Rome tech events this week: eight rooms, and half of them have a door policy

Eight tech events sit on our Rome page between Friday 13 and Thursday 19 November. Last week we printed five. Rome is the youngest calendar we run and it's filling the way we hoped: more rooms, two developer evenings, and a hackathon that runs through Friday night.

What stands out about the networking events in Rome this week is the door. Four of the eight need more than a click: a selection, an approval, membership or an invitation code. So that's how we've sorted them.

The week ahead, by how you get in

Apply and get picked

Agentic Hack Rome 2nd Edition — Urbe Hub - Fri 13, doors 17:00, Urbe Hub, Testaccio. Forty selected builders, free, meals included. The big one, below.

Health AI Labs Sunday, by SIIAM: Meeting #6 - Sun 15, 10:00-19:00, Department of Human Neuroscience, Sapienza, Viale dell'Università 30. Clinicians bring the problems, builders bring Replit, Codex and Antigravity, and two build sprints turn one into a prototype. Free. Approval on Luma, capped at 25, and you're expected to stay to the end. Italian.

Members first, or bring a code

Unindustria DPO, CISO and Data Governance Community - Mon 16, 14:30-17:00, Procter & Gamble's Rome offices, Viale Giorgio Ribotta 11. Hosted by member company P&G. DPIA, AI procurement and Garante provision 476. Members first; non-members approach the association. Featured.

Digital Italy Summit 2026 — Redrawing the Map: AI, sovereignty and new borders - Thu 19, Spazio Vittoria, Via Vittoria Colonna 11. Correction: our row dates it Wednesday 18 at Spazio Vittoria. The 18th is the invitation-only day at Casina Valadier; Spazio Vittoria is the 19th, free, and the form still asks for an invitation code. The Innovation Group's year-end read on sovereign cloud and sovereign AI. Featured.

Buy a ticket

ITDevCon 2026 — the Italian Delphi developer conference - Thu 19 and Fri 20, from 09:00, bit Time Group, Via di Valle Morta 10. Two tracks, 20-plus talks, Ray Konopka of Raize Software among the speakers. €449 plus VAT; students free with ID.

Just register

What does AI produce? Authorship and creativity in the age of large language models - Thu 19, coffee 09:30, programme 10:30-12:30, Sala Igea, Treccani. Luciano Floridi gives the main talk, then Sofia Bonicalzi and Gino Roncaglia of Roma Tre join the debate. Free, Eventbrite, Italian.

Italian laws since 1861, all in one repo — RomaJS November meetup - Wed 18, doors 19:00, talk 19:15, Sourcesense, Via del Poggio Laurentino 9. Marco Liberati walks a git repository of more than 200,000 commits holding every Italian state law since 1861. Free, Meetup, Italian.

Mindstone Rome November AI Meetup - Thu 19, doors 18:00, talks 18:30, Talent Garden Ostiense. Three short talks, pizza after. Capped at 100. Register on Mindstone's own platform: the Meetup RSVP isn't the ticket. Featured.

Who should go where

Selling into the state. Monday at P&G if a DPO signs off on what you sell. Thursday at Spazio Vittoria if you have the code: CIOs, public-sector digital leads, and sovereign cloud is this year's argument.

Builders. Apply for Friday. Not picked? Wednesday's RomaJS talk is the best developer evening in the city this week, and Thursday's Mindstone the busiest.

Founders. Thursday morning at Treccani if you build generative AI for publishing or media. Floridi, a small room, free. Mindstone the same evening.

Investors. Quiet again. Saturday's Agentic Hack demos from 14:30 are the nearest thing to dealflow: forty builders, one night's work, judged in public.

The big one: Agentic Hack Rome, second edition

Fri 13 November, doors and team formation 17:00, hacking from 18:00, Urbe Hub, Largo Dino Frisullo, Città dell'Altra Economia. Featured.

Twenty hours, forty selected builders, AI agents, and a civic brief: fix something for the people who live in Rome. The opening at 19:00 brings workshops, talks and a keynote, then it runs through the night. Submissions close at 14:00 on Saturday, live demos and judging start at 14:30, prizes at 17:00. Exa, ElevenLabs, Avalanche's team1 and Lovable sponsor; prizes include a year's Urbe Hub membership, and every builder gets API credits. Birra&Build, BAINSA and Roma.ai bring the local crowd.

It's the big one because Rome is short of rooms where people build, and this one doesn't close at 21:00. Apply if you ship with agents. If you hire people who do, come for Saturday's demos.

By the numbers

8 events this week, against 5 printed last week.
3 rooms joined last week's window after we published: an IGDA Rome game talk, an IxDF workshop and WUDRome.
4 of the 8 are featured.
1 correction to our own listings, above.

Across the network

Milan has eighteen this week and the Milan edition opens with Founders Cove at Superstudio Village. Mindstone runs a Milan meetup the same Thursday evening, at Talent Garden Calabiana.

The gap we want you to fill

Our Rome page thins out once November ends: one city-page event in the week of 30 November, nothing from 14 December to 10 January. If you run a meetup, a department seminar or a demo night in those weeks, send it over and it goes on the Rome listings. Early readers shape what this page covers.