The recovery of districts and the new Veneto/Emilia/Lombardy development triangle will be the pivotal themes of the 11th edition of the Festival Città Impresa, the spring edition of the Festival of Industrial Territories directed by Dario Di Vico,which will return to Vicenza April 13-15.
At a time when all media attentions are pinned on post-vote parliamentary affairs and the difficult balances in government, the Festival brings the spotlight back to the real economy, the territories, and industry. Because whoever governs will have to deal with the challenges facing the real economy itself. From Friday, April 13 to Sunday, April 15, the Festival-promoted by ItalyPost, the Department of Economic and Business Science “Marco Fanno”-University of Padua and the Municipality of Vicenza, in collaboration with the European Commission and the Corriere della Sera Foundation, main partners Intesa Sanpaolo and Cassa di Risparmio del Veneto-will feature the big names in the debate: the chief executive of Fincantieri, Giuseppe Bono, those of Atlantia and Italo, Giovanni Castellucci and Flavio Cattaneo, the jurist Sabino Cassese, the president of Cna Daniele Vaccarino, the former commissioner for spending review, Carlo Cottarelli, the chief economists of Intesa Sanpaolo and Confindustria, Gregorio De Felice and Andrea Montanino, the president of Federmeccanica Alberto Dal Poz, and the mayors of Piacenza, Bergamo and Vicenza, among the main guests at the Vicenza event, Patrizia Barbieri, Giorgio Gori and Achille Variati, Eataly executive chairman Andrea Guerra, big businessmen such as Alberto Bombassei and Gianpietro Benedetti but also many small and medium-sized “champion” entrepreneurs, leading university professors and trade unionists, and the protagonists of information, such as Corriere della Sera editor Luciano Fontana and La7 news editor Enrico Mentana, and of culture, such as La Biennale di Venezia president Paolo Baratta and playwright Stefano Massini, who will close the Festival.
THE FESTIVAL PROGRAM
The festival will open Friday, April 13 with a talk by Giuseppe Bono, chief executive officer of Fincantieri and chairman of the Fondazione Nord Est, who will confront Gregorio De Felice, chief economist Intesa Sanpaolo, on “The recovery of districts and the ambitions of Italian industry” (Friday, April 13, 10 a.m., Gallerie d’Italia – Palazzo Leoni Montanari). Also on the opening day, after a lectio magistralis by jurist Sabino Cassese on “State and Business. Where do bureaucratic bottlenecks originate?” the topic will be debated by Giovanni Costa, Intesa Sanpaolo administrator, Luciano Vescovi, president of Confindustria Vicenza, and Daniele Vaccarino, national president of Cna (Friday 13, 11:45 a.m., Teatro Olimpico). Several meetings will be held in the afternoon. Prominent among them is “Italy’s Budget and Brussels’ Report Card: Taxes, Spending Review and Investment,” which will see Public Accounts Observatory director of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Carlo Cottarelli compare notes with Intesa Sanpaolo chief economist Gregorio De Felice and Confindustria chief economist Andrea Montanino (Friday 13, 4:30 p.m., Confindustria Vicenza). Occupying the entire afternoon will be “Meet The Champions”: speakers will be Antonella Candiotto, president Galdi; Giorgio Cappellari, president Fomet; Denis Faccioli, managing director Tecres; Giovanni Faccioli, president Tecres; Marco Sartor, managing director Surmont; Federico Visentin, vice president Federmeccanica; and president and managing director Mevis (Friday, April 13, 2:30 p.m., Palladio Museum). Another key event will be “Flows and Places / The Great Region of A4,” featuring Aspi and Atlantia CEO Giovanni Castellucci, Flavio Cattaneo, CEO of Italo, Italo CEO, Eastern Adriatic Sea Port System Authority chairman Zeno D’Agostino, and Paolo Perulli, professor of Economic Sociology and director of the Master’s Program in Local Development at the University of Eastern Piedmont (Friday, April 13, 6 p.m., Confindustria Vicenza).
Many other weighty appointments, such as “Keyword: Commitment. Il decalogo di Federmeccanica,” organized precisely by Federmeccanica, in which president Alberto Dal Poz will participate; “Managers and Family Businesses” will be attended instead by Fabrizio Perretti, director of Economia&Management, Paolo Gubitta, professor of Business Organization at the University of Padua, Unox CEO Nicola Michelon, Uteco Group CEO Simone Quinto and Massimo Quizielvù, managing partner Glasford International Italy (Friday, April 13, 3 p.m., Palazzo Leoni Montanari). Enrico Aramini, founder of High Tech Consultant; Alessandro Maruzzo, Dani operation manager and Linkki project manager; and Marco Paiola, professor of business strategy and marketing at the University of Padua, will instead discuss “Toward the smart factory: big data changes organizations” (Friday, April 13, 4:30 p.m., Palazzo Chiericati). On such a topical subject as “Amazon and beyond. How do territories manage to be attractive? ” the debate will instead be between Giulio Cainelli, professor of Political Economy and director of the Department of Economic and Business Sciences “Marco Fanno” at the University of Padua, and the mayors of Piacenza, Bergamo and Vicenza, Patrizia Barbieri, Giorgio Gori and Achille Variati (Friday 13, 4:30 p.m., Palazzo Trissino). At the same location, at 6 p.m., Eleonora Di Maria, professor of Business Management and coordinator of the Digital Manufacturing Lab at the University of Padua; Francesco Battistella, Amer CEO; Fabio Curto, owner of Ponte Vecchio farm; and Giovanni Lanaro, Italsea CEO, will discuss how “Digital will transform SMEs” (Friday 13, 6 p.m., Palazzo Trissino). Instead, the relationship between training and companies will be discussed in “School, Businesses and People,” which will sit around a table Marco Bentivogli, secretary general of Fim-Cisl, Massimiliano Bruno, screenwriter, director, writer Fabio Tarozzi, Federmeccanica vice president, president and CEO Siti-B&T and Federico Visentin, Federmeccanica vice president, president and CEO Mevis (Friday 13, 6 p.m., Palazzo Chiericati). The first day will then close at the Teatro Olimpico, where Eataly’s executive chairman Andrea Guerra and Stefano Micelli, professor of business economics and management at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, will reason together with “champion” entrepreneurs such as Marco Bicego of the eponymous company, Daniele Ferrero,president and CEO Venchi, and Giorgio Polegato, president Astoria Wines, on the theme “Champion companies and the challenges of made in Italy” (9 p.m.). The day of Saturday, April 14 will open again in the setting of the Olympic Theater for a meeting with Giovanni Alleva, president of Istat, who will answer questions from young people on the theme “The Numbers of Work” (10 a.m.). Two meetings on 4.0 will be held at the same time: CNA Vicenza will organize a debate on “The 4.0 a misura dei Piccoli,” involving Gaetano Bergami, administrator Bmc Air Filter and president IR4I Cluster Tecnologico Aerospaziale Emilia Romagna; Marco Bettiol, professor of Internet Marketing at the University of Padua; Rosario Pingaro, president and CEO of Convergenze; and Rosanna Ventrella, sole director SYS-TEK and president Cna Impresa Donna Piemonte (Gallerie d’Italia – Palazzo Leoni Montanari, 10 a.m.).
Federmeccanica, on the other hand, will compare Simona Capasso, vice-president of the association; Laura Dalla Vecchia, president of the Mechanics, Metallurgy and Electronics section of Confindustria Vicenza and president Polidoro; Martina Gianecchini, professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Padua; and Simonetta Iarlori, vice-president of Federmeccanica and chief People, Organization and Transformation Officer of Leonardo, with Francesca Re David, Fiom-Cgil general secretary in the meeting “The (Fourth) Industrial Revolution is a Woman” (10 a.m., Palazzo Chiericati). Then, journalist and writer Gian Antonio Stella will be tasked with reviewing “50 years of Veneto: ’68, Zaia’s season and the Five Stars” (11:30 a.m., Teatro Olimpico). Corporate financing will be discussed in “Minibond and its siblings: innovation and finance,” with Enrico Bonini, president Studio Bonini; Fabio Bolognini, founder Workinvoice; Leonardo Frigiolini, managing director and founder Frigiolini & Partners Merchant; Sergio Zocchi, managing director Lendix Italia; and Fabio Buttignon, professor of Corporate Finance at the University of Padua (Saturday 14, 10 a.m., Palladio Museum). “Fabricating Values: Enterprise and the Paradigm Shift,” on the other hand, will be the occasion for a discussion between Luciano Vescovi, president of Confindustria Vicenza, Roberto Antonietti, professor of Economics of Innovation at the University of Padua, Giovanni Bonotto, Bonotto creative director, Gabriele Lendaro, sustainability manager of Fabbrica Italiana Sintetici, and Mauro Magatti, professor of Sociology at the Cattolica University in Milan (Saturday 14, 11:30 a.m., Palazzo Bonin Longare). One of the most important made-in-Italy districts will be discussed in “Italian Goldsmiths and the Digital Revolution,” with a panel discussion between Stefania Trenti, head of Industry, Intesa Sanpaolo Studies and Research Department, Gabriele Aprea, president of Club degli Orafi, Romano Cappellari, professor of Marketing and Retail, at the University of Padua, Ivana Ciabatti, president of Confindustria Federorafi, Corrado Facco, general manager Italian Exhibition Group, and Arduino Zappaterra, national spokesman CNA Orafi.
Three highlights of the afternoon. It starts with “Inequality and Democracy”: the director of the Città Impresa Festival, Dario Di Vico, will discuss it with Francesco Billari, professor of Demography and dean of faculty at Bocconi University, and Andrea Brandolini, director of the Bank of Italy Statistical Analysis Service (3 p.m., Palazzo Trissino). The director of TG La7, Enrico Mentana, will then be the protagonist of a question time with a group of young people on “Social networks and the old TV” (4:30 p.m., Teatro Olimpico). Another hot topic is the debate “The Trump unknown and the war on tariffs,”with a discussion between Andrea Goldstein, OECD senior economist, and entrepreneurs Gianpietro Benedetti, president Danieli Group, and Alberto Bombassei, president Brembo (6 p.m., Teatro Olimpico). Also scheduled is a meeting on “More Tourism? More Skills,” which, after a debate between Fabrizio Guelpa, head of Industry & Banking Service, Intesa Sanpaolo, Marco Ficarra, managing director Destination Italia, Marco Michielli, vice president Confturismo, and Renzo Simonato, regional director Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Trentino Alto Adige, Intesa Sanpaolo will be graced by an interview with the president of the Venice Biennale, Paolo Baratta(Saturday 14, 4:30 p.m., Palazzo Chiericati). Space is also given to gender diversity in “Women’s Salaries (on Sale),” with a discussion between Barbara Falcomer, general manager of Valore D, Donata Favaro, professor of Labor Economics at the University of Padua, Martina Meneghetti, HR Manager Italy Allnex and Daniela Cuomo, operations manager UnilEver, Sanguinetto plant (Saturday, 14, 4 p.m.30, Palladio Museum), and for a decisive topic such as “Training, Immigration and Local Communities,” with a round table discussion between Giorgio Brunello, professor of Economic Policy at the University of Padua, entrepreneur Alberto Baban and Roberto Marcato, councillor for Economic Development of the Veneto Region (Saturday 14, 3 p.m., Palladio Museum). In “Competence centers: Where do we stand?” (Saturday, 2 p.m., 3 p.m., Palazzo Leoni Montanari) Stefano Firpo, director general for industrial policy, competitiveness and SMEs, at the Ministry of Economic Development; Fabrizio Dughiero, pro-rector for Technology Transfer and Business Relations at the University of Padua; Fabio Fava, the Rector’s delegate for Industrial Research Territorial Cooperation and Innovation, at the University of Bologna, Paolo Fino, director of Applied Science and Technology Department at the Polytechnic University of Turin, and Marco Taisch, professor of Operations Management and Advanced and Sustainable Manufacturing at the Polytechnic University of Milan will take stock of the state of the art in one of the cornerstones of the Industry 4 package.0. “The Italian Way to Enterprise Participation” (Saturday 14, 3 p.m., Palazzo Chiericati) will instead compare the experiences of Fabio Astori, Federmeccanica vice president, president Luxor; Carlo Cremona, Federmeccanica vice president, senior vice president HR and Industrial Relations Fincantieri; Daniele Marini, scientific director Community Media Research; and Rocco Palombella, secretary general Uilm-Uil. Closing the second day of Città Impresa 2018, “Populism in Power,” was a dialogue between Ilvo Diamanti and Karoline Rörig, a history scholar and head of the Italian-German Dialogue Office in Bonn, on the occasion of the presentation of the book by the Italian scholar and Marc Lazar Popolocracy. The metamorphosis of our democracies. (Saturday, 14, 9 p.m., Olympic Theater). On the closing day of the Festival, Sunday, April 15, Italy’s political prospects will instead be the topic of “Has the Third Republic really begun?” a meeting with Corriere della Sera editor Luciano Fontana, MP Emilio Carelli and Roberto Maroni, former president of the Lombardy Region (Sunday 15, 11:30 a.m., Teatro Olimpico). After the March 4 vote, “Salvini’s League and Northern Industrialists” will also be discussed in a three-way discussion between Aldo Bonomi, sociologist and AASter Consortium director, manager Maurizio Castro and journalist Oscar Giannino (Sunday 15, 3:30 p.m., Palladio Museum).
In the morning, the intergenerational relationship will be the focus of “Young and Old. The Blanket is Short,” with Francesco Cancellato, editor Linkiesta; Luigi Copiello, Innoveneto Association; Ivan Pedretti, Spi-Cgil general secretary; Francesco Polo, Cerved project analyst and chairman of the Conegliano Budget Commission; and Lorenzo Rocco, professor of Economic Policy at the University of Padua (Sunday 15, 10 a.m., Palazzo Trissino). Concluding events in the afternoon include “Reformism from Don Milani to the Jobs Act,” a theme entrusted to the discussion between Vincenzo Colla, confederal secretary of CGIL, Senator Pietro Ichino and Giorgio Santini, outgoing senator and for several years at the top of CISL (Sunday 15, 3:30 p.m., Palazzo Trissino). Instead, the conclusion of the Vicenza festival will be dedicated to culture, with “Stables, Churches and Sheds. Writers narrate the Northeast,” with a debate between Romolo Bugaro, lawyer and author of Effetto domino (Einaudi), Giovanni Montanaro, lawyer, Corriere del Veneto journalist and author of Guardami negli occhi (Feltrinelli) and Gianmario Villalta, poet, artistic director of pordenonelegge and author of Bestia da latte (Mondadori) (Palazzo Chiericati, 5 p.m.).
The closing of the festival, as has become a tradition, will be under the banner of a major cultural event. If in past years it has been the turn of artists such as Mario Brunello, Marco Paolini or Francesco Maino to read the reality of the present, this year it will be the playwright Stefano Massini, consultant to the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, who will take the stage at the Teatro Olimpico. At 5 p.m. Sunday, in fact, it will be his reading on the theme on “Predicting the Economy, Interpreting Dreams. From Lehman to Freud” to close the spring edition of Enterprise City.
STATEMENTS FROM PROMOTERS AND PARTNERS
“If in past years the Festival’s reflections weighed concern for the resilience of the industrial fabric, the novelty that characterizes this edition is also the emergence of what we now call ‘new champion enterprises,'” stresses Filiberto Zovico, founder of ItalyPost. “Enterprises that have beaten the crisis and are now driving the recovery. Their massive presence in various moments of confrontation will also serve to understand the dynamics and business models behind their success. Likewise, the comparison between the mayors of three cities such as Vicenza, Bergamo and Piacenza characterized by an industrial fabric that has returned strong and competitive, may be useful to reason about the new virtuous relationships that will be necessary to develop between local governments and this new entrepreneurial fabric.” “We strongly believe in the collaboration with ItalyPost and we are happy with the presence in Vicenza of this festival. A festival,” comments Jacopo Bulgarini d’Elci, deputy mayor of Vicenza and councillor for Growth, “that does not limit itself to convening brilliant minds to discuss any topic, but successfully strives each year to choose an object to investigate: producing thought and insights on issues that there is an urgent need to discuss publicly. Vicenza, which has always been a crossroads of goods, inventions, ideas, and trade on the routes of both continental Europe and the Mediterranean, and today home to a business system exceptional in strength and inventiveness, is the natural choice in which to set this discussion.” “As the “Marco Fanno” Department of Economic and Business Sciences, we are really pleased to be among the promoters of the Città Impresa Festival,” illustrates Guido Cainelli,professor of Political Economy and director of the “Marco Fanno” Department of Economic and Business Sciences, University of Padua. “We believe that the Festival is an important opportunity for public discussion on issues central to economic growth and innovation in our country. Participation in the Festival, which will involve many of our faculty members, is for our Department an integral part of a process of systematic confrontation between the world of scientific research and that of institutions, entrepreneurship and society more generally.” “Intesa Sanpaolo is pleased to be once again alongside the Festival Città Impresa, a landmark event in the dissemination of economic-financial culture,” stresses Carlo Moretti, deputy general manager of Cassa di Risparmio del Veneto, Intesa Sanpaolo Group. As with past editions, we will take this important opportunity to confirm our support for the economy of the Northeast, but also for the welfare of the community of this area of fundamental importance to us; thanks to Festival Città Impresa we have the opportunity to strengthen the link with the communities and businesses with which we operate in order to offer them the training and support to face increasingly dynamic and complex scenarios.” “Being there and engaging directly,” explains Cinzia Fabris, president of CNA Vicenza, “for us means fully sharing the message that Festival Città Impresa brings forward, namely that of an enterprise system that only works if it leaves no one behind. It will be an informative but also educational moment for our artisans, who we hope will accept our invitation en masse.
And then I am proud to have with us our president Daniele Vaccarino, who will bring the CNA experience in fighting the funnels of bureaucracy. This is an issue on which we have been able to do a lot, with careful and sensitive lobbying, however, there is still much to be done to streamline a framework that is still ballasting our businesses.” “The Enterprise City Festival is an excellent way to discuss business transformation,” comments Enrico Aramini, HTC president. The current industrial revolution is the first to happen in reverse by bringing, that is, everyday technologies into production. This is why industrial automation is a partial aspect of the Industry 4.0 paradigm. It is the processes, organization and anthropological aspects that complete the picture. We at HTC call it Unified Operation, a completely new way of thinking about manufacturing processes.” “Innovation is a necessity if you want to stay in the global market, and the companies in our area have understood this and continue their virtuous race for innovation,” stresses Raffaele Bon ini , chief financial officer Studio Bonini. “Projects, prototypes, tests, and collaborations with Research Centers are necessary steps to create new products but they require often demanding investments. Necessary investment is also the protection of innovation through patents, trademarks, design, all Industrial Property titles that should interest countries where there is a market for the innovative product. The company therefore sees as essential and welcome any financial intervention that appreciates innovation and supports it because this support will help it stand out against competitors, strengthen its organizational structure and grow more and more.”
USEFUL INFORMATION
FESTIVAL VENUES. From Friday, April 13 to Sunday, April 15, 2018, the eleventh edition of the Città Impresa Festival will enliven the entire historic center of Vicenza along the axis of Corso Andrea Palladio: from the Teatro Olimpico, home of the great debates, to Palazzo Chiericati, from Palazzo Trissino to Gallerie d’Italia – Palazzo Leoni Montanari to the Palladio Museum to the headquarters of Confindustria Vicenza. From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., journalists and photographers will have access to the Press Room (My Pr Lab, Contrà Canova 25, Vicenza), a few meters from the Olympic Theater. ENTERPRISE CITY ON THE NET. Point of reference for in-progress updates on the Festival Città Impresa is the website, www.festivalcittaimpresa.it, where it is possible to consult the calendar of events by date, place, speaker and section, register for scheduled events and thus create your own personalized calendar.
There is also an active Facebook community (at the official page https://www.facebook.com/festivalcittaimpresa) and Twitter, available at the @citta_impresa profile ; official hashtag of the event #cittaimpresa.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN EVENTS. All events are free admission. Seats in the hall are limited: to be guaranteed access, you must register for the event at www.festivalcittaimpresa.it. To proceed with registration, choose the appointment of your interest within the “Program” section and follow the directions. In any case, for those registered online, access to the hall is guaranteed only by showing up at least 10 minutes before the start of the event; any unused seats will be made available to those who register on-site.
For information and accreditation
Enterprise City – Press Office
MY PR Lab
Philip Dwarfs, t. 3351019390, filippo.nani@myprlab.it
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