Agenda day 3

Day 3 | June 28

Companies

Multinational companies have a role in developing innovation ecosystems. They can act like investors or first costumers or both for young companies. They can provide a market outlook to founders and also help them creating the right company culture.

Many companies will present their approach with young companies and universities and what they are looking for to satisfy their innovation needs. The take home message will be what is the ideal interaction between multinational companies, universities and start-up for a win-win-win collaboration.

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8:45- 9:15
Registration and Welcome Coffee

9:15

Corrado Priami

Rector’s Delegate for Research Exploitation and New Entrepreneurial Initiatives, University of Pisa

Chairperson: Corrado Priami

9:30

Fabio Roberto Mora

SVP Open Innovation Ferrero

Fabio R. Mora is the SVP Open Innovation for Ferrero group, with background experience on more than 23 years of R&D in food, health, home care and packaging in various companies.

9:55

Marco Restelli

VP R&D, Head of NPTC Waters Nestlé

Marco Restelli holds Masters degrees in Physical Chemistry from the University of Pavia and Strathclyde University (Glasgow) and a Master degree in Business Administration from the Politecnico di Milano.

Marco began his professional career in strategy consulting at Kearney, where he was a member of the Global Retail & Consumer Goods Practice. During his consulting years, he managed projects and client relationships in Western Europe and Southeast Asia, both with multinational companies and local/regional players.

Since 2003 Marco has been with Nestlé, where he has held various executive roles in corporate operations and R&D across different product categories.

Marco is currently vice president of R&D for Nestlé’s Waters and Healthy Beverages division, a member of the Group’s Senior R&D Management, and a member of the technical advisory boards of some Nestle-invested investment funds.

10:20

Rino Rappuoli

Scientific Director Fondazione Biotecnopolo Siena

10:45
Coffee Break

Chairperson: Chiara Galletti

11:15

Andrea Chiesi

Head of Special Projects, Chiesi Farmaceutici

Andrea Chiesi was born in Parma on July 15th, 1967. He is married and has one daughter. He graduated from the University of Parma in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies in 1992.

He joined the company in 1993 as a Pharmaceutical Technology analyst, became a Project Leader in 1997, and assumed the responsibility of Research Planning and Control in 1999. In 2006, he obtained an Executive MBA from the London Business School and Columbia University.

After holding various operational positions in R&D, in 2009 he became the Director of the R&D Portfolio Management function. In 2008, he co-founded Holostem Terapie Avanzate srl with Graziella Pellegrini and Michele De Luca, a spin-off of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and the Chiesi Group active in the field of advanced therapies. With Holostem, Chiesi registered Holoclar®, the first European pharmaceutical product based on stem cells.

Until 2019, he was President of the Conservatorio di Musica “Arrigo Boito” in Parma. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Confindustria Emilia-Romagna Ricerche and of the cultural association Footprint, as well as a member of the Council of the Prometeo Arts Foundation.

11:40

Monica Binaschi

Global Director, Preclinical and Translational Sciences, Menarini Ricerche

Monica Binaschi holds a Master degree in Biological Sciences (University of Milan, Italy, 1988) and a PhD in Experimental Medicine (University Sapienza, Rome, Italy).

Her field of expertise is Oncology. She was trained at National Cancer Institute of Milan, Italy in the field of molecular pharmacology and in particular she have studied the mechanism of action of topoisomerase I and II inhibitors and of the emerging resistance to these inhibitors. She also contributed the set-up of an assay to screen new molecules using, as model organism, and engineered yeast.

In 2000, she joined Menarini Ricerche participating in Drug Discovery projects to identify new chemical entities in Oncology. Since 2018, the Department she lead, Preclinical and Translational Sciences, leverages and maximizes the Insilco, in vitro, in vivo and translational data to contribute to the development strategies of the Menarini pipeline.

12:05

Paolo Stazi

 Senior Director, Strategic Alliances, GSK

Since June 2017 Paolo is managing strategic alliances maximizing collaborative advantage, adherence to the corporate strategy and agility of the business models.

10 years of experience in R&D and business development with roles of increasing responsibility on alliance management and strategic projects.

Legal background with focus on innovation and intellectual property management. L.LM degree at the Centre d’études internationales de la propriété intellectuelle in Strasbourg and Master Business Administration at the Imperial College, London

12:30

Roberto Lacorte

CEO, PharmaNutra

Roberto Lacorte graduated in Economics and Commerce in 1997 from the University of Pisa.

Between January 1995 and April 1996, he carried out military service as Officer at the Naval Academy of Livorno.

Between February 1996 and April 1997, he was employed at the Giovanni Bucarelli commercial firm in Pisa, specialising in accounting and administrative matters. Subsequently, Roberto Lacorte was hired by the Claudio Bucchianica Accountancy Firm in Pisa, with involvement in bankruptcies and corporate and administrative operations (1997-2000). Since 2002, he has been a partner at the Bucarelli Lacorte Cognetti Accountancy Firm. Roberto Lacorte was a director at Lira s.a.s. between 1998 and 2001.

He holds in addition the following positions: Director at Nutristar S.r.l. (since 2000); Director at Alesco S.r.l. (since 2001); Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Pharmanutra (since 2003); Chairman of the Board of Directors of Junia Pharma (since 2009); Statutory auditor of Pontlab S.r.l. engineering company (since 2012).

Since 2002, he has been involved in start-ups with a particular focus on the shipbuilding sector.

Since November 2005, Roberto Lacorte has taught at the FUCINA institute (training institute of the nautical sector industrial association); owner of the “Management di bordo (on-board management)” course. He is enrolled to the list of Accountants and Auditors.

12:55
Buffet

Chairperson: Marco Macchia

14:00

Matteo Mille

Marketing and Operations Lead, Microsoft

Matteo is considered a versatile and energetic executive with broad experience in multinational companies, effective advisor in promising startup and active member of private and public IT institutions. He has often been involved in design new business strategies and leading change management programs to drive growth.

As the Chief Marketing and Operations Officer for Microsoft Italy, Matteo oversees the whole Italian organization defining sales strategy and owning marketing and operations investments as well as leading the national program named “Ambizione Italia” worth more than 1.5B$ investments, including the launch of the Italian Cloud Region comprised of three distinctive and innovative Data Centers.

14:25

Carlo Purassanta

Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development, ION Group

Carlo Purassanta is currently Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development, for ION Group. He is also an Investor and an Advisor, with a focus on the Tech industry, and the author of the book “A Crucial Impetus”. He has previously been the President of Microsoft France (2018-2021), and the CEO of Microsoft Italy (2013-2017); he joined Microsoft in 2011 to lead the Enterprise Service Business Unit, after 15 years of career in IBM France and EMEA in Consulting, Management and Executive roles.  

During his tenure in Italy he has been a member of the General Council of Confindustria Digitale as well as the President of the Workgroup on SMEs value chains. He has been in the Advisory Board of Confindustria’s Foreign Investors Committee with a responsibility on “Research, innovation and education”.  

He currently is a Board Member of “Only The Brave” and “Diesel” in the fashion industry, he is Board Member for “CERVED and for “CEDACRI” two Fintech companies owned by ION Group. He also is member of the Strategy Advisory Board of the “Graduate School Management”, formerly known as ‘MIP’, the Business School of Politecnico di Milano, and member of the Investment Committee of the “French Touch Fund” focused on SMEs acceleration.  

Mr. Purassanta holds an Engineering degree from Politecnico di Milano in Italy and a Master of Business Administration from Henley Business School in the UK. 

14:50

Simone Severini

Director, Quantum computing, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Professor of Physics of Information, University College London (UCL)

Based in Seattle, Simone Severini started and manages the Quantum Technologies division of Amazon Web Services (AWS). As a Professor of Physics of Information at University College London (UCL), he initiated university-industry collaborations with enterprises like Google, Lockheed Martin, and Siemens.

He helped founding some of the first Quantum Computing startups in the world, including Quantinuum (formerly Cambridge Quantum Computing) and PhaseCraft. He served as an expert for research organizations and funding agencies including the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), the National Science & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and for some of the largest venture capitals worldwide.

While at AWS, he launched Amazon Braket, the first service that integrates in the cloud prototypes of quantum processors. He contributed to found the AWS Center for Quantum Computing, in partnership with Caltech, and the AWS Center for Quantum Networking, in partnership with Harvard University. 

15:15

Graziano Balducci

CEO, Conceria Antiba SpA

Graziano Balducci is CEO of Conceria Antiba spa, tannary specialized in the production of finished goat and calf leathers for luxury brands located in Ponte a Egola (PI). He’s also president of Italian Leather Research Institute (SSIP) and vice-president of UNIC (Italian Tanning Industry Association).

15:40

Giorgio Mattei

Vice President NEXT Yacht Group

Giorgio Mattei holds a Bachelor’s (2008) and Master’s (2010) degree in Biomedical Engineering and a PhD in Chemical and Materials Engineering (2014) from the University of Pisa. Being passionate of soft tissue engineering and pathophysiological 3D organ models in-vitro (particularly liver, heart and brain), he started his career as a Post-Doc Researcher at the Research Centre “E. Piaggio” of the University of Pisa (2014-2016). Later, he moved to the Netherlands as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Experienced Researcher (2016-2018) and then back to the University of Pisa as an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering (2018-2019). He co-authored 30+ scientific papers published in high-impact peer-reviewed academic journals (for many of which he also served as a reviewer) and he is co-inventor of 2 patents (granted).

Tantalized by research and innovation and being interested in entrepreneurship and technology transfer since ever, he co-founded his first company in 2014 (IVTech s.r.l., designing and commercialising innovative tools for advanced in-vitro cell cultures). Leveraging the multi- and cross-disciplinary experience gained in his academic career, in August 2019 he decided to leave academia to pursue his interests in industry by joining a big international Group where he coordinates R&D activities and serves as executive board member in a number of Italian companies, ranging from fast-growing startups working inartificial intelligence (AI Technologies s.r.l.), micro-electronics (AROX Hardware s.r.l.) and natural colourants (Pigmento s.r.l.) to medium-sized enterprise in the yachting sector (NEXT Yacht Group s.r.l., where he is Vice President and responsible for technology and innovation).

16:05
Coffee Break

16:45 to 17:45
Panel Discussion

Monica
Binaschi

Global Director, Preclinical and Translational Sciences, Menarini Ricerche

Chiara
Galletti

Rector’s Delegate for Industrial Relations, University of Pisa

Fabio Roberto
Mora

SVP Open Innovation, Ferrero

Carlo
Purassanta

Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development, ION Group

Jacopo
Orsini

Journalist,
Il Messaggero

Moderator
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