19 may, 9:30 – 13:30

Daniele Manca graduated in DAMS (Drama, Art and Music Studies) in Bologna at the Institute of Communication. He is an inaugural Fellow of the Sulzberger program at Columbia University School Of Journalism. He has worked in the main Italian newspapers and weeklies (from Mondo Economico to Panorama, from Italia Oggi to Il Giorno) and, since 1994, he has worked at Corriere della Sera where he started as an editor up to his current position as deputy director, columnist and head of the economy and innovation section. He has followed and organised coverage of major Italian economic and political events: from the stock market boom of '86 to Clean Hands, from the birth of the euro to the Fiat rescue and the European Central Bank, from the Maastricht Treaty to the Lisbon Treaty, from the crisis of 2008 to the birth of the Monti, Letta, Renzi, Gentiloni, Conte one, Conte two and finally Draghi governments. A renowned expert of the protagonists and events of the Italian economy and politics, he was one of the architects of the digital change at Corriere della Sera where, since 2009, he has been deputy director. Formerly an adjunct professor at the Master of Journalism Walter Tobagi State University of Milan, he held a course on ‘Journalism in the digital age’. He is strategic director and member of the Scientific Committee of the Master of Journalism of IULM. He is a member of the Scientific Committee Fuori Quota. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of 100 experts in the Economics and Finance field. He is Media Ambassador of ENWE (European Network for Women Excellence). He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Banca e Impresa 2030 Observatory. He was awarded the honour of Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by President Sergio Mattarella for the promotion of culture.

Claudia Parzani, lawyer, is a partner of Linklaters, Chairman of Borsa Italiana (the Italian Stock Exchange) and Vice Chairman of Il Sole 24 Ore S.p.A.. In the past she held the position of Chairman of Allianz S.p.A., she was an external member of the Board of Directors of the Politecnico di Milano and non-executive director of leading listed companies. She is also Vice President of the Italian group of the Trilateral Commission and member of the High Board of Directors of the School of Economic and Social Policies. Passionate about inclusion and social issues, she was President of Valore D and today she is a member of the advisory body of UNHCR Italia, she sits on the Scientific Committee of Parks - Liberi e Uguali (Free and Equal), and chairs the Strategic Council of the Italian donation foundation Fondazione Italia per il dono onlus – F.I.Do. She is also founder of Breakfast@Linklaters and ambassador for Italy of the international campaign "Inspiring Girls". In 2022, for the sixth consecutive year, Claudia Parzani was included in the global list of Women Role Models published by HERoes. "Eminent Practitioner" according to the legal directory Chambers & Partners, "Highly Regarded" according to the legal directory IFLR1000, Claudia Parzani has also been inducted into the "Hall of Fame" of the legal directory Legal500. Claudia Parzani is the author of Meravigliose. Tour guidato all’interno di noi stesse (Marvellous. A guided tour within ourselves), written with the actress and playwright, Francesca Isola, and focusing on gender issues and talent. Recently, in October 2022 – together with the advisor and essayist Sandro Catani – she published You Only Win Together, which describes, in eleven words, the tools that are needed today to face future challenges, underlining the value of diversity, sustainability and human capital for any organisation.

Marco Chisari currently works as Executive Vice President at Samsung in Silicon Valley, California, heading the US Foundry business and Corporate Development and Venture activities. The business he heads had about $9bn revenue in 2022. From 2018 to 2021 he worked as Managing Director, Global Head of Semiconductor for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in San Francisco. At BAML he has advised on many transactions. In 2020 alone, he advised on $69bn of M&A, including the $35bn sale of Xilinx to AMD, the $21bn acquisition of Maxim by Analog Devices, the $9bn sale of Intel NAND business to SK Hynix. Other transactions include the $10bn acquisition of Cypress by Infineon, the $4.6bn acquisition of Osram by AMS, Marvell acquisitions of Aquantia and Avera. From 2016 to 2018 he worked as Managing Director, heading technology M&A in San Francisco for Credit Suisse. In this role he has advised on semiconductor and software transactions, including the $14.7bn acquisition of Linear Technology by Analog Devices, the proposed $47bn sale of NXP to Qualcomm, the $5.6bn acquisition of Brocade by Broadcom. Prior to this role, he served as an Executive Director at Mubadala, working on technology M&A investments. In about 7 years he participated in investments worth over $22bn, including the creation and the M&A activities of GlobalFoundries which has become the second largest foundry player in the world with over $6bn revenue. While at Mubadala he has also served as SVP, head of M&A and Corp Dev at GlobalFoundries working on the $2.8bn acquisition of Charter Semiconductor and IBM Microelectronics, partnerships with Samsung as well as a $2.5bn joint venture in China. He also served on the Boards of some of Mubadala VC portfolio companies, including SoftMachines, SmoothStone and Aquantia. Prior to Mubadala he worked at JPMorgan in TMT investment banking in London. In this role he worked on over $20bn of M&A transactions including some of the largest technology LBO transactions ($10.6bn NXP LBO). Prior to JPMorgan he worked at STMicroelectronics in San Jose, CA developing System-on-Chip products with ARM processors and Flash Memories, and at NOKIA in Italy, developing turbo codes and 3G algorithms for 3G baseband and smart antennas. He graduated summa cum lauded in microelectronics engineering from Politecnico of Milano, Italy and he holds an MBA degree from SDA Bocconi University and attended as a second-year exchange student the MBA program at Wharton Business School.

He is Chairman and CEO of Brunello Cucinelli SpA, an Italian fashion house operating in the high-end luxury goods sector and specializing in cashmere, that has become, over time, one of the most exclusive brands in the ‘informal luxury’ pret-à-porter sector worldwide. His life dream has always been to make man's work more human, seeking to confer both moral and economic dignity, always trying to unite profit, talent and guardianship, thus realising a form of ‘contemporary humanistic capitalism’. Brunello Cucinelli has received an extraordinary number of national and international awards for his ‘Humanistic Capitalism’. In 2018, the University of Messina, considering Brunello Cucinelli "a concrete thinker, cultural promoter and true patron of our times", awarded him an honorary PhD in Philosophy. Previously, in 2010, he was appointed the prestigious title of Cavaliere del Lavoro, delivered to him by the President of the Republic, and in the same year he received an honorary degree in Philosophy and Ethics of Human Relations from the University of Perugia, paying tribute to his many activities as a humanist entrepreneur. In 2017, he received the ‘Global Economy Prize for the World Economy’ from the authoritative Kiel Institute, with the comment that he "[...] perfectly embodied the figure of the Honorable Merchant". The following year, in 2018, he was awarded an additional prestigious title of excellence, becoming a Knight of the Grand Cross of Merit of the Italian Republic. In September 2021, he received the ‘Designer of the Year’ award in London from the important British men's fashion magazine «GQ», confirming his continued humanistic commitment as a designer and entrepreneur and for his various projects of human sustainability. In October of the same year, Brunello Cucinelli was invited to attend the G20 in Rome to present his idea of ‘Humanistic Capitalism and Human Sustainability’ before world leaders and His, at that time, Royal Highness Prince Charles – now King Charles – of the United Kingdom. In 2022, he was awarded an Honorary PhD in Management, Banking and Commodity Sciences from the University of Rome ‘Sapienza’, a prestigious title – as Dean Antonella Polimeni beautifully put it – «for managing to combine a successful entrepreneurial story with respect of the vocation of the territory and social values, generating a new humanism of enterprise". His characteristic entrepreneurial approach has always been to offer work that fully respects the ‘moral and economic dignity of man’. He thus conceived his company not only as a tool to generate profit, but also as a means to develop a model of capitalism that places the human individual and his valorisation at the centre. In March 2023, he received the prestigious Neiman Marcus Award for distinguished services in the field of fashion, which the Dallas luxury department store has been conferring on the world’s most influential figures in fashion since the 1930s.

"A leading expert with over 16 years experience in the payments industry, Pieter van der Does, was CCO at Bibit before co-founding Adyen in 2006. Since then Adyen has grown from a startup into a global operation, averaging double-digit annual growth since 2007."

Micaela Le Divelec Lemmi, is an independent advisor, since September 2021, involved in innovative projects, Innovative Start ups operating in the fashion luxury sector, and occupying Board chairs in listed companies and luxury consumers driven ventures: Porsche AG, De Longhi SpA, ADR SpA, Scuola 42 Firenze. Le Divelec has been Ferragamo Group CEO from July 2018 until September 2021, joining the Group on April 2018 as General Manager and driving the Company towards a repositioning strategy and achieving a full turnaround post COVID turmoil. She is a long-lasting experienced professional in the fashion and luxury industry, having worked for 20 years within the Kering Group with growing responsibilities. She first joined the Finance Department in 1998, she has been then appointed CFO at Gucci in 2008 and Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Operations Officer in 2013. On 2014 she became also Richard Ginori’s CEO, under the control of the Kering Group, until 2015 when she has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Consumer Officer of Gucci. She left the Group in April 2018.

Settimio Benedusi was born in Imperia in 1962, a professional photographer with a studio in Milan since 1990. He has been a registered member of the Association of Journalists since 2000 and is active as a fashion, advertising and portrait photographer, collaborating with all the major publishing houses. He is a precurser of internet sharing, having had an active personal blog since 2003, with over 5 million page views: http://www.benedusi.it/blog/ He is also highly engaged on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, with thousands of followers. Lecturer at IED Istituto Europeo di Design. Lecturer at IULM in Milan. Very active in education and publication, teaching in the best Italian workshops. The only Italian to produce the international edition of Sports Illustrated, with two covers, for 7 consecutive years. Exclusive curator and creator of the special swimwear supplement of the Gazzetta dello Sport Sportweek, with testimonials Melissa Satta, Elisabetta Canalis, Federica Pellegrini and Belen Rodriguez. Contributor to Corriere della Sera. In 2013 he held a Lectio Magistralis at the Milan Triennale organised by the Italian Association of Professional Photographers, an exhibition that invites onto the same stage Oliviero Toscani, Ferdinando Scianna, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Toni Thorimbert and Giovanni Gastel. In 2013, he was Artistic Director of the San Felice sul Panaro Photo Festival, for which he involved 12 major Italian photographers and Martina Colombari in a weekend to raise public awareness and give new vitality to a town seriously affected by the earthquake. He travelled to make investigative photographic reports in Uganda with Filippa Lagerback for CBM Italia and in Haiti for NPH with Martina Colombari. In 2016, at the Leica Gallery in Piazza del Duomo in Milan, he presented a solo exhibition dedicated to the memory of his late father. In 2016, to verify if photography can still have any real value beyond the ‘likes’ on social media networks, he travelled on foot from Imperia to Milan without any money, trading photographs in exchange for eating, drinking and sleeping: he succeeded! He has collaborated with Oliviero Toscani in countless initiatives. In 2018, he founded the ‘Collective of Popular Photography’ RICORDI STAMPATI (Printed Memories), which reproposes the luxury of the Printed Photographic Portrait. He loves to condense the infinite characteristics of a person into a single small gesture: what he would like to be known for is someone who never throws litter on the ground. 

In February 2023, Andrea Menicatti was appointed General Manager of Marchesi 1824, a historic pastry shop in Milan that has been part of the Prada Group since 2014. Throughout his career, he has held managerial positions in Italy, the United States and the Middle East for The Boston Consulting Group, developing growth strategies and implementing transformation plans for companies in the Food and Fashion sectors. He began his professional career by training at JPMorgan and the investment fund Taste of Italy, part of the Dea Capital group.

Born in Colombia in 1968, he graduated in Italy and began his career at TIM in 1994. Over the next ten years, he held a series of senior positions in Omnitel Vodafone, DHL, Benetton Group and FIAT Auto. By 2004, he was Marketing Director of Wind's mobile telephony, becoming its Chief Executive Officer and General Manager in 2012. In 2016, he became CEO of Wind TRE. He next served as CEO of KPN, in the Netherlands, and then of Sky Italia, remaining in this role until July 2021. Starting 1st October 2021, Maximo is CEO & General Manager of Engineering. Since 2005, he has been a lecturer in Marketing and Digital Marketing at the Guido Carli Luiss University & Business School in Rome.

Massimiliano Garri is Director of Innovation & Market Solutions of the Terna Group, which he joined in 2020. Between 2017 and 2020, he was Head of the Innovation, Technology & Solutions Department of the Acea Group. Before joining Acea, he held prominent positions in some of the most important consulting firms in Italy and abroad, tasked with ensuring the success of transformation projects in the Technology and Operations sectors: Business Integration Partners (February 2004 – July 2017), Deloitte (April 1999 – January 2004), Andersen Consulting (October 1997 – March 1999). He also worked in Gruppo Formula (April – September 1997) and Bull HN Sud (October 1991 – March 1997).

Alessandro Saba is Head of Original Content for The Walt Disney Company in Italy. In this role, he selects, develops and produces all kinds of original productions (Scripted, Unscripted, Factual), for all brands (Disney, Star, National Geographic) and for all the Group's platforms. Prior to that, he spent 4 years as Vice President of Fox Network Group, responsible for Channel Programming, Research and Original Productions. From 2001 to 2016, he worked in the Mediaset Group, first as Head of Prime Time programmes, then as Head of Content of Italia1: entertainment, fiction, sit-coms, web entertainment and branded content. He graduated in Bologna in Communication Sciences with Umberto Eco.

Piero Manzoni obtained a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, followed by a Master in Business Administration. With the aim of enhancing his family’s patrimony and connecting his passion for the environment and the skills acquired during his career, he realised he could create an innovative business model to respond to the problems the world is currently facing in terms of rising population, urbanisation, pollution, scarcity of natural resources, biodiversity, supply chain efficiency, food quality and health, and circularity. His technical and managerial skills have led him to develop a business model that brings together technologies, innovations and skills for the sustainability of the entire agri-food chain, "from the field to the table and back to the field", with the mission of redesigning urban and rural suburbs according to the needs of the city, the environment and Man. From 1989 to 1994, he worked at the Schneider Group and, from 1994 to 2001, he held various senior positions within the ABB Group, including General Manager of ABB Solutions up to the position of CEO and Country Manager of ABB Ltd Libya, for the entire global business of the Swiss-Swedish group. Subsequently, he was Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Power and, among other positions, Executive Chairman of Fiat Avio Power Services SpA, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Telegyr SpA and Chairman of Bonus Wind Power Italia SpA. In the same period, he was Director of CESI and a member of the Executive Committee of the Anie Federation. From April 2006 to November 2008, he was Chief Executive Officer of Alpiq and Chairman of Energit SpA, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the World Energy Council. From January 2009 to January 2016, he was Chief Executive Officer of Falck Renewables SpA, a company listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, and Falck Energy SpA, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Falck SpA, and member of the Executive Committee of Assolombarda, Assoelettrica and Assorinnovabili. Since January 2016, he is Founder & CEO of Neoruralehub Srl, CEO of the Neorurale Group, President of Innovenergy Srl, Board Member of Crickeat Srl and Youfarmers Srl, Vice President of Cisambiente and Founding Partner of the Rise Foundation, Assoambiente, ELO (European Land Owner Association) and a member of Confindustria Steering Group ‘Life Sciences’. Since April 2022, he is co-founder and CEO of SIMBIOSI Srl.

Dr. Robin Moore is Vice President of Communications and Marketing at Re:wild, where he blends scientific training with expertise in visual storytelling to bring nature-based solutions to an increasingly broad audience. Robin has spearheaded multiple innovative campaigns to raise the profile of overlooked species and save irreplaceable places for biodiversity. His first book, In Search of Lost Frogs, was named one of The Guardian’s best nature books of 2014 and provided a foundation for Re:wild's innovative Search for Lost Species, a signature initiative that has generated billions of media impressions through stories of adventure and discovery and catalyzed impact on the ground. With Re:wild, Robin is committed to bringing the protection and restoration of biodiversity - the most effective solution to our most pressing challenges - mainstream.

Following a Master in Science Communication from SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies) in Trieste, Elena Capparelli began collaborating with Rai in 1997. From 1997 to 2000, she was the author of MediaMente, a historic Rai3 programme, which recounted the advent of the Internet in Italy. In 2000, she joined RaiNet as Content Manager and, after the launch of Rai's first portal in 2001, she began following all Rai projects for the first digital platforms, taking on increasing responsibility. She was also editorial manager of Rai's first on-demand TV service, Rai Click. In March 2008, she oversaw the launch of Rai.tv and until 2015 she was responsible for the editorial development of Rai’s entire digital offer. In June 2015, she was appointed Deputy Director of Rai Cultura, as head of Scheduling and Programming and the Rai Scuola channel. Since November 2017, she has been Deputy Director of Rai 3 with direct responsibility for Programming and Marketing. In May 2019, she was appointed Director of the Digital Department, renamed Rai Play and Digital the following December. From July 2019 to March 2022, she was a member of the Board of Directors of PER – (Player Editori Radio). Since June 2020, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of Rai Cinema, and since April 2021, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of Auditel Srl. In December 2021, she was appointed Director of the Digital Content Division and interim Head of Rai Play and Digital. In August 2022, she was again Director of Rai Play and Digital, taking interim responsibility for the Digital Content Division.

Shivaji Dasgupta combines exemplary commitment to diversity with experience and know-how in top management. As Global Chief Data Officer at UniCredit S.p.A in Milan, Italy, he leads and implements strategic initiatives on data and control functions across the group in 13 countries. Previously, he held various data and technology leadership roles in different financial services firms, the latest being Deutsche Bank AG as European Chief Data Officer and CIO ESG. He studied Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in India, and then completed his doctorate in Physics at the Technical University of Munich in 2008. Thereafter, he started his career at McKinsey & Co., Inc. in Munich, Germany. Shivaji speaks four languages, is an avid movie-goer and married since 2017.

Born in Milan in 1959, Paolo Manazza has studied Theoretical Philosophy at University Statale of Milan and taught at the Brera Academy. Today he is an all-round intellectual in the visual arts field. Painter and well-known journalist, he is also author of philosophic and critical essays. As a painter he has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Italy, France, Monaco, China, the United States, South Korea, Egypt and Moldova. As a journalist he regularly works for Corriere della Sera and is the founder of one of the most popular Italian art web site: www.ArtsLife.com.

Novembre Studio, under the guidance of Fabio Novembre, has been working in the field of architecture and interior design for over twenty-five years. His works include buildings for large private institutions, hotels, retail systems and residential interventions, for some of the most well-known brands such as Ac Milan, Stuart Weitzman, Una Hotel and Generali Assicurazioni. The poetics of the studio is the idea that architecture is a tool for telling three-dimensional stories in which people can become actors. Thanks to the visionary approach and the highly recognizable sign of the founder, Novembre Studio's projects are published all over the world.

Graduated in Economics and Management for Art, Culture, Media & Entertainment at Bocconi University, after an experience in business and commercial devolpment areas in MTV Italia he joined Discovery Italia group in 2009. In Discovery Italia he first held the role of Insight and Research Manager, dealing with the group's qualitative and quantitative research and analysis activities. Since 2013 in the Programming and Content area she has been responsible for the programming and content of the Real Time channel - the group's flagship channel dedicated to women's entertainment. Since 2018 she has also been responsible for Food Network Italia, a digital terrestrial channel entirely dedicated to the world of food, and since 2020 also for HGTV - Home & Garden TV, the channel dedicated to the world of the home, Giallo and the kids channels K2 and Frisbee. Today he holds the position of VP Programming.