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The Italian System and the Priorities of the European Union

Name: The Italian System and the Priorities of the European Union
Start: 2026-02-04T00:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-04T23:59:59+01:00

Bruxelles, 4 February 2026

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In the first year and a half of the new legislature, the European Union had to contend with a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape of armed conflicts on its frontiers and rising trade disputes. It has therefore redefined its priorities by adding new objectives, such as an increased commitment to defence, and reworked its strategies to achieve already set targets, such as the fight against climate change and the digital transition, emphasising the need to protect its values and to foster European competitiveness and security.

How are the defined guidelines taking shape, and how are they being transformed into concrete measures?

What is their impact at the national level, and to what extent can the Italian System contribute to the implementation of European policies?

The 2026 edition of the Connact Annual Meeting, organised by Fondazione Articolo 49 in collaboration with the European Parliament’s liaison office in Italy, brings together policy-makers at the European level with many of the key players of the Italian production system, to foster a high-level dialogue on current issues, opportunities to be seized, and actions to be taken to meet the challenges of the various sectors.

Members of the European Parliament, representatives of European, national, and regional institutions, representatives of productive forces, trade organisations, and the third sector will discuss in Brussels the priorities that the Italian System will put at the centre of the European agenda.

The discussion will be divided into 13 parallel thematic tables: Agri; Circular Economy; Defence & Security; Democracy & Rights; Energy; Finance & Insurance; Food; Industry & Market; Media; Mobility & Logistics; Net & Tech; Pharma; Research & Innovation.

The event—promoted by more than 50 of the most important enterprises, trade associations, third-sector realities, and key stakeholders of the Italian System—enjoys the highest institutional patronage.

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Programme

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Time	Annual Meeting 2026 - Plenaria
4:15 pm	Registration and welcome
5:00 pm	Thematic sessions 1. Connact Agri Meeting Room The Arc - Level 3 2. Circular Economy Meeting Room Studio 206 - Level 2 3. Connact Defence & Security Meeting Room Hall 300 - Level 3 4. Connact Democracy & Rights Meeting Room Studio 201 A/B - Level 2 5. Connact Energy Meeting Room Silver Auditorium - Level 0 6. Connact Finance & Insurance Meeting Room Studio 313&315 - Level 3 7. Connact Food Meeting Room Studio 314&316 - Level 3 8. Connact Industry & Market Meeting Room Studio 213&215 - Level 2 9. Connact Media Meeting Room Studio 214&216 - Level 2 10. Connact Mobility & Logistics Meeting Room Studio 211&212 - Level 2 11. Connact Net & Tech Meeting Room Studio 311&312 - Level 3 12. Connact Pharma & Medical Devices Meeting Room Studio 204 - Level 2 13. Connact Research & Innovation Meeting Room Studio 202 - Level 2
7:30 pm	Conclusions Conclusions Grand Hall -2
8:00 pm	Networking dinner

Time

Annual Meeting 2026 - Agri

5:00 pm

Connact Agri

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), one of the pillars of the European integration project, is today confronted on the one hand with a proposed reform of the European budget that risks changing its modus operandi and reducing the available resources, and on the other hand with free trade agreements with third countries, such as the one with Mercosur, that are likely to have negative repercussions on the agricultural sector.

Today, the CAP is the subject of a reform proposal, in the framework of the European multiannual budget, which would radically alter its contours, leading to risks of shrinking financial resources and potential renationalisation of its objectives.

What is the assessment of the existing critical issues concerning the CAP and the consequences for the agricultural world, both European and Italian? What initiatives are Italian representatives in European institutions and operators taking to protect the agricultural sector’s interests?

Keynote speech

Diego Canga Fano

EU Commission, Deputy Director general (acting) DG AGRI

Diego Canga Fano works in DG Agriculture in the European Commission since 2014. At present, he is acting Deputy Director General. He has been working in the European Union since 1991.

Mr Canga Fano has worked in the Council Legal Service for more than a decade. He has also been twice Head of Cabinet, frst of the European Commissioner of Industry and Entrepreneurship (2012-2014) and aferwards of the President of the European Parliament (2017-2019).

Mr Canga Fano is a Spanish national and lawyer by training, with a good experience of litigation before the European Court of Justice with more than 60 cases pleaded. In all his time in DG Agriculture, he has always been working on research and innovation.

Speakers

Giuseppe Antoci

MEP, member LIBE, SEDE, REGI, AGRI

The Left group in the European Parliament - GUE/NGL

Italy - Movimento 5 Stelle (Italy)

Member
LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
D-IL Delegation for relations with Israel
DMED Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean

Substitute Member
SEDE Committee on Security and Defence
REGI Committee on Regional Development
AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
D-US Delegation for relations with the United States

Carlo Fidanza

MEP, member AGRI, AFET, CONT, TRAN, EUDS

European Conservatives and Reformists Group

Italy - Fratelli d'Italia (Italy)

Vice-Chair
DLAT Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly

Member
AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
DCAM Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America, including the EU-Central America Parliamentary Association Committee

Substitute Member
AFET Committee on Foreign Affairs
TRAN Committee on Transport and Tourism
D-CL Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee

Dario Nardella

MEP, member AGRI, ITRE

Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

Italy - Partito Democratico (Italy)

Member
AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
DMED Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean
DACP Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
DAFR Delegation to the Africa-EU Parliamentary Assembly

Substitute Member
ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
DMAS Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries
DPAP Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament

Raffaele Stancanelli

MEP, member AGRI, ITRE, JURI

Patrioti per l'Europa Group

Italy - Lega (Italy)

Member
AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
DACP Delegation to the OSACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
DAFR Delegation to the Africa-EU Parliamentary Assembly

Substitute Member
ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
JURI Committee on Legal Affairs
D-US Delegation for relations with the United States
DLAT Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly

Marco Canaparo

RPUE, Italian Deputy Permanent Representative to EU

Matteo Bartolini

CIA - Agricoltori italiani, Vice President

Leonardo Pofferi

European Affairs Director of Confcooperative

Permanent Representative of Fedagri Confcooperative to Brussels (1999-2013), since 2014 he has been Head of the Confcooperative Brussels office.

He is currently vice-president of Cogeca.

Moderator

Marco Liberati

AAP Group journalist

A journalist with the AAP Group, he has worked in the information sector for over 20 years and has gone through the transition from print to digital communication.

As a communication manager, he deals with integrated communication plans and offers advice as a SEO copywriter, both for small and medium-sized companies in need of a fast and effective migration to the technological era.

Time

Annual Meeting 2026 – Circular economy

5:00 pm

Connact Circular Economy

Circular economy is a key element in achieving the goal of zero-carbon, sustainable and toxin-free production of goods by 2050. In order to support and incentivise companies and the development of new projects and technologies, a new and effective industrial policy is indispensable, above all to overcome the fragmentation of the European market for secondary raw materials.

The European Commission will present the Circular Economy Act in 2026, aiming to double the circularity rate by 2030 and strengthen the recycling chain. Several other measures will also come into force this year, from the digitisation of waste shipment procedures to the new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation and the Right to Repair Directive.

How do you assess what has been achieved so far and what prospects do you see for the upcoming European legislation? At the level of individual production sectors, is the challenge set by the circular economy a burden or an opportunity?

Speakers

Annalisa Corrado

MEP, member ENVI, ITRE, AGRI, PETI

Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

Italy - Partito Democratico (Italy)

Member
ENVI Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety
DPAL Delegation for relations with Palestine
DMED Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean

Substitute Member
ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
PETI Committee on Petitions
DLAT Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly
DACP Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
DAFR Delegation to the Africa-EU Parliamentary Assembly

Michele Picaro

MEP, member SANT, ENVI, BUDG

European Conservatives and Reformists Group

Italy - Fratelli d'Italia (Italy)

Vice-Chair
D-BR Delegation for relations with the Federative Republic of Brazil

Member
ENVI Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety
SANT Committee on Public Health
DLAT Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly

Substitute Member
BUDG Committee on Budgets
D-AL Delegation to the EU-Albania Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee

François Wakenhut

EU Commission, Head of Unit DG ENV B3

François Wakenhut is Head of the Competitive Circular Economy & Clean Industrial Policy Unit in the Directorate-General for the environment of the European Commission.

In the same Directorate-General, he was previously Head of Clean Air Unit, Resource Efficiency & Economic Analysis Unit, Biodiversity Unit and International Relations, Governance & Development Unit. He has also served as Assistant to the Director-General of the Directorate-General for the Environment; Political Coordinator for the Marine Environment/Water in Water & Marine Unit of the Directorate-General for the Environment; Administrator in charge of Environmental Integration within the Sustainable Development & Economic Analysis Unit of the Directorate-General for the Environment; and Administrator within the team of the Director-General.

François Wakenhut studied at the Institute of Political Studies in Strasbourg, Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and at the College of Europe in Bruges.

David Fitzsimons

ECESP, membro Coordination Group

David Fitzsimons è membro del gruppo Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chain del World Economic Forum. È inoltre membro del Programma delle Nazioni Unite per l'Ambiente sull'Estensione del Ciclo di Vita dei Prodotti e della Piattaforma Europea degli Stakeholder per l'Economia Circolare.

Partecipa al gruppo di lavoro della World Steel Association sulla rigenerazione, la quale è la prima organizzazione di materiali a riconoscere i benefici in termini di sostenibilità derivanti dall'utilizzo di materiali durevoli in prodotti progettati per cicli di vita prolungati.

Claudia Brunori

ICESP, Deputy Chair

Claudia Brunori is vice-president of ICESP (Italian Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform) and director of ENEA's Department of Sustainability, Circularity, Climate Change Adaptation of Production and Territorial Systems.

She has gained experience at national and European level on environmental monitoring and eco-innovation of products, processes, and systems, with particular reference to innovative processes for the efficient use of resources, technologies for the recovery/recycling of raw materials from end-of-life products and industrial waste, recovery and recycling of urban and industrial wastewater, and closing the value chain of critical and strategic raw materials.

She coordinates over 500 researchers, technicians, and administrators across 12 research centres in Italy in the development and implementation of technologies and tools to support the transition of enterprises, cities, and territories towards a more sustainable, circular, and climate-resilient economic model.

Paolo Campanella

FEAD, Secretary General

As the Secretary General, Paolo brings a wealth of experience and dedication to the forefront of our organization.

Being an environmental engineer with 10 years’ of work experience in the environmental and waste sectors, he gained expertise in designing and managing waste treatment plants, and evaluating project proposals of waste treatment plants. Since January 2022, he has been an integral part of the FEAD team, as a Technical Officer, contributing to the advancement of our initiatives.

With a profound understanding of FEAD’s mission and a keen insight into the intricacies of our operations, he has proven his ability to unite FEAD’s vision with practical implementation. Paolo graduated from the University of Padova with a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering, followed by a master’s degree with a specialisation in soil protection in 2012. He is a co-chair of the BIP’s Task Force 2. Paolo speaks Italian, English and basic French.

Joachim Quoden

EXPRA, Managing Director

Giacomo Zucchelli

A2A, Head of European & International Public Affairs

Simona Fontana

CONAI, Director General

Moderator

Enrico Tibuzzi

Journalist, Former Head of ANSA office in Brussels

Time

Annual Meeting 2026 – Defence & Security

5:00 pm

Connact Defence & Security

The rapid evolution of today’s geopolitical scenarios has pushed the European Union to accelerate its defence integration path.
The European Commission and the member states are increasing their military expenditure in response to new threats, both physical and cyber, including by freeing up resources of up to €800 billion to create aggregations at the production level and for joint procurement.

At the same time, the war in Ukraine is contributing to a rapid evolution of security and defence policies, making it increasingly necessary to overcome the UE-NATO duplication and to align national procurement procedures with European resources and new regulations.

How to foster investment to strengthen industrial cooperation and increase European military capabilities? What specific role can the Italian defence and security industry, one of the leading sectors in Europe, play?

Speakers

Lucia Annunziata

MEP, member AFET, SEDE, INTA

Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

Italy - Partito Democratico (Italy)

Member
AFET Committee on Foreign Affairs
D-IL Delegation for relations with Israel

Substitute Member
SEDE Committee on Security and Defence
INTA Committee on International Trade
D-US Delegation for relations with the United States

Leoluca Orlando

MEP, member AFET, LIBE, AFCO

Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance

Italy - Independent (Italy)

Vice-Chair
DMAS Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries

Member
AFET Committee on Foreign Affairs
DMED Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean

Substitute Member
LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
AFCO Committee on Constitutional Affairs
D-TR Delegation to the EU-Türkiye Joint Parliamentary Committee
DPAL Delegation for relations with Palestine

Alberico Gambino

MEP, Deputy Chair AFET and member SEDE, TRAN

European Conservatives and Reformists Group

Italy - Fratelli d'Italia (Italy)

Vice-Chair
AFET Committee on Foreign Affairs

Member
SEDE Committee on Security and Defence
DCAS Delegation for relations with Central Asia

Substitute Member
TRAN Committee on Transport and Tourism
DEPA Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly

Alessandro Azzoni

Permanent Representative of Italy to the NATO

Before taking up the position of Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council on September 15, 2025, Alessandro Azzoni was Deputy Director General for Political Affairs and Central Director for Security at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (2023–2025).

Previously, he was Director of the Unit for the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (2012–2016). He also served as Chief of Staff of the Directorate for Political and Security Affairs (2001–2004) and Deputy Head of the Office for East Asia within the Directorate General for Economic Affairs (1993–1994).

During his career, he also served as Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna (2016–2020), holding the Chairmanship of the OSCE Permanent Council from January 1 to December 31, 2018. He was Deputy Head of Mission in Ankara (2008–2012) and in Dakar (1998–2001), as well as Counselor at Italy’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Vienna (2004–2008) and Consul in Barcelona (1994–1998).

He was also appointed Special Envoy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Relations between Turkey and the European Union (2021) and Diplomatic Adviser to the Minister for the South and Territorial Cohesion (2021–2022).

Andrea Orizio

Representative of Italy to the Political and Security Committee

Andrea Orizio was born in Brescia on 25 January 1967. He graduated in Law from the University of Milan in 1991, completed postgraduate/master's degree courses in international careers at ISPI (Institute for International Political Studies) in Milan and SIOI (Italian Society for International Organisation) in Rome, and entered the diplomatic career in 1992.

Deputy Head of the Africa Office (Economic Affairs) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1993, he served in the Office of the Diplomatic Adviser to the Minister of Defence in 1993–1994 and then at the Armament Material Authorisation and Control Unit (UAMA) in Foreign Affairs until 1995.

First Secretary and Head of the Economic-Commercial Office (Deputy Head of Mission 1996–1997) at the Italian Embassy in Prague from 1995 to 2000, he became Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission at the Italian Embassy in Zagreb from 2000 to 2002. During that period, he was also NATO-Croatia Contact Officer. From 2002 to 2004, he was Deputy Head and from 2004 to 2005 Head of the Western Balkans Office (GD European Countries) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome.

From 2005 to 2008, he was First Counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Italy to NATO, in Brussels, responsible for Mediterranean Dialogue, Istanbul Cooperation Initiative, Middle East, NATO Partnerships and Western Balkans, NATO-Ukraine, NATO-Georgia, enlargement (accession of Albania and Croatia), Operation Active Endeavour, NATO-EU relations, and a member of the NATO Political Committee.

From 2008 to 2013, he was Minister-Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission at the Italian Embassy in Cairo. At the outbreak of the “Revolution”, on 25 January 2011, he was Chargé d'Affaires a.i. and oversaw the 130 staff members of the Italian Embassy and Italian System institutions in a hazardous situation. From 2013 to 2014, he was Head of Counter-Terrorism and Global Challenges at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Directorate General for Political Affairs) in Rome.

From 2014 to 2016 he was Head of the Balkans Unit, InCE and IAI (Balkans Director) at the European Union Directorate General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in Rome, as well as National InCE Coordinator, EUSAIR and EUSALP EU Macro-regional Strategies, Western Balkans Process. In 2016, he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary. From 2016 to 2020, chosen after an international selection process, he was Ambassador/Head of Mission OSCE in Serbia (150 people of 15 different nationalities and a €10 million annual budget, with direct responsibility).

From 2020 he was at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation as Head for Central and Northern Europe and Deputy to the Deputy Director General/Central Director for European Countries (DGUE), from 2021 to 2023 Deputy to the Deputy Director General/Central Director for European Countries, Coordinator for EFTA Countries and the United Kingdom at the Directorate General for European Countries and International Trade Policy. In 2022–2023, he was also DGUE coordinator for the Rome EXPO2030 bid, integrated into the “Special Envoys”.

Since 6 March 2023, he has been Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the Political and Security Committee-COPS of the European Union in Brussels. He is married, has two children. He speaks fluent French and English, has knowledge of Czech, Croatian, Serbian, and basic Arabic. He is an Official Knight of the Order of Merit of the Republic and a member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in Sanremo.

Fabio Liberti

Commissione UE, Deputy Head of Unit DEFIS TF1

Fabio Liberti, currently Deputy Head of Task Force SAFE at the Directorate General DEFIS of the EU Commission, was a research fellow at IRIS from 2003 to 2013, specializing in European Union and defense issues.

Expert on the Defence Policy of major EU Member States, as well as on the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB) and Armaments Programs, he participates in many research projects related to the Common Security and Defence Policy, funded by the European Defence Agency and the European Commission.

He also carried out several studies and has written various reports for the French Ministry of Defence.

Davide Cucino

Fincantieri, SVP for EU and NATO Affairs

After more than 30 years of experience in the Chinese and Asian markets with some leading Italian international companies, he has been the SVP responsible for Fincantieri activities in Brussels at the EU and NATO since January 2020.

He was President of Fincantieri (Shanghai) Trading Co., Regional Manager for Leonardo Finmeccanica, and elected President of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in China.

Anna Polico

ELT Group, Chief Representative Brussels Office

Renzo Tomellini

Leonardo SpA, SVP and General Manager of Brussels' Office

He worked in the European Commission for more than 30 years, where he was involved in nanoscience and nanotechnology, strategic raw materials, rare earths, strategic planning and “Horizon” programming.

From May 2021 to October 2022, he was head of the technical secretariat of the Minister for Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani and then of the Minister for the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin. During the same period, he was president of the National Council for Territorial and Environmental Information.

He is currently the head of Leonardo's European and NATO affairs office and works with the Defence Information Studies Research Institute.

Moderator

Michele Valensise

IAI, President

He is president of the IAI.

He was Ambassador to Brasilia from 2004, to Berlin from 2009 and Secretary General of the Farnesina from 2012 to 2016.

He is a board member of several joint-stock companies and of the Fondo Ambiente Italiano, and a member of the board of directors of the Italian Society for International Organisation.

He contributes to international newspapers and political magazines.

Time

Annual Meeting 2026 - Democracy & Rights

5:00 pm

Connact Rights & Democracy

The protection of human rights and the promotion of democracy are two pillars of the founding values of the European Union, which has made them a cornerstone of its foreign policy and relations with third countries.
In recent years, migratory phenomena, wars, and international tensions have brought this issue to the forefront, a subject of debate even within the European Union itself.

What are the prospects for the defence and promotion of democracy and human rights in the current geopolitical context? What initiatives are in place to safeguard compliance also within the EU?

Speakers

Carolina Morace

MEP, member FEMM, DEVE, CULT

The Left group in the European Parliament - GUE/NGL

Italy - Movimento 5 Stelle (Italy)

Vice-Chair
DANZ Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand

Member
FEMM Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

Substitute Member
DEVE Committee on Development
CULT Committee on Culture and Education
DCAR Delegation to the Cariforum-EU Parliamentary Committee
DASE Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Riccardo Clerici

UNHCR, Senior Government Liaison Officer

Riccardo Clerici has been Head of UNHCR Institutional Relations with Italy, the Holy See and San Marino since 2022. He has worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees since 2008, heading the Legal/Protection Unit.

Previously, he worked for several years with Doctors Without Borders, in Italy, protecting seasonal migrant workers, and abroad, in Sudan, Angola, and Somalia, in emergency projects.

His commitment to human rights has grown over the years, from early volunteer projects to a series of field experiences, including in Egypt, providing legal advice to asylum seekers and refugees.

Born in Bergamo, he graduated in Law at the University of Milan and, thanks to a Fulbright scholarship, attended a Master's degree course on Sustainable Development in the United States.

Maria Laura Conte

AVSI, Director of Communications

Maria Laura Conte is the Communications and Advocacy Director for AVSI, an international CSO that implements development and humanitarian aid projects in 41 countries, focusing on education, job creation, food security, and health with an integrated approach that empowers individuals for integral development, working in areas like emergencies, sustainable cities, and migration to foster dignity and peace.

Graduated in Humane Letters, PhD in Communication, Conte gained various experiences in journalism (radio, press, press office, spokesperson), before becoming the communications director of a foundation like Oasis and then at AVSI.

Author of an essay on cultural journalism, she explores issues related to communications and advocacy in the magazine Vita.

Andrea Ferrazzi

ASVIS, Responsabile relazioni istituzionali

Andrea Ferrazzi is currently Head of Institutional Relations of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASVIS).

Former Senator of the Republic, Vice-President of the bicameral Commission of Inquiry on the Ecomafie phenomenon and member of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on Banks and the Financial System. Former National Head of Urban Planning and Construction for ANCI.

He was Vice-President of the Province of Venice and Councillor for Urban Planning, Building, Participatory Planning, and Training of the Municipality of Venice. He represented the Parliament at COP26 and was a member of the Select Committee of Nine that drafted and agreed on the historic constitutional amendment on the environment and future generations, as set out in Articles 9 and 41.

Author of books and publications on economics and sustainability, he is the author of the TV programme EcoVisioni broadcast on Antenna3. He is editorial editor of the Sustainability series of the Marietti1820 publishing house.

Konstantinos Moschochoritis

Intersos, Director general

Born in Patras, Greece, in 1963, he is Director General of INTERSOS. He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering, and since 1995, he has been working in the humanitarian field. He has worked as Logistics Manager and Head of Mission in many countries in Africa, Asia and South America. From 2007 to 2013, he was General Manager of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Italy.

Moderator

Emanuele Bonini

Journalist at Eunews.it

Time

Annual Meeting 2026 – Energy

5:00 pm

Connact Energy

Europe’s energy policy aims to ensure security and certainty of supply, promote the transition to a low-carbon society, and encourage solutions to contain energy costs for households and boost the competitiveness of the production system.

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the need to redefine the energy mix, adjust the energy market and ensure energy security has become crucial. To this end, the EU is updating the rules to facilitate the necessary public and private investment.

In which direction should the EU institutions move to ensure the achievement of these goals? What role can Italian representatives play to ensure that national interests are not only safeguarded, but strengthened within the framework of European energy policy?

Speakers

Nicola Procaccini

MEP, member ENVI, ITRE, EMPL, AFCO, AGRI, LIBE

Co-Chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group

Italy - Fratelli d'Italia (Italy)

Member
BCPR Conference of Presidents
EMPL Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
ENVI Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
AFCO Committee on Constitutional Affairs
D-CA Delegation for relations with Canada

Substitute Member
AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
D-IN Delegation for relations with India

Benedetta Scuderi

MEP, member ITRE, FEMM, EMPL, CULT

Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance

Italy - Europa Verde - Verdi (Italy)

Member
ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
FEMM Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
D-CN Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China

Substitute Member
EMPL Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
CULT Committee on Culture and Education

Dario Tamburrano

MEP, member SANT, ITRE, TRAN

The Left Group in the European Parliament - GUE/NGL

Italy - Movimento 5 Stelle (Italy)

Member
SANT Committee on Public Health
ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
D-RU Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee

Substitute Member
TRAN Committee on Transport and Tourism
D-CN Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China

Yolanda Garcia Mezquita

EU Commission, Head of Unit for Relations with the Member States and Energy Communities DG ENER

Doctor in economics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. From June 2001 to April 2009, she worked as economic advisor in the Spanish National Regulatory Authority, dealing with regulation and competition issues in electricity and gas sectors.

Since May 2009 she is working for the European Commission in the Directorate General for Energy. She is head of the unit F2 “Relations with the Member States and the Energy Community”.

Marco Franza

Energy expert at the Permanent Representation of Italy to the EU

Michele Bologna

Enel, Head of European affairs

Head of European Affairs of the Enel Group in Brussels.

Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Slovenské elektrárne, he is also a member of Confindustria's Technical Group Europe and co-founder of Ultrafab s.r.l.

Luca Franza

Edison, Head of EU Institutional Affairs

Luca Franza is scientific advisor to IAI in the Energy, Climate and Resources programme, which he led in 2020-2021.

Since June 2021, he has been working as Head of Institutional Affairs with the EU at Edison SpA (EDF Group). He holds a doctorate (PhD) from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands).

Domenico Maggi

Snam, Director of International Relations and European Affairs

Maggi, a 47 year old lawyer, graduated in law in 2000 from the LUMSA University in Rome.

Between 2000 and 2004 he began his career in Italy as a criminal lawyer and in 2005 he moved to Brussels to work in the European Parliament as MEP Political Adviser.

In early 2006, he held the position of Legal Adviser on the staff of the Italian prime ministerial candidate and in July of the same year he was appointed Head of Migration Policies within the European Centre for Migration Policies.

In 2008 he started his career at ENEL as Senior EU Affairs Policy Adviser and since 2010 as Head of European legislative acts.

In 2014, he held the position of Head of Parliamentary Affairs at ENEL in Rome and previously served as Deputy Head of Office at ENEL's EU Delegation in Brussels.

He attended numerous training courses, particularly in business management and leadership at INSEAD, SDA BOCCONI and IESE.

In October 2014, he started his professional career at Snam S.p.A. as EU Relations Manager based in Brussels. In 2019 he was appointed Head of European Affairs & Public Affairs for Energy Transition and in 2022 he was appointed Head of International Relations and European Affairs. In August 2023, he was appointed Director of International Relations and European Affairs.

He is also a member of the boards of the Gruppo di Iniziativa Italiana, Proxigas, the World Energy Council - Italy, the Biomethane Industrial Partnership (BIP) and is a permanent substitute for the CEO in the ISPI Board of Directors.

Marco Mannocchi

IP api Group, Head of External Relations and Sustainability

Marco Mannocchi is currently heading the external relations department at IP Gruppo api, the leading private player in the Italian fuels market, where he coordinates the Group’s corporate communication, sustainability, public affairs and press office activities.

Previously, he worked as a Senior Public Affairs Manager at Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable fuels and for the General Confederation of Italian Industries.

With a master’s degree in international relations and in energy management, he finalised his studies at IMD Lausanne and Sciences Po Paris and is fluent in 5 EU languages.

Lucia Odone

Eni, Head of European Government Affairs

Lucia has been the Head of EU Public Affairs for the Eni group since July 2024.

In that capacity she leads Eni’s team in Brussels and is responsible for relations with the EU institutions and EU-related public affairs. She holds senior roles in trade associations, such as IOGP Europe Board Member, FuelsEurope Alternate Board Member and ERT Associate to Eni CEO.

With the company since 2017, she has previously been in charge of EU advocacy on power & renewables files, as well as on sustainability horizontal issues. From 2014 to 2017 Lucia was a consultant in the Brussels' office of global consultancy Edelman, providing strategic support on EU policy and competition issues, as well as integrated communications, to multinational clients.

Earlier in her career, Lucia has worked for the Assembly of European Regions, a network of wider-Europe Regional governments advocating at EU level, and gained professional experience in political campaigning with cross-party Union of European Federalists. She holds a MA in European Affairs from the College of Europe, a double MA degree in History of Political Thought from Paris 7 Diderot / Bologna University, and a BA in Early Modern European History from the University of Bologna.

Lucia is a native Italian and speaks English, French and Spanish. She is married and mother of 3 daughters.

Roberto Panico

Terna, Head of EU External Relations

Currently Head of Relations with European Union Institutions and Organizations at Terna SpA. He brings with him the experience gained at APRII - the Association of Italian Institutional Relations Professionals, and Eni.

Moderator

Vittorio Oreggia

Director of Gea - Green Economy Agency

Director of Gea Agency, professional journalist since 1986, born in Turin to a family from Sanremo, former director of Tuttosport and the press agency LaPresse. He was a sports correspondent for 20 years, travelling the world first with a Lettera 32 typewriter and then with a laptop. he embarked on an adventure in the world of news agencies, moving between Milan and Rome, balancing newsroom life and the halls of politics. At Withub since 2021.

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Annual Meeting 2026 – Finance & Insurance

5:00 pm

Connact Finance & Insurance

With the Savings and Investment Union, the European Union aims to improve the way in which the European financial system channels resources to productive sectors, creating wider investment opportunities for savers and strengthening the competitiveness of businesses.
To enhance Europe’s competitiveness, there is a need to encourage private investment as much as possible, by creating conditions that unlock the resources currently held in liquid form and attract European investors who are today finding more profitable opportunities in international markets. Markets dominated by large non-European players, where fostering cross-border mergers among EU companies is essential.

Being a real work in progress, what specific input is needed to ensure the success of the Savings and Investment Union?

Speakers

Giovanni Crosetto

MEP, member ECON

European Conservatives and Reformists Group

Italy - Fratelli d'Italia (Italy)

Member
ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
DMAS Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries
DMED Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean

Substitute Member
D-MX Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee
DPAP Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament

Irene Tinagli

MEP, Chair HOUS and member ECON, ENVI, ITRE

Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

Italy - Partito Democratico (Italy)

Chair
HOUS Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union

Member
CPCO Conference of Committee Chairs
ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
D-CA Delegation for relations with Canada

Substitute Member
ENVI Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety
ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
DANZ Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand

Pasquale Tridico

MEP, Chair FISC and member ECON, CONT, TRAN

The Left Group in the European Parliament - GUE/NGL

Italy - Movimento 5 Stelle (Italy)

Chair
FISC Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs

Member
CPCO Conference of Committee Chairs
CONT Committee on Budgetary Control
ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
D-US Delegation for relations with the United States
DACP Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

Substitute Member
TRAN Committee on Transport and Tourism
DCAB Delegation to the Caribbean-EU Parliamentary Assembly

Carmine Di Noia

OECD, Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs

Carmine Di Noia has been the Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs at the OECD since 2022.

Previously, he was Commissioner of the Italian Securities and Exchange Commission (CONSOB), beginning in 2016. He was also alternate member of the Board of IOSCO and the Board of Supervisor at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Chair of the Committee of Economic and Markets Analysis (CEMA) and of the Post-Trading Standing Committee at ESMA, and Vice Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee at OECD.

He had been Deputy Director General at Assonime, member of the Board of the Italian Stock Exchange, Chairman of the Policy Committee of EuropeanIssuers and Head of the technical secretariat of the Italian Corporate Governance Committee.

He was a member of various working groups at the European Commission: European Securities Market Expert Group (ESME), Clearing and Settlement Advisory Monitoring Expert Group (CESAME), Forum Group on Auditors Liability, Securities Expert Group on FSAP.

He is Full Professor of Financial Markets and Banking at the Business School of Luiss University in Rome.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and a Doctorate in Economic Theory and Institutions at Tor Vergata University.

Lauro Panella

EU Commission, Cabinet of Commissioner Albuquerque

He graduated from the Federico II University in Naples and specialised at the Bocconi University in Milan. An economist, he is a member of the cabinet of the European Commissioner for Financial Services and the Savings and Investment Union, Maria Luís Albuquerque.

He joined the EU Commission in 2005, where he worked on a range of issues, from the European Semester to the competitiveness of Member States, from industrial policy to the internal market. From 2012 to 2014, he was a cabinet member/economic advisor to Vice-President Antonio Tajani, Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, and his successor Ferdinando Nelli Feroci. From 2017 to 2019 he was economic advisor to the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani. He then moved to the European Parliament's Study and Research Service before taking up his current post in the Albuquerque cabinet.

Marcello Bianchi

Assonime, Deputy Director General

Marcello Bianchi is Deputy General Manager, Capital Market and Listed Companies Area Director in Assonime. Coordinator of the Corporate Governance Committee.

He graduated in Economics from La Sapienza University in Rome.

He worked in Consob from 1990 to February 2016 where he carried out various supervisory activities (as Head of the Corporate Governance Division), regulation (as Head of the Regulatory Impact Analysis Office and the Regulatory Strategies Division), research (as Head of the Statistics Office, among others) and internal management (as Head of the Human Resources Division).

Before that, he carried out economic research at the European Research Centre (CER) and the Montedison research centre (FOR).

He has been Chairman of the OECD Corporate Governance Committee since 2007. Its “Principles on Corporate Governance” are the international standard adopted by the G20 and the Financial Stability Board.

He chaired the Working Group on Company Law of the European Council during the Italian Presidency in the second half of 2014.

Virginia Borla

Intesa Sanpaolo, Head of Insurance Division of the group and CEO and Director General of Intesa Sanpaolo Assicurazioni

Virginia Borla is Head of Intesa Sanpaolo's Insurance Division and Managing Director and General Manager of Intesa Sanpaolo Vita since April 2024, renamed Intesa Sanpaolo Assicurazioni in December 2024.

Before completing her studies, with a degree in business administration from the University of Turin, she began her professional career in the commercial network, initially as a Customer Assistant, then as a Manager, and finally as Branch Manager, before moving in 2010 to work in Intesa Sanpaolo's central structures. First in the Staff to the Head of the Territorial Bank Division, then in 2013 Head of the Plans and Transversal Projects Office, and in 2015 Head of the Plans, Projects and Transversal Activities Service.

In 2016, he took on the role of Head of Human Resources and Change Management in the Banca dei Territori Division and, from 2020 to 2024, also as a Director of Banca 5, renamed Isybank. In 2022, she became Head of the Business Governance Coordination Area Banca dei Territori. She is currently Vice President and a member of ANIA’s Executive Committee.

Sergio Gatti

Federcasse, General Manager

General Manager of Federcasse (Italian Federation of Cooperative Credit Banks), he is one of the founders of the School of Civil Economy. Vice President of Fondosviluppo spa and the BCC Energia Consortium.

Fabio Marchetti

Generali, Group Head of International Public Affairs and Regulatory Advocacy

Fabio Marchetti is the Head of the Group for International Public Affairs and Regulatory Advocacy at Generali.

He is responsible for monitoring Generali's involvement in key business issues and guiding the global financial services policy.

Previously, he served as Senior Vice President at the energy company Eni. He has held this position since 2008.

Moderator

Giuliano Zulin

Deputy editor of La Verità and Rai author

Giuliano Zulin, born in 1977, journalist and author, worked for 20 years in daily newspapers and was deputy editor of Libero from 2016 to 2022. He was the spokesman for the president of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia, and then started working with Gea, Green Economy Agency.

A Rai author of various programmes, from Restart to Eccellenze Italiane, he has hosted the programme Radici on Rai Isoradio, to discover second and third generation enterprises, and hosts the programme Luce Verde on Rai Radio 1, to hear the voices of those making the transition. Finally, he has been and still is a communications consultant for companies, politicians, and business associations.

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Annual Meeting 2026 - Food

5:00 pm

Connact Food

The European Commission’s food policy, aimed at ensuring a high level of security and sustainability, has focused in recent years on the “Farm to Fork” campaign to make food systems fairer, healthier, and more environmentally friendly, from production to consumption, through ways and choices not always shared by the agri-food sector.

The ongoing review of policies launched in the previous parliamentary term in this area must be underpinned by the need for a scientific approach and for continuous engagement with industry, especially in areas such as food and health.

What initiatives are needed to strike the right balance between the need for product safety and traceability and those aimed at ensuring a high level of competitiveness of the sector, including internationally, where tariffs imposed by the United States are altering the landscape?

Speakers

Stefano Bonaccini

MEP, member AGRI, INTA

Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

Italy - Partito Democratico (Italy)

Member
AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
D-US Delegation for relations with the United States

Substitute Member
INTA Committee on International Trade
D-UK Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly

Valentina Palmisano

MEP, member SANT, REGI, PETI, ENVI

The Left Group in the European Parliament - GUE/NGL

Italy - Movimento 5 Stelle (Italy)

Member
SANT Committee on Public Health
REGI Committee on Regional Development
PETI Committee on Petitions
DARP Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula
D-IN Delegation for relations with India

Substitute Member
ENVI Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety

Daniele Polato

MEP, member INTA, IMCO, EUDS

European Conservatives and Reformists Group

Italy - Fratelli d'Italia (Italy)

Member
INTA Committee on International Trade
DARP Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula
DASE Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Substitute Member
IMCO Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
EUDS Special committee on the European Democracy Shield

Antonella Rossetti

EU Commission, Member of the Commissioner Hansen Cabinet

Klaus Berend

EU Commission, Director SANTE E

Klaus Berend is Director for Food Safety, Sustainability and Innovation at the European Commission's DG SANTE.

Previously, he was Head of Unit responsible for the implementation of legislation on pesticides and biocides in the same Directorate-General. Before that, he was Head of Unit in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, responsible for the implementation of the EU Regulation on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH).

He was Deputy Head of Unit in the Commission's Directorate-General for the Environment, Biotechnology and Pesticides Unit, where he coordinated work on biocides, plant protection products and the Community's participation in the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure (PIC).

He studied chemistry at the Universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg and Stanford and holds a PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Freiburg.

Marco Salaris

Permanent Representative of Italy to the EU, Coordinator for Agri-fish, Health, Lavoro, Job and Social policies

Michele Amigoni

Gruppo Barilla, Chief Research, Development and Quality Officer

Michele è Chief Research, Development and Quality Officer del Gruppo Barilla e lavora a Parma, in Italia, dove Barilla è nata nel 1877 e dove si trova l'unità globale RDQ e il principale centro di innovazione.

Ha conseguito una laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Meccanica - Trasformazione Alimentare - presso l'Università di Parma.

Michele è entrato in Barilla nel 1992 nell'unità centrale di ingegneria, ricoprendo vari ruoli nei settori delle tecnologie di packaging e dei processi di produzione di prodotti da forno, pasta e condimenti, creando e guidando team internazionali in diverse sedi in tutto il mondo e occupandosi di tutti i marchi e le categorie del Gruppo a livello globale.

Dopo aver ricoperto diversi ruoli all'interno di RDQ e Supply Chain, nel 2023 è stato nominato Chief RDQ Officer di Barilla, con la responsabilità di coordinare la definizione e l'esecuzione dei programmi di Ricerca, Sviluppo e Innovazione, nonché le strategie di Qualità e Sicurezza Alimentare per il Gruppo Barilla.

Dal luglio 2025 ricopre anche la carica di Presidente di Fooder (Food Universities of Emilia Romagna - https://fooderuniversity.it/), una rete di università, aziende e istituzioni pubbliche con sede in Emilia-Romagna (Italia) impegnata nella promozione dello sviluppo sostenibile e dell'innovazione nel settore agroalimentare.

Gabriele Castelli

Federvini, Director

Gabriele Castelli, born in Baricella on 6 September 1985, graduated in Economics and European Union Policies at the University of Bologna, and obtained a PhD in European Union Law at the University of Ferrara.

In 2014, he joined the agricultural federation of Confcooperative, assuming the position of national head of the wine sector in 2015. In 2020, he joined Federvini as head of the technical-regulatory area to become its Director in July 2025.

Giangiacomo Pierini

Federalimentare, Vice President

Giangiacomo Pierini, Director of Institutional Affairs and Sustainability at Coca-Cola HBC Italia, is President of ASSOBIBE, the national association representing soft drink producers and distributors in Italy, as well as Vice President of Federalimentare (Italian Federation of the Food Industry).

Pierini is also a member of the General Council of Confindustria as well as a member of the board of UNESDA (European Association of the Soft Drinks Industry). Among other positions in the Confindustria world, he is also Vice President in charge of internationalisation, attractiveness, and relations with multinational companies of Confindustria Verona and a member of the Board of Directors and the Food Group of Assolombarda.

Francesco Tramontin

Ferrero Group, Vice President Global Public Affairs

Francesco Tramontin is Vice President at Ferrero, where he leads Global Public Affairs and the European Government Affairs and Communications team. Since joining in 2020, he has driven the company’s external engagement on food policy, sustainability, responsible marketing, and health and nutrition, particularly with EU institutions.

Previously, he spent 15 years at Mondelēz International (formerly Kraft Foods) in Brussels, Zurich, and Chicago, where he held senior roles in public affairs and sustainability at global and regional level. He began his career with Cargill and Eridania Beghin-Say, focusing on environmental, trade, and agricultural policy.

Francesco holds a degree in International and Diplomatic Sciences from the University of Trieste. He lives in Brussels with his wife and two daughters.

Moderator

Angelo Di Mambro

Editor-in-chief for agribusiness at Euractiv.com

Editor-in-chief for agribusiness at Euractiv.com.

He deals with agricultural and cohesion, environment, climate, energy, transport and health policies.

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Annual Meeting 2026 - Industry & Market

5:00 pm

Connact Industry & Market

Industrial development and the strengthening of the internal market are fundamental to ensure the European Union’s ability to produce wealth and welfare for its citizens, all the more so in a global context characterised by uncertainties, conflicts, and trade tensions.

The Clean Industrial Deal and the Single Market Strategy set the course for the years to come, not forgetting the content and concrete proposals of Mario Draghi’s report on competitiveness and Enrico Letta’s report on the Single Market, as well as the recent joint Italian-German document on strengthening the Single Market, reducing bureaucracy, and fostering cooperation in the automotive and energy sectors.

How will they take shape? What will be the benefit for the country’s system? What are the expectations of the actors in the industrial system?

Speakers

Elisabetta Gualmini

MEP, member ITRE, ECON, AGRI

Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

Italy - Partito Democratico (Italy)

Member
ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
D-UK Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly

Substitute Member
ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
D-US Delegation for relations with the United States
DACP Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
DCAB Delegation to the Caribbean-EU Parliamentary Assembly

Gaetano Pedullà

MEP, member ECON, ITRE, IMCO, LIBE

The Left Group in the European Parliament - GUE/NGL

Italy - Movimento 5 Stelle (Italy)

Member
ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
D-CN Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China

Substitute Member
ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
IMCO Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
D-UK Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly

Mariateresa Vivaldini

MEP, member ITRE, EMPL, ECON, IMCO

European Conservatives and Reformists Group

Italy - Fratelli d'Italia (Italy)

Vice-Chair
D-MX Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee

Member
EMPL Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Substitute Member
ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
IMCO Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
DEEA Delegation for Northern cooperation and for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee
DLAT Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly

Salvatore D'Acunto

Commissione UE, Head of Unit DG GROW E.2

Carlo Pettinato

EU Commission, Head of Unit DG TRADE R1

Irene Pastorino Olmi

Permanent Representative of Italy to the EU

Laura Cavalli

Centromarca, Economist, Head of Centromarca Research Centre

PhD in economics and finance, she has been Head of the Centromarca Research Centre since January 2024.

Previously, she has been Director of the Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Research Programme at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Manager for Italy of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

She gained research experience in Germany and Switzerland, at the University of Verona and the Catholic University of Milan, on secondment to the Authority for Electricity, Gas, and the Water System.

For 18 years, she has been adjunct professor at the Bocconi University and the Catholic University of Milan.

Carmelo Di Marco

Consiglio Nazionale del Notariato, Vice President

Carmelo Di Marco has been Vice-President of the Consiglio Nazionale del Notariato (national board of Italian civil law notaries) since 2025.

From 2022 to 2025, he was a member of the Consiglio Nazionale del Notariato for Lombardy, in charge of the European and International Affairs Sector, Chairman of the Congress Organising Committee. He was also a member of the working group on fair compensation. Since 2024, he has been a member of the Working Group for the reform of the CNUE's statutes and regulations.

Notary in Milan since 2017, he is the author of numerous legal publications as well as a speaker at national and international conferences.

Marco Granelli

Confartigianato Imprese, President

President of Confartigianato Imprese, the Confederation representing 700,000 artisans, micro and small enterprises.

Owner of a company in the construction sector in Salsomaggiore, he has been involved in association work for a long time. From 2012 to 2020 he was Deputy Vice President of Confartigianato and from 2009 he led Confartigianato Emilia Romagna after having been President of Confartigianato Imprese Parma since 2004.

Claudio Feltrin

FederlegnoArredo, President

President of FederlegnoArredo from 31 October 2020 and president of Arper, a company that creates chairs, tables and furnishing accessories.

He was previously president of Assarredo (2017-2020), board member of Federlegno Arredo Eventi Spa (since 2017) and deputy vice-president (2021).

Moderator

Tullio Ambrosone

AREL, Director of Single Market Lab

Tullio Ambrosone, director of AREL's Single Market Lab, is a researcher specialising in European studies and international relations.

In the past, he worked at the Senate of the Italian Republic, the Italian Chamber of Deputies, the European Parliament and NATO. In 2024, he coordinated work on Enrico Letta's Report on the Future of the Single European Market.

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Annual Meeting 2026 – Media

5:00 pm

Connact Media

From the spread of the Internet to the latest developments in artificial intelligence, the media sector has experienced several epoch-making changes in just a few decades. Maintaining the EU’s strategic autonomy in these areas is also vital to defend European values, and the European Democracy Shield initiative also aims to do this.

How can the resilience of the EU cultural industry be guaranteed? As they are implemented, can the Media freedom act, the AI act and the Digital Market act defend the freedom of the press and freedom of expression, protect the plurality of voices, ensure development of the media industry and its ability to withstand global competition with large online platforms?

Speakers

Stefano Cavedagna

MEP, Deputy Chair EUDS and member IMCO, ENVI

European Conservatives and Reformists Group

Italy - Fratelli d'Italia (Italy)

Chair
D-CL Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee

Vice-Chair
EUDS Special committee on the European Democracy Shield

Member
CPDE Conference of Delegation Chairs
IMCO Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

Substitute Member
ENVI Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety
DLAT Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly

Mario Furore

MEP, member CULT, JURI

The Left group in the European Parliament - GUE/NGL

Italy - Movimento 5 Stelle (Italy)

Member
CULT Committee on Culture and Education
JURI Committee on Legal Affairs
DLAT Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly

Substitute Member
D-CL Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee

Giusi Princi

MEP, member CULT, FEMM, EMPL

Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats)

Italy - Forza Italia (Italy)

Chair
DCAS Delegation for relations with Central Asia

Member
CPDE Conference of Delegation Chairs
CULT Committee on Culture and Education
FEMM Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

Substitute Member
EMPL Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

Marco Tarquinio

MEP, member DEVE, DROI, LIBE, AFET

Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

Italy - Partito Democratico (Italy)

Chair
D-AL Delegation to the EU-Albania Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee

Member
CPDE Conference of Delegation Chairs
DEVE Committee on Development
DROI Subcommittee on Human Rights
D-CL Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee

Substitute Member
AFET Committee on Foreign Affairs
LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
DACP Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
DPAC Delegation to the Pacific-EU Parliamentary Assembly

Luca Baccaro

AGCOM, Lagal advisor

Giuseppe Abbamonte

EU Commission, Director DG CONNECT-I

Director for Media and Data in the EU Commission's Directorate-General 'Connect'.

He is currently head of the security unit with responsibility for improving web defences, online privacy and cybersecurity.

A trained lawyer, he has 20 years' experience in various fields, from transport and competition to justice and the digital agenda.

Rodolfo Cardarelli

Ansa, Deputy Manager International Business Unit

Gina Nieri

MFE-MediaForEurope Group, Board Member

Born in Lucca on 2 December 1953, she has two daughters. After graduating in Political Science from the University of Pisa, she obtained a Master's in Journalism and Mass Media from Luiss University in Rome.

She worked in commercial television from 1977, before joining the FININVEST Group in 1990.

She is currently Central Director of Institutional and Legal Affairs and Strategic Analysis at MEDIASET.

In February 2020, she was confirmed as an executive member of the Mediaset S.p.A. Board of Directors.

On 19 June 2024 she was confirmed as a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of MFE - MEDIAFOREUROPE N.V.

Paolo Ruffini

Prefect of Vatican's Dicastery for Communication

Moderator

Alessandra Ravetta

Editor-in-Chief of Prima Comunicazione and Director of primaonline.it

Editor-in-chief of Prima Comunicazione - a magazine specialising in the world of information and communication that she founded in 1973 with Umberto Brunetti - and Director of primaonline.it.

Partner

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Annual Meeting 2026 – Mobility & Logistics

5:00 pm

Connact Mobility & Logistics

European policies for the transport sector are undergoing a transformation. The goal of sustainability and decarbonisation remains a constant, but the changed international situation affecting the supply of raw materials, the crisis in the automotive sector, technological developments, and new political balances are leading to a redesign of the route to achieving this goal.

What is the new path of the European institutions? What synergies will be created between industrial and transport policies? How will EU policies be combined with national ones? What support will infrastructure modernisation receive from the next EU budget and the Sustainable Transport Investment Plan?

Speakers

Carlo Ciccioli

MEP, member TRAN, SANT, ITRE, PECH

European Conservatives and Reformists Group

Italy - Fratelli d'Italia (Italy)

Vice-Chair
D-ME Delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee

Member
TRAN Committee on Transport and Tourism
DLAT Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly

Substitute Member
SANT Committee on Public Health
ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
PECH Committee on Fisheries
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Anna Maria Cisint

MEP, member TRAN, PECH, LIBE, FEMM

Patriots for Europe Group

Italy - Lega (Italy)

Member
TRAN Committee on Transport and Tourism
DCAM Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America, including the EU-Central America Association Parliamentary Committee

Substitute Member
PECH Committee on Fisheries
LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
FEMM Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

Matteo Ricci

MEP, Deputy Chair TRAN and member ENVI

Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

Italy - Partito Democratico (Italy)

Vice-Chair
TRAN Committee on Transport and Tourism

Member
D-CN Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China

Substitute Member
ENVI Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

Pierpaolo Settembri

EU Commission, Deputy Head of the Cabinet of Commissioner Tzitzikostas

Pierpaolo Settembri has been an EU official since 2007. He is currently Deputy Head of Cabinet of the European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, Apostolos Tzitzikostas.

Prior to this position, also at the EU Commission, he worked at the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport as Head of Unit for Coordination and Planning and, previously, as Assistant to the Director-General. He also served as coordinator for G7/G20 and external policy issues at the EU Commission Secretariat General and, before that, at the European Council Secretariat General, dealing with development cooperation and international trade.

Before joining the EU institutions, he was a Fulbright Scholar and Global Emile Noël Fellow at the New York University, a researcher at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht, a research fellow at LUISS “Guido Carli” in Rome and a teaching assistant at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Alberto La Bella

Permanent Representative of Italy to the EU, Coordinator for TLC and Transport

Massimiliano Calamea

Autostrade per l'Italia, Head of EU & International Public Affairs

Currently Head of EU & International Public Affairs at Autostrade per l'Italia, Massimiliano has held positions of responsibility in Institutional Affairs, Communication, and Sustainability in complex industrial contexts in Europe and Latin America, working closely with European institutions, national governments, and international organisations.

He has a solid academic background in international political science and has gained significant professional experience at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Commission.

Giorgio Garbeglio

Ita Airways, Head of International, EU and Industry Affairs

He currently holds the position of Head of International, EU and Industrial Affairs at ITA Airways, the Italian flag carrier.

"I have gained extensive experience in the international arena with a focus on international relations, EU public policy and government affairs, international negotiations and aeropolitical affairs.

I am heavily involved in creating new business opportunities and promoting the Company's interests by managing and developing relationships with key public and strategic partners, government offices, caucuses, coalitions and organisations.

I really enjoy managing multicultural teams and working across cultures, in the knowledge that there are no failures, but only opportunities to learn and improve".

Khaled Jnifen

Pirelli & C., Head of Regulatory Affairs

Khaled has recently joined the Institutional and Regulatory Affairs Direction at Pirelli's Headquarters in Milan, after years of service abroad.

He joined Pirelli in 2011 and, since then, has held several leadership positions including Head of sponsorship and events, Head of the Formula One activation and Consumer Marketing Director. In these roles he led marketing and promotional strategies and contributed to enhancing the Pirelli brand worldwide.

Later, he was appointed Senior Vice-President of the Cyber Business Unit, where he oversaw the expansion of Pirelli's digital and technological solutions, integrating digital innovation with the company's traditional products. His commitment to innovation and corporate responsibility then led him to the position of Senior Vice President of Sustainability, where he contributed to lower the environmental impact of Pirelli's global operations.

Thanks to his in-depth knowledge of the company and its products, Khaled became CEO, GCC, Middle East, Africa, and India for Pirelli. In this role, he managed growth strategies, identified relevant stakeholders in the region, and enhanced bilateral relations with local partners.

Andrea Minuto Rizzo

Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Head of EU and International Institutional Affairs

Andrea Minuto Rizzo is Head of European Union and International Institutional Affairs at Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane.

He was Head of the International Affairs Office of the Italian Competition Authority and in the Institutional Affairs Department of Enel. His work on competition and regulatory economics is published in Italian and international journals.

Alessandro Pitto

Confetra, Vice President and President of Federspedi

Alessandro Pitto was elected 17th President of Fedespedi (National Federation of International Forwarding Companies) in June 2022 and again confirmed for a second term in June 2025.

Born in Genoa in 1970, he graduated with honours in Economics and Business from the University of Genoa. He is a partner and managing director of Casasco & Nardi, SpA, a historic shipping and airline company founded in 1935.

He has been involved in associations for over 20 years: President of the Spediporto Territorial Association for two terms until 2022, he was Vice-President of Fedespedi from 2019 to 2022 with responsibility for IT & Digital Innovation.

His entrepreneurial activity has always gone hand in hand with an interest in the study of business economics, and for a number of years he was an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Genoa, where he still lectures today.

Moderator

Lorenzo Robustelli

Director of Eunews

Director and co-founder of Eunews, the first Italian publication with a central editorial office in Brussels and correspondents from Rome and other European capitals.

Time

Annual Meeting 2026 – Net & Tech

5:00 pm

Connact Net & Tech

The European Commission’s proposal on the Digital Networks Act complements previously adopted instruments. It aims to redesign the rules of the TLC sector, foster technological development and service offerings, homogenise standards, harmonise the internal market, close the investment gap between Europe and its global competitors, regain technological sovereignty and strategic autonomy, and guarantee the security and resilience of networks and the reliability of connections.

What concrete solutions does the European Commission propose? What do TLC operators need? How will the proposal be received by the European Parliament and the Member States?

Speakers

Brando Benifei

MEP, member INTA, AFCO, IMCO, JURI

Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

Italy - Partito Democratico (Italy)

Chair
D-US Delegation for relations with the United States

Member
CPDE Conference of Delegation Chairs
INTA Committee on International Trade
AFCO Committee on Constitutional Affairs
D-BR Delegation for relations with the Federative Republic of Brazil

Substitute Member
IMCO Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
JURI Committee on Legal Affairs
DMER Delegation for relations with Mercosur
DLAT Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly

Francesco Torselli

MEP, member INTA, EMPL, ITRE

European Conservatives and Reformists Group

Italy - Fratelli d'Italia (Italy)

Member
INTA Committee on International Trade
EMPL Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
D-MX Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee
D-UK Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly

Substitute Member
ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
DLAT Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly

Franco Accordino

Head of Unit for Investment in High Capacity Neworks, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission

Franco Accordino is Head of the “Investment in High-Capacity Networks” Unit at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT), where he leads initiatives supporting the deployment of very high-capacity broadband networks across the EU.

He previously headed the “Knowledge Management and Innovative Systems” Unit, developing advanced digital solutions in areas such as data analytics, web platforms, and artificial intelligence, and led the “Digital Futures” Task Force on long-term digital policy foresight.

Before joining the European Commission, he worked at the ETH Zurich / Swiss National Supercomputing Centre and at Italy’s National Research Council on formal methods and complex systems.

Roberto Basso

Windtre, Director External Affairs and Sustainability

Roberto Basso has been Director of External Affairs and Sustainability at WINDTRE S.p.A. since 23 March 2020.

He began his professional career at Olivetti and continued in the software industry with the listing of Finmatica on the stock exchange. He also worked in marketing research and strategic communication consultancy for companies, institutions and politics and has directed service companies in Italy and France.

He joined the public sector in 2011 and has been Advisor to the Minister for Territorial Cohesion, since 2013 spokesman for the Minister of Economy and Finance, and President of Consip since 2017.

Author of essays and publications, in 2019 he published for Donzelli "L'economia percepita. Dati, comunicazione e consenso nell’era digitale" written with Dino Pesole.

Roberto was born in Lecce, he graduated with honors in Political Science with political-social specialization, he is married and has three children. He is an Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Alberto Boffelli

FiberCop, Chief Corporate Officer

Alberto Boffelli has been FiberCop’s Chief Corporate Officer since 14 February 2025. Previously, he was the Chief Operations Officer and General Manager of Prysmian's Business Unit Projects, with responsibility for executing interconnection and connection projects for offshore wind farms. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Prysmian Powerlink.

Born in Turin on 19 May 1979, he graduated in Business Economics from the University of Turin. He gained 20 years of experience in the industrial sector, starting in the automotive industry and then specialising in the cable industry. Within the Fiat Group, he held various roles from sales to purchasing, following different companies of the group (CNH, Iveco, Fiat Group Purchasing).

At Prysmian Group, he worked in purchasing, then moved into project and contract management, before taking over as head of operations for the Business Unit Projects, the group's highest-value-added division focused on project implementation.

He has participated in reorganisation and integration processes and, for the past seven years, has been actively involved in the energy transition, including taking the lead on sustainability issues.

Sarah Cantarella

Inwit, Head of Public Affairs

Sicilian by birth and Roman by action, Sarah Cantarella was born in Catania in 1986.

After graduating from classical high school with top marks, she arrived in Rome in 2005 to begin her university career, which ended in 2010 with a degree in Law with academic honours at the Lumsa University in Rome. To complete her education, after the specialisation school for the legal professions and the bar exam, she pursued a second-level Master's degree in “Institutional Relations, Lobby and Corporate Communication” at the Luiss Guido Carli Business School in Rome.

For many years, she served as a legal advisor in the Cabinet Office of various ministries. In 2016, she moved to the private sector, where she worked in advocacy and public affairs in the pharmaceutical sector for the INRETE Agency. Moreover, she has always been committed to overcoming the gender gap in the world of work as a member of numerous women's associations.

“To perform public affairs work to the best of one's ability, it is not enough to be well-informed about current affairs and topics of interest and have a good network of contacts; you also need courage and charisma. It takes courage: a broad virtue whose etymological sense of the word links it to the heart. And it takes charisma: a gift inherent in certain personalities capable of titanic ascendancy. Public affairs action thus becomes the human intervention that changes the status quo and overcomes all obstacles in the conviction of one's stances. As a famous phrase goes: Impossible is nothing!".

Vincenzo Ferraiuolo

Fastweb+Vodafone, Head of EU Public Affairs

Francesco Nonno

Director of Regulatory and European Affairs at Open Fiber

A graduate in economic and social disciplines from the “Luigi Bocconi” University in Milan, Francesco Nonno has almost 30 years of experience in telecommunications, regulation, and antitrust. After graduating, he worked for about 10 years in consultancy companies specialising in the communications sector, in Italy and France, as project manager for strategic analysis and positioning projects for telecommunications products/services.

Subsequently, he participated in the start-up phase of the Communications Guarantee Authority, where he worked for about six years, and also served as Head of the Telecommunications Operators and Services Office within the Supervision and Control Department. In particular, from 2004 until his entry into Open Fiber, he worked at the Telecom Italia Group, initially as Head of Telecom Sparkle's Regulatory Affairs, and from 2005, as Head of Telecom Italia's Antitrust Affairs, to which he added over time various roles in defining and representing the group's position also in Regulatory and/or Privacy matters at national and European level.

Most recently, he was responsible for relations with national authorities from 2012 to 2015, and since 2016, he has been Head of Antitrust and Regulatory Affairs for wholesale and energy services. He is currently Head of Regulatory and European Affairs at Open Fiber and President of the FTTH Council Europe, a European association representing the entire optical fibre value chain.

Agostino Nuzzolo

TIM, General Counsel and Legal, Regulatory and Tax EVP

Born in Caserta, Italy, on 12 April 1968, he graduated: in Economics and Business at the University of Bergamo (with honours), in Law at the University of Milan and in Economic and Financial Security Sciences at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome (with honours). He obtained a post-graduate master's degree in Business Taxation at the Guardia di Finanza's Tax Police School, in collaboration with the Bocconi University of Milan (October 2001–July 2003). He is a qualified lawyer.

In January 2017, he joined TIM as General Counsel and Head of Legal Affairs. From December 2017 to March 2018, he was also given the role of Head of Human Resources and Organisation on an interim basis. Since March 2018, he has been General Counsel and Head of Legal and Tax, and since April 2021, he has been Group DPO. He is also Secretary of the Board of Directors of the parent company TIM, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the subsidiary Noovle SpA- Benefit Corporation, and Board Member of the subsidiary FiberCop SpA.

From July 2016 to January 2017, he held the positions of General Counsel, Chief Operating Officer, and Secretary of the Board of Directors at Italmobiliare SpA. From May 2006, he worked for 10 years in the Italcementi Group, initially as Head of Tax Affairs, adding further responsibilities up to the role of Group General Counsel, Director of Legal, Tax and Compliance Affairs.

From July 1986 to May 2006, he served in the Guardia di Finanza, where he started as a cadet in the Academy (1986–90). During his career, he was responsible for managing and supervising day-to-day and inspection activities to combat tax and financial crime, as well as training military cadets and other Academy personnel assigned to national and international departments and operations. In his last assignment, he served as lieutenant colonel, head of the Analysis and Studies sector within the General Command.

He held the position of Adjunct Professor of International Taxation at the University of Bologna (School of Economics, Management, and Statistics) for the academic years 2013–14, 2014–15, and 2015–16. He holds the position of Adjunct Professor in the Advanced Course in International Taxation at the State University of Roma Tre from the academic years 2010–11, 2017–18, 2018–19, and 2019–20. He has also participated in seminars and conferences organised by leading companies in the sector (Paradigma, Business International) on tax matters, criminal liability of legal persons, and corporate law.

He has contributed to periodicals on taxation and is the author of several publications, including: "La nuova Imposta sul Reddito delle Società", 2004, Maggioli; "Il nuovo regime tributario delle operazioni con i paradisi fiscali", 2004, Maggioli; "I reati informatici", 2004, Maggioli; "Codice delle ispezioni e verifiche tributarie", 2005, La Tribuna; "Guida all'antiriciclaggio", 2006, Il Sole 24 Ore; the "Codice del processo tributario", 2007, La Tribuna; "La Tutela dei soci", 2008, Giappichelli; "Manuale di governance fiscale", IPSOA, 2011; "Manuale del transfer pricing", IPSOA, ed. 2009, 2012 and 2015; "Manuale di Fiscalità Internazionale", IPSOA, ed. 2010, 2012 and 2014; "Commesse all'Estero: disciplina fiscale e profili contrattuali", IPSOA, 2015.

Moderator

Silvia Compagnucci

I-Com, Vice President

Time

Annual Meeting 2026 - Pharma & Medical Devices

5:00 pm

Connact Pharma

The Competitiveness Compass presented by the EU Commission recognises the pharmaceutical sector’s leading role in boosting European competitiveness. There is, on the one hand, the direct effect of the value produced by the sector, and on the other hand, the indirect effect of the impact that protecting the health and well-being of citizens has on the production system.

At the same time, the European pharmaceutical sector is one of the main targets of the aggressive US trade policy, which further burdens the loss of competitiveness of the European pharmaceutical sector, which appears to be increasingly structural.

What steps must be taken at the European level to ensure the sector—and the Italian pharmaceutical industry specifically—has the independence, capacity for innovation, and preparedness to deal with crises and emergencies using all of the tools at its disposal, including pricing policies, tax levers, regulations on public procurement, intellectual property protection, environmental regulations, and chemical regulations?

Speakers

Alessandra Moretti

MEP, member ENVI, SANT, FEMM, AFET

Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

Italy - Partito Democratico (Italy)

Vice-Chair
D-RS Delegation to the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee
D-AF Delegation for relations with Afghanistan

Member
ENVI Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety
SANT Committee on Public Health
FEMM Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
D-IR Delegation for relations with Iran

Substitute Member
AFET Committee on Foreign Affairs

Ruggero Razza

MEP, member SANT, BUDG

European Conservatives and Reformists Group

Italy - Fratelli d'Italia (Italy)

Chair
DMAG Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union, including the EU-Morocco, EU-Tunisia and EU-Algeria Joint Parliamentary Committees

Member
CPDE Conference of Delegation Chairs
BUDG Committee on Budgets
SANT Committee on Public Health

Substitute Member
D-TR Delegation to the EU-Türkiye Joint Parliamentary Committee
DMED Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean

Csaba Kontor

EU Commission, Policy Assistant at Commissioner Várhelyi's Cabinet

Giacomo Borgo

EFPIA, Associate Director Public Affairs

Beatrice Credi

ELPA, Head of Brussels Office

Senior EU public health expert, she is the Head of Office at the European Liver Patients’ Association (ELPA) with a focus on the role of civil society within EU health policy and democratic processes.

She has extensive experience in European health advocacy, contributing to consultations, policy dialogues, and multistakeholder initiatives to improve patient representation in public health decision-making. Her work focuses on strengthening the voice of patient organisations in shaping EU health strategies and ensuring that citizens’ perspectives inform institutional priorities. She brings expertise in designing training activities, facilitating dialogue between patient communities and institutions, and translating complex medical and policy information into accessible formats.

She holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Bologna and one in European studies from the UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles.

Fabrizio Grillo

Bracco, Director Public Affairs & International Relations and President of Federated Innovation @MIND

Fabrizio Grillo has gained a strong expertise in the field of international institutions and relations, while operating in both public and private Organizations.

He has, indeed, been heading roles of great responsibility at the Municipality of Milan, in relation with the European Commission, the European Parliament and with UNESCO. In such contexts he has managed legal, economic, research and analysis, political issues, together with advocacy and fundraising actions in the fields of industrial policy and research & development.

Between 2009 and 2016 he has followed Expo2015 in Milan and the Pavilion of Italy, with the role of Secretary General, dealing with the relations with the participating Countries, the International Organizations (UN, UE, OCSA), fostering new partnerships and realizing important business projects.

Since 2016, Fabrizio Grillo leads the General Affairs & International Relations Office of the Bracco Group. Since 2024 he is President of Federated Innovation @MIND and since 2025 he has been a member of the Board of Directors of La Triulza Srl.

Andrea Corazza

Menarini, Executive Director, Global Access Policy & Government Affairs

Andrea Corazza ricopre attualmente il ruolo di Executive Director, Global Access Policy & Government Affairs presso il Gruppo Menarini, la prima azienda farmaceutica italiana nel mondo.

Paolo Saccò

Chiesi Group, Senior Director Global Public Affairs

Paolo Saccò has been working at Chiesi since 2016, where he has held positions of increasing responsibility, becoming Senior Director of Global Public Affairs in 2023. In this role, he coordinates the Group's institutional advocacy activities at an international level.

He has over ten years of experience in the field of communication and institutional relations, gained in various markets and contexts, both corporate and consulting. Before returning to Italy, he worked at the European Parliament as a Parliamentary Assistant, dealing with issues related to health, the environment and food safety.

Paolo graduated from the Institut Catholique de Paris, where he studied European Relations and Lobbying, and completed Chiesi's Developing Executives & Leaders programme at INSEAD.

Moderator

Angela Mauro

Brussels correspondent for Huffingtonpost.it

Huffpost Italy correspondent in Brussels. She is one of the presenters of the daily press review 'Prima pagina' on Rai Radiotre.

Author of “Europa sovrana - La rivincita dei nazionalismi” (Fondazione Feltrinelli 2023), 'Europa sovrana - La normalizzazione dei nazionalismi' (Fondazione Feltrinelli 2024).

Time

Annual Meeting 2026 - Research & innovation

5:00 pm

Connact Research & Innovation

European research and innovation policy is a central element of the EU’s strategy to achieve a competitive, resilient, and sustainable future, helping to strengthen the capacity to tackle global challenges, create jobs, and improve citizens’ lives. Through funding from the Horizon Europe programme and coordination within the European Research Area, the EU offers researchers, businesses, and innovators the opportunity to realise their ideas, turning knowledge into practical solutions for the benefit of citizens.

What is the assessment of the proposals of the new Multiannual Financial Framework regarding the funds allocated to Research and Innovation? What initiatives and actions need to be undertaken to ensure an increase in funding and appropriate program governance, capable of fostering research across the entire value chain, from theoretical development to the application of the innovations it generates? What benefits could result for the national R&I sector?

Speakers

Raffaele Topo

MEP, member EMPL, REGI, BUDG, ENVI, SANT

Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats

Italy - Democratic Party (Italy)

Member
EMPL Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
REGI Committee on Regional Development
DAND Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community

Substitute Member
BUDG Committee on Budgets
ENVI Committee on the Environment, Climate Change and Food Safety
SANT Committee on Public Health
DLAT Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly

Francesco Ventola

MEP, Deputy Chair REGI and member ITRE, ECON, AGRI, FISC

European Conservatives and Reformists Group

Italy - Fratelli d'Italia (Italy)

Vice-Chair
REGI Committee on Regional Development

Member
ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
DMED Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean

Substitute Member
ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
FISC Subcommittee on Tax Matters
DPAL Delegation for relations with Palestine
DARP Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula

Maria Cristina Russo

EU Commission, Deputy Director General DG RTD

Francesca Mariotti

ENEA, President

She has been Director General of Confindustria from 2020 until October 2023. Since June 2025, she is the President of ENEA, the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and Sustainable Economic Development.

Isabella Nova

POLIMI, Executive Vice Rector of the Politecnico di Milano

Isabella Nova is Executive Vice-Rector with a focus on the Implementation of the Strategic Plan at Politecnico di Milano, where she is also Full Professor of Industrial and Technological Chemistry at the Department of Energy (DENG). Graduated in Chemical Engineering from the same university, she obtained her PhD in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Milan.

“Politecnico di Milano as an extended community. Its campuses as places of aggregation”. This is the vision of Isabella Nova, who recognises the university as a place dedicated to the growth of the individual and the development of talent. Equally important for Nova is the attention to environmental dynamics and energy transition, the result of years of study, advanced research, and industrial experimentation

Inclusion and sustainability are key elements resonating throughout the 2023- 2025 University Strategic Plan, translated into performance indicators monitored annually under the coordination of Professor Nova. This continuous review process reflects a pact of trust between Politecnico and its stakeholders: from students to researchers; from enterprises to institutions.

During her career, Nova has held numerous institutional positions which have defined a progressive expansion of her vision and management skills. Among them, she is member of the Board of Directors of Maire Tecnimont since 2023.

She is recognized as an international leader in the field of catalysis, with a focus on post-treatment processes for polluting effluents and sustainable energy production. She authored over 170 publications, is co-editor of 6 Special Issues, and holds 3 international patents. Her numerous research achievements have earned her a place in the 100Esperte in STEM, the Top Italian Scientists, and the 2018 Inspiring Fifty Italy.

Maria Cristina Pedicchio

APRE, President

Since 2024, she has been President of the Agency for the Promotion of European Research (APRE).

She has held various positions such as: President of the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), the Consortium for the Centre for Molecular Biomedicine (CBM) and the Area Science Park. She has been the President of the Technical Scientific Committee of APRE, a member of the CS of ISPRA and of the Management Board of the EuroMediterranean University EMUNI.

Moderator

Marco Simoni

IAI, Elected Director

Conclusioni

Time

Conclusions

7:30 pm

Conclusions

Speakers

Carlo Corazza

Director of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Italy

A lawyer since 1993, he has been a European civil servant since 1994: member of European Commissioner Emma Bonino's cabinet (1995-1999); responsible for enlargement negotiations between 2000 and 2003; spokesperson for the European Commission Representation in Italy between 2003 and 2008 and then director of the Milan office until 2011; spokesperson for Antonio Tajani during his terms as Vice-President of the EU Commission and President of the European Parliament; and then took up his current post as head of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Italy.

Pina Picierno

Vice-President of the European Parliament

Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

Italy - Partito Democratico (Italy)

Vice-President
PE European Parliament

Member
BURO Parliament's Bureau
PETI Committee on Petitions
EUDS Special committee on the European Democracy Shield
D-UA Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee
DEPA Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly

Substitute Member
LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
D-IL Delegation for relations with Israel

Antonella Sberna

Vice-President of the European Parliament

European Conservatives and Reformists Group

Italy - Fratelli d'Italia (Italy)

Vice-President
PE European Parliament

Member
BURO Parliament's Bureau
REGI Committee on Regional Development
HOUS Special committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union
DLAT Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly

Substitute Member
ENVI Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety
DPAL Delegation for relations with Palestine
DMER Delegation for relations with Mercosur
DMED Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean

Raffaele Fitto

Executive Vice President of the European Commission (video message)

Executive Vice-President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for Regional and Cohesion Policy, Regional Development, Cities and Reforms in the von der Leyen Commission II from 1 December 2024.

From 22 October 2022 to 30 November 2024, he was Minister for European Affairs, Cohesion Policies and the NRP in the Meloni government; from 10 November 2022, he was also in charge of the South.

He was an MEP from 20 July 1999 to 20 June 2000 and from 1 July 2014 to 12 October 2022, President of the Apulia Region from 19 May 2000 to 27 April 2005 and Minister for the Regions and Territorial Cohesion from 8 May 2008 to 16 November 2011 in the Berlusconi IV government.

Federica Favi

Italian Ambassador to Belgium

Ambassador in Brussels since January 2023, she was awarded the title of Cavaliere Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica in 2017.

Previously, she was ambassador in Muscat and Tblisi, as well as working at the Directorate General for Political and Security Affairs, dealing mainly with strategic, politico-military and NATO issues.

Vincenzo Celeste

Permanent Representative of Italy to the EU

Born in Naples on 6 September 1962, he graduated in Law from the University Federico II of Naples on 9 July 1987. He joined the diplomatic service on 13 February 1989.

From 14 November 1989 he served at the Directorate General for Migration and Social Affairs, first in the Office for Italians in the Americas and Oceania and later in the same Directorate General’s Secretariat.

On 3 May 1993 he was appointed Second Secretary at the Italian Embassy in Damascus.

On 21 July 1997 he was appointed First Secretary and later Counsellor at the Italian Embassy in Sofia.

Upon returning to Rome, in December 2000, he was assigned to the General Directorate for Multilateral Political Affairs and Human Rights at the Disarmament Office and from 3 September 2002 to the General Secretariat, Coordination Unit.

Embassy Counsellor on 2 July 2004, from 19 September 2005 he was appointed to the Permanent Representation of Italy to the EU in Brussels, with the rank of First Counsellor.

Returning to Rome again in 2010, he served at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers as Coordinator of the Structure for Procedures for infringement of EU law.

Minister Plenipotentiary on 2 January 2011, he was appointed Diplomatic Counsellor to the Minister for European Affairs from the end of 2011.

On 27 June 2013 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in London and on 10 July 2018 Deputy Chief of Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

On 31 August 2019 he was appointed Director General for Europe and International Trade Policy.

He is Permanent Representative of Italy to the European Union from 17 April 2023.

Moderator

Michele Valensise

IAI, President

He is president of the IAI.

He was Ambassador to Brasilia from 2004, to Berlin from 2009 and Secretary General of the Farnesina from 2012 to 2016.

He is a board member of several joint-stock companies and of the Fondo Ambiente Italiano, and a member of the board of directors of the Italian Society for International Organisation.

He contributes to international newspapers and political magazines.

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Lista ospiti istituzionali

	Surname	Name	Ente	Qualifica
	Mouhcine	Benchekroun
	Coloccia	Alessandro	Commissione Europea	DG ENER Housing Task Force
	Licinio	Giuseppe	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Camilla Laureti	Assistente parlamentare
	Mazzara	Giulia	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Prima segretaria - Delegata COHOM e MOG
	Calascibetta	Riccardo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Caterina Chinnici	Assistente parlamentare di Caterina Chinnici
	Attura	Jonathan	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Trainee
	Remond	Mathieu	Commissione Europea	Head of Unit
	Nuzzo	Silvia	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Rosato	Viriana	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Marco Squarta	Assistente parlamentare di Marco Squarta
	Giani Pennati	Francesco Maria	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Isabella Tovaglieri	Assistente parlamentare
	Bonardi	Lorenzo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Isabella Tovaglieri	Assistente parlamentare di Isabella Tovaglieri
	El Moukadar	Hamza	Nato - Otan - North Atlantic Treaty Organization	Staff Officer
	Ishchuk	Olga	Commissione Europea	Finance Officer
	Bertusi	Maria Vittoria	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Trainee
	Vezzoli	Edoardo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Assistente parlamentare di Dario Nardella
	Zacco	Alessandro	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Assistente parlamentare di Dario Nardella
	Cottone	Ignazio	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Giuseppe Antoci	Staff On. Antoci
	Dall'Olio	Nicola	Rappresentanza Regione Emilia Romagna a Bruxelles	Politiche e programmi Ue
	Mammi	Alessio	Regione Emilia Romagna
	Polese	Mario	Direzione Generale dell’Ambiente, Energia e Tutela del Territorio della Regione Basilicata	Vice Presidente del Consiglio Regionale della Basilicata
	Gurrisi	Lisa	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Trainee
	Campiotti	Michele	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Mariateresa Vivaldini	Assistente parlamentare di Mariateresa Vivaldini
	Razzolini	Tommaso	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Assistente parlamentare di Elena Donazzan
	Ciccioli	Giovanna	PCM - Presidenza del Consiglio dei ministri	STRUTTURA DI MISSIONE PNRR
	Del Mese	Pietro	Ambasciata d'Italia Bruxelles	Funzionario
	Vinco	Giorgia	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Trainee
	Delaini	Annagiulia	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Trainee
	Tartarini	Diego	Commissione Europea	Project Officer
	Atripaldi	Alessandra	Commissione Europea	Vice Capo Unità FISMA B1
	Sardone	Immavera	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Sardone	Irenella	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Communication Officer
	Lenares	Livia	Commissione Europea	Head of Sector
	Grappiolo	Roberta	Commissione Europea	Coordinatrice
	Bartoli	Giulia	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Assistant Secretariat of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
	Marole	Emanuele	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Assistente Parlamentare di Mario Mantovani
	Bocchi	Melissa	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Assistente Parlamentare di Mario Mantovani
	Porumb	Anca	Commissione Europea	Policy and Legal Trainee for Maritime Transport
	Morra	Francesco	Commissione Europea
	Bagnoli Rossi	Federico	FAPAV - Federazione per la Tutela delle Industrie dei Contenuti Audiovisivi e Multimediali	Presidente e Direttore Generale
	Collart	Andrea	Commissione Europea	Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology Unit D.2 – Digital Markets
	Foglia	Luigia	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Assistente Parlamentare di Pietro Fiocchi
	Romano	Carlotta	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Alberico Gambino	Assistente Parlamentare di Alberico Gambino
	Sole	Marica	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Alberico Gambino	Assistente Parlamentare di Alberico Gambino
	Gentile	Vincenzo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Alberico Gambino	Assistente Parlamentare di Alberico Gambino
	Guida	Benedetta	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Michele Picaro	Assistente parlamentare di Michele Picaro
	Braido	Veronica	Commissione Europea	Legal Officer
	Musumeci	Giovanna	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Policy Adviser
	Spolaor	Lorenzo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Policy Adviser
	Colombo	Alessandro	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Cecilia Strada	Assistente parlamentare di Cecilia Strada
	Troja	Francesco	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE
	Fiorani	Luca	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer - Defence Technologies
	Ristori	Caterina	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Gaetano Pedullà	Assistente parlamentare di Giuseppe Antoci
	Familiari	Salvatore	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Dario Tamburrano	Assistente parlamentare di Dario Tamburrano
	Biginelli	Alberto	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Renew Policy Advisor
	Angelini	Martina	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	policy adviser
	CIALFI	Angelo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Policy Adviser
	PAVANATO	Luca	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Policy Adviser
	Benvenuti	Fabio	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Nicola Procaccini	Policy Adviser
	Di Mambro	Giuseppe	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Policy Advisor Environment Committee
	Lechiara	Francesca	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Carlo Fidanza	Assistente parlamentare di Carlo Fidanza
	Righi	Silvia	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Elisabetta Gualmini	Assistente parlamentare di Elisabetta Gualmini
	Verrone	Davide	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Elisabetta Gualmini	Assistente parlamentare di Elisabetta Gualmini
	Ventura	Mattia	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Interlandi	Rossana	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Pietro Fiocchi	Assistente parlamentare di Pietro Fiocchi
	Lungarotti	Christian	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Zimmardi	Dario	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Leoluca Orlando	Assistente parlamentare di Leoluca Orlando
	Armini	Dario	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Fusato	Camilla	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Simonov	Mikhail	HaDEA - European Health And Digital Executive Agecny	Head of Sector
	Biafora	Davide	Commissione Europea	Assistant to the CRP
	Gargiulo	Luca	EDA - European Defence Agency	Project Officer Air Superiority
	Scuderi	Matteo	GPI S.p.A.	Assistente parlamentare di Ruggero Razza
	Toscano	Mario	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Cialdella	Giovanna	REGIONE PUGLIA	Policy Officer
	Pellegrini	Pierre	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Giovanni Crosetto	Assistente Parlamentare di Giovanni Crosetto
	Mellone	Fabio	Commissione Europea	Project Adviser
	Cognini	Caterina	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Pina Picierno	Assistente parlamentare di Pina Picierno
	Mori	Federico	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Pina Picierno	Assistente parlamentare di Pina Picierno
	Palermo	Gianmarco	Commissione Europea	Policy Assistant to the Director-General
	Guglielmino	Giorgia	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Ruggero Razza	Assistente parlamentare di Ruggero Razza
	Gatti	Cristina	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Giungi	Maria Maddalena	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Carlo Fidanza	Assistente parlamentare di Carlo Fidanza
	Plebani	Gloria	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Silvia Sardone	Assistente parlamentare di Silvia Sardone
	Bonfadini	Eleonora	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Silvia Sardone	Assistente parlamentare di Silvia Sardone
	Leonardi	Marco	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Matteo Ricci	Assistente parlamentare di Matteo Ricci
	Galeazzi	Filippo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Matteo Ricci	Assistente parlamentare di Matteo Ricci
	Szymanski	Mateusz	Commissione Europea	Assistant to Ms Arveras Elena and Mr Panella Lauro
	Amadei	Luca	Commissione Europea	Policy officer, DG FISMA
	Genovesi	Emma	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Marco Tarquinio	Assistente parlamentare di Marco Tarquinio
	Lucarelli	Francesco	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Marco Tarquinio	Assistente parlamentare di Marco Tarquinio
	Aiello	Caterina	EDA - European Defence Agency	Trainee-RTI Directorate
	Di Marco	Veronica	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Marco Tarquinio	Assistente parlamentare di Marco Tarquinio
	Quintiliani	Federica	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Carlo Ciccioli	Assistente parlamentare di Carlo Ciccioli
	Scarda	Stefano	Commissione Europea	DG DEFIS
	Kessidis	Vassilis	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Carlo Ciccioli	Assistente Parlamentare di Carlo Ciccioli
	D'Orazio	Davide	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Anna Maria Cisint	Assistente parlamentare di Anna Maria Cisint
	Buscema	Dario	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Anna Maria Cisint	Assistente parlamentare di Anna Maria Cisint
	Becca	Bianca	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Policy Officer
	Dellepiane	Gian Mauro	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Carlo Fidanza	Assistente parlamentare di Carlo Fidanza
	Chinello	Stefania Marianna	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Flavio Tosi	Assistente parlamentare di Flavio Tosi
	De Cagna	Annagrazia	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Michele Picaro	Assistente parlamentare di Michele Picaro
	Marton	Eleonora	Unioncamere Veneto	Coordinatrice Delegazione Unioncamere del Veneto Bruxelles
	Bussetti	Margherita	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Daniele Polato	Assistente parlamentare di Daniele Polato
	Felician	Stefano	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Daniele Polato	Assistente parlamentare di Daniele Polato
	Sesso	Niccolò	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Daniele Polato	Assistente parlamentare di Daniele Polato
	Vasta	Francesco	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Marco Falcone	Assistente parlamentare di Marco Falcone
	Bellavia	Luca Maicon Vinicius	Parlamento Europeo - ufficio stampa	Assistente parlamentare di Marco Falcone
	Brumati	Matteo	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Berutti	Roberto	Regione Piemonte - Ufficio di Bruxelles	Responsabile Ufficio di Rappresentanza
	Foglia	Francesco	Commissione Europea	Administrator
	Dello Stritto	Giuseppe	EDA - European Defence Agency	Head of Unit Land and Logistics
	Rotella	Raffaele	Military NATEX at NCIA	Military NATEX at NCIA
	Sergo	Camilla	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Roberto Vannacci	Assistente parlamentare di Roberto Vannacci
	Biella	Arianna	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Roberto Vannacci	Assistente parlamentare di Roberto Vannacci
	Verdecchia	Pier Luigi	Rappresentanza permanente dell'Italia presso la NATO - RPNATO	Rappresentanza permanente dell'Italia presso la NATO
	Cannas	Francesco	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Frutta	Sofia	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Mariateresa Vivaldini	Assistente parlamentare di Mariateresa Vivaldini
	Rossi	Giacomo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Francesco Torselli	Assistente parlamentare di Francesco Torselli
	Venetucci	Luca	Ambasciata d'Italia Bruxelles	Funzionario
	Lisciarelli	Massimo	Ambasciata d'Italia Bruxelles	Funzionario
	Giangiuli	Rosy	Ambasciata d'Italia Bruxelles	Funzionario
	Ciacci	Barbara	Ambasciata d'Italia Bruxelles	Funzionario
	Branca	Valeria	EXPRA, EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY ALLIANCE	Project Manager
	De Pascali	Miriana	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Salvatore De Meo	Assistente parlamentare di Salvatore De Meo
	De Siena	Francesco	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Salvatore De Meo	Assistente parlamentare di Salvatore De Meo
	Hysenaj	Ledri	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Simeon	Olga	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Stamegna	Carla	BANCA D'ITALIA	Head Of The Representative Office In Brussels
	Doldo	Claudia	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer - DG MOVE
	Pasinelli	Fabio	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Policy Adviser
	Olivetti	Leonardo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Isabella Tovaglieri	Assistente parlamentare di Isabella Tovaglieri
	Pepe	Piero Antonio	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Alberico Gambino	Assistente parlamentare di Alberico Gambino
	Donati	Cecilia	Commissione Europea	Policy officer space coordination
	Ghersini	Filippo	Commissione Europea	Funzionario
	Ostojic	Vukasin	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer at the Recovery and Resilience Task Force
	Fusaro	Francesco	Commissione Europea	Head of Sector European Commission DG Migration and Home Affairs
	Celestino	Ugo	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer for Defence Single Market & Hybrid Threats
	Brunelli	Matteo	Commissione Europea	Funzionario presso la Direzione generale del Commercio (DG Trade)
	Sibilia	Ambra	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Francesco Torselli	Assistente parlamentare di Francesco Torselli
	Aonzo	Elisa	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Policy Adviser
	Tatulli	Massimo	Governo Italiano	Rappresentante della Presidenza del Consiglio
	Mensi	Maurizio	SCUOLA NAZIONALE DELL'AMMINISTRAZIONE - CRS_EFATTURAPA	Professore Di Diritto Dell’economia
	Dell'Acqua	Francesca	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Giuseppe Antoci	Assistente parlamentare di Giuseppe Antoci
	D'Antoni	Davide	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Giuseppe Antoci	Assistente parlamentare di Giuseppe Antoci
	Mulas	Manuela	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Giuseppe Antoci	Assistente parlamentare di Giuseppe Antoci
	Gatta	Caterina	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Valentina Palmisano	Assistente parlamentare di Valentina Palmisano
	Volpe	Francesco	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Valentina Palmisano	Assistente parlamentare di Valentina Palmisano
	Pignedoli	Sabrina	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Gaetano Pedullà	Assistente parlamentare di Gaetano Pedullà
	Destro	Diego	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Assistente parlamentare di Gaetano Pedullà
	Soldi	Dario	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Gaetano Pedullà	Assistente parlamentare di Gaetano Pedullà
	Fonsi	Francesco	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Carolina Morace	Assistente parlamentare di Carolina Morace
	Ranaldo	Andrea	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Carolina Morace	Assistente parlamentare di Carolina Morace
	Simonelli	Iacopo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Carolina Morace	Assistente parlamentare di Carolina Morace
	Pirisi	Alessia	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Danilo Della Valle	Assistente parlamentare di Danilo Della Valle
	Scala	Giovanni	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Mario Furore	Assistente parlamentare di Mario Furore
	Fenili	Gianluca	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Mario Furore	Assistente parlamentare di Mario Furore
	Bertagni	Sebastiano	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Mario Furore	Assistente parlamentare di Mario Furore
	Calabrese	Cecilia	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Mario Furore	Assistente parlamentare di Mario Furore
	Ciriolo	Salvatore	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Mario Furore	Assistente parlamentare di Mario Furore
	Patanè	Luca	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Dario Tamburrano	Assistente parlamentare
	Poggi	Lorenzo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Dario Tamburrano	Assistente parlamentare di Dario Tamburrano
	Parise	Andrea Barnaba	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Pasquale Tridico	Assistente parlamentare di Pasquale Tridico
	Soukrati	Zaineb	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Pasquale Tridico	Assistente parlamentare di Pasquale Tridico
	Migliore	Giacomo	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Tassoni	Luca	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Gropelli	Alessandro	Connect Europe	Director General
	Lauretti	Massimiliano	Marina militare italiana	Military Advisor e Attaché
	Gaudiano	Massimo	Rappresentanza permanente dell'Italia presso la NATO - RPNATO, Marco Peronaci	Consigliere della Rappresentanza permanente dell'Italia presso la NATO
	Donno	Stefano Luigi	Ministero della Difesa	National Armaments Director Representative
	Cremonini	Giovanni	EEAS - Servizio UE per l'azione esterna	Head of Division Maritime Security
	Ciullo	Lucio Gabriele	Nato - Otan - North Atlantic Treaty Organization	NATO Representative
	Galardini	Adriana	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Dario Nardella	Assistente parlamentare di Dario Nardella
	Sarateanu	Ana Maria	Unioncamere Europa Asbl	Coordinamento, Rapporti con Eurochambres e Sistemi camerali UE, Transizione digitale, Economia del mare
	Fortuna	Chiara	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Dario Nardella	Assistente parlamentare di Dario Nardella
	Guglielmi	Andrea	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Policy Adviser
	Binanti	Andrea	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Massimiliano Salini	Assistente parlamentare di Massimiliano Salini
	Sanasi	Myriam	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Carlo Fidanza	Policy Adviser
	Mangeri	Donata	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Mariateresa Vivaldini	Assistente parlamentare di Mariateresa Vivaldini
	Poletti	Elena	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Pietro Fiocchi	Policy Adviser
	Florindi	Francesco	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Montante	Sabrina	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Tessarolo	Angela	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Polillo	Vanessa	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Truppo	Andrea	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Bricola	Valeria	REA - European Research executive agency	Head of Unit - HOME.F.REA.C.2
	Zanchi	Marina	Commissione Europea	Director of the Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)
	Mazzei	Marika	Commissione Europea	Project Officer European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)
	Frau	Maria Vittoria	Commissione Europea	European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)
	Sabbatelli	Maria Rosa	Commissione Europea	Head of Unit, FPI01
	Bonanomi	Maria Grazia	Commissione Europea	Combatting Diseases (HADEA.A.3.001) gestione dei progetti
	Moricca	Marco Umberto	Commissione Europea, Marco Umberto MORICCA	DIR C Director
	Merlino	Marco	Commissione Europea	Programme Manager at European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)
	Daquino	Giuseppe Giovanni	Commissione Europea	Advanced Materials (HADEA.B.3.002)- Responsabile dei programmi
	ALBORE	Francesco	Commissione Europea	DIR A Head of Unit
	DI DOMIZIO	Davide	Commissione Europea	Research Programme Administrator at HaDEA
	FIORITO	Biagio	Commissione Europea	DIR B Head of Unit
	RICCIARDI	Anna	Commissione Europea	CEF Digital I (HADEA.B.1.001) Responsabile dei progetti
	Golfieri	Andrea	Commissione Europea, Marina Zanchi	HADEA, Assistente della Direttrice Marina Zanchi
	GIORDANI	Alessandro	Commissione Europea	Deputy Director, Head of Unit
	Giovagnoni	Caterina	Commissione Europea	Policy analyst
	Porcellana	Federica	PCM - Presidenza del Consiglio dei ministri	Coordinatore Servizio 1 – Struttura di Missione PNRR
	Mangolini	Marcello	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Stefano Bonaccini	Assistente parlamentare di Stefano Bonaccini
	Lambertini	Gian Marco	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Stefano Bonaccini	Assistente parlamentare di Stefano Bonaccini
	Di Donatantonio	Luca	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer SG REFORM
	Zaccaro	Fausto	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Benedetta Scuderi	Assistente parlamentare di Benedetta Scuderi
	Petraglia	Assuntina	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Alberico Gambino	Assistente parlamentare di Alberico Gambino
	Giordano	Alisea	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Raffaele Stancanelli	Assistente parlamentare di Raffaele Stancanelli
	Cocco	Maicol	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Stefano Cavedagna	Assistente parlamentare di Stefano Cavedagna
	Previdi	Rebecca	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Stefano Cavedagna	Assistente parlamentare di Stefano Cavedagna
	Grassano	Niccolò	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Lucia Annunziata	Assistente parlamentare di Lucia Annunziata
	Gison	Sara	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Lucia Annunziata	Assistente parlamentare di Lucia Annunziata
	Musto	Marilù	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Raffaele Topo	Assistente parlamentare di Raffaele Topo
	Gherardi	Maddalena	AGEA - Agenzia per le erogazioni in agricoltura	Ufficio Rappresentanza UE
	Herold	Anna	Commissione Europea	Head of Unit, Audiovisual and Media Policy
	Caprino	Giorgia	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Lara Magoni	Assistente parlamentare di Lara Magoni
	Scatemburlo	Alessandro	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Lara Magoni	Assistente parlamentare di Lara Magoni
	Carraro	Vittoria	Commissione Europea	Policy officer - Health Policy Specialist
	Di Toro	Pierre	Istituto italiano di cultura di Bruxelles	Direttore di Chiara fama
	Cappello	Maja	European Audiovisual Observatory	Head Of Department For Legal Information
	Di Toro	Lorenzo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Funzionario Gruppo EPP - Consigliere Politico
	Da Cascina	Giuliano	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Funzionario gruppo EPP - Assistente per i lavori parlamentari
	Calaprice	Vittorio	Commissione Europea - Rappresentanza in Italia	Analista Politico e Relazioni Istituzionali
	Di Rubbo	Pasquale	Commissione Europea	Deputy Head of Unit - European Commission (DG AGRI) - Unit on Policy Perspectives
	Tosoratti	Paolo	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Detratti	Marco	Commissione Europea	Deputy Head of Unit - DG Connect
	Sacchetto	Guido	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Montanaro	Eleonora	Commissione Europea	DG EMPL
	Bazargan	Dario	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer DG GROW
	Arcidiacono	Giovanni	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Ruggero Razza	Assistente parlamentare di Ruggero Razza
	Monello	Giulia	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Ruggero Razza	Assistente parlamentare di Ruggero Razza
	Catalano	Chiara	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Ruggero Razza	Assistente parlamentare di Ruggero Razza
	Terrana	Fausto	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Annalisa Corrado	Assistente parlamentare di Annalisa Corrado
	Simioli	Arcangelo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Annalisa Corrado	Assistente parlamentare di Annalisa Corrado
	Karam	Victoria	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa, Annalisa Corrado	Assistente parlamentare
	Sentinelli	Christian	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Policy Adviser
	Dentamaro	Benedetta	Commissione Europea	Deputy Head of Unit Budget and Finance
	Tattini	Jacopo	Commissione Europea	Policy Officer
	Trovati	Chiara	Commissione Europea, Claudia Canevari	Policy Officer DG ENER
	Tesei	Rachele	Commissione Europea	Coordinator for Interinstitutional Relations
	Di Giovanna	Leonardo	Regione Siciliana, Ufficio Bruxelles	Funzionario Direttivo
	Ricci	Angelo	Eurocontrol	State Liaison Officer for Italy
	Prissinotti	Iacopo	Eurocontrol	Director Network Management
	Bedini	Giulia	Commissione Europea, Dan Jørgensen	Policy Assistant and Communication Advisor to Commissioner Dan Jørgensen
	Clini	Carlo	REGIONE VENETO	Direzione Relazioni Internazionali - Direttore Unità Organizzativa Rapporti con l'Unione Europea
	Bernardini Papalia	Lucio	Regione Basilicata - Ufficio di Bruxelles	Consigliere del Presidente della Giunta regionale per le relazioni con l'UE - Referente Antenna Bruxelles
	Andria	Tommaso	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Nicoli	Silvia	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Viviani	Raffaella	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Maltese	Michele	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Rastelli	Matteo	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Sordini	Marco	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Iezzi	Marco	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Massotti	Giulia	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Portavoce e responsabile stampa e informazione RPUE
	Viola	Giancarlo	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Cinti	Filippo	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Rugge	Fabio	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Boscaleri	Fabio	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Loi	Angela	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Barbaria	Andrea	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE - RPUE	Rappresentanza Permanente dell'Italia presso l'UE
	Viglione	Raffaella	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Policy Adviser
	Palamiti	Paolo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Policy Adviser
	Mannelli	Lorenzo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Direzione generale delle Tecnologie dell’informazione e della cybersecurity
	Cresti	Lorenzo	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Policy Adviser
	Mussa	Giorgio	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Capo Unità Strategy and Innovation
	Berti	Francesco	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Advisor ECR
	Trentin	Barbara	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Policy Adviser
	Mazzola	Alberto	Gruppo di Iniziativa Italiana	Presidente
	Jahier	Luca	European Economic and Social Committee - CESE - EESC	President of the European Economic and Social Committee
	Guerini	Giuseppe	European Economic and Social Committee - CESE - EESC	Membro del CESE e Presidente Cecop
	Caselli	Paola	Consiglio Europeo	Political Advisor DG TREE
	Zampieri	Walter	Commissione Europea	Head of Unit European Higher Education (EACEA)
	Manfredi	Veronica	Commissione Europea	Director ENV C
	Soro	Stefano	Commissione Europea	Head of Unit GROW 1.4
	Paci	Stefano	Commissione Europea	Head of Unit ad interim - MOVE-A.2
	Putoto	Sebastiano	Commissione Europea	Assistente direttore Generale
	Striani	Rosalba	Commissione Europea	Assistente direttore generale
	Pasimeni	Paolo	Commissione Europea	Head of Unit DG Research and Innovation
	Pesaresi	Nicola	Commissione Europea	Deputy Director and Head of Unit DG Competition
	De Grassi	Mattia	Commissione Europea	Funzionario
	De Carli	Magda	Commissione Europea	Head of Unit and Deputy Director
	Busa	Lucrezia	Commissione Europea	Capo Unità CONNECT B3
	Granelli	Lucia	Commissione Europea	Head of Unit - Customs Tariffs, Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union
	Perego	Luca	Commissione Europea	Head of Unit "Innovation and EIT"
	Di Pietrantonio	Loris	Commissione Europea	Head of Unit - Budget and Planning Cycle
	Giudice	Gabriele	Commissione Europea, Raffaele Fitto	Cabinet expert in the team of EVP Raffaele Fitto
	Facioni	Flavio	Commissione Europea	Gabinetto del Commissario Várhelyi
	Chirico	Filomena	Commissione Europea	Head of Unit - Digital Markets - DG Connect
	Tornese	Emiliano	Commissione Europea	Head of Macro-Finance and Macroprudential Policy
	Panichi	Elena	Commissione Europea, Michael Pielke	Head of Unit DG AGRI
	Ruffini	Benedetta	Commissione Europea	Assistant to the Director-General
	Parenti	Antonio	Commissione Europea	Direttore SANTE B
	Marino	Angelo	Commissione Europea	Head of Department HADEA A
	Vettori	Andrea	Commissione Europea	Head of Unit Nature Conservation
	Gavinelli	Andrea	Commissione Europea	Head of Unit - SANTE G3
	Beltramello	Andrea	Commissione Europea	Head of Unit - FISMA B1
	Papadia	Agnese	Commissione Europea, Dan Jørgensen	Member of Cabinet of EU Commissioner for Energy and Housing Dan Jørgensen
	Sardone	Silvia	Parlamento Europeo - Assemblea legislativa	Eurodeputata, membro ENVI, DROI, AFET, ITRE
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