Speakers

Riccardo Sabatini is a world–renowned scientist and entrepreneur specialized in numerical modeling of complex system, ranging from material science, financial markets, computational genomics and drug design.

Active supporter of high impact projects, he’s co-founder of the Refugees Action HUB center at MIT, educational effort of MIT targeting displaced population around the world; member of the advisory board at ENI Next, deep-tech venture fund based in Boston; expert member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, OECD multistakeholder initiative to guide the responsible development and use of AI; co founder and board directory of of LioFactory, alternative investment platform with the goal to scale breakthrough companies in deep-tech and fintech.

In the past he's been chairman of the I7/G7 for artificial intelligence; founding member of Aiida and Quantum ESPRESSO, the largest open source suite for quantum modeling of materials; board member of the Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei; lead research scientist for Human Longevity, Silicon Valley unicorn working at the intersection of genomics and artificial intelligence.

Speaker at international events and conferences, including TED and WEF. Author in top ranking scientific journals, consultant for Fortune500 companies, inventor of several patents in biotech and IT, angel investor and board member for some groundbreaking startups in the field of artificial intelligence.

Today he’s working on breakthrough approaches to programmable biology with a stellar team of like-minded scientist at Orionis Biosciences.

Dr. Dario Villani is Co-Founder and CEO of Qognitive, Inc. and is CEO and Co-Founder of Duality Group. Dario has managed multi-billion dollar portfolios within credit, interest rates, and commodities. Previously, he served as Global Head of Portfolio Strategy and Risk at Tudor Investment Corporation. He shared the 2016 Risk.net Buy-Side Quant of the Year Award, and has authored research papers in finance, theoretical physics, statistics and portfolio management. Dario holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Salerno University and a Masters in Finance from Princeton University where he also taught a popular course in trading and risk management. Dario is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Mathematics at King's College London, an Advisory Board Member of FutureSum AI, Inc. and serves on the Board of Trustees of SLMath (formerly MSRI).

Nicola Marzari holds the chair of Theory and Simulation of Materials at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), where he is also the director of the National Centre on Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (NCCR MARVEL) of the Swiss National Science Foundation. He heads the Laboratory for Materials Simulations at the Paul Scherrer Institut (Switzerland) and holds an Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen (Germany).

Previous tenured appointments include the Toyota Chair for Materials Processing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the first Statutory Chair of Materials Modelling at the University of Oxford (UK), where he was also the director of the Materials Modelling Laboratory. He is a past Chairperson of the Psi-k Charity.

His research is dedicated to the development and application of quantum-mechanical simulations to understand, predict, and design the properties and performance of novel materials and devices. More than 30 members of his group have moved to faculty positions worldwide, including MIT, Harvard, Imperial College, EPFL, and Seoul National; 5 have been awarded the US NSF CAREER Award. The open-access software and data infrastructure developed by the group sustains more than 4,000 scientific publications per year.

Roberto Siagri, a Physics graduate, is an entrepreneur in the digital and quantum technology sectors with extensive experience in ICT. Throughout his professional career, he has managed strategic planning, marketing activities, and sales teams, in addition to serving as CEO. He has always paid particular attention to internationalization and the development of new digital-enabled business models. In 1992, he co-founded Eurotech, where he served as CEO until 2021. In 2022, he co-founded Rotonium, a company dedicated to the development of photonic quantum computers. Currently, besides his work with Rotonium, Roberto is involved as both an entrepreneur and investor in other tech initiatives exploring industrial applications of Augmented Reality, Digital Twins, and Numerical Simulation for the development of New Materials.