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      • Milan
        • 20 November 2017
         
         

        Urban transportation: challenges for local development

          The participants at this National Interest event highlighted that local public transport is a key factor for local development, both in terms of the opportunities for connection that it offers individuals, businesses, and institutions (including universities, for whom it is particularly crucial), and because it improves the livability of the urban environment thanks to the greater average sustainability provided in comparison to the alternative of private vehicle use.

        • Rome
          • 16 November 2017
           
           

          Making the most of Italy’s energy resources

            Proceedings at this National Interest roundtable got underway with the observation that the energy profile of the planet is set to change over the next few decades, with rising population and improving standard of living trends leading to an increase in energy demand.

          • Rome
            • 10 November 2017
             
             

            The political legacy 2017

              The focus of discussion at this year’s annual conference for the Aspen Junior Fellows was the political legacy of 2017, marked by the various outcomes of elections around Europe, the uncertain course of Brexit negotiations, the emergence of the new American administration’s policy stances, and the Catalan independence referendum.

            • Milan
              • 6 November 2017
               
               

              Creating a better financial system

                The areas examined by the participants during this National Conference were twofold. On the one hand, the debate focused on the role of the banking system and how it is perceived by savers. It was suggested that banks deal in buying and selling trust, so safeguarding such trust is imperative. Nearly ten years on from the outbreak of the global crisis, such confidence has been severely dented. The media has helped fuel public hostility towards the banking world, as several polls demonstrate.

              • Turin
                • 27 October 2017
                 
                 

                Industrial renaissance: digital disruption and the post 4.0 economy

                  A report on “Digital disruption and transformation of Italian manufacturing”, which focuses particularly on the case of Piedmont within the context of Northern Italy, was presented at this International Conference as a catalyst for discussion on the topic of “digital disruption”, examining both the great opportunities as well the risks and social costs that this entails.

                • Bologna
                  • 23 October 2017
                   
                   

                  Growth, innovation, competitiveness: Big Data as a strategic resource

                    Participants at this National Interest event noted that Big Data represents a great opportunity for the Italian system. In point of fact, the internet and digital technologies are radically changing the process of data collection, transfer, and storage, with far-reaching impacts on the business world and society in general. The pervasive spread of new technologies has ensured that a growing number of interconnected devices are simultaneously active, thereby generating increasing amounts of data.

                  • Venice
                    • 13 October 2017
                     
                     

                    From millennials to the silver economy: different generations of consumers

                      Kick-starting discussions at this Aspen Seminar for Leaders session was the observation that the traditional concept of the “generation” has made a comeback in public debate. This, in the age of breakneck disruptive change and without there having been, as in the past, any war or pestilence between generations – at least, not in the western world. The return of the concept of the collective as embodied by generations might appear to be in contradiction with an era as “me”-focused as is the present day.

                    • Venice
                      • 13 October 2017
                       
                       

                      Focusing on new mobilities: the Internet of Things and the self-driving revolution

                        The self-driving revolution is at our doorsteps. Driverless and autonomous vehicles are becoming a reality faster than anyone would have expected just a few years ago. And, for better or for worse, the consequences for the socioeconomic fabric will be radical. Cities will be redesigned, roads will become safer, cars will turn into mobile offices, millions of jobs in the transportation industry will be displaced and free time will surge.

                      • Venice
                        • 13 October 2017
                         
                         

                        Italian competitiveness: culture, manufacturing, tourism

                          Participants at this Aspen Seminar for Leaders session noted that culture has played, and will definitely continue to play, a key role in Italy’s economic and social development. From a historical standpoint, it has been a strong factor in the formation of identity and in integration, for a country whose unification took shape in literature before doing so on the battlefields of the Risorgimento.

                        • Venice
                          • 13 October 2017
                           
                           

                          Focus on industry: digital transformation and new geoeconomic scenarios

                            For the first time, recovery and optimism dominated the debate at this year’s Aspen Seminar for Leaders “Focus on Industry” session. Against the backdrop of an economic climate that has finally returned to growth, the seminar participants dwelt more on the strengths of the Italian system and the opportunities to be seized than on the country’s systemic weaknesses and lost opportunities. While acknowledging that the international scenario is unfavorable, with the headwinds of protectionism blowing from Trump’s America, it was highlighted that global trade is still ongoing.

                          • Venice
                            • 13 October 2017
                             
                             

                            Healthcare 4.0 and the future of life sciences

                              “The healthcare system of the future will look very different, with a crucial change being the move to ‘consumer-centric’ healthcare, allowing citizens to have much more responsibility for managing their healthcare and that of their families”.  (World Economic Forum)

                            • Venice
                              • 13 October 2017
                               
                               

                              Welcome back to Babel. Living amidst diversity

                                The crisis afflicting the Old Continent is not just financial and economic, but rather risks becoming systemic. Within a very short space of time, there has been a great degree of change, like never before throughout history. Old differences have been heightened, and new ones have come into play, made keener by the crisis. These all have had difficulty being absorbed, until what has prevailed is conformity, which is far-removed from the tolerance and dialogue between diversities that has always been Europe’s Grundnorm (or ground rule).

                              • Rome
                                • 28 September 2017
                                 
                                 

                                Can scientific research be an economic driver for Italy?

                                  Participants at this National Interest event observed that economic and demographic trends in advanced economies point to an increasingly strategic role being played by research and innovation in the pursuit of growth and improved standards of living. This role was seen as very evident in the life sciences field, the focus of a study on “Italy’s competitiveness in a new scientific research scenario” conducted by Farmindustria and Fondazione CERM for Aspen Institute Italia.

                                • Rome
                                  • 27 September 2017
                                   
                                   

                                  Africa in the new energy century

                                    Africa is changing. Some countries are growing and forging ahead, while others are moving more slowly. The whole continent has major potential, and yet it often remains unfulfilled. The most important thing in the midst of this change is to envisage a sustainable scenario. Updated legal systems are crucial to any future progress: without regulations, it is more difficult to attract private investments. Innovation must also be an ingredient of this progress and the way business is done needs to be tweaked. This applies particularly to the strategic energy industry.

                                  • Rome
                                    • 21 September 2017
                                     
                                     

                                    The fourth industrial revolution: rethinking Italy’s job market and the welfare system

                                      Though acknowledged as unpredictable in its consequences like every momentous turning point of the past, the fourth industrial revolution was hailed by participants at this national roundtable as entirely unique in terms of its pervasiveness, the profundity of the transformations induced, and the speed of the changes occasioned, marking something of a “progressive watershed” between one age and another.

                                    • Rome
                                      • 25 July 2017
                                       
                                       

                                      Trump and the politics of uncertainty

                                        Looking at the Trump presidency, the international media – and actually, the American media, too – have lost sight of some background data that have to do with America in general, and far less with the White House. This point emerged from a discussion with Walter Russell Mead, known above all for his studies on the various schools of American foreign policy (from this standpoint, Trump is a “Jacksonian President”) but also thoroughly versed in the United States’ political culture and electoral cycles.