Andrea Farinet
President
President
He is Professor of Economics and Business Administration at LIUC – Carlo Cattaneo University, where he teaches Relational Marketing and CRM, Sociology and Psychology of Consumption and New Digital Platforms. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University and a degree in Political Science from Milan State University. He also holds a PhD in Business Administration from Bocconi University. He taught marketing at the same university from 1984 to 2004 and was director of the MINB (Master in Internet Business) in 2001. He has also taught at Politecnico di Milano, IULM and University of Valle D’Aosta. He has a specialisation in social psychology, obtained through the teachings of Gustavo Charmet, Giampaolo Lai, Luigi Pagliarani and Maria Vittoria Lodovichi. He is a consultant and mediator for major Italian and international companies and managers in innovative projects in the fields of Digital, Industry 4.0, ESG, Corporate Governance and CSR. He has been a partner and advisor to major cultural, scientific and technological realities, such as the Italian Institute of Technology, the Mario Negri Institute, the Bracco Foundation, the Isabella Seragnoli Foundation, Ruling Companies, etc. In 2015 he published the book “Socialing – A new balance between consumers, businesses and markets”, published by Franco Angeli with a preface by Carlo Petrini. He has been President of the Fondazione Pubblicità Progresso since 2019 and Managing Director of the Consorzio Reggia di Monza since 2022. He is a television columnist for Mediaset, Rai and Sky. He is the founder and president of the Socialing Institute. His great passions are his children, poetry, high mountains, sailing and tai chi.
Born in 1971, he graduated in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan, magna cum laude, and after many years of consulting, he was Director of the Innovability ® function of the Enel Group from 2014 to July 2023. Founder of Ars et Inventio (2003), a consulting firm focused exclusively on innovation and creativity, he has helped many companies design and launch innovative products and services that have become popular worldwide. Nokia, Telecom Italia, Vodafone, Poste Italiane, Eni, GDF, Edison, the joint ventures P&G Fater and Fameccanica, Unilever, RCS, Sole24Ore, BNP, Unicredit and American Express are just some of the companies he has worked with. A lecturer in innovation management at Italian and Spanish universities and business schools (director of the ‘Programa Avanzado de Gestión de la Innovación’ at the Instituto de Empresa de Madrid, professor and member of the scientific committee of the ‘Master in Strategic Innovation’ at Cà Foscari University), he is also the author of four collections of poetry and a play that has been performed in several Italian theatres (in Milan, Bologna, Taormina and Syracuse). Top business schools have written cases on his activities as Director of the Enel Group’s Innovability ® function and the Group’s transition to a sustainable business model: Prof. Kramer – Harvard – “The Future of Energy”; Prof. Chesbrough – Berkeley – “Enel: from Monopoly to Open Power”; Prof. Monteiro – INSEAD – “Enel’s Innovation”; Prof. Birkinshaw – LBS – “Enel S.p.A.: A Traditional Utility Embraces the Digital Revolution”.
Francesco obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Management & Finance cum laude in 2003 and a Master’s Degree in Finance cum laude in 2005, both from the University of Padua. He also obtained a Master in Innovation Management with distinction from the Scuola Sant’Anna in Pisa In 2008 and a Certificate in Technology Entrepreneurship from Santa Clara University (CA) in 2010, supported by the Fulbright BEST Programme Grant. In March 2010, he and his VRMedia team were awarded the Mind The Bridge prize at Stanford University as the most innovative high-tech startup in Italy. Previously, he worked as a research fellow at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa (2009); as an analyst at IBM Global Business Services (2008) on market planning and intellectual property management projects; as a corporate strategy analyst at Accenture Business Consulting (2006), where he was involved in several projects on marketing analysis and strategy for the banking and insurance industries and the development of new financial products. He also worked at Prometeia (2005), a financial company, where he supported the development of innovative financial products and the creation of risk management tools for the banking industry. Francesco is CEO and Founder of Rainmakers, an Italian open startup studio and innovation consultancy (branded ‘Nuvolab’) based in Milan. Launched in 2011, today Rainmakers is a leading player in the Italian innovation ecosystem with over 40 completed business innovation programmes and more than 30 startups in its portfolio (including 6 exits + 4 write-offs). He teaches New Digital Platforms at LIUC – Cattaneo University.
Remo Lucchi is one of Italy’s leading experts in the sociology of consumption. In autumn 2015, together with senior colleagues, he founded Eumetra, an innovative start-up in the field of social research. He is the chairman of the advisory board of this institute. The sudden evolution of our society and the strong discontinuity with the past require a different approach to study – compared to classical social research methods – in order to understand where we are going and not to be caught unprepared, whether in the economic, political or social world. Previously: after graduating in Economics, in 1972 he co-founded Eurisko, now GFK, the largest consumer and communications research institute in Italy and one of the most important research networks in the world. For many years he directed some of GFK Eurisko’s most important research projects, including SINOTTICA, a well-known scenario research project. For many years – from 1978 to 2020 – he was a university lecturer. For 25 years – until 2012 – he was Managing Director, first of Eurisko, then of GfK Eurisko. From 2012 until autumn 2015, he was its Honorary Chairman.
Professor Dipak Raj Pant, an anthropologist and economist, has been involved in research, development and education on sustainable economics for over 30 years. In 2000, he was the founder and scientific director of the first Study Centre for Sustainable Economy in Italy, which operated until 2017. The Professor works as a field researcher and planning consultant for sustainable development projects in many parts of the world. As a scientist-explorer, he has conducted scientific expeditions, socio-economic analyses and strategic foresight exercises for sustainable development planning in different types of human terrains – from the most industrialised and urban contexts of Western Europe to the most remote and marginal human habitats in extreme lands such as the Andes, the Caucasus, the Himalayas, the Siberian taiga, the steppes and the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, the African savannah and the South American coastal desert.
After graduating in Food Science and Technology from the University of Bologna, she specialised in Marketing Management at the Istituto Superiore del Marketing in Rome.
From 2000 to 2005 she was in charge of training the sales and marketing network of the company Petrini -Spigadoro in Bastia Umbra (PG).
From 2006 to 2008 she was project manager for the traceability programmes of the agri-food chain at ISMEA (Institute of Services for the Agricultural Food Market).
From 2009 to 2016 she developed the promotion, marketing and communication of the direct sales network Campagna Amica – Coldiretti. She has provided strategic, management and training support to agricultural companies and associations throughout the country.
She specialises in agricultural supply chain tracking systems, with a focus on sustainability and social impact.
Since 2017, she has been project manager in the field of sustainable development in agriculture and territorial promotion. Since 2021, she collaborates with the Socialing Institute as an expert in the commercial and communication development of large distribution companies in Italy. In particular, she develops the themes of Green Kilometre products and services.
Andrea Albanese is Social Media Marketing Manager & Digital Communication Advisor. Project Manager. Teacher. Linkedin & Artificial Intelligence Specialist.
He is currently CEO of WMM, contract professor at LIUC University. He has been contract professor at the following universities: IUSVE, Cattolica, Bicocca, Verona, Statale Milano, SDA Bocconi, LUISS Business School, Business School de IlSole24Ore, CUOA Business School, CUI (Centro International University). He conducted some important research on the use of Social Media in the company for SDA Bocconi and SNID (Social Network Influence Design) Master Poli.Design of the Polytechnic of Milan, of which he was also a professor and member of the scientific committee; Organizer of the ‘Social Media Marketing Day Italy’ #SMMdayIT (expression of the communities of over 40,000 professionals in the social and digital area). Founder of the ‘Permanent Social and Digital Competence Center’ in Milan.
Within the reference areas, it conducts research, training and consultancy activities for private companies and public organizations and institutions
I was awarded my Ph.D. in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences by the Department of Psychology of the University of Florence. Upon graduation, I was hired by University College London, where I worked as post-doctoral research fellow in the Vision Research Laboratory. In 2019, I was awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship to work for four years at the University of York. In 2023, I joined the School of Psychology and Vision Sciences, at the University of Leicester, as a Lecturer.
I have considerable experience and knowledge in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience (EEG, MEG, fMRI). My research interests are mainly focused on visual perception, visual cognition, and time perception, in both neurotypical and neurodivergent individuals.
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