AI & Data Summit Milan
One Day Event
Registration & Welcome Coffee
IDC Opening
Roberta Bigliani
Group Vice President, Global Lead for Energy & Retail Insights and Industry Hub, IDC
IDC Keynote
Agentic AI at Scale: Accelerating Innovation While Managing Risk
Agentic AI is unlocking new levels of enterprise innovation by enabling autonomous decision-making and adaptive workflows at scale. Balancing this potential with robust risk management is essential for ensuring trust, compliance, and sustainable value as organizations operationalize agentic systems across critical functions.
Alessandro Perilli | IDC
Vice President, Enterprise AI Strategies
Alessandro Perilli
Alessandro Perilli is a Vice President leading the Agentic AI Platforms and Strategies research program. Alessandro’s core research coverage includes emerging AI technologies, global AI market trends, the state of enterprise AI, and sovereign AI.
Most recently, Alessandro founded Unstable Reality, an AI R&D lab in London, where he worked as Chief of Research, developing synthetic media generation solutions for creative studios, ad agencies, and large end-user organizations.
Among other projects, Alessandro published a weekly newsletter dedicated to tracking how AI is reshaping jobs, workforce productivity, and business operations.
Previously, Alessandro served as a senior leader at Red Hat, focused on business and product strategy. Across roles, Alessandro has also worked as an advisor to Fortune Global 2000 companies, helping IT decision makers translate emerging technology shifts into actionable and risk-informed strategies.
Throughout his career, Alessandro has often delivered keynotes at industry and vendor events, focusing on the state of the union and emerging trends in cybersecurity, virtualization, and cloud computing.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 09:35
IDC Keynote
Agentic AI at Scale: Accelerating Innovation While Managing Risk
Agentic AI is unlocking new levels of enterprise innovation by enabling autonomous decision-making and adaptive workflows at scale. Balancing this potential with robust risk management is essential for ensuring trust, compliance, and sustainable value as organizations operationalize agentic systems across critical functions.
Guest End User Keynote Speaker
Host Sponsor Session
Scaling AI at Enterprise Scale: Performance, Governance, and Risk. Real-world insights on how leaders and organizations make AI adoption successful at scale.
Daniele Natali
Artificial Intelligence Leader, Mauden
Managing Complexity to Make Artificial Intelligence a Real Business Driver
The adoption of Artificial Intelligence is often hindered by structural obstacles: data silos, a lack of business context, architectural rigidity, and unexpected costs inevitably slow its progress. To transform experiments into tangible value and make AI a concrete driver of business growth, these barriers must be overcome. In this context, a unified architecture allows models to be deployed directly where the information resides, providing algorithms with the essential context for proprietary data. Through real-world case studies, we’ll explore how to make artificial intelligence production-ready by combining context with precise governance and observability.
It is precisely the synergy between these key elements that enables us to manage complexity, optimize investments, and scale innovation in a controlled manner to ensure rapid time to market and a return on investment.
Crescenzo Oliviero
Manager Solution Engineer, Snowflake Italia
Guest Keynote Speaker
Piergiorgio Grossi
Chief Innovation & Data Officer, Credem
Strategic sponsor session
Coffee Break, Visit to Expo Area, and 1to1 Meetings
Guest Keynote Speaker
Rocco Michele Lancellotti
Chief Data & AI Officer, RCS MediaGroup
Strategic sponsor session
Strategic sponsor session
Tech Talk Sponsor Session
IDC Connect
Each table seats a sponsor moderator 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.
- IDC Connect 1 – The Agentic AI Decision: What ICT Leaders Need to Know Before Scaling
- IDC Connect 2 – The EU AI Act Is Here: An ICT Leader’s Roadmap to Compliance and Beyond
- IDC Connect 3 – Data Sovereignty: What It Really Means for Italian Enterprises
- IDC Connect 4 – Choosing Your AI Stack: Large, Small, Local — How ICT Leaders Are Deciding
- IDC Connect 5 – GenAI at Work: What’s Actually Delivering Productivity in Italian Enterprises
- IDC Connect 6 – Cloud, On-Prem, or Edge? Architecting AI Infrastructure for the Future
- IDC Connect 7 – Trust by Design: Embedding Governance and Accountability in Enterprise AI
- IDC Connect 8 – Proving the Value of AI & Data: How CIOs Are Building the Business Case
- IDC Connect 9 – Beyond Technology: Leading People and Culture Through the AI Transition
Networking Lunch, Visit to Expo Area, and 1to1 Meetings
Guest Keynote Speaker
Tech Pitch
Lorenzo De Amici
Commercial Account Executive Italy, Wasabi