Thursday 30 June the protagonists of innovation will return to animate Florence in the spaces of the CR Firenze Foundation Innovation Center, on the occasion of # SIOS22 Summer Edition, organized by StartupItalia in collaboration with Nana Bianca and the CR Firenze Foundation. NFT, metaversi, crypto, blockchain, Web3 will be the main themes of a day full of appointments, meetings and discoveries, which received the patronage of the Municipality of Florence. An appointment that will see the SIOS Summer Edition Special Award among its protagonists, with a jury of experts called to decree the most innovative among the five finalists of a shortlist of startups in the NFT world.
Investor Day Powered by Nana Bianca and StartupItalia returns to the summer stage of 2022 of the StartupItalia Open Summit: a morning of one-to-one meetings with lenders, business angels and other protagonists who, with their interventions, have decreed the turning point for many new businesses. There is also space for the Bootstrap tables which, between 12:00 and 14:00, will compare 12 mentors and 12 startups on “hot” topics for startuppers such as Communication & Promotion, Legal & New Business, Financing & Products.
From 17:00 the event will be in full swing: under the sign of “Reloaded”, the fil rouge that unites all the SIOS22 events, the word will pass to the protagonists of the NFT, Crypto, Web3 and metaversi worlds, in the widest possible sense for provide those who will follow live and those remotely live on StartupItalia’s social channels, the tools and the main elements to move in an innovative scenario among the most fascinating in recent years.
“SIOS22 Summer Edition is an opportunity to analyze the data of investments in startups in Italy in the first half, a value that demonstrates how the ecosystem is ready to overcome barriers. To do this, it is necessary to act in a ‘team game’ logic between multinationals, SMEs, new companies and local districts, all subjects capable of adding excellence to our economy and exporting innovative and quality ideas, products and services beyond national borders. ”, Declares Dario Scacchetti, CEO of StartupItalia. “As per SIOS tradition, the Summer Edition will have its Special Award, this year dedicated to the issues we will talk about during the event, NFT, metaversi and Web3 to investigate the many new possible business scenarios. The prize is a further element of the key to understanding the worlds we are about to cross and live “.
“SIOS is an unmissable appointment for those who work in Italy in the world of digital innovation – comments Paolo Barberis, co-founder of the startup studio Nana Bianca -. An opportunity to take stock of the situation and focus on the (numerous) changes taking place. A way to reflect together on the potential of the Web3, of the new decentralized networks, on the blockchain field; for Nana Bianca the StartupItalia event also represents the opportunity to put the spotlight on the most innovative and promising startups “.
Chiara Trombetta and Giampaolo Colletti will accompany us to get to know the protagonists of the worlds we are experiencing. They will start with the CEO of StartupItalia, Dario Scacchetti, to analyze the results of investments in startups in Italy in the first 6 months of 2022, created by StartupItalia and UpBase, a photograph of the 103 operations of the first half of this year, which shows how to invest today is the key to being at the forefront of tomorrow, with surprising ideas, services and projects.
The CTE PRISMA project promoted by the Municipality of Prato and financed by the Ministry for Economic Development is also back: the second edition of the call for startups for the textile-fashion sector is underway. To illustrate it on the stage will be Benedetta Squittieri, Councilor for Innovation and Digital Agenda of the Municipality of Prato, as part of the panel on “Digital Humanism, stories of people, businesses and communities”, with the participation of Giovanni Lo Storto, Director General of Luiss Guido Carli; Enrico Mercadante, Director, Architectures & Innovation – South Europe Cisco and the President of StartupItalia, Salvatore Amato.
Together with the institutional testimonies, there will also be the stories of alliances, experiences and strategies of startuppers, entrepreneurs, innovators and companies that orbit in the metaverse, NFT, blockchain and Web3 sectors. Like, among others, that of the digital entrepreneur Marco Montemagno, who will answer the questions of the community. By Carlo Rodomonti, Head of Strategic and Digital Marketing of Rai Cinema, and by designer Fabio Viola, who will help us get closer to VR, AR and gamification. About astrophysics Patrizia Caraveo, Research Director of the National Institute of Astrophysics, who will accompany you on an ideal journey into space; a window on the fashion segment will be opened with the director of Polimoda Massimiliano Giornetti. Michele Grazioli, President of Vedrai will talk about the experience in the development of decision-making tools based on AI. Do not miss the dialogue with Cosimo Accoto, MIT Research Affiliate & Fellow, on the world to come. Among the talks with a tech background, that of Riccardo Sagratini, SMB Cloud Leader of Oracle, who will talk about the importance for companies of any size – startups in the first place – of being data-driven, also and above all in the cloud.
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