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itenPROGRAMMA EVENTO CNIT 8 APRILE

Programme

Telecommunications of the Future

“Solutions for Telecommunications & Telecommunications as a Solution”

April 9th 2025
Serra del Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Rome

Provisional agenda, constantly updated.

Ore 8:30 – Participant Registration
Ore 9:20 – Introduction
  • Luigi Garofalo, Director, Key4biz
Welcome greetings
  • Francesco De Natale, Director, CNIT
Institutional greetings
  • Alessandra Gallone, Advisor to the Minister of University and Research

h 9:30 – 13:30 – Solutions for Telecommunications

Speech – RESTART viewpoint
  • Nicola Blefari Melazzi, President, CNIT
Speech – Institutions’ viewpoint
  • Giacomo Lasorella, President, Agcom
Panel – White Paper Restart: Techno-economic vision of the future of telecommunications

Chaired and Moderated by: Nicola Blefari Melazzi, President, CNIT

  • Antonio Capone, Professor, Polytechnic University of Milano / CNIT
  • Alessandro Gropelli, Director General, Connect Europe
  • Marta Valsecchi, Director, Digital Innovation Observatories, Polytechnic University of Milan
Speech – Telecommunications of the Future. Operators’ ideas and proposals
  • Giuseppe Gola, CEO and General Director, Open Fiber
Interview – The Future of Telecommunications: Striking the Right Balance Between the State and a Competitive Free Market in the Age of AI
  • Benedetto Levi, CEO, iliad Italia
Interview – AI, Telco’s investments for Italy
  • Walter Renna, CEO, Fastweb + Vodafone
Interview – Telecoms at a Crossroads: Strategies for a Sustainable and Competitive Future
  • Pietro Labriola, CEO and General Manager, TIM
Telecommunications of the Future. Tower Companies’ ideas

Interview – Cellnex Italia, the Tower Company that enables and promotes innovation and new technologies

  • Federico Protto, CEO, Cellnex Italia

Interview

  • Diego Galli, General Manager, INWIT
Speech – Institutions’ viewpoint
  • Alessio Butti, Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers
h 11:50 – Coffee break
Speech Telecommunications of the Future: The initiatives of the Chamber of Deputies’ IX Committee and of the Parliament
  • Salvatore Deidda, President of the IX Transport, Post and Telecommunications Commission, Chamber of Deputies
Speech – Telecommunications of the Future. What is Italy’s industrial plan?
  • Eliana Longi, IX Commissione Trasporti, Poste e TLC, Camera dei Deputati
Telecommunications of the Future. International institutions’ viewpoint

Individual speeches:

Chaired and Moderated by: Paolo Anastasio, Journalist, Key4biz

  • Cristina Data, Director of Spectrum Policy and Analysis, Ofcom and NED, Energy System Catapult
  • Robert Mourik, Chair, BEREC
  • Seizo Onoe, Director, International Standard Bureau, ITU
Panel – SATCOM: Technology applications and Regulatory challenges

Chaired and Moderated by: Sara Dalledonne, Lead, EU Relations & Regulatory Affairs, ESPI

  • Giovanna De Minico, Professor, University of Naples Federico II
  • Antonio Nicita, V Balance Commission, Senate of Italian Republic
  • Giovanni Zorzoni, President, AIIP
Panel – SATCOM: Implementing steps and programme development

Chaired and Moderated by: Sara Dalledonne, Lead, EU Relations & Regulatory Affairs, ESPI

  • Luca Falessi, Director, Airspace, ENAC
  • Domenico Mignolo, Head of Technology and Products Division, ARTES Core Competitiveness Programme Manager, ESA
  • Giancarlo Varacalli, Head of Telecommunications and Navigation Dept., ASI
h 13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

h 14:30 – 18:30 –Telecommunications as a Solution

Panel – Rome 5G: metro, security, traffic lights and ZTL, the new applications for mobility in the capital
  • Luca Avarello, Director General, Roma Servizi per la Mobilità
  • Dario Ferrillo, Director Business Unit Transport Infrastructure & Logistics, Almaviva
  • Luigi Carrarini, Head of Centre of Excellence Smartroad & SHM, Direzione Technology, Innovation & Digital Spoke, ANAS
  • Michele Gamberini, Chief Executive Officer, Smart City Roma
  • Conclusioni: Roberto Gualtieri, Mayor, Roma Capitale

Interview

  • Antonio Morabito, Head of Marketing and Business Development, TIM Enterprise
Presentation: TLC Games
Panel –  Cybersecurity, Scientific Research and STEM Viewpoint: In-House Role in Digital Innovation
  • Andrea Billet, Head of Certification and Supervision Service, National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN)
  • Laura Di Raimondo, Director, ASSTEL
  • Antonello Ghisaura, Director, ASSINTER Italia
  • Gianluca Mazzini, Director General, Lepida
Panel – Electromagnetic fields and electromagnetism: the viewpoint
  • Paolo Giuseppe Ravazzani, Director, Istituto Elettronica e Ingegneria dell’Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni, CNR-IEIIT
  • Arianna Rufini, Cabinet Office, MIMIT
Panel – Antennas and 5G, scientific outreach among citizens
  • Marco Bellezza, COO, Digital Transformation Department
  • Marco Bussone, President, UNCEM
  • Nicola Pasquino, Professor, University of Naples Federico II
Speech Green and 5.0 Transition
  • Donatella Proto, Director, Unity Mission PNRR, MIMIT
Speech
  • Andrea Casu, Vice President, IX Transport, Post and Telecommunications Commission, Chamber of Deputies
Speech
  • Giulia Pastorella, IX Transport, Post and Telecommunications Commission, Chamber of Deputies
Speech – Energy and Green economy
  • Giuseppe Amoroso, Head of Global ICT, Enel*
Speech – AI in medicine
  • Alberto Eugenio Tozzi, Responsible, Predictive and Preventive Medicine Research Unit, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital
RESTART meets PNRR Ecosystems
h 18,00 – Conclusions

* To be cofirmed.