Tech events in milan

with Rania Khalaf (Chief AI Officer, WSO2)

WSO2's Italian customer and partner day, run by Profesia at Lynx Group in central Milan. The agenda covers open ecosystems, AI governance, APIs, digital identity, observability and the Model Context Protocol. Dr. Rania Khalaf, WSO2's Chief AI Officer, keynotes. The day is pitched at CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects and innovation leads rather than at developers. Welcome coffee from 09:30, first talk at 10:00. Free to attend. Why go: it is a vendor day and reads like one, but the MCP and digital-identity material is substantive and there is not much else in Milan covering agent-era integration at an architecture level. Best for enterprise architects and integration leads already in or near the WSO2 stack; skip it if you want hands-on engineering content.

An evening in Flatmates' Super Stanza live series at Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, asking whether a niche audience can be scaled without losing the thing that made it a niche in the first place. The question lands on anyone running a community-led product, a creator business or a brand that grew from a tight audience: what breaks when you widen the funnel, and which parts of the original appeal are load-bearing. Discussion in Italian from 18:30 at Viale Pasubio 5, followed by drinks. Free entry. Why go: it is the commercial trade-off most community-built products hit around their second year, discussed in public rather than in a board meeting. Best for founders and growth people with an audience they are afraid of diluting.

Tot., the Italian business-banking service for small companies and freelancers, closes its Community Day with a panel on setting up and running a company in Europe. The thread is EU Inc, the campaign for a single pan-European company form, and what it would change for founders who currently incorporate country by country. Accreditation 19:00, welcome from Tot.'s CEO 19:20, an introduction to EU Inc at 19:30, the panel at 19:40, then aperitivo. Held at Talent Garden Calabiana. Places are limited and registration goes through host approval rather than straight confirmation. Why go: EU Inc is one of the few policy arguments that changes a founder's actual paperwork, and this is a room of people dealing with it rather than commenting on it. Best for early-stage founders and anyone weighing where to incorporate.

The Milan chapter of the global GitHub Copilot Dev Days, at Microsoft House on Viale Pasubio. It is run jointly by AI Italy, Azure Meetup Milano and UGIdotNET, three communities in the Improove network that also put on AI Conf, Cloud Day and Web Day. An afternoon of talks on getting real work out of Copilot and agentic coding tools, plus networking, a certificate of attendance and access to the session recordings afterwards. Check-in from 14:00, talks from 14:30. Free. The full agenda sits on the community site. Why go: three developer communities programming one afternoon together usually beats a single vendor track, and the recordings make it low-risk if you can only catch part of it. Best for developers already using Copilot daily who want other people's working patterns.

A weekend hackathon run by lablab.ai at SmartCityLab Milano. Teams of up to six build end-to-end AI applications, agents or developer tools on cloud-accessible AMD GPUs and the ROCm software stack, with GPUs and cloud credits provided. Doors at 09:00 on Saturday, welcome remarks at 10:00, mentors on hand across both days, submissions close at 16:00 on Sunday and live pitching starts at 17:00. There is a $5,000 prize pool, no previous hackathon experience is needed, and the venue stays open overnight for teams that want to keep building. Bring a laptop; solo entrants are matched into teams on the day. Free, registration through Luma. Why go: free weekend access to AMD GPU hardware and ROCm with mentors beside you is rare anywhere, let alone in Milan. Best for AI engineers and students who want to ship something real in 48 hours.

For Hacktoberfest, Coding Bunker drops its usual format: no talks and no slides, just a full day of building with open source technologies, open source AI and open-weight models. The point is contribution rather than consumption — a day set aside to actually open the pull request, at Milano LUISS Hub on Via Massimo D'Azeglio from 09:00. Free, sign-up through the Coding Bunker Meetup group. Bring a laptop and, if you have one, a project you have been meaning to contribute to. Why go: Hacktoberfest is the one month of the year when maintainers actively want new contributors, and doing it in a room with other people is how it stops being a tab you never open. Best for developers who have never contributed to open source and want company for the first attempt.

The twelfth Milan Nix unconference: a full day of people who build with Nix and NixOS working through problems together instead of sitting through a programme. There is no fixed agenda, sessions are proposed and picked on the day, and the organisers explicitly welcome every experience level, so beginners and people running Nix in production end up in the same room. Hosted in rev.ng Labs' office on Via Carlo Farini, about ten minutes' walk from Garibaldi station. Coffee before the 09:30 start, lunch shared, running to 17:30. Seats are limited. Held in English. Why go: Nix has a steep learning curve and almost no local in-person help, so a day of hands-on sessions with practitioners beats any conference talk on it. Best for build and platform engineers, and anyone who has bounced off Nix alone.

An evening on what artificial intelligence is already changing inside Italian banks and insurers: how a risk gets assessed, how a customer gets handled, how fraud gets caught, how decisions get made. RotaFinance frames it around two questions: what actually happens behind the scenes today, and what to expect over the next few years as workers, savers and business owners. At the Triennale di Milano, 19:00 to 21:30. Registration is open. No detailed programme or speaker list has been published yet. Why go: Milan is the centre of Italian fintech and this is a plain-language session on how AI is entering bank and insurer processes, not a technical deep dive. Best for people working in financial services who want the overall picture.

with Kinsey Fabrizio (CEO & President, Consumer Technology Association) · Gary Shapiro (Executive Chair, Consumer Technology Association) · Brian Comiskey (Staff Vice President, Innovation and Trends, Consumer Technology Association) + 3 more

The Consumer Technology Association brings its Road to CES stop to Allianz MiCo's South Wing as a European preview of CES 2027. European startups exhibit across aerospace, AI, agritech, digital health and luxury tech, there is a match-and-mentor programme, and a pitch competition whose winner gets a stand in Eureka Park at CES 2027 in Las Vegas. Check-in from 08:00, programming from 09:30: opening keynote from CTA's Kinsey Fabrizio and Gary Shapiro, a CES tech-trends briefing from Brian Comiskey, a fireside with Milan's mayor Giuseppe Sala, a panel on funding European innovation, and a keynote with AMD's Keith Strier. Produced with the Italian Trade Agency. Registration is open. Why go: this is the shortest route an Italian startup has to a CES stage, and the CTA and investor access in the room is the whole point. Best for hardware and deeptech founders, and investors covering Europe.

with Andrea Nadelle (Ethical Hacker & Lead Pentester, ex HackerOne, Independent) · Francesca Ferretti (CIO Data & Analytics, ING) · Giovanni Bruner (Head of Fraud Intelligence COE, NEXI) + 3 more

Milano Cybersecurity Meetup's edition with Broadcom on what AI does to both sides of security: lowering the barrier to sophisticated attacks, speeding up vulnerability discovery and exploitation, reshaping financial fraud, and opening new exposure wherever an organisation hands AI access to sensitive data and systems, against defenders using the same tools to find problems and respond faster. Four perspectives, named speakers: Andrea Nadelle (ethical hacker and lead pentester, ex HackerOne), Francesca Ferretti (CIO Data & Analytics, ING), Giovanni Bruner (Head of Fraud Intelligence COE, NEXI) and three Broadcom security architects. The University of Milan's K!nd4SUS CTF team introduces the sessions. 17:00 to 20:30 at Copernico Centrale. Registration is approval-gated and 111 people are already going. Why go: a bank CIO, a fraud lead and a pentester on one stage is a rare combination, and these are people defending live Italian production systems. Best for security engineers and fraud and risk teams.

The Milan chapter of Agents Anonymous, run by Buildo: an open-floor evening on LLMs, agents and AI tooling. Topics are proposed on the night, and from this edition in advance too, then voted on, and the discussion starts from there. No expert panel, no keynote, no recording or livestream. It keeps the lightning-talk spirit of five-to-fifteen-minute contributions, but nobody arrives with a script. The invitation is explicit: what worked, what did not, the unexpected wins and the failures people have not told anyone about. Aperitivo from 18:30, discussions from 19:00, at Buildo's office on Via Malaga. Food and drink provided, registration open. Why go: most AI events in Milan are someone presenting a finished story. This is the opposite, practitioners comparing notes on what is actually breaking. Best for engineers and tech leads shipping agents.

with Giovanni Lodovici (Speaker, WordPress Meetup Milano) · Claudio Ariatti (Speaker, WordPress Meetup Milano)

WordPress Meetup Milano's October session, in its new home at the Politecnico. Giovanni Lodovici walks through building and localising a WordPress theme for a university department site under the university's communication guidelines, and how he handled migrating content from a legacy portal, including structural changes to the information architecture. Claudio Ariatti introduces the talk and covers WordPress hosting inside a large public institution. Schedule: 19:00 welcome and networking, 19:20 talk of around fifty minutes, 20:10 questions, 20:30 close with optional networking. Hybrid: the room is in Building 41 on Via Bassini, and it is also streamed on the WordPress Community Italia YouTube channel. The organisers ask people to confirm only if they are sure they will come. Why go: a concrete WordPress migration inside a large, constrained institution, told by the person who did it. Best for people running institutional sites or content migrations.

A community evening for developers working with Claude Code, organised locally by the Claude Community and hosted by the Doctolib AI community in central Milan. Hands-on demonstrations, working patterns people have actually shipped with, and the kind of unfiltered comparison of agentic coding tools that vendor events do not produce. 18:00 at Via Vittor Pisani 19; the Luma listing publishes a street address only, so there is no venue name to give. Free, but registration needs host approval and the event is currently on a waitlist. Why go: agentic coding tools are changing fast enough that the useful knowledge is still undocumented and passed between practitioners. Best for developers already running Claude Code daily who want to compare setups rather than be sold one.

The monthly AI Salon gathering in Milan, held in Italian, for people working with artificial intelligence. Informal networking with beer and snacks from 18:30, a talk by Yuri Mariotti on the month's AI news at 19:00, a surprise networking activity at 19:30 and open conversation from 20:00. After 21:00 anyone who wants to carries on at an optional group dinner. At Milano Luiss Hub for makers and students, Via Massimo D'Azeglio 3. Free. Why go: the format is deliberately built for mixing rather than for sitting through a programme, and the room reliably contains founders, researchers, product managers and developers from the same scene. Best if you want to meet people in Milan AI rather than learn something specific.

with Roberto Andreoni (Senior Backend Engineer & DevOps, Google Developer Group Milano)

Google Developer Group Milano takes on authentication in the Google ecosystem, starting from the identity basics — OIDC, JWT, JWKS — and ending on something that has no settled practice yet: identity and permissions for autonomous AI agents. In between: front-end security with PKCE and the Backend-for-Frontend pattern as an alternative to tokens in LocalStorage, how FedCM changes federated login as third-party cookies disappear, enterprise orchestration with Google Cloud Identity Platform (blocking functions and CEL for access control), and Workload Identity Federation in place of static credentials. Speaker: Roberto Andreoni, Senior Backend Engineer & DevOps. 18:30 to 20:00 at Kalpa Srl, Via Giosuè Carducci 39 in Sesto San Giovanni, inside Milan's metropolitan area on the M1 line. Aperitivo afterwards. Over fifty people registered. Why go: one of the few sessions that connects classic federated identity to agent permissions, which is the problem everyone is about to have. Best for backend engineers and anyone working on IAM.

with Lorenzo Vannucchi (Solution Architect, Nexi Group)

JUG Milano's 174th meeting is on MLS (RFC 9420), the standard for group end-to-end encryption. The talk starts from why traditional E2E struggles with large groups, works through how MLS handles shared state and its cryptographic guarantees, and shows with practical examples how to adapt the standard to enterprise domain architectures. Speaker: Lorenzo Vannucchi, Solution Architect at Nexi Group. Held in eDreams ODIGEO's offices on Via Gustavo Fara 26: JUG news and activities from 18:45, talk from 19:00, close around 20:30. In-person attendance is free and open, but Eventbrite registration is required. Why go: MLS is a recent standard that gets little airtime in Italian, and this is someone taking it into production in payments. Best for Java developers and architects working on security and messaging.

with Barbara Mazzolai (Robotics Researcher, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) · Maria Chiara Carrozza (Bioengineer, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna) · Silvio Garattini (Pharmacologist, Istituto Mario Negri) + 1 more

The ninth edition of Focus magazine's science, technology and innovation festival, held inside Milan's national science and technology museum under the theme "Intelligenze". Technology and AI form one of five thematic strands, alongside a 1,600 square metre interactive area with live demos and labs. The programme runs a main stage, a speaker corner and a creators' corner, plus guided museum tours. Speakers include robotics researcher Barbara Mazzolai (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia), bioengineer Maria Chiara Carrozza (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna), pharmacologist Silvio Garattini (Istituto Mario Negri) and science journalist Massimo Polidoro. From 09:30 at Via San Vittore 21. Focus does not publish a price, so treat the free label as unconfirmed. Why go: it is a public science festival rather than an industry event, and the research names on stage are genuinely senior. Best for anyone bringing family, and for deeptech people who want Italian research rather than product pitches.

A lunch research seminar at the POLIMI School of Management on bringing people and communities back into operations and supply chain management research. The session argues that a field built on flows, nodes and optimisation has tended to abstract away the humans inside the system, and looks at what changes methodologically and theoretically when workers and affected communities are treated as subjects rather than parameters. 12:15 at Campus Bovisa, Building BL26, Via Raffaele Lambruschini 4/B. Open to researchers and doctoral students, free to attend. Why go: it is an academic seminar and priced accordingly in effort — useful if supply chain research or labour conditions in operations is your actual work. Best for OSCM researchers and PhD students; not a practitioner session.

The Milan edition of Italy's national Linux Day, the country's largest annual event on GNU/Linux, free software and open culture, running since 2001 under the Italian Linux Society. Organised by two university communities — POuL at the Politecnico and unixMiB at Milano-Bicocca — and hosted in the Trifoglio building on Campus Leonardo, Via Bonardi 9. Talks, workshops, exhibitor stands and technical help desks span Linux, software development, machine learning, big data, self-hosting, privacy, retro gaming and computing history. From 09:00. Entry is free and open with no ticket required; the published themes are confirmed but individual talk titles and speakers are not listed publicly. Why go: a free, no-registration day where the help desks mean you can turn up with an actual broken machine or a question. Best for students, self-hosters and anyone curious about Linux without wanting to pay to find out.

with Giulio Roggero (Co-founder & CTO, Mia-Platform)

A talk by Giulio Roggero, co-founder and CTO of Mia-Platform, on controlling LLM costs in production: where the budget actually goes, which metrics matter, and how to build a FinOps discipline around models rather than discovering the bill afterwards. Run by Master The Vibe — Milan and hosted at Mia Platform Italia, Via Imbonati 18 (MAC7), from 18:15. Networking and pizza afterwards. Free, sign-up through the group's Meetup page. Why go: almost every team shipping LLM features has this problem and almost nobody talks about the numbers in public; a platform CTO doing so for an hour is worth the evening. Best for engineering leads and platform teams with models already in production.

A fortnightly evening where developers bring their own idea and actually work on it alongside other people doing the same. The format is deliberately open and not limited to test-driven development: practising TDD katas, trying vibe coding, pushing a stalled side project forward, or picking up Rust, Zig or Haskell all count. Hosted by TDD Milano at WAO Isola, Via Luigi Porro Lambertenghi 7, from 19:00 to around 21:30, with a short round of introductions, a long block of focus time and a mini-retrospective at the end. A desk and a monitor are provided. Free, sign-up through Meetup. Bring a laptop and an idea. Why go: it is the Milan tech evening you attend to write code rather than to listen to someone, and the group is small enough that you get asked what you are working on. Best for developers with a project that has been stuck for months.

with Andrey Breslav (Creator of Kotlin, CodeSpeak) · Matteo Collina (Co-Founder & CTO, Platformatic) · Mario Zechner (Creator of libGDX, Earendil) + 3 more

Italy's largest developer conference returns to Superstudio Più on Via Tortona for two days on building in the AI era, with tracks on AI, cloud architecture, software infrastructure, DevOps and security. The speaker list is unusually strong for Milan: Andrey Breslav, creator of Kotlin; Matteo Collina, co-founder and CTO of Platformatic; Mario Zechner, creator of libGDX; plus engineers from Oracle, Uber and Broadcom. Alongside the main programme there is an invite-only Tech Lead Summit. Doors from 08:00, 28 and 29 October. Tickets from 199 euros. Why go: this is the one Milan conference where the people who built the tools you use are actually in the building and reachable in the corridors. Best for working developers and tech leads; worth the ticket mainly if you will use the hallway track as much as the stage.

with Emanuele Levi (CEO, CDP Venture Capital) · Alexander Thees (Co-CEO, KfW Capital) · Marco Natoli (Head of Southern Europe, European Investment Fund) + 2 more

The fourth edition of 0100's international private capital conference, run in partnership with the City of Milan and Milano & Partners at Palazzo Castiglioni. Around 700 private equity and venture capital decision-makers from more than 50 countries, across deep tech, life sciences, climate tech, advanced manufacturing and AI. Sessions run under Chatham House Rule and mix panels, keynotes and closed-door meetings, with an invitation-only opening night on 27 October. Speakers include Emanuele Levi (CEO, CDP Venture Capital), Alexander Thees (Co-CEO, KfW Capital), Marco Natoli (Head of Southern Europe, European Investment Fund) and Geeta Kapadia (CIO, Fordham University Endowment). From 08:30. Tickets 1,400 euros; LP and family office passes are complimentary subject to verification. Why go: it is an LP-and-GP room, not a founder room, and the European Investment Fund and CDP being on stage is the reason to be there. Best for fund managers and LPs raising or allocating in Europe.

with Massimo Banzi (Co-founder, Arduino) · Stefan Sagmeister (Designer, Sagmeister Inc.) · Neil Patel (Co-founder, NP Digital) + 3 more

IAB Italia's two-day conference at Allianz MiCo on where creativity, marketing and technology meet, this year built around how AI has changed the relationship between creativity, data, identity and content strategy. The line-up mixes international voices — designer Stefan Sagmeister, Neil Patel of NP Digital, IAB's AI lead Caroline Giegerich — with Arduino co-founder Massimo Banzi and aerospace engineer Amalia Ercoli Finzi of the Politecnico. Alongside the main conference there are thematic stages, more than 40 workshops, a retail media strand and an exhibition area. From 09:30, Gate 2, Viale Eginardo. Tickets from 199 euros. Why go: Sagmeister and Banzi on the same bill is not a marketing-conference line-up, and the 40 workshops are where the practical value sits. Best for marketing and creative leads; engineers will find the main stage thin.

Assolombarda's twelfth annual cybersecurity conference, built this year around where the NIS2 directive and the Cyber Resilience Act meet: governance duties on one side, product duties on the other, and the gap companies fall into between them. The morning is institutional, with Alvise Biffi (President, Assolombarda), Andrea Quacivi (Director General, ACN) and Paolo Spagnoletti (Cyber 4.0), then talks from Deloitte, TIM, Pirelli, ABB, PwC and Acronis. From about 14:15 the day splits into four parallel labs: applying the CRA to a real product, a live Red Team versus Blue Team simulation, an AI threat-intelligence prototype for SMEs built with Google and Politecnico di Milano, and NIS2 business-continuity drills. Free with registration, 09:00 to 16:00 at the Auditorium Giorgio Squinzi, Via Pantano 9. The start time shown on this page (10:00) is wrong: the event page says 09:00-16:00, with welcome at 09:30. The labs are open only to registered attendees. Why go: Italy's cyber regulator and the security leads of Pirelli, TIM and Maire in the same room as the people who have to implement what they say, and the labs send you home with method rather than slides.

with Matteo Cunietti (Senior ML Engineer, Sibill) · Alessandro Pogliaghi (AI Product Engineer, PostHog)

An evening built entirely for people actually building with AI: five-minute live demos where presenters go deep on their stacks, context-engineering setups and agentic workflows, followed by an interactive Science Fair segment. Demos are expected to show real systems or code rather than slides, and the room is screened so that everyone in it is doing hands-on AI work. Presenters include Matteo Cunietti (Senior ML Engineer, Sibill) and Alessandro Pogliaghi (AI Product Engineer, PostHog). 18:30 to 21:30, around 45 people registered. Free but application-screened and capped at 150; the venue is shared with confirmed attendees only, so there is no public address. Why go: the no-pitch, builders-only rule is enforced here, which makes it the most technical AI room in Milan. Best for AI engineers shipping agents or RAG systems who want other people's architecture, not their roadmap.

An evening built around Viso Now, the visual general intelligence platform from Viso.ai. The CEO and Head of Solutions open with the thinking behind the platform, then attendees spend around sixty minutes in a hands-on workshop building a computer vision application using prompts alone, with no machine learning background required. Bring a laptop, a phone and any footage you want to analyse; workstations are prepared in advance for confirmed attendees. The night closes with networking, a use-case contest with prizes and drinks with the Viso.ai team. 19:00 at Tripstillery Portanuova, Piazza Alvar Aalto. Free, places limited, registration through Luma. Runs in English. Why go: you leave with a working computer vision app you built yourself, which is a more useful hour than a product demo even though the product is the point. Best for engineers and product people curious about vision models without wanting to train one.

Espressif brings its developer conference to the Milan metro area for a full day with the engineers behind the ESP32 family. DevCon26 is aimed at embedded and IoT developers working with Espressif silicon and the ESP-IDF toolchain, with technical sessions on new chip capabilities, wireless connectivity, low-power design, security features and the firmware tooling around them. Expect deep-dive talks from Espressif's own engineering teams, hands-on demonstrations of reference designs, and the chance to put architecture questions directly to the people who build the platform. Free to attend with registration.

SMAU is Italy's benchmark event for innovation and startups, returning to Allianz MiCo on 3-4 November 2026. Over two days the fair brings together 180+ startups, corporates, investors and public bodies around new products, ideas and partnerships. Visitors can follow the Startup Safari guided tours to find innovations matched to their own business needs, attend more than 50 free workshops on the latest technology trends, and join the networking sessions that connect the people actually driving change. The Premio Innovazione SMAU awards recognise the most significant digital transformation projects of the year. Entry is free with visitor registration.

The Politecnico di Milano Smart Working Observatory presents its annual research results at the Bovisa Durando campus. The programme covers the research areas that have long defined the Observatory's work — the digital workplace, workforce organisation, leadership models, the four-day week and the design of physical and virtual workspaces — through a mix of research presentations, round tables and open debate offering a multidisciplinary view of how Italian organisations are actually working. Attendees receive the Observatory's research booklet on the day. Free to attend in person or via live streaming; in-person registration closes at 17:00 the previous day.

with Andrea Billet (Director, Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale) · Francesca Bosco (Chief Strategy and Partnerships Officer, CyberPeace Institute) · Pierluigi Perri (Professor of Digital Forensics, Università degli Studi di Milano) + 2 more

The Digital Forensics Alumni association's annual open day, themed on geopolitical risk, hybrid threats and AI. A free morning of talks on cyber warfare and the role of AI in both attack and defence, delivered by practitioners from Italy's national cybersecurity agency, law enforcement, academia and private forensics firms. Held in the Aula Magna of the University of Milan's Mangiagalli campus.

The annual research conference of the Politecnico di Milano Data & Decision Intelligence Observatory, presenting the year's findings on how Italian organisations turn data into decisions. Sessions span business analytics, data governance, data literacy, data management and architecture, data science, data sharing, data strategy and data visualisation, alongside sizing and trends for the Italian market. The format mixes research presentations with round tables and debate among the practitioners and vendors shaping the field. Attendees receive the Observatory's research booklet. Free to attend in person at the Bovisa Durando campus or via live streaming.

An executive roundtable built on the argument that legacy systems hold the business knowledge, rules and processes that should feed a new generation of agentic architectures, rather than simply being replaced. The discussion covers extracting value from knowledge embedded in existing applications, reducing technical debt, resilience, and what it takes to design agent-ready platforms. The evening closes with a networking dinner at the foundation's bistro.