Technology, Food and Health: first meeting of the Innovation Advisory Board

Technology, Food and Health: these were the key issues on the table during the first meeting of the Innovation Advisory Board of Milan’s Expo 2015, held on 29th 2011

There is going to be a permanent table on innovation, starting from the Digital Smart City project which is at the heart of Expo 2015.
The table will, more generally, lead the national and international debate to carefully consider the opportunities and dangers of the great scientific and technological advances that are at the gates, with particular attention to nutrition, the real great theme of the 21st century.

The meeting, chaired by the CEO of Expo 2015, Giuseppe Sala, was attended by representatives of  leading telecommunications companies and industry specialists: Paolo Bertoluzzo (Vodafone Italy), Mario Calderini (Turin’s Polytechnics), Stefano Pileri (Italtel ), John Bertolone (Finmeccanica), Gianfilippo D'Agostino (Telecom Italia), Nerio Alessandri (Technogym), Peter Scott Jovane (Microsoft Italy), David Bevilacqua (Cisco), Livio Gallo (Enel Smart Grids), Bruno Giussani (TED ), Roberto Cingolani, scientific director of Genoa’s IIT, the President of the National Research Council (CNR)  Francesco Profumo, Valerio Zingarelli (CTO Expo 2015) who delivered the opening speech, and Roberto Arditti, Director of Communications for Expo 2015.

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"We chose the participants for the role they hold in their companies but also for the personal contribution that they can give to the Expo and also afterwards," said Giuseppe Sala, on the sidelines of the meeting, adding that "Man will always be at the centre of the technological projects of Expo Milan 2015 ".
All innovative measures of excellence introduced by Expo will gradually be extended to the rest of Italy.

Before, during and after the World Exhibition, technology will be at the service of health, mankind and nutrition: "Technology will be there, but it will, in fact, be invisible. In 2015 technology will be even more developed than today. We will have to be 'on time' to meet the expectations of the generations of 2015 and pay great attention to multiculturalism and multilingualism, which are at the base of the event, "said Peter Scott Jovane, Microsoft. Davide Bevilacqua from Cisco focused on the theme of technology as a tool to improve life quality: "Milan’s exhibition - he said – will be the first digital one:  we expect to experience technology in a completely different way and Milan will be a showcase of the possibility of living in a digital culture.”
The goal, particularly stressed by Neri Alessandri of Technogym, is " to turn Milan into the first Digital Smart City, as well as the first wellness city - the capital of well-being", a city where technology is also a means of saving energy through renewable energy, private and public smart grids, and sustainable energy consumption.

"Today is an important day because development and growth start to make sense and can give Italy the opportunity to play a crucial role" said D'Agostino Gianfilippo of Telecom Italia.