Antonio Emilio Calegari, 58, holds a degree in Physics from the University of Milan and a MBA from INSEAD (Fontainbleau, FR).

He served as Consultant in Bain & Company and as senior executive in several national and international organizations such as Sirti, Vodafone, Diners Club International and CWT.

From 2020 to 2024 he co-founded and managed Artificialy, a Swiss-based growing startup delivering industrialized AI solutions to companies and institutions.

He is personally passioned about science, technology and innovation as well as classical music.

Fabio Pammolli is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the Politecnico di Milano. From 2015 to 2020, he was a member of the Investment Committee of the European Fund for Strategic Investments. He is currently the Chairman of the Investment Committee of InvestEU and serves as an economic advisor to the Italian Minister of Economy and Finance. He has held leadership roles in the governance of universities and research centers in Italy and abroad. Notably, he served as the founding Director of the IMT School of Advanced Studies in Lucca (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/world/europe/13iht-educlede13.html). He has been a visiting scientist at Boston University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the London School of Economics, and Sciences Po (OFCE). He has held board member roles in large corporations and served as an advisor for private equity and infrastructure funds.

Giovanni Anastasi, 58, born in Turin, holds a degree in Political Science. Currently serving as the Executive Chairman at Formez PA, he is an expert in digitalization and change management at both national and international levels. Over his extensive career, he has developed skills ranging from industrial processes to back-office services. Anastasi has held leading roles at Ita Airways, Teksid Aluminum, Iveco, and CNH Industrial. He also has a strong background in consultancy, having been a senior account at Accenture.

Andrea Bertolini is Associate Professor of Private Law at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, and the director of the Centre of Excellence on the Regulation of Robotics and AI (EURA, www.eura.santannapisa.it). His published research ranges from private law to technology regulation. On such matters, he consults national, international, and European policy makers. Prof. Bertolini graduated (undergraduate and Phd) from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and (undergraduate) the University of Pisa and holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School. He is an attorney licensed to practice in Italy and New York.

Duilio Paolino, born in Cuneo. Entrepreneur in the metalworking industry and partner of start-ups ranging from the mechanical to the medical field.

With the exception of a few years at the beginning of his career where he worked as an employee of a metalworking company he has always been a businessman and his company, earlier named Cosmo srl and later Agricosmo srl, is cooperating with important brands such as Kubota, CNH and John Deere.

Dr. Marco Pavone is an Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, where he directs the Autonomous Systems Laboratory and the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford. He also leads autonomous vehicle research at NVIDIA. Before joining Stanford, he was a Research Technologist within the Robotics Section at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. His main research interests are in the development of methodologies for the analysis, design, and control of autonomous systems, with an emphasis on self-driving cars, autonomous aerospace vehicles, and future mobility systems. He is a recipient of a number of awards, including a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Barack Obama.

Alberto Bemporad is a Full Professor at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca and co-founder of ODYS S.r.l. He earned a Ph.D. in Control Engineering from the University of Florence and has held positions at ETH Zurich, the University of Siena, and the University of Trento, as well as visiting positions at Washington University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and Zhejiang University. He has published over 400 papers, co-invented 21 patents, and co-authored MATLAB’s Model Predictive Control Toolbox. An IEEE Fellow since 2010, he has received numerous awards, including the IFAC High-Impact Paper Award, the IEEE CSS Transition to Practice Award, and an ERC Advanced Research Grant.

Sabine Hauert is Professor of Swarm Engineering at University of Bristol, where she leads a team of 20 researchers working on making AI-powered swarms for people, and across scales, from nanorobots for cancer treatment, to larger robots for environmental monitoring, or logistics (https://hauertlab.com). She’s PI or Co-I on more than 30M GBP in grant funding and has served on national and international committees, including the UK Robotics Growth Partnership, the Royal Society Working Group on Machine Learning, and several IEEE boards. She is on the board of directors of the Open Source Robotics Foundation and is Executive Trustee of non-profits robohub.org and aihub.org, which connect the robotics and AI communities to the public.

Dr. Savarese is the Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist of Salesforce AI Research, as well as an Adjunct Faculty of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he served as an Associate Professor with tenure until winter 2021. At Salesforce, Dr. Savarese is shaping the scientific direction and long-term AI strategy by aligning research and innovation efforts with Salesforce’s mission and objectives. As a Chief Scientist, he is leading the AI Research organization and various investments in Generative AI, AI for C360 and CRM, AI for Trust, AI for developer productivity, and AI for operations.

Dr. Savarese has published more than 350 scientific articles in top-tier journals and conferences. In 2024, Dr. Savarese was included in the list of The TIME 100 Most Influential People in AI, and in 2023 he was nominated Business Insider’s Top 100 in AI, Business Insider’s Top 15 in Enterprise AI. His work has been featured in various media outlets, including the NYT, CBS, PBS, eWeek, Financial Times, Quartz, ABC, BBC, Forbes, VentureBeat, Corriere Della Sera, Sole24, Panorama, and La Repubblica.