At Casa Europa, a dialogue with Paolo Casalino, General Director for Industrial Policy, Ministry of Business and Made in Italy, and Simone Caretta, Officine Stellari

Il PNRR per un’industria più competitiva: focus su Spazio e una costellazione per osservazione terrestre

at the Confcooperative cloud, in Piazza Duomo, the presentation of the book "The Economy of Fear" by Veronica De Romanis

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In the heart of the historic centre, Piazza del Duomo is Trento's “sitting room” where tourists and locals rub shoulders, surrounded by Renaissance palaces, the crenelated walls of Palazzo Pretorio and the lateral nave of the cathedral, dedicated to the city’s patron saint, San Vigilio.In this square there is the Bookstore, the Library of the Festival of Economics.

Piazza del Duomo

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The former S.I.T. building on Via Calepina - Piazza Vittoria has been the historical headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce since 1947. In its halls this autonomous public body performs a multiplicity of functions all traceable to the common definition of market regulation.

Camera di Commercio di Trento – Sala Calepini

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Maria Carla De Cesari

Matteo Lunelli is CEO of the Lunelli Group, which brings together some of Italy’s leading premium beverage brands. He is also Chairman and CEO of Ferrari Trento, Italy’s leading producer of high-end sparkling wines, and Chairman of Surgiva, a mineral water sourced from the Adamello Brenta Natural Park. A strong advocate of Made in Italy, since 2020 he has served as Chairman of Fondazione Altagamma, which brings together companies from across Italy’s high-end cultural and creative industries.

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Matteo Lunelli

Born in 1961, he is Chairman of Feralpi Group, an international steel group and one of the European leaders in steel for construction and mechanical engineering. Since January 2025, he has been President of Confindustria Lombardia. He previously served as President of Confindustria Brescia and Federacciai. Since July 2025, he has also been President of Union Brescia, a professional football club.

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Giuseppe Pasini

Paolo Tanara is an Italian entrepreneur and Chairman of TANARA Giancarlo S.p.A., a historic Parma-based cured meat company. Since 2005 he has held leading roles within the Parma Ham Consortium, serving as its Chairman from 2009 to 2015. He currently also chairs the Parma Prosciutto Producers’ Association.

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Paolo Tanara

Exports, duties and new global balances: commercial and legal strategies for companies

At Casa Europa, the presentation of the book by Pierciro Galeone, Director of the Institute for Finance and Local Economy (IFEL)

The PNRR of Italy. Methods and tools for possible economic policies

At Casa Europa, in Piazza Duomo, a dialogue with Antonella Sberna, Vice-President of the European Parliament.

The Europe of Peoples: dialogue with Antonella Sberna. Vice-President of the European Parliament

The brand new property is located in the Albere district of Trento. Recently inaugurated, it includes a 250-seat auditorium and some event rooms, including one with 99 seats. In the construction of the building, particular attention was paid to environmental sustainability, with specifications regarding the energy and acoustic insulating capacity of the building envelope. The structure also has a heating and cooling system with radiant panels.

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He teaches mathematics at Bocconi University and the Steam International High School in Rovereto. His eponymous YouTube channel has over 500.000 subscribers.

Elia Bombardelli

Researcher in Computational Finance, he teaches computer science applied to finance. He is known as a personal finance educator on YouTube, particularly on real-life investment.

Paolo Coletti

Graduated in International Law, former banker and now financial advisor, she is known online as @pecuniami, a project launched at the end of 2019 after identifying a clear generational and gender gap in access to financial issues. Her community engages 50,000 people. Author of books, she gives lectures at major Italian universities.

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Aminata Gabriella Fall

Central editor of Sole 24 Ore, where he has worked since 1989. He has been in charge of the development of the digital edition of the newspaper. Every morning at 11 a.m., he hosts with Debora Rosciani the program "Due di Denari" on Radio 24.

Mauro Meazza

Financial and insurance education: why it is needed and how to do it well

Meeting with Elio Gullo, Director of the PCM-DFP Simplification and Digitisation Office, Luca Cellesi, Referendum Manager of the PCM-DFP Administrative Strengthening Service, and Marco Mena, Senior Advisor at Ernst & Young Financial Business Advisors, by the Department of Public Function, Invitalia

Named after the Trentino irredentist Cesare Battisti, this city piazza is different from others. Its buildings are a 1926 Rationalist reconstruction of the historic, demolished Sas district. Beneath the square lies the ancient Roman Tridentum, an entire Roman district with the remains of a road, houses featuring mosaics, and even a long stretch of the eastern city wall.

Piazza Cesare Battisti

The impact of the new SUAP ECOSYSTEM on the administrative and production value chain

The MUSE, opened in 2013 and designed by the architect Renzo Piano, is located in the new Albere district of Trento. One of the most frequented science museums in Europe, it combines the traditional exhibition techniques of the best natural history museums with interactive and multimedia routes, which stimulate the curiosity of visitors.  The building, with its profiles, large spaces and bright and light architecture, aims to be in itself a metaphor for the mountain, and proposes the visit of different natural environments, including a large tropical greenhouse.

MUSE - Lobby

Francesca Bria, Innovation Economist, is an Honorary Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) at UCL in London and a Fellow of the Stiftung Mercator in Berlin. She is President of ART-ER, the Emilia-Romagna Agency for Innovation and a member of the International AI Council established by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

EIC (European Innovation Council) Board Member

Francesca Bria

Paolo Casalino is Director General for Industrial Policy at the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy. A former student of the École nationale d’Administration, he coordinates the implementation of the Quirinale Treaty with France and the Action Plan with Germany. He has served as Director of the Apulia Region Brussels Office and as DG of the PNRR Mission Unit at the Ministry of Agricultural Policies and at the MIMIT.

Director General for Industrial Policy

Paolo Casalino

Multimedia journalist at Il Sole 24 Ore, covering foreign affairs. Previously, she covered the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court for various international outlets, including the BBC. She worked for Vice News Tonight and wrote about foreign affairs for La Repubblica. She was awarded the White House Correspondents’ Association award for best young journalist and was included in the Forbes "30 Under 30 Europe" and "100 Under 30 Italia" lists.

Silvia Martelli

SVP - Finance, Accounting  & Tax

Stefano Salvadeo

A Competitiveness Fund for an Independent Europe

At the Autostrade per l 'Italia cloud, radio journalist Enrico Galletti talks to Eddie Brock, a Roman singer-songwriter In partnership with Autostrade per l 'Italia

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