Craft enterprises in Turin at Ai school. This is the initiative promoted by Cna, in collaboration with the Turin Chamber of Commerce, and realised with the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and ING Italia. The initiative takes its cue from ISTAT's snapshot of the penetration of Ai technologies in the productive fabric of Italia: 16.4% of Italian companies with at least ten employees have adopted artificial intelligence technologies, practically double the 8.2% of the previous year, but with over 80% not having initiated any process of change.
The 'Small Enterprises and AI' survey, carried out at the end of 2025 by CNA's Studies and Research Area on more than 2,500 small enterprises, confirms a picture that is still evolving: 35.6% have already adopted at least one AI tool, while 15.4% are considering doing so in the near future. The real critical issue, however, is another, as CNA maintains: 56.7% of the companies surveyed state that they still do not understand what could be really useful for their business, and 40.3% report a lack of in-house skills.
In order to address a gap that is not technological, but cultural and educational, the Job Digital Lab experience has been set up, the free digital training programme created by Fondazione Mondo Digitale and ING Italia, and promoted by Cna. The first appointment, in collaboration with the Turin Chamber of Commerce, is for Wednesday 11 March, with a very concrete format that, starting from the daily activities of companies - administration, communication, internal management - will explore the 'before and after' with respect to the application of artificial intelligence tools. The proposal foresees a cycle of three free webinars, 18, 24 and 31 March 2026, a path starting from the foundations of generative AI to advanced prompting, up to the guided creation of a first AI agent.
For Rosanna Ventrella Grimaldi, president of Cna Torino and head of an ICT company, the approach towards AI must be a dual one: 'only by combining human and artificial intelligence can we create powerful but governable systems for small and medium-sized enterprises and for the craft sector'.
The Turin event is part of the territorial tour of the sixth edition of Job Digital Lab, the programme launched in 2020 by Fondazione Mondo Digitale and ING Italia, which has trained over 38 thousand people in more than 200 sessions. The 2026 edition aims to train 7 thousand people and reach 200 thousand on three thematic strands: female empowerment, digital for inclusion and disability, and digital awareness and education.
