Week of Jun 5th
5 June 2023 (4 events)
10:30: Opening Ceremony La Spezia Naval Base
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5 June 2023Pierluigi Peracchini - Mayor of La Spezia
Cristiana Pagni - President of IBG
Vice Admiral Enrico Credendino - Chief of Staff of the Italian Navy
Giovanni Toti - President of Liguria Region
Hon. Guido Crosetto - Ministry of Defence
GOI LAUNCH
14:30: EXPLORE THE UNEXPLORED: HOW TO UNVEIL THE UNDERWATER DIMENSION ROOM 1 - Sponsored by Elettronica
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5 June 2023Chairman Prof. A. Margelletti, President of Centro Studi Internazionali
Keynote speaker Prof. G. Cella, author of "Storia e geopolitica della crisi ucraina. Dalla Rus' di Kiev a oggi"
Speakers
Ing. Cossiga, President - AIAD
Prof. N. Pinardi, “Oceanography” Professor - University of Bologna
Dr. I. Tani, University of Milano Bicocca
Dr. Marchiori, Head of SONSUB
Dr. Debenedetti, Vice President Research & Innovation - FINCANTIERI
RADM Lacerenza, Commander - MARICOSOM; Head - ITN Gen. Staff Submarine Dept.
16:15 Q&A
14:30: OCCAR, the independent international organisation for complex cooperative armaments programme management ROOM 2
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5 June 2023OCCAR
Brief introduction to OCCAR as programmes management organization, with a special focus on FREMM, PPA, LSS, U212 NFS Programmes.
Chairman Mr. Joachim Sucker, Director of OCCAR
Speakers
14.30 – 14.35 Brief introduction by the director, Mr. Joachim Sucker
14.35 – 14.50 OCCAR Central Office presentation (by Mr. Fernand Van Wilder)
14.50 – 15.00 Question time
15.00 – 15.20 Naval Programmes presentation (by Mr. Lorenzo Poliseno)
15.20 – 15.30 Question time
15.30 – 15.50 NFS Programme presentation (by Mr. Vasco Pizzinato)
15.50 – 16.00 Question time
16:30: La Spezia and Toulon cities linked to (and from) the sea ROOM 2
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5 June 2023Dante Alighieri La Spezia and Dante Alighieri Toulon companies
Chairman Maurizio Caporuscio - Magistrate, Vice President of the Dante Alighieri Company
The meeting will start from the few, but evident, aspects of the proximity of the two countries from the cultural point of view, so to examine more closely the theme of the sea in the French literature of the nineteenth century.
Speakers
Dr. Carlo Raggi - President - Dante Alighieri La Spezia Company
Italy and France. Brief notes on a consolidated cultural bond
Prof. Margherita Vannini Barradon - Vice President - Dante Alighieri Toulon Company
The sea into the French literature dring Michel Pacha’s time
Prof. Chiara Serreli - Councillor - Dante Alighieri La Spezia Company
Lecture of Giovanni Pascoli’s poem “A Victor Hugo”
6 June 2023 (10 events)
9:30: Accelerating Digital Transformation in Maritime & Defense Industry ROOM 3
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6 June 2023ANSYS
The next era in the maritime and defense industry will present business and technology challenges that will be radically different from anything seen before. The exponential rate of innovation required to meet these challenges can only be achieved through digital transformation. As the boundaries between industries blur and the cost of failure becomes business-critical, the pace of digital transformation must accelerate. One way to speed this transformation while ensuring an optimized product life cycle is through engineering simulation.
Chairman and Speaker Filippo Gemma, Global Product Sales Manager
9:30: The commitment of Italian companies to win the challenges of the new naval and underwater frontiers ROOM 1 - Sponsored by Elettronica
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6 June 2023AIAD
Chairman Carlo Festucci, AIAD Secretary-General
9.30 – 10.10 Introductory speeches
Eng. Giuseppe Cossiga, President of AIAD
Amm.Sq. Giuseppe Berutti Bergotto, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Italian Navy(TBC)
C.A. Pietro Alighieri, Senior Advisor of Secretary General of Defence/DNA
10.10 – 10.25 Innovation lines of the Military Ships Department
By the Research and Innovation Manager, Fincantieri SpA
10.25 – 10.40 Hypersonic
Eng. Tonino Genito, Head of Missile Design Italy - MBDA Italia SpA
10.40 – 10.55 ELT and the EW in the naval domain
Dr. Paolo Izzo, Chief Sales Officer - Elettronica SpA
10.55 – 11.10 The new scenarios of SeaBed warfare and protection of strategic infrastructure
Eng. Marco De Fazio, Managing Director of the Defence Systems Business Unit of the Electronics Division - Leonardo SpA
11.10 – 11.25 Quantum technologies for the resilience of communications in the submarine domain
Eng. PhD Tommaso Occhipinti, Telsy SpA
11.25 – 11.40 Underwater technology and new defence solutions
Eng. Sergio Cappelletti, President and Adm. Delegate DRASS Galeazzi Srl
11.40 – 11.50 Q&A
12.00 Conclusion
10:00: NATO plan of action on Innovation - DIANA and NATO Innovation Fund initiatives and opportunities for the naval and underwater sectors ROOM 2
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6 June 2023SGD/DNA – Segretariato Generale della Difesa/Direzione Nazionale Armamenti
Secretariat General of Defence and National Armaments Directorate / 5th Department - Technological Innovation
Technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous systems and quantum technologies are changing the world, and the way NATO operates. These and other emerging and disruptive technologies (EDTs) present both risks and opportunities for NATO and Allies. That’s why the Alliance is working with public and private sector partners, academia and civil society to develop and adopt new technologies, establish international principles of responsible use and maintain NATO’s technological edge. In this context, NATO has launched two initiatives (DIANA and NIF) to foster innovation and EDTs. The aim of this workshop is informing and promoting DIANA and the NIF within the International Delegations and the community of entrepreneurs, SME’s, start-ups, universities, research institutes, technology cluster associations and institutions dealing with the naval and underwater sectors.
Chairman Capt. (N) Francesco A. Marchetti, Head of Research Programs – Strategy and planning
Speakers
Ms. Francesca Tortorella, Senior Policy Advisor – NATO, Diana Transition Team
General briefing on DIANA (Concept, Functioning Model, Strategic Direction, Opportunities and Timelines)
Mr. Philip Lockwood, Head, Innovation Unit – NATO, NIF Transition Team
General briefing on the NIF (Concept, Governance & Structure, Objectives & Principles, Relationship to DIANA, Opportunities and Timelines)
Dr. Giovanni Sembenini, Deputy Director – NATO, CMRE
CMRE: Activities on S&T, Innovation, Maritime, Emerging Disruptive Technologies, Underwater and role within DIANA initiative
Dr. Stefano Molino, Senior Partner - CDP Venture Capital
Why an accelerator can be a game changer on innovation
Special Guest Mr. Maynard A. Holliday – Deputy Chief Technology Officer For Critical Technologies – United States Department of Defense
11:30: Seabed Operations - Threats and Challanges - SAAB ROOM 3
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6 June 2023SAAB
Chairman and Speaker Mr. Chris Lade, Defence Sales Manager – Saab
The presentation will consider recent events that have heightened the relevance of operations on the seabed. It will look at the potential threat to critical national infrastructure and what might be done to protect that infrastructure from a doctrinal perspective and then from a technical perspective. The presentation will consider the parallel capabilities required to operate in the commercial underwater space with those capabilities to conduct military operations on the seabed
14:30: Alternative fuels in marine applications: the state of the art and a vision of the future ROOM 3
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6 June 2023ATENA
Italian Association of Naval and Nautical Techniques. Significant interlocutors will talk about alternative fuels in the Nautical world
Chairman Dr. Arianna Bionda, Professor and Researcher at the Politecnico of Milan
Speakers
Mr Philippe Davignon, Sales Director - GENEVOS
High-durability fuel cell technology for marine propulsion
Mr. Mauro Risi, DG Energy Evolution ENI
A global approach to maritime decarbonisation
Mr. Gianluca Valenti, Associated Professor at the Politecnico of Milan
State of the art and prospects for the use and application of liquid hydrogen as an alternative energy source in different fields of application. Ongoing research in the field of hydrogen transfer through distribution networks
Mr. Paolo Bonetti, Managing Director CHIMITRADE
Methanol as a marine fuel: an overview of the regulatory and economic framework
Ms. Tullia Zucca, Freelance Consultant
Production of green hydrogen from Ammonia splitting in a reactor equipped with plasma torch and special membranes.
Mr. Giovanni Bruni, COO Isotta Fraschini Motori Spa
Isotta Fraschini Motori: The pathway to Carbon 0
14:30: Emerging and Disruptive Technologies in the Maritime Domain ROOM 1 - Sponsored by Elettronica
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6 June 2023Secretariat General of Defense and National Armaments Directorate
The workshop will try to provide audience with a close look at technological trends and EDTs in the maritime domain by leveraging on a wider prospective based on different major stakeholders operating in the academia, institution, military and industry. Complexity, challenges and opportunities that shall be understood and properly governed by the civilian and military sectors in order to maintain the strategic technological edge. The workshop will also inform on EU institutional support to innovation and EU efforts to intercept and deliver new effective EDT based capabilities at the required speed of relevance.
Chairman RDML Pietro Alighieri, Senior Advisor to the Italian Secretary General of Defense and National Armaments Director
Speakers
Ms. Paola Gualeni, Professor – University of Genoa
Emerging Disruptive Technologies and technological trends in the Maritime domain - Academia prospective
RADM. Marco Tomassetti, Head 7th Dept, Italian Navy General Staff
Future capabilities deriving from the introduction of EDTs in the Maritime domain – Military priorities and prospective
Ms. Chiara Petrioli, CEO – Wsense
Challenges, criticalities and opportunities of EDT – Industry prospective
Mr. Dirk Peters, Senior Expert EC – DG Defis
EU support initiatives for innovation and EDT – Institutional prospective
Ms. Federica Valente, RTI Coordinator/HEDI manager – EDA
Tools to intercept trends and EDTs and mechanisms to deliver EDT developed capabilities at a speed of relevance – EDA prospective
14:30: New Generation Mine Warfare Vessels ROOM 2
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6 June 2023Italian Navy Maricodrag (TBC) / Intermarine
In a moment of increasing tensions and new threats in the underwater domain, Italian Navy and Intermarine undertook the challenge to design and project innovative warships to answer the operational requirements to secure the Sea Lines of Communications (SLOCs) and protect the Strategic Underwater Infostructures.The pioneer project takes the name of New Generation Mine Warfare Vessels.
16:00: Centro Operativo Sicurezza Cibernetica - Polizia Postale Genova
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6 June 2023Topics:
Critical Infrastructure: Security & Privacy Challenges: The slides illustrate the composition of the Italian Cybersecurity, and the role of new Regional Cyber Security Operations Centers within the new Central Scientific and Cybersecurity Department. The work of the Cyber Policeman, the training challenges and future prospects of the SINC3 platform, its functions and its main architecture’s features.
Anatomy of a cyber attack: We will analyze a malware attack through a phishing email and talk about Protection and training tools, the keys to success in cybersecurity.
Financial crimes: In addition to cyber attacks that impact the security of data, there are attacks aimed at defrauding companies with very sophisticated mechanisms that can reduce their financial solidity. “Business Email Compromised” attacks are the most dangerous because they take advantage of social engineering techniques. The main protection tool is the awareness.
Digital Forensic and Artificial Intelligence: What is Digital Forensic and what it means to recover digital data of any kind in order to detect digital computer evidence useful for investigative activity.
16:00: Climate change and human impact on the underwater dimension: how to communicate the climate emergency Vespucci Tall Ship
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6 June 2023Chairman Federico Pedrocchi, Radio 24
Introduction Silvia Baglioni, Journalist
Speakers:
Fabio Trincardi, Director of the Department of Earth System Sciences and Technologies for the Environment - CNR
The Mediterranean is one of the “hot spots” of climate change. At SEAFUTURE, in conjunction with the World Oceans Day, we will address one of the most topical issues: how to correctly communicate the enormous amount of data that research has available today.
17:00: The journey to redefine the future of fit ROOM 3
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6 June 2023BOA TECHNOLOGY
The presentation will cover the history of the company BOA Technology (who we are, where we come from) followed by a detailed explanation of our technology BOA Fit System and its benefits for the end users.
Speakers
Luca Danova, Market Development Specialist & Account Manager EMEA – BOA Technology
Story of the Company, business model, commercial topics
Daria Biryukova, Factory Support Manager – BOA Technology
Technical topics on BOA platforms
7 June 2023 (9 events)
9:00: National conference of regional maritime clusters ROOM 3
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7 June 2023By the Ligurian District of Marine Technologies - DLTMT
The strategic importance of regional clusters for their associated enterprises: collaborations at regional, national, and international level, participation at grants and tenders, provision of services. Excellences of Liguria and high-Tuscany territory: realities that span different and complementary fields, able to work together towards the improvement of the enterprises of the territory, innovation, and internationalization. The opportunities secured by the systematization of regional clusters within the national Blue Economy Cluster.
Speakers
DLTM Lorenzo Forcieri, President
Favoring the matching between enterprise and research in regional, national and European projects
NAVIGO Pietro Angelini, Director
Yachting & defense, cross-cutting innovations to compete
TICASS - Managing entity of Polo EASS Giorgio Saio, CEO
Energetic transition and Blue Economy: the experiences of Pole EASS
BIG Giovanni Caprino, President
The opportunities secured to regional districts by Cluster Big
9:30: Explore the unexplored: New technologies for the ocean mapping Vespucci Tall Ship
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7 June 2023Hydrographic Institute of the Navy
The Earth is an ocean planet—more than 70 percent of the surface is covered by seawater. But despite being such an essential part of life, the deepest parts of the world’s oceans are still largely unexplored. According to the GEBCO, merely 25 percent of the seafloor has been mapped with accuracy and less than 18 percent in the Arctic. But the state of sea exploration is changing fast. The dark, high-pressure conditions of the ocean depths that once made research there impossible are now being explored with cutting-edge technology. That new tech and the discoveries to come from it are the focus of modern Ocean Mapping.
Chairman Rear Admiral Massimiliano Nannini, Director, Istituto Idrografico della Marina
Panelists
GianMaria Iacobone – SAIPEM – E&C OFFSHORE
Sergio Cappelletti – DRASS Group – Managing Director
Massimiliano Arcieri – Planetek Italia – Business Development Manager Government & Security SBU
Carlo Coretti – e-GEOS – Head of Programs
9:30: When CYBER is merged into the sea ROOM 1 - Sponsored by Elettronica
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7 June 2023After last year’s NATO Summit in June, marked by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, in the document known as the Strategic Concept - an act that ratifies NATO’s new posture with respect to future threats - we understand how the alarm of political decision-makers of the member countries of the Alliance is above all related to the new frontiers of conflicts which, among other priorities, sees an emphasis placed on the growing interweaving between the cyber and space dimensions. The European Commission and the High Representative recently adopted a Joint Communication on an enhanced EU maritime security strategy aimed at ensuring peaceful use of the seas and protecting the maritime sector from new threats. They also adopted an updated action plan that will implement the strategy. Up to 99% of global data flows are transmitted through submarine cables, which are also subject to cyber and hybrid attacks. It is mandatory to make the Underwater Domain even more secure from a cybernetic point of view. The maritime safety is of vital importance for the European Union and its Member States and, precisely in this sense, the European Commission and the High Representative Borrell have foreseen an updated action plan which will implement the strategy. .
Autorithy
Hon. Matteo Perego di Cremnago, Under Secretary of Defense
Chairman
Gen. Giuseppe Morabito, NATO Foundation
Opening by SSSD
Participants
Prof. Michele Colajanni, University of Bologna
Assistant Prof. Luca Valcarenghi, Istituto Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa
Dr. Andrea Gilli, Senior Researcher NATO Defence College
Rear Admiral Francesco Procaccini, Chief of the C4S Dept. of the General Staff of the Navy
Dr. Mario Beccia , Deputy NATO Chief information Officer for Cybersecurity, NATO Headquarters
Dr. Pierangela Pitzolu, International Government Business Development Director - Telsy
Dr. Gennaro Faella – SVP Strategic Innovation & Development, Leonardo
11:30: LEVIATAD (COSME/Horizon Programme) ROOM 3
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7 June 2023Ligurian District of Marine Technologies - DLTM
The Project aims at creating the 1st Eurocluster of Excellence on Naval Defense. This will be obtained following an Action Plan on three steps:
1) Obtain a mapping of the Naval & Aero Naval Defence sector value chain post COVID-19 crisis to better understand the European ecosystem’s structure as well as the possible transnational synergies and complementarities. This will allow the Consortium to draw the lessons concerning disruption and dependencies and manage a more efficient industrial strategy (including green and digital transition) to engage better resilience and competitiveness in a long-term European strategic approach.
2) Put in place actions to support SMEs in their up-skilling towards strategic technologies innovations that will be the base of their path towards resilience and autonomy boosting European sovereignty in Defence sector. Support measures will be for example training workshops and vouchers.
3) Go to international is the third step providing for other supporting measures (e.g. workshops, vouchers, studies of international markets) to help SMEs to acquire skills in some third countries markets as well as internationalisation to foster synergies and new business lines towards these non-EU countries. This will foster action plans to enhance the European position in the value chain and engage resilience activities by supporting innovation processes and helping SMEs join forces and better cooperate with major public and private groups including in European and within international markets. These plans would have a strong focus on resilience and European synergies.
Chairman
Giovanni Caprino
Speakers
Mr. Stéphane Claisse, Director of the Toulon Var Technologies – System Factory
Value chain mapping of the naval defence and aeronautics sector: a long-term increasing of the resilience and the start-up competitiveness for an European strategic approach
Mrs. Eveline Buych, Innovation Manager of the Blauwe Cluster
Innovation training: supporting SMEs towards better qualification
Mr. Goran Barasac, President of the Croatian Defence Industry Competitiveness Cluster (CDICC)
Financial support to third parties: supporting SMEs towards strategic technological innovation
14:30: AUTNONAME - “Automation and remote control of the Noname® system” ROOM 1 - Sponsored by Elettronica
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7 June 2023Limescale and biofilm have always been a problem in all circuits in which water circulates, greatly reducing their flow rates and consequently their efficiency. The concretions themselves form a favorable environment for the proliferation of potentially pathogenic microorganisms for users. In the military, this issue takes on even greater significance and is closely linked to the operation of the maritime military instrument. The problem is amplified when maintenance of the system/equipment has to be carried out resulting in long technical downtime and consequent suspension of service. The timeless and effectiveness of interventions are, therefore, decisive in the overall economy of plant management. The Noname® system, which uses a food-grade purity gas mixture, promises to eliminate calcareous concretions and biofilms, eliminating failure times and ptimizing shipboard systems. The conference will showcase the results of AUTNONAME project experiments conducted at the University of Genoa, the use of the gas mixture, and the remotely developed continous control system.
Speakers
Professor Agostino G. Bruzzone, Full Professor at DIME, Genoa University, Principal Investigator of AUTNONAME Project – Genoa University
Results of experiments conducted at the University of Genoa on the AUTNONAME system and possible future developments.
Ing. Lucio Piticchio, CEO of Arconhe – Arconhe srl
Noname as innovative solution for solubilize limestone, decrease biofilm ecrustation and block bacterial fermentation.
14:30: Defend, preserve, protect. ROOM 3
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7 June 2023Sea Shepherd Italia Onlus Foundation
Do we want to continue to exploit the sea or do we finally decide to safeguard the sea and ourselves? Everyday Sea Shepherd volunteers goes to the sea to defend its inhabitants and what do we want to do? Looking back in our history there have been tragic pages where people have chosen to become partisans to gain freedom. Today it is up to us to become fighters, partisans to save our species from absurd logics that exploit the planet. So it’s up to us to pick a side. Collaboration between police forces and civil society, the great challenge of the new anti-poaching in the Sea
Chairman Andrea Morello
Speaker Adv. Cesare Colonna (online)
15.40 - 16.00 The Police of the Sea
Brigadier General Maurizio Muscarà
16.00 -16.30
Intervention by the Minister of Civil Protection and Sea Policies, On. Nello Musumeci
14:30: High-Level round table on “One Ocean-One Health: the health of the seas is decided on the mainland Vespucci Tall Ship
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7 June 2023Water Academy Srd Foundation, Sustainable And Responsible Development
Starting from the assumption that the state of health of the Oceans is determined by the decisions that are taken on earth, especially in relation to the fact that, as authoritatively supported by the Scientific Community, we live in an unprecedented era defined “Anthropocene”, a paradigm shift is needed to put the sea at the center of our lives. The relationship between mankind and the sea can be interpreted in all respects as a New Frontier. The seas, even within the specific and dimensional differences that distinguish them, are fundamental elements, for example, in the formation of the climate, and therefore the study of the so-called “Climate-Ocean Nexus”. It is now of fundamental importance to try to understand the variables that characterize the phenomenon of Climate Change.
Chairman Prof. Alessandro Leto
Speakers
Professor Giuseppe Novelli, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Professor Maurits Van Roojen, Global University System
Dr. Filippo Uberti, ENI SpA
Dr. Monica Spada - ENI SpA
Dr. Simone Fortunato Mortara - ENI SpA
Dr. Helga Maria Piaget - Passion Sea
16:00: Franco Bardelli and Mario Calzeroni. Excellence in science and radar development in Italy ROOM 1 - Sponsored by Elettronica
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7 June 2023Towards the future without forgetting the past. It will be presented the historical escursus of radar science in Italy, from the post-war period to recent times, through the works of two exceptional protagonists. The Engineer Franco Bardelli, creator of companies such as Selenia Spa and IDS Spa and the Admiral Mario Calzeroni, creator of the SPQ-5 radar, for the discovery of antisom from the surface, as well as the first Italian stone of CORA technology..
Chairman Dario Guerrini, CEO Gueda System
Speakers
Businessman Dario Guerrini, CEO - Gueda System
Contribution to the Italian industrial growth. Genius of M. Calzeroni, results and memories of those who flanked him
Eng. Giovanni Bardelli, Entrepreneur
The activities and life of Franco Bardelli, Selenia, IDS, Georadar and more
Eng. Vincenzo Arrichiello, Entrepreneur - Leonardo (r)
Carlo Calosi and his role as Mentor for Franco Bardelli and promoter of post-war Italian industry
16:30: The Italian historical excellences in the field of technological innovation and in the field of electronics are the root of the present and future success ROOM 3
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7 June 2023International Wireless Studies – IWS Group
Chairmen Mr. Elia Cicillini, Dr. Nicola Annedda
The speeches will recall the path of innovations in the field of interest in general and specific focus on telecommunications and cryptography
Speakers
Prof. Stefano Giordano, Professor – Dept. Engineering of the information - CNIT University of Pisa
From Marconian inventions to 5G
Eng. Davide Adami - UniPi
From early 16th century cryptography to the Cold War
Bruno Grassi, Co-fondatore IWS La Spezia
From Enigma Machine to Public and Private Key
8 June 2023 (5 events)
9:00: The Westmed Maritime Clusters Alliance ROOM 2
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8 June 20239.00 -12.30 CONFERENCE ROOM 2
9.00 Registration
Chairmen
Leonardo Manzari, Christain Chiavetta, WestMED Assistance Mechanism – National Hub for Italy
9.30 Welcome greetings
WestMED Initiative - Italian National Coordinators
Daniele Bosio, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Luca Palazzo, Presidency of the Council of Ministers - Department for Cohesion Policies (DPCoe)
9.35 Introduction
Manuel Pleguezuelo, European Commission - DG MARE (online)
9.40
Adriana Salazar Olivan, Union for the Mediterranean
9.45
Maltese National Coordinator, WestMED Initiative co-Presidency
Shaun Patrick Ebejer, Ministry for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects (online)
10.00
Main Achievements of the WestMED Maritime Clusters Alliance and its members
EMFAF Calls open to the Southern Shore non-EU countries
Anja Detant, CINEA
Establishment of the Mauritanian Maritime Cluster
Hamadi BABA HAMADI, President Mauritanian Maritime Cluster
MEDBLEUE 2022 Tunis
Emna Sohlobji, Cluster Maritime Tunisien
The Hub Azul Dealroom
Ruben Eiras, Forum Oceano
The position/role of Clusters in the new European Blue Forum
Laurence Martin, Federazione del Mare, ENMC, Thanos Smanis WMAM
Approved projects
ForMare - EMFAF Maritime Clusters – CALLMEBLUE; ERASMUS+ - MARMED
Forum Oceano - COSME Euroclusters – MedBan
CTN BIG – COSME Euroclusters – IKAT
TVT & DLTM - COSME Euroclusters – LEVIATAD
MARE FVG - EMFAF Maritime Clusters – Green Marine MED
Strategis Cluster - ERASMUS+ - MAQUAM
SGD4MED – EMFAF Ports & Maritime Transport – POWER4MED
Federazione del Mare – EMFAF Women in Blue Economy – WINBIG
Pole Mer Méditerranée – COSME Euroclusters – ELBE Alliance (online)
Established cooperation agreements and synergies
Antonio Novo Guerrero, European Clusters Alliance
Axelle Salvage, ENMC
Walter Wassallo, Blue Marina Awards
11.30 Open discussions about further progresses on the main goals of the WM MCA
Thanos Smanis
• 15 mins > Cluster dialogue:
• 15 mins > Cluster up-scale South-South:
• 15 mins > Capacity building North-South:
• 15 mins > Investment attraction
12.30 Conclusion of the event
Giovanni Caprino, Cluster BIG – Mario Mattioli, Federazione del Mare
10:30: Accelerating Digital Transformation in Maritime & Defense Industry ROOM 1 - Sponsored by Elettronica
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8 June 2023ANSYS
The next era in the maritime and defense industry will present business and technology challenges that will be radically different from anything seen before. The exponential rate of innovation required to meet these challenges can only be achieved through digital transformation. As the boundaries between industries blur and the cost of failure becomes business-critical, the pace of digital transformation must accelerate. One way to speed this transformation while ensuring an optimized product life cycle is through engineering simulation.
Chairman and Speaker Filippo Gemma, Global Product Sales Manager
14:00: Italian and Portuguese marine and maritime clusters: best practices and experience exchange ROOM 2
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8 June 202314.00 – 16.30 CONFERENCE ROOM 2
Italian and Portuguese marine and maritime clusters: best practices and experience exchange
Synergies between the Hub Azul Portugal and the Italian clusters
An increasing number of countries have already placed blue economy at the core of their governmental strategies, and the national marine and maritime clusters’ role is becoming increasingly fundamental on various aspects. The blue economy management differs from country to country from various point of view, including but not limited to: research and innovation, business support through targeted industrial policies and financial support, training at various levels, etc. During this session many experts coming from National Blue Economy Clusters in Italy and Portugal will share their models and experiences in all relevant aspects, with the aim to highlight differences and facilitate the exchange of best practices.
14.00-14.30 Registration
Moderator Leonardo Manzari, WestMED Assistance Mechanism – National Hub for Italy
14.30-14.45 Welcome & introduction: the blue economy at the core of national strategies and priorities
Daniele Bosio, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, WestMED National Coordinator
14.45-15.15 Forum Oceano: the Portuguese blue economy management model
Ruben Eiras, Secretary General, Forum Oceano
15.15-15.45 Cluster Blue Italian Growth & Federazione del Mare: the Italian blue economy management model
Giovanni Caprino, Chairman, Cluster Blue Italian Growth
Mario Mattioli, Chairman, Federazione del Mare
15.45-16.15 Roundtable
Highlighting differences and mutual inspiration between Italian and Portuguese management models
Gonçalo Faria, Hub Azul Portugal
Rita Sousa, FABER - Portugal Blue private operator (online)
Fabio Fava, EU MISSION “Restore our Ocean and Waters” - Lighthouse for the Mediterranean (online)
Alessandro Iafrati, CNR Institute of Marine Engineering, Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership
16:15-16:30 Closing
Marisa Silva, Director General of Maritime Policy, Ministry of Economy and Sea, Portugal (online)
Luca Salamone, Presidency of the Council of Ministers – Minister of Civil Protection and Sea Policies
16:00: Geopolitics, conflicts and correct information ROOM 1 - Sponsored by Elettronica
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8 June 2023FUORI ONDA
The upheavals that Europe is going through pose questions that are difficult to interpret. International scenarios are crucial and will have long-term repercussions on the lives of all of us. Reporting effectively and correctly on major geopolitical issues is not easy. It is necessary to be able to assess the correctness of sources, maintain independence of judgement and at the same time keep the public’s attention high without giving in to the spectacular.
Opening remarks
Cristiana Pagni, CEO Italian Blue Growth
Rear Adm. Antonello de Renzis Sonnino, Head of Public Information and Communication Office of the Italian Navy
Chairman Paola Spadari
Speakers
Dialogue between Carlo Bartoli, National President of the Order of Journalists, and Carmen Lasorella, journalist.
16:30: SEAFUTURE AWARDS & CLOSING CEREMONY ROOM 1 - Sponsored by Elettronica
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8 June 2023Awarding of the 7 Thesis finalists and the Thesis finalists of the Higher Secondary Institutes of the Liguria Region
10 June 2023 (1 event)
TBD: 5 Terre National Park Regatta
TBD
10 June 2023Inclusive sailing race
11 June 2023 (1 event)
TBD: Pre-Palio Regatta
TBD
11 June 2023Traditional Boat Race