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"Commonground I Innovation keep us together" was the Opening Conference theme of the 10th edition of Maker Faire Rome. It was a theme that confirmed and promised to celebrate the interconnected worlds, the people, and the community of changemakers who are still redesigning the scenarios in which we operate and driving social change. It also highlighted how traditional organizations converge with these communities and, together, manage to generate new, fluid models and solutions that push the boundaries of the world as we know it.

Alongside national and international guests, we explored:

• How and why innovators represents a 'common ground' and a 'common good' for everyone, regardless of the sector they operate in.
• The fundamental role of an "innovation mindset" in personal and collective progress and growth, and how to promote it.
• The impact and value that Maker Faire Rome - the European Edition has had and continues to have in the innovation landscape, both locally and internationally.

Protagonisti

Lorenzo Tagliavanti, Presidente della Camera di Commercio di Roma

Luciano Mocci, Presidente di Innova Camera, Azienda speciale della Camera di Commercio di Roma

Paolo Orneli, Assessore allo Sviluppo economico, Commercio e Artigianato, Università, Ricerca, Start-Up e Innovazione della Regione Lazio

Roberto Luongo, Direttore Generale Agenzia ICE

Speaker

JULIE ANDERSEN - PLASTIC OCEANS, CEO e co-founder

MASSIMO BANZI - ARDUINO, Co-founder, chairman & CMO

ANDREA DEVICENZI – Atleta paralimpico

TONY FADELL - FUTURESHAPE, CEO & founder

MATTHIAS MAYER - IFIXIT, Direttore Europa

JONATHAN MENHUIN - ISRAEL INNOVATION INSTITUTE, CEO

KENNETH MIKKELSEN - FUTURE/SHIFTS, CEO & founder

PAOLO NETTI - UNI FEDERICO II NAPOLI, Professore ordinario di Bioingegneria industriale

VALENTINA PRIMO - STARTUP WITHOUT BORDERS, CEO & founder

QUAYOLA - Artista

MONICA SPADA - ENI, Responsabile ricerca e innovazione tecnologica

JULIA STOYANOVICH - NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, Professoressa Associata, Tandon School of Engineering & Center for Data Science; Direttrice, Center for Responsible AI

PAOLA SANTINI - INAF, Ricercatrice Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma

LUCIO ANGELO ANTONELLI - INAF, Direttore Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma

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The theme for 2021 was "Fast Forward - The Future In The Making": the recognition of circumstances that have accelerated long overdue changes, and the celebration of the capacity to "do" that has made it possible to manage the uncertainty of these endless months since the beginning of the pandemic. A theme that finds in design the "turbine of social transformation," the foundational infrastructure of a new individual and collective way of living between the physical and digital realms, "which has the ability to give sense, meaning, and reason for things to exist."

Guests

HIROAKI KITANO - SONY

Azada Barakzai - Digital Citizen Fund - Afghan Dreamers

Enrico Bassi - OpenDot

Sofia Crespo - Artist

Eliana De Marchi - Eni

Leonardo Durante - Finalista Global Teacher Prize

Tommaso Ghidini - ESA

Nir Goldstein - Good Food Institute

Mahbooba Islami - Digital Citizen Fund - Afghan Dreamers

Steven Jepeal - Allium Engineering

Michelle Johnson - I-Rim

Daniele Lago - Lago Design

Marinella Levi - PoliMi

Roya Mahboo - Digital Citizen Fund - Afghan Dreamers

Sonia Massari - Future Food Academy

Stefano Micelli - Progetto Upskills 4.0

Luca Parmitano - ESA

Sheila Scerba - Steve Jobs Academy

Raffi Tchakerian - Dubai Institute of Design & Innovation

Massimo Banzi - ARDUINO

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The challenging year 2020 may have confined us to our homes, but it presented us with new and unprecedented challenges. In the 2020 Opening Conference, we aimed to emerge with a renewed understanding of what "collaboration" truly means. This holds true for everyone, but it is especially significant for the world of makers, innovators, and those who transform their ideas (sometimes their dreams) into tangible projects.

Guests

Luigi DI MAIO - Ministro degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale

Gaetano MANFREDI - Ministro dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica

Massimo BANZI - Co-fondatore Arduino

Enrico BASSI - Coordinatore Opendot Fab Lab

Barbara CAPUTO - Professoressa Ordinaria, Politecnico di Torino e Prima Ricercatrice - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Gui CAVALCANTI - Fondatore e Co-direttore esecutivo Open Source Medical Supplies

Antonio COSIMATI - Maker

Martina FERRACANE - Makers Sicilia

Cristian FRACASSI - CEO Isinnova

Oussama KHATIB - Professore di Informatica e Direttore del Laboratorio di Robotica, Stanford University

June MADETE - Ingegnere biomedico, ricercatore in bioingegneria e docente senior - Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

Davide MARIANI - Co-Fondatore e Maker – Studio 5T

Fidel Makatia OMUSILIBWA - Studente di Bsc Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica – Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

Bernie ROTH - Rodney H. Adams Professore di ingegneria, co-fondatore e direttore accademico of d.school - Stanford University e Autore di “The Achievement Habit

Jeffery D. SACHS - Direttore del Centro per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile - Columbia University

Anouk WIPPRECHT - Innovatrice scientifica e artista

Francesca ZARRI - Direttore Technology, R&D & Digital - Eni

Conduce
Riccardo LUNA

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An extraordinary two-hour event filled with stories of innovation, narrated by internationally acclaimed speakers. Groundbreakers, the pioneers and trailblazers, are those who work in the present with what will shape our future normalcy.

Guests

Massimo Banzi, Alex Braga, Antonio Bicchi, Valentina Chinnici, Joachim Fargas, Luciano Floridi, Sara Krugman, Brenda Mboya, Chiara Petrioli, Alejandro Miguel San Martìn, Mike Szczys, Alessandro Ranellucci, Giuseppe Tannoia, Kitty Yeung.

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Rome 2018 aimed to take stock of those makers who are shaping the future every day, combining ingenuity and passion. Groundbreakers, pioneers, trailblazers: they are the ones working in the present with what will constitute our normality tomorrow. On stage, two generations of pioneers were present, speaking about space travel, robotics for human health, artificial intelligence and art, new frontiers of industry and the maker world. In conclusion a substantial segment dedicated to the circular economy.

Guests

Alberto Arezzo, Massimo Banzi, Alex Braga, Gabriele Braga, Cristina Cipriano, Claudio Descalzi, Don Eyles, Francisco Gomez Paz, Marco Gori, Mark Hempsell, Riccardo Luna, Domenico Prattichizzo, Joseph Puglisi, Sara Roversi, Bruno Siciliano, Francesco Tristano.

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From digital manufacturing to the food of the future, from robotics to biohacking, from Industry 4.0 to drones, from artificial intelligence to agriculture 4.0, encompassing big data and IoT. These were the topics addressed in the opening conference of Maker Faire Rome 2017.

Guests

Nikolas Albarram, Matt Anderson, Massimo Banzi, Pavel Bayborodin, Luca Bergamo, Carlo Calenda, Guido Fabiani, Miguel Angel Figueroa, Pier Giorgio Furcas, Enrico Giovannini, Paolo Grossi, Paolo Guglielmi, Mark Hatch, Alessio Jacona, Laura Kampf, Giaco Whatever, Ivan Lo Bello, Gianpiero Lotito, Lorenzo Marconi, Paolo Merialdo, Luciano Mocci, Jessie Mooberry, Ryan O’ Shea, Valerio Pagliarino, Pierre Paslier, Domenico Prattichizzo, Alessandro Ranellucci, Stephen Ritz, Chloe Rutzerveld, Benjamin Shute, Bruno Siciliano, Angelo Sticchi Damiani, Valentina Sumini, Lorenzo Tagliavanti, Ryan O’ Shea, Joris Van Tubergen, Nicola Vitiello.

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We have lost sight of the future. We no longer know where the better world we were expecting has gone. But now, more than ever, the future depends on us, on each individual's ability to innovate in every sector. To do things differently by harnessing the power of digital technologies and networks, including the Internet. The Opening Conference of the fourth edition of Maker Faire Rome is dedicated precisely to this theme: "The Future of Everything, the future of every single thing."

Guests

Massimo Banzi, Maurizio Costabeber, Kelly Degnan, James D. Jackson, Neil Gershenfeld, Luigi La Spada, Riccardo Luna, Simona Maschi, Dario Pagani, Pietro Piccinetti, Giuliano Poletti, Giuseppe Recchi, Bruce Sterling, Lorenzo Tagliavanti, Carlotta Ventura, Tim West, Bruno Zamborlin, Nicola Zingaretti.

In the evocative setting of La Sapienza, a place of excellence for education and learning, an exceptional lineup shines the spotlight on hundreds of projects from around the world, providing a broad perspective on the future that awaits us and how we are shaping it.

Guests

Massimo Banzi, Cesare Cacitti, Valeria Cagnina, Caterina Caselli, Roberto Cingolani, Maurizio Costabeber, Carlo De Benedetti, Dale Dougherty, Eugenio Gaudio, Marta Leonori, Riccardo Luna, Dario Pagani, Carlotta Ventura, Josh Walden, Lorenzo Tagliavanti, Nicola Zingaretti.

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In the Opening Conference of the second edition of Maker Faire Rome, many of the key players of the third industrial revolution that is forever changing the world we live in paraded.

Guests

Erle Austin, Massimo Banzi, Daniele Benedettelli, Isaac Brown, Anjan Contractor, Samantha Cristoforetti, Moctar Dembélé, Cory Doctorow, Dale Dougherty, Stefan Elfwing, Ryan Genz, Glenn Green, Neil Harbisson, Frank van Heesch, Salvatore Iaconesi, Ellen Jorgensen, Vaiva Kalnikaitė, Jim Kor, Lynette Kucsma, Abbey Liebman, Riccardo Luna, Michael McAlpine, Gérard Niyondiko, Ivan Owen, Eric Pan, Oriana Persico, Bob Pflugfelder, Francesca Rosella, Mario Vigentini, Arturo Vittori.

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The opening conference of Maker Faire Rome 2013, entitled "How to remake the world," aimed to understand where and how the artisans of the web were born.

Guests

Jack Andraka, Massimo Banzi, Leah Buechley, Raffaello D’Andrea, Tomas Diez, Dale Dougherty, David Gauntlett, Joey Hudy, Brian Krzanich, Riccardo Luna, Josef Prusa, Bruce Sterling.