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Master of Ceremonies: Enrico Cremonese, IVADO LABS

OPENING REMARKS 

• Carmine D’Argenio – Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada
• Sylvie Barcelo – Deputy Minister, Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie
• Andrea Ferrari – Italian Ambassador in Canada (video)
• Edith St-Hilaire – Embassy of Canada in Italy
• Stefano Bonaccini – President, Emilia-Romagna Region
• Fabrizio Ricca – Regional Minister for Internationalization, Piemonte Region
• Alan Christian Rizzi – Undersecretary with responsibility for Relations with International Delegations, Lombardy Region
• Mario Rigante – BMO Bank of Montreal – Official presenter of Forum 

Visions, policies, and perspectives 

Moderator: Cédric Bisson, Teralys Capital
› Canadian and European vision, policies and perspectives of AI in the service of the circular economy and public health, in the context of a pandemic

• Raimondo Orsini – Sustainable Development Foundation
• Rita Cucchiara – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia / AIRI
• Mario Raviglione – University of Milan
• Tim Evans – Covid-19 Immunity Task Force
• Paul Shorthouse – Circular Economy Leadership Canada

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Moderator: Aymeric Dussart, Aéroport de Montréal

Part 1 – Autonomous and connected vehicles, open data 

• Alessia Zarzani – Ville de Montréal
• Marko Bertogna – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
• Andrea Sanguedolce – FEV Italia
• Davide Sangiorgi – Fasternet
• Mauro Nesti – Qmap
• François Rainville – EFFENCO

Part 2 – Use of AI for simulation and digital twins

• Ruben Marco Ganzaroli – Società Autostrade per l’Italia
• Gianpiero Mastinu – Politecnico di Milano
• Maxime Desjardins-Goulet – BRP

Rapporteur: Désirée Tremblay – INNOVÉE/DANA TM4

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Moderator: Elizabeth Shirt, GLOBE Series

› Technological innovations and new experiments serving the energy, economic and ecological transition

Part 1: Context, criticality of innovation and cooperation platforms

• Ilaria Re – Lombardy Green Chemistry Association
• Mathieu Johnson – Hydro-Québec
• Massimo Celino – ENEA, Digitalization for Energy
• Mark Kozdras – Natural Resources Canada, Canmet MATERIALS laboratory

Part 2 : The state of the art and the gap to be filled 

• Laura Cutaia – ENEA Circular Economy
• Marco De Paolis – SNAM 
• Allegra De Filippo – DISI Institute, University of Bologna
• Giacomo Copani – Associazione Fabbrica Intelligente Lombardy (AFIL)
• Florent Bouguin – Groupe Optel
• Marie Lapointe – Hydrogène Québec
• Pierre Taillefer – BDO

Part 3 : Case Studies

• Annibale Guariglia – Geocart
• Davide Montanari – Ammagamma
• Francesco Gallo – Itelyum Regeneration
• Marco Bernardi – Cap Holding Spa
• Sam Ramadori – BrainBox AI

Rapporteur: Pietro Leo – IBM Italia

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Moderator: Dr. Yves Joanette, Digital Health Consortium

› The responsible development of AI in digital health

• Mona Magalhaes – St-Mary’s Research Center
• Franco Molteni – Ospedale Valduce/Villa Beretta
• Lorenzo Chiari – University of Bologna
• Jacopo Secco – Omnidermal
• Manuel Roveri – Politecnico di Milano
• Stefano Cattorini – BI-REX
• Sara Ahmed PH.D., PT – CRIR, RI MUHC, McGill Faculty of Medicine 
• Stéphane Guay – Centre Axel
• Nicolas Beaudet – Omnimed
• Jonathan Abitbol – Invent_T

Rapporteur: Nathalie Ouimet – Montréal InVivo

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Master of Ceremonies: Enrico Cremonese, IVADO LABS

Wrap up; lessons learned and cooperation pathways

Key messages from the Thematic Workshops

• Désirée Tremblay – INNOVÉE
• Pietro Leo – IBM Italia
• Nathalie Ouimet – Montréal InVivo

Vision and future of AI; intro of keywords

• Maurizio Sobrero – Bologna Business School

Panel : Emerging themes : Ethics and protection of data (cybersecurity)

Moderator: Sara Moraca, Journalist

PANELISTS

• Edmondo Grassi – San Raffaele University / Educazione Intelligenza Artificiale Laboratory (EUIA) (Ethics in AI)
• Michele Colajanni – University of Bologna
• Sanzio Bassini – IFAB /Cineca
• Marcel Labelle – Cybereco
• Alexandre Lagarde – Montréal International
• Guido Boella – University of Turin

CLOSING REMARKS 

• Ruben Sacerdoti – Emilia-Romagna Region
• Daniel Silverman – Investissement Québec International
• Marianna Simeone – Déléguée du Québec à Rome 
• Silvia Costantini  – Consul General of Italy in Montreal
• Danielle Virone – Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada