Valeria Samara
Valeria Samara has a background in teaching and education and has gained experience in communication and institutional relations in international and innovation-focused contexts. She has worked in public relations, strategic communication, executive coordination and event organisation, collaborating with stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams. She has gained experience in various countries, developing skills in intercultural communication and […]
Mario Nobile
A graduate in Civil Engineering with a PhD in Transport Engineering, he has held various managerial roles in the fields of spatial planning and IT services. In 2010, he joined the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, where he was responsible for urban regeneration programmes and housing policy, the management and maintenance of the Ministry’s property […]
Fabio Feliziani
Senior banking manager with over 30 years in the industry, bringing extensive experience across Operations, Organization, and IT functions.Since September 2019, Head of Integrated Valuables Management, overseeing cash-in-transit and cash processing activities for branches, ATMs, and large-scale retail clients within the Italian perimeter of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group.Since 2020, member of the Cash Efficiency Working […]
Giorgio Rutelli
Deputy Director of Adnkronos, he oversees new editorial projects and international news for the agency and manages the website and daily podcast “Eurofocus.” He studied in Rome, Brussels, and Boston, and graduated with a law degree from Florence. After university and work experience at the Antitrust Authority and in an American law firm, he began […]
Francesco Tafuri
Francesco Tafuri is Full Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Napoli Federico II.He is author of more than 250 publications and has given more than 100 invited talks at international conferences. Visiting Scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center USA.His scientific interests fall in the field of Superconductivity and Quantum Technologies. He […]
Pierluigi Totaro
A nuclear physicist, he earned his Ph.D. in high-energy physics while participating in the CDF experiment at Fermilab in Chicago as part of the search for the Higgs boson. He has collaborated with the Universities of Trieste and Padua. He currently teaches at the “Alessandro Volta” Technical Institute in Trieste. He is co-founder and president […]
Simon Bennett
Simon Bennett leads work on new technology analysis in the International Energy Agency’s Energy Technology Policy Division, covering innovation tracking, policy and outlooks. Simon is lead author of the IEA’s annual report on The State of Energy Innovation. Before joining the IEA in 2012, he worked at the European Commission’s DG Energy and holds MSc […]
Marco Cometto
Marco Cometto is an Energy Economist at the IAEA, where his work focuses on the economics and financing of nuclear power and its integration with renewables in low carbon energy systems. He authored several reports on the system costs of nuclear and renewable energy, on financing and contractual structure of nuclear new built, on the […]
Isabella Frigo
Isabella Frigo is an Italian lawyer with over twenty years of legal experience and advanced specialization in AI regulation, ethics and governance. She advises public, academic and corporate actors on responsible compliance frameworks, with a focus on Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, fundamental rights and trustworthy AI adoption. Lecturer, speaker and founder of Spiikisi S.r.l. S.B., she […]
Caterina Taballione
Dr. Caterina Taballione obtained her Master’s degree in Physics in 2014 at the University of Rome La Sapienza. In the group of Prof. Fabio Sciarrino, her thesis was on the resilience of hybrid qubits under atmospheric turbulences for quantum communication. In 2019, she successfully completed her PhD at the University of Twente under the supervision […]
Giada Bianchetti
Giada Bianchetti is a researcher at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Brescia. After completing her degree in Physics, she went on to obtain a PhD in Neuroscience and a specialisation in Medical Physics in collaboration with the “A. Gemelli” Polyclinic. She is the Principal Investigator of the Q-META project, dedicated to the […]
Valeria Zaffaroni
Valeria Zaffaroni is an IT Application Architect at the Quantum Competence Center of Intesa Sanpaolo. With a strong interest in quantum mechanics, she earned a Master’s degree in Mathematics in 2016 at the University of Milan “UNIMI”, followed by a second-level Master’s degree in Quantum Communication and Computing in the 2022–2023 academic year at the […]