There will be four intense days of events including dialogues, reflections and ideas on knowledge and the value of information as a primary asset, in a context such as the postmodern one in which technological progress continuously expands the possibilities of operating in markets previously unimaginable in terms of size, capillarity and target , but which at the same time continually poses new challenges: among these the one linked to the concentration of platforms, services and information dedicated to activities such as purchasing and communicating, which on the one hand with digital make life easier, on the other however create risks of greater inequalities in access and use of the technologies themselves; or even that linked to the use of some of the most recent technological innovations such as artificial intelligence, a useful tool if you have the means and knowledge to be able to govern it, rather than passively suffer its effects.
Digitalisation therefore brings light to economic-social dynamics, but at the same time it also generates shadows without the right governance tools. The International Festival of Economics, conceived and organized by Laterza Editors, under the scientific direction of Tito Boeri, will seek answers and try to offer ideas and tools to best accompany the ongoing transformation underway.
The inauguration will take place on Thursday 30 May at 3pm at the Carignano Theatre, an event which will be followed by a dialogue between Andrea Malaguti, director of “La Stampa”, and Paolo Gentiloni, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs. At 5.30 pm at the Turin Readers’ Club, Ilvo Diamanti and Nando Pagnoncelli, coordinated by Innocenzo Cipolletta, will discuss public opinion, digital information and AI. At 7pm we will return to the Carignano Theater, where Tito Boeri will be in dialogue with Tomaso Poggio, one of the fathers of artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
Among the events on Friday 31 May we highlight the workshop “The antidote is data: fake news-proof information”, an event organized by Youtrend as part of the Future Economy initiative – the Festival
International Economics for young people and reserved for the public under 30 (reservation required on the festival website). “Is environmentally sustainable and socially fair growth possible?” John Van Reenen explains how, at 11am in the Auditorium of the Collegio Carlo Alberto; same time for the event organized at the National Museum of the Risorgimento (Aula della Camera Italiana), where Chiara Goretti and Daniel Gros will examine the new Stability Pact.
These are some of the events on the rich calendar which will continue until 2 June, in a program which, to help the public orient themselves, will be divided into traditional formats: key words (lessons on fundamental concepts such as AI and markets, digital platforms, social media), at the frontier (exhibitions on the most innovative research related to the theme of the festival), visions (meetings dedicated to the probable evolutions of certain phenomena), intersections (sessions designed to promote mutual contamination between economics and other disciplines), in the history and history of ideas (appointments where the past will be used as a tool to better understand the present), witnesses of the time (first-person accounts of authoritative witnesses from the world of economics, science and politics), meetings with the author (sessions in which the most interesting editorial news in the economic and political debate will be presented), and cynoeconomics (screenings that will see the economy explained through great cinema).
The complete program is available on the website www.festivalinternazionaledelleconomia.com
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