The Galileo Festival from 2 to 5 May in Padua. Many events and guests are expected. Space research and artificial intelligence are key themes
Artificial intelligence, space, robotics, industry 4.0, and the world of science, as we know it at the beginning of the third millennium.
All condensed into four days of eventsfrom 2 to 5 May, and from over 50 meetings with industry experts, between research, business and innovation.
It is the 12th edition of Galileo – science and innovation festivalthe event promoted by ItalyPost, Nord Est Multimedia and the Municipality of Padua (with the collaboration of the European Parliament Office in Milan) which in a short time has taken on national and international calibre, thanks to its activity aimed at future and the relationships between business and institutions.
Five macro-themes and only one winning book
The meetings – all with free participation upon registration on the festival website – are divided according to cfive macro-themes: the one already mentioned artificial intelligence, about to revolutionize our daily lives; the sector of space economyor how companies are aimed at ‘business’ in space; life sciences, declined to the research carried out by science today in the technological field; L’innovationboth of companies and of the processes that lead to an entrepreneurial innovation, and finally the area dedicated to Book of the Year Award on Innovationwith the five of the finalist books and the relative announcement of the winner at the end of the festival same, Sunday morning.
The finalist titles are: “Moon, laboratory of peace” (Egea), by Simonetta Di Pippo; “Asia at the center of change” (Treccani), by Giuseppe Gabusi; “I & I” (Rubettino), by Riccardo Manzotti and Simone Rossi; “I boil potatoes alive” (Einaudi), by Roberto Sitia and Giuliano Grignaschi; “The artificial body” (Raffaello Cortina Editore), by Simone Rossi and Domenico Prattichizzo.
The guests and key events of the Galileo Festival 2024
“The current edition aims to address the problems and above all the ideas of development of the near future which begins today and which concerns science and technology, two fundamental aspects for building and improving our reality in a moment of great international difficulty – explained the scientific director of the Galileo Festival, the editorialist of the Corriere della Sera Giovanni Caprara -. Science, technology and industry they are the fundamental elements for imagining a radical change in thinkingas is necessary today, to guarantee a future of greater well-being on our planet”.
Surprisingly, the first great guest will not be a scientist, but a musician: Nicola Piovanicomposer and Oscar winner for Life is Beautiful, which will offer the opportunity to discover what lies behind a creative act, through music. The event concerning him will be held at Verdi theater in Padua – where the entire event will be held – on Thursday May 2nd, at 9pm.
The guests of the Festival
The other guests, more connected to science, will move between humanity and technology: they will intervene Federico Fagginfather of the microchip, and the philosopher Umberto Galimberti, one of the most critical figures towards the ‘power of technology’; in the medical sector, Luigi Naldini, director of the San Raffaele Telethon – content partner of the event – for gene therapy, e Fabrizio Pregliascowho will discuss with Paola Arosia of superbugs and the dangers we can encounter. Another moment of notable importance will be the intervention of Marco Cappato on science and civil rights.
Among the events, however, it will be curious to understand how space research fits into the dynamics of business and innovationthanks for example to the event on Friday morning in which the member of the ESA astronaut reserve and space engineer Thales Alenia Space will be involved Anthea Comellini and the space scientist and engineer Amalia Ercoli Finzi.
In the evening, the Italian possibility of hosting the Einstein Telescope, i.e. the infrastructure that should detect gravitational waves, will also be discussed in Sardinia.
The INAF president will talk about it Roberto Ragazzoniwith Antonio Zoccoli, INFN president, and with Marco Tavani, professor of Space Physics at the Tor Vergata University of Rome. Among the guests was the director for science of ASI-Italian Space Agency Mario Cosmo and the aerospace scientist and engineer Amalia Ercoli Finzi.
Anthea Comellini, member of the ESA-European Space Agency astronaut reserve and Thales Alenia Space space engineer
Marco Cappato, political activist, treasurer of the Luca Coscioni Association and president of Eumans
Amalia Ercoli Finzi, scientist and aerospace engineer
Mario Cosmo, director for science ASI-Italian Space Agency
The macroprogram weaves a thread that intertwines the various areas, in an attempt to define the technological and digital future of man in the field of science.
The investments which lead to researchthe research that comes out of the laboratories and finds its fields of use and businessthe enterprise that generates Work and create new ones perspectives and new horizons of the human being. All in the effort to provide a correct and balanced scientific dissemination.
The Galileo Festival, with the city of Padua, maintains its pre-eminent role this year too, continuing its action in favor of both science and humanity.
Damiano Martin
