05/11/21 h 17:30 - 18:30
Produced by Business International in collaboration with Salesforce
We are at the beginning of a new space era, the circumstances of which are nevertheless different from the glorious race to the Moon that marked the 1960s. More and more, in addition to the technical-scientific forefront and the explorative drive, space is the target for private enterprises and the commercial exploitation of resources and activities. Among these, extraterrestrial tourism is an impending scenario. Roberto Battiston and Emilio Cozzi, together with Carlo Antonelli, will outline its peculiar aspects, including future projects or already in progress ones.
Journalist, space and video game culture expert
Journalist and author, he is one of the most well-known popularisers of video game culture, eSport, and space and technological innovation, topics he blends together and narrates live on radio and television, as well as with the written word in newspapers, magazines, books, and online. After making his debut as a film critic among the Cineforum ranks, he dedicated his 2005 book to the subject, Ti racconto un film [Let me tell you a film] (Raffaello Cortina Editore) co-written with Roberto Escobar. From 2007 to 2016 he was the deputy editor of 'Zero', Italy's leading free press cultural entertainment magazine. He regularly writes about his passions in Italian publications such as Il Sole 24 Ore, Wired Italia, Il Corriere della sera and La gazzetta dello sport. He is a columnist for Red Bull Games and associate editor of Game Culture, an academic book series published by Unicopli. From January 2017 to April 2019 he was a copywriter and content designer for Simmetrico, an international creative network, where he curated content for the Azerbaijan pavilion at Expo 2015 and the Kazakhstan pavilion for Astana 2017, as well as the Che Guevara Tú y Todos exhibition, held at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan from 7 December 2017 until April the following year. In 2018, he created and wrote The Italian Gamers for Red Bull, the first docuseries about competitive gaming in Italy. The same year, he became one of the two official Italian commentators, alongside Andrea Facchinetti, of the FIA Certified Gran Turismo Championship, the first digital, international car championship certified by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. Since April 2019, he has been in charge of Forbes Italy’s Space Economy section as well as hosting its televised edition on Reteconomy. ‘Best Italian Journalist’ at the Italian Esports Awards 2017, he wrote a chapter on videogames in Il ritiro sociale negli adolescenti [Social Withdrawal in Teens] (Raffaello Cortina Editore), a book for psychologists and psychotherapists. His twitter handle is @Addioegrazieper, from time to time you can catch him on Radio 24 or RMC Radio Monte Carlo and, whenever he can, he stays up late probing space in virtual reality aboard a spaceship that doesn't exist. Maybe.
Full professor of Experimental Physics at the Department of Physics of Trento University
An experimental physicist specialising in fundamental physics and elementary particles, he is one of the leading experts in cosmic rays and full professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Trento. Born in Trento, where he still lives today, Roberto has enjoyed a long, distinguished academic and scientific career since graduating with an honour’s degree in Physics from the Scuola Normale in Pisa in 1979 and a PhD from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has received extensive international recognition including Italy’s Order of Merit, France’s Legion of Honour, the Vladimir Syromyatnikov Award, the Lacchini Prize and the Space Economy award. He is the second ever Italian to be included in the International Astronautical Federation's Hall of Fame. He was president of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) from 2014 to 2018. He has coordinated major research projects and new technology developments, including the Silicon Microvertex Detector (SMD) for the L3 experiment at the LEP at CERN, the AMS experiment researching antimatter at the International Space Station in collaboration with the Nobel Prize winner S.C.C. Ting, as well as the European SR2S project for developing a shield to protect astronauts from radiation and the Italian-Chinese LIMADOU project on the CSES satellite developing innovative techniques for monitoring earthquakes from space. In 2013 he became one of the founders of the Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications (TIFPA), a new National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) centre in partnership with the University of Trento, FBK and PAT-APSS. He has held the positions of President of INFN’s Astroparticle Physics Commission and Vice-President of the International Astronautical Federation, and is currently a member of the Board of the Bruno Kessler Foundation and President of the Edoardo Amaldi Foundation. He has always been committed to communication and ran a column in the monthly magazine Le Scienze for eight years. He is currently a columnist for La Stampa, L'Adige and La Repubblica. Battiston has organised numerous international conferences on astroparticle research and new space technologies. With over 460 papers published in international journals, he speaks at conferences, festivals and conventions on physics, astronomy, space exploration, and Space Economy focusing in particular on using scientific space data as a key element for societal development. A versatile writer, among other titles he has published: La matematica del virus [Virus Mathematics] (Castelvecchi, 2020), La prima alba del cosmo [The First Dawn of the Cosmos] (Rizzoli, 2020), Fare Spazio, I miei anni all'Agenzia Spaziale Italiana [Making Space: My Years at the Italian Space Agency](La Nave di Teseo, 2019).
Editor The Passenger-Iperborea
Tomaso Biancardi was born in Milan in 1981. After a master's degree in History, he moved to London where he worked for many years for a literary scouting agency. He has been living in Turkey since 2014 and from 2018 he is the editor of The Passenger, a series of books published by Iperborea. He also translates fiction and non-fiction works.
CEO, Fiera Milano Media
A graduate in Law from the University of Genoa, Antonelli is a cultural producer in various fields. From 1993 to 2003 he was artistic director of Caterina Caselli's Sugar Music (in time to invent the hits of Bocelli and Elisa). From 2006 to 2011 he was editor-in-chief of the Italian edition of Rolling Stone magazine (previously, from 2003, he was its editorial director). From August 2011 to June 2013 he directed the Italian edition of Wired and invented the Wired Next Fest festival. In July 2013, he became editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine GQ where he launched the first edition of the GQ Freak Out festival. He also has significant experience in the world of museums, as a consultant to the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa and as curator of the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa. In 2011, with Luca Guadagnino, he founded the film company First Sun (for which he is among the producers of “I am Love” in 2010 - nominated for an Academy Award - and “Suspiria” in 2018, as well as serving as general counsel for “Call Me by My Name” in 2017 - nominated in 2018 and winner of the Academy Award for Best Non-Original Screenplay). Among his various professional activities, Antonelli has published essays and articles in Italian and international magazines (including Flash Art, Domus, Abitare, Vogue Italia, the French Purple, the German O32°C and the Dutch Fantastic Man). He has also taught Sociology of Consumption at the University of Bologna and the University of Genoa. Since 2018, he has been CEO of Fiera Milano Media SpA.
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