a finance manager, she holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and business management from the Catholic University of Milan. Passionate about skiing and Swiss Kids instructor since December 2012. Worked as a ski instructor at Suvretta Swiss Snow sports every possible moment from the hectic city life.

Rector of the Polytechnic of Milan, where she is a Full Professor of Information Processing Systems. Graduated in Electronic Engineering from the same university, she obtained a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder (USA) and a Master in Business Administration from Bocconi University.

Graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Milan. Since 2014 he has been working at the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo of Milan, where he collaborated in the realisation of events for Expo Milano 2015 and supported marketing and fundraising activities. He is currently in charge of editing content related to the initiatives of the Culture and Preservation Area.

Full professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Milan, he has taught since 2001 in the Department of Philosophy, where he also directs the CIA Lab/PHILAB, a laboratory dedicated to cognitive sciences and intersubjectivity. Between 2015 and 2017 he held the position of dean of the Faculty of Humanities and was director of the doctoral program in Philosophy and Human Sciences. During his career he has carried out research and teaching activities in numerous international institutions. His studies focus on the philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience and neurophilosophy. He is the author of numerous essays, scientific articles and volumes.

Country Manager of Visa in Italy since 2021, has more than twenty-five years of experience in financial services, credit information systems and analytics, business development and consulting. He holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Bologna, and a Master of Science in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and an Executive MBA from Bologna University Business School.

Born in Bergamo on 5 January 1952, he graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan. Currently president of Fise Assoambiente, EVA Energie Valsabbia, Carbon Credits Consulting, vice president of Proger S.p.A. and CEO of Telit S.p.A. Elected Member of Parliament in the Chamber of Deputies (Environment and Territory Commission) from 1987 to 1994 and National Secretary and then President of Legambiente in the 1980s.

For about ten years he has been working full-time and with passion in technology transfer at the Italian Institute of Technology, where he is Head of Commercial Contracts and Licenses in the Technology Transfer Department, focusing on the translation of emerging technologies, with an eye to those with a high social impact. “A traveler of time and space”, Tubertini has various professions behind him through which he has explored the world of corporate banking and the manufacturing industry.

Associate professor of contemporary history at the University of Trento. He is the author of numerous books, articles and essays in Italian and English. In 2012 he published the first edition of Breve storia delle Olimpiadi for Carocci types. The new edition of the volume is available from September 2025.

Architect, PhD, Associate Professor at Polytechnic of Milan carries out national and international research activities (Mozambique, Iran, Emirates), in collaboration with public entities and universities. This work is presented in conferences, exhibitions, and publications, focusing on the themes of the project concerning the relationship between small and large scale. He has explored themes of enhancing the built environment and open spaces in contexts of particular environmental and landscape value. He has received several awards in his professional activity as an architect.

Architect and PhD, she is an Associate Professor at Polytechnic of Milan where she carries out teaching and research activities in the field of technological design of architecture, with particular reference to the themes of workspaces within urban and social regeneration processes.

Economist, Full Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bologna and Adjunct Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center. Zamagni has collaborated with numerous governments in drafting laws and with the last three Popes in drafting documents with economic content.

Speech Therapist, Master’s Degree in Rehabilitation Health Professions Science, Adjunct Professor for the Bachelor of Science in Speech Therapy course at the University of Milan and President of the Speech Therapist Register Commission and Secretary of the Order of Medical Radiology Health Technicians and Technical, Rehabilitation and Prevention Health Professions of Milan, Como, Lecco, Lodi, Monza and Brianza and Sondrio.