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 (…)Focus on industry: digital transformation and new geoeconomic scenarios
“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 (…)Healthcare 4.0 and the future of life sciences
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 (…)Welcome back to Babel. Living amidst diversity
The consensus which emerged from this Aspen Seminars for Leaders session was that an innovative approach to the issue of infrastructure in Italy requires the (…)Infrastructure: ensuring its utility and sustainability
The most common tendency in times of need, in times of crisis – and today is no exception – is to turn to the state. (…)Italy’s public sector: a deadweight or impetus for the country?
Underpinning discussions at this Aspen Seminar for Leaders session devoted to the future of healthcare was the acknowledgement that major advances in research and the (…)The shape of medicine to come: prospects, opportunities, and social impacts
This Aspen Seminar for Leaders session focused on the prevailing industrial scenario, characterized as one in which all stages of production are increasingly being swept (…)Focus on industry: the power of innovation
Participants agreed that this year has been particularly complicated for the world economy. Risks are popping up in new places and the key role played (…)The post-BRICS economies: rethinking the geography of global growth
Big Data is now ubiquitous. No longer confined to niche fields like astrophysics, genomics and machine learning, the analysis of massive databases is now applied (…)Big Data as the next great digital challenge: what lies ahead?
The picture that emerged from the work of the 2014 Focus on Industry session of the Aspen Seminars for Leaders was of an Italian industrial (…)Focus on industry: an agenda for growth
The global imbalances reflected in demographic trends, in terms of economic and safety levels, are huge, and must be considered as a central factor in (…)Demographics and migration in Europe: multiple challenges for complex societies
Discussions at this Aspen Seminars for Leaders session centered around trust, accountability and meritocracy as the keys to piecing back together a country suffering for (…)Confidence, responsibility, merit: leaving Italy’s partisan divisions behind
There can be no denying that a huge paradigm shift underway and that both the crisis and the irruption of new technologies are undoubtedly contributing (…)Sustainability and new technologies in a consumer culture
This session of the 2015 round of Aspen Seminars for Leaders focused on the key role of health and wellbeing in ensuring Italy’s development and (…)Health in the 21st century
The opportunity to restart work on the country’s infrastructure involves and brings together those operating in the transport and services sector, public administrators and those (…)Developing and innovating infrastructure
Participants at this Aspen Seminar for Leaders session were unanimous in their agreement that social networks are neither good nor bad per se, but that (…)Media and politics in the digital age: participation, transparency, and responsibility
Proceedings at this Aspen Italia City of Venice Forum got underway with recognition by those present of the difficulty in unambiguously defining what constitutes a (…)The Aspen Italia City of Venice Forum. Venice: a model for smart cities?
Opening proceedings at this ASL session was the observation that industry is once more the focus of economic growth strategies in the major advanced economies, (…)Focus on industry: how to increase competitiveness?
Headlining discussions at this ASL seminar was the observation that innovation – a key factor for growth, competitiveness and social wellbeing – requires that a (…)Strengthening and accelerating innovation: resources, tools, competencies
The participants at this ASL seminar noted that Europe has made it past the most acute phase of the economic and financial crisis, but is (…)Governing complexity in the country system: challenges, priorities and Italy’s choices
