Economy, market and youth: Trento Festival kicks off today
Events. Five days, more than 300 meetings, over 700 speakers: five Nobel Prize winners, 18 ministers, academics, national and European institutions, managers and entrepreneurs
The wait is over, the curtain rises today on the 21st edition of the Trento Festival of Economics. An event, organised by the Il Sole 24 ORE Group together with Trentino Marketing on behalf of the Autonomous Province of Trento and with the contribution of the Municipality of Trento and the University of Trento, which in the last four years has seen more than 140,000 people gather in the city of Trento, the true protagonists of an event that has no equivalent in Italia: Over five days, more than 300 events with the initiatives "Fuori Festival", "Economie dei Territori", "Incontri con l'Autore"; more than 700 speakers: 5 Nobel Prize winners, 18 Ministers, 122 speakers from the academic world, 35 national and international economists, 95 representatives of national and European institutions, 129 managers and entrepreneurs. The events will be characterised by a single guiding criterion: that of dialectic, reasoning and argumentation, of open debate without prejudice, giving space and voice to young people, who will be protagonists directly on stage.
It starts today at 9.45 a.m. at the Teatro Sociale precisely with a panel dedicated to this topic and entitled 'Italia is not a country for young people, how can it become one': it will be animated by Alessandro Benetton, chairman of Mundys and Edizione in dialogue with Fabio Tamburini, editor of Sole 24 Ore, Radio 24 and Radiocor. This will be followed by a round table discussion with Lavinia Biagiotti Cigna, President and CEO of Biagiotti Group, Diana Bracco, President and CEO of Bracco Group, Marina Brambilla, Rector of the University of Milan and Alessandro Molinari, CEO and General Manager of Itas Mutua.
The meeting at the Palazzo della Regione - Sala di Rappresentanza starting at 10.30 a.m. will be devoted to the theme 'Governare le città' (Governing cities) and will feature the mayors of five Italian cities: Mario Conte (Treviso); Roberto Gualtieri (Rome); Franco Ianeselli (Trento); Carlo Masci (Pescara); Giuseppe Sala (Milan).
For financial topics, there is 'What changes for companies, banks and savers with the capital market reform', again at the Palazzo della Regione, starting at 12.15 p.m.: the protagonists will be Andrea Corona, financial advisor; Paolo Di Benedetto, president of the National Guarantee Fund; Federico Freni, undersecretary of state for the economy and finance; Luigi Orsi, lawyer at the Ntcm law firm; Lando Sileoni, secretary general of Fabi, the Federation of Independent Italian Banks; and Maurizio Tamagnini, CEO of FSI.
The day will continue with meetings with politicians, such as the Minister of Transport, Matteo Salvini, and Nobel Prize winners, such as Christopher Pissarides, 2010 Economics Prizewinner, to unravel between geopolitical (with the Middle East powder keg) and energy issues, until the Festival's opening ceremony, scheduled at 5 p.m. at the Teatro Sociale with speeches by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture; Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament; Maria Carmela Colaiacovo, president of the Il Sole 24 ORE Group; Flavio Deflorian, rector of the University of Trento; Maurizio Fugatti, president of the Autonomous Province of Trento; Franco Ianeselli, mayor of Trento; Maurizio Rossini, managing director of Trentino Marketing; Federico Silvestri, managing director of the Il Sole 24 ORE Group; Fabio Tamburini, editor of Il Sole 24 Ore, Radio 24 and Radiocor.
