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Fast Company Brings First-Ever European Innovation Festival to Milan and Florence Powered by GucciNEW YORK, June 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Fast Company today announced the line-up for its European Innovation Festival (FCEIF) —the first-ever global thought leadership summit of its kind. The three-day event, powered by Gucci, will take place from July 9-11 in Milan and Florence. The Festival, titled "The Dawn of Superintelligence," will highlight the potential for collaboration between man and machine as society sits on the precipice of a new era of technological advancement and artificial intelligence. The Festival will bring together a high profile collection of global thought leaders to explore the opportunities and challenges that come from marrying the precision and analytics of computers with the sensitivity of humanity. Speakers for the Festival include: Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author; Darren Aronofsky, screenwriter and director; Jared Leto, tech investor, actor and musician; Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, economist, international development expert and former Finance Minister of Nigeria; Alec Ross, author of "The Industries of the Future," technology policy expert, and senior innovation advisor to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Natalie Massenet, founder of Net-A-Porter and co-founder and managing partner, Imaginary Ventures; Riccardo Sabatini, scientist and entrepreneur; Jessica Brillhart, immersive director, writer and founder of Vrai Pictures; Dustin Yellin, contemporary artist; Chloe Macintosh, chief creative officer, Soho House, and cofounder, Made.com; Massimo Bottura, chef patron and Food for Soul founder; Marian Goodell, CEO, Burning Man; Giuseppe Sala, Mayor of Milan, and Marco Bizzarri, President and CEO of Gucci. Each year, the Fast Company Innovation Festival gathers influential visionaries from the worlds of business, design, and culture to problem solve and share their insights alongside Fast Company editors. "At Fast Company, we cover the intersection of design, creativity and leadership—very human disciplines—with technology and innovation, the engines of modern business and society," said Stephanie Mehta, Editor in Chief, Fast Company. "Our inaugural European Innovation Festival will address the critical question of how to bridge technology and humanity. We also see this as a seminal moment for Milan, one of the world's most progressive cities, to be a hub for thought leaders and influencers, and we are delighted to work with Gucci, an iconic brand we consider to be both digitally savvy and creatively innovative, to facilitate this important discussion." Marco Bizzarri, Gucci President and CEO, commented, "We are at a real tipping point with AI becoming pervasive in our lives. At Gucci we have established a culture of innovation fostering experimentation and new technologies, but always in support of creativity and the human touch. We are therefore delighted to help power this Festival bringing together leading thinkers in conversations about the new paradigms in front of us." "We live in challenging times, in which we need the ideas of people to foster change and hope in our communities," said Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala. "We need to find new ways to combine economic and social growths, and support them in a sustainable way. Cities like Milan are the catalyst and the engine of this global wave of innovation. We have the privilege and the duty to welcome everyone and listen to every idea, which can fruitfully contribute to this global discussion." Programming will feature expert talks and panels on a range of topics, such as "What Happens When Technology Hacks Humanity," "Identity in an Avatar-Friendly World," "Machine Learning and the Emerging World," "How Technology Can Change and Enhance the Meaning of Community," and more. The Festival kicks-off at the Gucci Hub, the brand's corporate headquarters, located in Milan's historic Caproni aeronautical factory. Following a meticulous restoration of the original 1915 structure, the Gucci Hub brings together the fashion house's Milan offices, worldwide showrooms, and also serves as a venue for fashion shows and photo shoots. The Milan portion of the Festival will also feature a one-of-a-kind interactive exhibition, Sensorium, curated by H-Farm, an innovation platform where entrepreneurship and education coexist using unique digital approaches to support the creation of new business models and transformation of both young people and companies. Sensorium is a self-guided experience, engaging selected startups and artistic installations in deploying advanced technologies allowing Festival attendees to engage with six "supersenses" in order to stimulate emotions in a creative manner. The startups, artist collectives and technologies were carefully selected for their unique solutions, humanistic philosophy and innovative approach to product design, the exhibition will feature solutions like Arctop, a softwareplatform that applies specialized artificial intelligence to electrical measurements of brain activity in order to infer people's feelings, reactions, and intent. Weart, a robotics lab that develops wearable and portable devices designed for the digitalization of the sense of touch, able to record and playback forces, vibrations and temperature changes, OLO a creative farm using technology for creating visual communication, panGenerator, a new media art & design collective blending ephemeral digital realm with physical world, Razer, the world's leading lifestyle brand for gamers. For a select group of attendees, the European Innovation Festival will culminate with an exclusive Fast Track in Florence on July 11, including a tour of the Gucci ArtLab, the company's futuristic center of industrial craftsmanship and laboratory for leather goods and shoe products, and Gucci 9, a center of innovation exploring the best ways to optimize the remote client experience. These attendees will also experience a private visit to the Gucci Garden, followed by a special dinner at Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura. The agenda is below and the most up-to-date information on the Fast Company European Innovation Festival can be found here: https://europeaninnovationfestival.fastcompany.com/. Tickets can be purchased via this link: https://fastcompany.swoogo.com/europeaninnovationfestival-us. FCEIF AGENDA OPENING PERFORMANCE THE END OF HOMO SAPIENS: WHEN DO HUMANS CEASE BEING HUMAN? MADE IN MILAN VIRTUAL VILLAGES: HOW TECHNOLOGY CAN CHANGE AND ENHANCE NEW COMMUNITIES FOOD FOR THOUGHT—--AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT LIVING ALGORITHMS: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GETS DEEPLY PERSONAL UTOPIAN ROBOTS: THE PURSUIT OF INCLUSIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPERS AND DEVELOPMENT: MACHINE LEARNING AND THE EMERGING WORLD GENERATION AI: HOW THE FIRST DIGITAL NATIVES SEE THE WORLD DAY TWO: WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 MORE THAN HUMAN: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TECHNOLOGY HACKS HUMANITY? SPEAKERS: WE'RE ALL "PLAYER ONE": IDENTITY IN AN AVATAR-FRIENDLY WORLD JARED LETO: IN CONVERSATION THE INDUSTRIES OF THE SUPERINTELLIGENT FUTURE EVERY PLATFORM TELLS A TALE: HOW TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING THE ART OF STORYTELLING INVESTING IN THE FUTURE: SEEDING THE NEXT WAVE OF SMART STARTUPS UNNATURAL SELECTION: CAN MACHINES SAVE OUR PLANET? DAY THREE: THURSDAY, JULY 11 CODEX DREAMS: HOW MODERN SOCIETY REFLECTS DA VINCI'S GROUNDBREAKING VISION SPEAKER: THE NEW FRONTIERS OF MANUFACTURING: FROM ROBOT FACTORIES TO INNOVATING THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE ABOUT FAST COMPANY ABOUT GUCCI Media Contact: View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fast-company-brings-first-ever-european-innovation-festival-to-milan-and-florence-powered-by-gucci-300873569.html SOURCE Fast Company |