Aspen Seminars for Leaders 2024
Aspen Institute Italia celebrated 40 years of activity during the 43rd edition of the Aspen Seminars for Leaders, held in the traditional setting of Venice. (…)Aspen Seminars for Leaders 2024
Favoring business development: growth and vision
What drives the competitiveness and development of the Italian entrepreneurial fabric is growth, which does not mean size alone, but also a vision that (…)Favoring business development: growth and vision
Transdisciplinarity and academies: new jobs, new training
Education is essential to a work world undergoing rapid change as it keeps pace with the digital revolution. This necessary evolution poses a two-fold challenge involving the academic world on the one hand – from pre-school through university – and the economy on the other.
An agenda for Europe
Ahead of the June 8-9 elections, it is essential to analyze the main challenges the Union and its members – Italy included – have had (…)An agenda for Europe
Southern Italy: business, culture, innovation
Anyone who knows anything about history knows that the Mediterranean Sea has been a setting for both conflict and commerce for millennia; even the discovery (…)Southern Italy: business, culture, innovation
Coping with uncertainty: managing the present, planning the future
Uncertainty has become a structural part of daily life. This lack of fixed points of reference is having a major impact on people’s lives as (…)Coping with uncertainty: managing the present, planning the future
Leadership for the Future
The current state of leadership must be analyzed within a framework of change and crisis. This involves concepts and models ranging from those that define (…)Leadership for the Future
Finance, business, territory: the role of Italian banking foundations
Italian banking foundations provide a virtuous model that is studied around the world. These private institutions, subsidiaries of both community and public bodies, have the (…)Finance, business, territory: the role of Italian banking foundations
Assessing risk: business in global disorder
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may be the harbinger of future threats rather than an exception, unfortunately. Yet some features of the conflict – especially in (…)Assessing risk: business in global disorder
The Future of Social Networks and Artificial Intelligence
Twenty years after the birth of the digital platform Facebook – the first to connect 4 billion users globally – the social media sector is focused on a new challenge: the future implications of artificial intelligence and AI’s broad impact on personal devices.
Training and skills: the labor market and new challenges
In this period of sweeping changes in the work world it is important to pinpoint the most pressing challenges. In general, the adoption of an (…)Training and skills: the labor market and new challenges
The future of AI between the power of thought and the strength of the algorithm
The public sector has begun to regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI) – starting with the new executive order issued by the US administration – bringing us into a new phase.
Hi-tech sectors in Italy: a driver of growth
The United States/China rivalry that has dominated the international scenario for some years now, and its multiple economic and geopolitical effects, finds its foremost arena (…)Hi-tech sectors in Italy: a driver of growth
Artificial Intelligence and business: the opportunities and costs of a revolution
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is generating a revolution capable of changing forms of power and the structure of knowledge. The extent of those changes makes it (…)Artificial Intelligence and business: the opportunities and costs of a revolution
Artificial Intelligence: will it change the world?
How to navigate the changes ushered in by the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)? The year 2023 will be remembered as the year that AI (…)Artificial Intelligence: will it change the world?
Sports, youth, major events
September 20, 2023 was a historic moment for Italian sports: a bill was passed, amending article 33 of the Constitution, formally recognizing the educational, social (…)Sports, youth, major events
Focus on Industry: notes on Industry 5.0
The seminar focused on three dimensions where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is seen as having a significant impact on industry. The first of these was regulation. An element that emerged very clearly was the impossibility of treating the matter exclusively at local level and the concomitant need for a broad-based international level regulatory framework.
Demographic challenges: jobs and welfare
Italy’s demographic decline, while consistent with the trends of the principal advanced economies – described and analyzed in the latest issue of Aspenia – is (…)Demographic challenges: jobs and welfare
Global emergencies, new jobs, new training
Global emergencies and historic changes have combined to challenge contemporary economies and societies at an increasingly rapid rate. The impact of this on the work (…)Global emergencies, new jobs, new training
Inclusion and work: a path based on motivation, diversity and equity
The work world is a critical hurdle in confronting many of the social dilemmas facing the country. Growing inequalities concern not only workers who have (…)Inclusion and work: a path based on motivation, diversity and equity
Challenges for businesses in Italy’s northeast
The importance of the Italian northeast to the nation’s overall economy is immediately evident from a glance at a map of nighttime illumination, which reveals a clear duality between this most luminous, and consequently most productive, portion of the country and the rest.