Agenda
AI & Data Summit Milan
Thu, Oct 8
Registration & Welcome Coffee
IDC Opening
Roberta Bigliani
Group Vice President Global Lead for Industries, 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, Research, AI Economics
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 12:10
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 – Chaired by Informatica form Salesforce
- IDC Connect 2 – The EU AI Act Is Here: An ICT Leader’s Roadmap to Compliance and Beyond – Chaired by Paradigma, Law & Strategy
- IDC Connect 3 – Data Sovereignty: What It Really Means for Italian Enterprises – Chaired by IDC
- IDC Connect 4 – AI Economics: How to Calculate the Cost and Value Creation of Artificial Intelligence Initiatives – Chaired by IDC
- IDC Connect 5 – GenAI at Work: What’s Actually Delivering Productivity in Italian Enterprises – Chaired by Mauden
- IDC Connect 6 – Trust by Design: Embedding Governance in Enterprise AI – Chaired by Qlik
- IDC Connect 7 – Beyond Technology: Leading People and Culture Through the AI Transition – Chaired by Webuild
- IDC Connect 8 – Creating and Demonstrating the Value of AI: How CIOs Build the Business Case – Chaired by Celonis
One Day Event 09:30
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.
Host Sponsor Session – The code is free. Trust is not. Governing software written by AI
Daniele Natali
Presales Manager, Mauden
Strategic sponsor session
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 | Credem Experience
Generative AI in a century-old bank? It can be done!
Piergiorgio Grossi
Chief Innovation & Data Officer, Credem
Strategic sponsor session
Qlik & PagoPA Experience
Cristina Pecchini
Responsabile Data Products &BI, PagoPA
Giorgio Dossena
Senior Presales Manager, Qlik
Strategic Sponsor Session
From AI Pilots to AI at Scale: Why Observability Is the Missing Link
As Italian companies move from experimenting with AI to widespread enterprise adoption, many are struggling to ensure that AI systems meet the same standards of reliability, performance, and governance required of their core infrastructure. This session explores how full-stack observability—spanning infrastructure, applications, and the AI/LLM models that power them—gives technology leaders the visibility and control they need to scale AI securely and with greater confidence.
Monica Versino
Strategic Account Executive, Datadog
Coffee Break, Visit to Expo Area, and 1to1 Meetings
Guest Keynote Speaker | RCS Experience
Two Speeds, One AI: How RCS Brings Business and IT Together
Rocco Michele Lancellotti
Chief Data & AI Officer, RCS MediaGroup
Strategic Sponsor Session
The Data Control Plane
Nicola Sandoli
Data Governance Specialist, Informatica from Salesforce
Tech Talk Sponsor
The AI Factory Becomes the Computer
Carlo Vaiti
Distinguished Chief Technologist Officer, HPE
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 – Chaired by Informatica form Salesforce
- IDC Connect 2 – The EU AI Act Is Here: An ICT Leader’s Roadmap to Compliance and Beyond – Chaired by Paradigma, Law & Strategy
- IDC Connect 3 – Data Sovereignty: What It Really Means for Italian Enterprises – Chaired by IDC
- IDC Connect 4 – AI Economics: How to Calculate the Cost and Value Creation of Artificial Intelligence Initiatives – Chaired by IDC
- IDC Connect 5 – GenAI at Work: What’s Actually Delivering Productivity in Italian Enterprises – Chaired by Mauden
- IDC Connect 6 – Trust by Design: Embedding Governance in Enterprise AI – Chaired by Qlik
- IDC Connect 7 – Beyond Technology: Leading People and Culture Through the AI Transition – Chaired by Webuild
- IDC Connect 8 – Creating and Demonstrating the Value of AI: How CIOs Build the Business Case – Chaired by Celonis
Nicola Sandoli
Data Governance Specialist, Informatica from Salesforce
Massimo Donna
Avvocato e Managing Partner, Head of the Technology Group, Paradigma, Law & Strategy
Carla La Croce
Research Manager Data & Analytics, IDC
Alessandro Perilli
Vice President, Research, AI Economics, IDC
Daniele Natali
Presales Manager, Mauden
Riccardo Paganelli
Account Executive, Qlik
Fabrizio Degni
AI Ethics and Governance Researcher, IT and Digital Systems AI and Data Governance Manager, ENIA Scientific Commitee Member, WeBuild
Marco Trezzi
VP, Global Head of Market Intelligence, Celonis
Tech Pitch
Scaling AI at the Enterprise Level: Performance, Governance, and Risk.
Lorenzo De Amici
Commercial Account Executive Italy, Wasabi
Honorary Guest Speaker – External View
Digital Psychology and AI: How Technology Impacts Our Minds
Psychologist and author of the book “A Psychological Guide to the Digital Revolution”
Luca Bernardelli
Psicologo e autore, Consulente del Consiglio Nazionale dell’Ordine degli Psicologi nelle aree Intelligenza Artificiale e Psicologia Digitale
Closing remarks
by Mauden
Closing remarks
by IDC