Agenda
FutureTech Summit
One Day Event
Registration and Welcome Coffee
Pre-registration required to attend, please pick your badge up at the Registration.
IDC Opening
Roberta Bigliani
Group Vice President, Global Lead for Energy & Retail Insights and Industry Hub, IDC
IDC Keynote
The AI Platform Imperative: Architecting for Scale, Speed, and Autonomy
In the fast-evolving AI economy, mastering platform innovation is key to unlocking transformative business value. This presentation offers a strategic roadmap for building AI-ready technology foundations and leadership capabilities. We’ll explore critical building blocks for scalable, secure AI workloads, followed by designing resilient cloud-native and hybrid infrastructures for sustainable AI innovation. Finally, we’ll examine the rise of agentic AI systems enabling autonomous decision-making across IT operations, governance, development, and observability. This presentation equips the C-suite and technology leaders to recalibrate their platform strategy and confidently lead their organizations into the AI economy.
Jennifer Thomson | Global Services Insights, IDC
Associate Vice President
Jennifer Thomson
Jen Thomson has more than 20 years’ experience advising IT Vendors, senior IT, and business execs on their digital business optimization and transformation strategies. She leads European Research for Accelerated App Delivery, Cloud, and Services. Her core goal is to drive synergies and growth across these research areas, with a central focus on thought leadership.
She specializes in providing insights on the investment strategies and decisions of European enterprises as they transition to modern application architectures. Her research explores app dev and delivery capabilities required to operate in a digital economy, and how this impacts enterprise organizational structures, culture, processes, tools, and skill sets. She leads the Future of Digital Innovation research for IDC Europe, exploring software innovation strategies and what this means in terms of end-user strategies, investment priorities, software sourcing, and KPIs. Thomson’s core research also explores enterprise maturity and strategies towards enterprise scale and empowered DevOps.
She is responsible for the execution of a broad range of consulting and advisory projects. As IDC’s European expert on application development and delivery strategies, Thomson is an experienced public speaker and regularly presents at conferences and IDC partner and end-user events.
She started her career at Compaq Computer EMEA as a senior research analyst. She has a bachelor’s degree in international business with German from Sheffield Hallam University (United Kingdom) and Pforzheim Fachhochschule (Germany).
Event Sessions
One Day Event 9:35 am
IDC Keynote
The AI Platform Imperative: Architecting for Scale, Speed, and Autonomy
In the fast-evolving AI economy, mastering platform innovation is key to unlocking transformative business value. This presentation offers a strategic roadmap for building AI-ready technology foundations and leadership capabilities. We’ll explore critical building blocks for scalable, secure AI workloads, followed by designing resilient cloud-native and hybrid infrastructures for sustainable AI innovation. Finally, we’ll examine the rise of agentic AI systems enabling autonomous decision-making across IT operations, governance, development, and observability. This presentation equips the C-suite and technology leaders to recalibrate their platform strategy and confidently lead their organizations into the AI economy.
End User Opening Keynote
Claudio Balbo
Senior Director – Head of IT Architecture, Intesa Sanpaolo
Your Cloud is not yours: the case for European Sovereignty
Davide Capozzi
Innovation & Solution Architecture Director, WIIT
End User Case Study – The AI era in Hera Group
Andrea Bonetti
IT Enterprise Architect, Gruppo Hera
End User Discussion – Molteni group and the Made in Italy modernization
Domenico Sorvino
Group Application Architect, Molteni&C
From AI Ecosystem to AI Ready Data Centers
Marco Zacchello
Global Principal Technologist, Equinix
Coffee Break, Visit to Expo Area, and One-to-One Meetings
End User Interview
Alessandro Scariolo
ICT Infrastructure Manager, ATV – Advanced Technology Valve
End User Discussion – Culture and leadership – AI adoption in Fortidia
Simone De Giuseppe
Group CIO, Fortidia
From Hype to Reality
While many discuss AI’s potential, Deda Tech turns it into reality. In this session, we will illustrate the pragmatic approach through which Deda Tech, a pioneer in AI adoption, generates measurable business value today. Through concrete examples in Customer Experience, Cybersecurity and Data Valorization, we will explore how Artificial Intelligence is not just a future promise, but a strategic tool already in operation to achieve a real competitive advantage.
Simonetta Gassani
Head of Presales and CSM, Deda Tech
IDC Connect Roundtables
- IDC Connect 1 – Data Platforms for AI: Unifying Cloud, Edge, and Analytics Chaired by Deda Tech
- IDC Connect 2 – Cloud-Native Transformation: Accelerating Innovation and Resilience Chaired by WIIT
- IDC Connect 3 – Security in the Age of AI: Balancing Innovation and Risk Chaired by Franco Cerutti, Technology & security Expert
- IDC Connect 4 – Modernizing Legacy Systems: Mainframe to Cloud and Beyond Chaired by: Antonio Fumagalli, Technology Expert & Business Consultant, Former CIO & CISO, A.S.S.T. Papa Giovanni XXIII – Bergamo
- IDC Connect 5 – Open-Source and Composable Technologies: Building Agile Ecosystems
- IDC Connect 6 – Data Resilience and Cyber-Preparedness in the AI Era Chaired by Chaired by Roberto Carnevale, Experienced AI and Technology Expert
- IDC Connect 7 – Architecting AI-Ready Infrastructure for the Enterprises Chaired by Equinix
- IDC Connect 8 – FinOps and GreenOps: Optimizing Cost and Sustainability in Hybrid Cloud
- IDC Connect 9 – Observability and AIOps: Enabling Autonomous IT Operations
Each table seats a sponsor moderator (Host and Dialogue only) and a small group of pre-registered delegates. Each session takes place simultaneously and is about increased interaction, experience sharing and peer discussions relevant across companies and industries.
Stefano Carlini
Business Developer, Deda Tech
Alessandro Savasini
Business Development Director, WIIT
Alberto Szakvary
Lead Sales Engineer, Equinix
Franco Cerutti
Senior ICT and Technology Expert, Former IT Director – Infrastructure and Security Carnival Corporation,
Roberto Carnevale
Experienced AI and Technology Expert,
Antonio Fumagalli
Technology Expert & Business Consultant, Former CIO & CISO, A.S.S.T. Papa Giovanni XXIII – Bergamo,
Closing Guest Keynote Speaker
Alberto Longo
Human-Centered & Strategic Innovation Expert | European Commission Advisor,