Agenda
FutureTech Summit
One Day Event
Registrazione e Welcome coffee
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 | IDC
Associate Vice President Global Services Insights
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).
Sessioni dell'evento
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.
Evoluzione architetturale, AI e Integrazione dei processi in Intesa Sanpaolo
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
L’era degli Agenti: evoluzione della Data Strategy e della governance
Andrea Bonetti
IT Enterprise Architect, Gruppo Hera
Architetture di Valore: connettere design e produzione per modernizzare il Made in Italy
Domenico Sorvino
Group Application Architect, Molteni&C
From AI Ecosystem to AI Ready Data Centers
Marco Zacchello
Global Principal Technologist, Equinix
Coffee Break e visita all’area espositiva
Costruire fondamenta solide per l’AI tra vincoli reali e continuità operativa
Alessandro Scariolo
ICT Infrastructure Manager, ATV – Advanced Technology Valve
Cultura, leadership e adozione dell’AI su scala mondiale
Simone De Giuseppe
Group CIO, Fortidia
Tech Pitch: Dall’Hype alla Realtà: per una AI concreta e pragmatica
Mentre molti discutono del potenziale dell’AI, alcuni lo trasformano in realtà. In questo intervento, illustreremo l’approccio pragmatico con cui Deda Tech, pioniere nell’adozione di questa tecnologia, genera valore di business misurabile oggi. Attraverso esempi concreti in ambito Customer Experience, Cybersecurity e valorizzazione dei dati, scopriremo come l’Intelligenza Artificiale non sia solo una promessa futura, ma uno strumento strategico già operativo per ottenere un vantaggio competitivo reale.
Simonetta Gassani
Head of Presales and CSM, Deda Tech
Sessione IDC Connect – tavoli di lavoro
- IDC Connect 1 – Piattaforme dati per l’AI: unire cloud, edge e analytics a cura di Deda Tech
- IDC Connect 2 – Trasformazione cloud-native: accelerare innovazione e resilienza a cura di WIIT
- IDC Connect 3 – Sicurezza nell’era dell’AI: bilanciare innovazione e rischio a cura di Franco Cerutti, Infrastructure & Security Expert
- IDC Connect 4 – Modernizzare i sistemi legacy: da on-premise al cloud e ritorno…Chaired by: Antonio Fumagalli, Technology Expert & Business Consultant, Former CIO & CISO, A.S.S.T. Papa Giovanni XXIII – Bergamo
- IDC Connect 5 – Open source e tecnologie componibili: ecosistemi digitali più agili a cura di IDC
- IDC Connect 6 – Resilienza dei dati e preparazione alle minacce cyber nell’era dell’AI a cura di Roberto Carnevale, Experienced AI and Technology Expert
- IDC Connect 7 – Progettare infrastrutture AI-ready per le imprese a cura di Equinix
- IDC Connect 8 – Observability e AIOps: abilitare operazioni IT autonome a cura di IDC
Ogni tavolo ospita un moderatore e un piccolo gruppo di delegati pre-registrati. Ogni sessione si svolge simultaneamente e verte sull’interazione, condivisione di esperienze e discussioni tra pari di aziende e settori diversi.
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 Speaker – External View
Alberto Longo
Human-Centered & Strategic Innovation Expert | European Commission Advisor,