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with Massimiliano Pagani (Flight Software Lead Engineer, Independent) · Marco Arena (Host and Community Lead, Italian C++ Community)

The Italian C++ Community returns to Randstad Box for its September Milan meetup. Massimiliano Pagani, a flight software lead engineer, presents "Functional Programming in C++: from a Scala perspective" — mapping functional concepts onto modern C++ using Scala as the reference point, which is a sharper lens than the usual Haskell comparison. Doors and networking from 18:30, talk at 19:05, pizza at 20:45. Hosted by Marco Arena; registration is mandatory but free.

with Angelo Sala (Facilitator, Scrum Agile Milano) · Marco D'Andrea (Facilitator, Scrum Agile Milano)

A murder-mystery game built on Scrum, hosted by Business Integration Partners. Teams work through clues, suspects and plot twists to reconstruct what went wrong in a sprint, surfacing how roles, accountabilities and artefacts actually behave under pressure. Angelo Sala and Marco D’Andrea run both the in-person and online versions in the same session, so you can see how each format changes the learning. Aimed at Scrum Masters, Product Owners, developers and curious leaders; April’s edition sold out, hence the repeat.

An ADI Young Designers evening at the ADI Design Museum on the role of design in building lasting value — from products to systems to processes of change. Open to designers, product managers and anyone working where design meets business.

The Milan chapter of Agents Anonymous — an evening for engineers actually shipping LLM agents in production, hosted at software house Buildo. Short builder talks and an honest look at what breaks when agents meet real systems.

with Susumu Kitagawa (2025 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Kyoto University) · Isabella Nova (Prorettrice, Politecnico di Milano) · Luigi De Nardo (Direttore, Dipartimento di Chimica Giulio Natta, Politecnico di Milano) + 1 more

The 2026 Natta Award ceremony, with a lectio magistralis by Susumu Kitagawa, 2025 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, titled “The Chemistry of Molecular Space: From Porous Frameworks to Soft Porous Crystals”. A rare public Milan appearance by a freshly minted Nobel laureate, open to anyone working in advanced materials and deeptech.

The opening event of a new Smart City Talks series, run by Italian Tech Alliance with LifeGate Way at SmartCityLab Milano. The session looks at where mobility innovation and sustainability actually meet — the technologies, the business models and the capital behind them — with founders, investors and operators in the room rather than on a stage apart from it. Italian Tech Alliance is the national association for the innovation ecosystem, so the audience skews to people who fund and build this. Free, but places at Ripamonti are limited.

A hybrid of factory and hackathon, hosted at Talent Garden’s Calabiana campus. Scale-ups bring a real business problem; AI-first development teams spend the session building something production-oriented against it. Solutions are presented at the end and voted on by the scale-ups themselves, with the strongest teams carrying the work forward afterwards. The format is positioned explicitly against demo-only hackathons — the point is what survives contact with a paying company.

Three days of free, open events across the Politecnico's Leonardo and Bovisa campuses: open labs, demos, talks and conversations with researchers on robotics, energy, mobility and materials. One of the few Milan events where university labs genuinely open their doors.

A Politecnico working day on how to avoid AI disillusionment inside companies: cases that worked, projects that stalled, and the organisational factors that decide which is which. Challenge format with direct exchange between companies and researchers.

with Adriano Barsali (Team Leader & Senior Frontend Developer, Coding Bunker)

What can pirates teach us about teamwork in software development? Starting from their own code of conduct, Adriano Barsali takes on psychological safety, the junior–senior relationship, collaboration and above all ego inside engineering teams. Less ego, more crew.

A morning on what is actually working in e-commerce right now, hosted at the WAO Romolo C30 campus on Viale Cassala. The second edition runs 09:00 to 13:30 and is aimed at operators — digital marketers, growth leads, founders running online retail — rather than at a keynote audience. Free to attend with registration through Luma. Useful if you own acquisition, conversion or marketplace strategy for a product that sells online.

An Italian Tech Alliance and PedersoliGattai session on Italy's space economy: how a space startup gets funded, what the regulatory constraints are, and where private capital is actually going. For deeptech founders, investors and advisors.

with Roberto Montalti (Speaker, Mindstone Milan) · Giuseppe Pecere (Speaker, Mindstone Milan)

Mindstone’s Milan chapter returns to Talent Garden Isola with three live demos from startups in the Talent Garden ecosystem, each showing AI applied to a real decision-making or collaboration process rather than to a slide. Roberto Montalti and Giuseppe Pecere speak, followed by a roundtable with audience questions and a networking aperitivo. Doors from 18:00 with a campus tour for anyone arriving early; the programme proper starts at 18:30. Free.

The first edition of an executive summit on AI adoption, run by Designtech with GELLIFY at the CoFactory hub. The framing is deliberately Made-in-Italy: keynotes, executive conversations and concrete cases on AI as a competitive lever in design, manufacturing, fashion and product development, rather than another general AI overview. Aimed at CEOs, C-levels and innovation leads. Free, but seats are limited and entry is confirmed by the organiser roughly a week beforehand.

The first Map Makers convention, open to all: a full day on digital cartography, geospatial data and open tooling for working with maps. For developers, data analysts, urbanists and anyone building with location data.

The Elixir Language Milano community meets for a technical session on one of the trickiest parts of running Elixir in production: talking to native code without taking down the virtual machine. The talk works through the interop options available on the BEAM — Ports and C Nodes in particular — and why they are the safer choice when a NIF would put the whole runtime at risk. Expect concrete patterns for isolating native work, handling failure at the boundary, and reasoning about supervision when part of your system lives outside the VM. Aimed at Elixir and Erlang developers with production systems to protect. Free to attend.

A properly grounded walk through how machine learning got here, hosted by Mia Platform at MAC7 in Via Imbonati. The session traces the line from Rosenblatt’s perceptron through the AI winters to the ImageNet moment that made deep learning inevitable — context that makes current model debates far easier to read. Run by the Master The Vibe Milan community, free, with networking afterwards. Good for engineers and product people who want the history behind the hype.

A POLIMI Graduate School of Management Entrepreneurship Club evening on the AI value chain beyond the application layer: semiconductors, energy, data centres and infrastructure. Where the margin actually sits and where the bottlenecks are.

SheTech's Tech Drinks lands at Amazon's Milan offices: an informal evening for people working in tech to meet AWS engineers and the SheTech community, with short talks and open networking. Free, and one of the few chances to get inside the AWS Milan office.

with Giorgio Ciron (Director, Life Science, Healthcare & Startup / Director, Assolombarda / InnovUp) · Andrea Notari (Corporate Venture Capital & Open Innovation Manager, Credem) · Giusy Stanziola (UniCredit Start Lab, UniCredit) + 4 more

The most useful morning of the month if you are raising or managing debt. Assolombarda and InnovUp put Italy’s main banking groups in one room to say plainly what they offer innovative companies — dedicated credit instruments, corporate venture arms and open-innovation programmes. Three panels follow the company lifecycle: banking relationships when the metrics are still thin, credit and public-guarantee tools through growth, and bank capital for mature scale-ups. Speakers come from Credem, UniCredit Start Lab, Sparkasse, Iccrea, Banco BPM, Banca Sella and Le Village. Closes with a networking aperitivo that pairs founders directly with bank contacts. Free; you must be registered on the Assolombarda site to sign up.

A full day and evening dedicated to TouchDesigner, the node-based platform behind much of the world's live visuals and interactive installation work. Talks, live patching and audiovisual performances, aimed at creative technologists, VJs, motion designers and anyone building real-time interactive work.

An open afternoon at the WeMake makerspace: free access to the fablab, demos of 3D printing, laser cutting and electronics, and a chance to meet Milan's maker community. Suited both to people building hardware and to people who just want to see how it works.

with Matteo Laffi (Centro Studi, Assolombarda) · Emilio Colombo (Professore, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) · Giulia Carsaniga (AI Office, Commissione Europea) + 2 more

Launch of the research “The AI skills challenge”, with data on which skills Lombardy companies are actually hiring for and how roles are being reorganised. Panel with the European Commission, Regione Lombardia and Anitec-Assinform.

The fourth edition of Italy’s reference conference on how addressable TV, connected TV, streaming and data are rewriting the media mix, run by Engage with UPA at the Teatro Lirico. A full day of case studies on measurement, addressability and data-driven creative, aimed at marketers, brands, agencies, publishers and platforms. Free to attend, doors 08:30. Adtech rather than startup, but it is where the money and the measurement arguments in Italian digital media get settled.

A half-day conference at MIND, the innovation district built on the ex-Expo site, bringing institutions, business, academia and technology leaders onto the same agenda. Sessions cover the AI–cybersecurity–IoT overlap for industry and utilities, real AI plus IoT deployments in energy and water, and what AI adoption actually looks like inside Italian manufacturing SMEs. Note on pricing: tickets are paid, but the organiser grants free access by invitation to corporate users, public bodies and non-profits — email them to request it. Refunds up to two days before.

The ninth edition of Milano Digital Week runs across the city from 30 September to 4 October under the theme 'La città generativa' — the generative city. The festival programmes workshops, talks and plenaries on how digital technology and AI create new urban connections, services and forms of participation, spread across roughly 95 locations with a central hub at Smart City Lab. Six thematic tracks cover digital for business, education and work, digital citizenship, technologies, smart city, and culture, art and sport, with Knowledge Hubs hosted by Cefriel, Le Village by CA, MEET Digital Culture Centre, STEP FuturAbility District and others. Announced anchor sessions address the generative city in the age of AI (1 October) and the augmented city of intelligent services and digital infrastructure (2 October). Most sessions are free.

with Ludovico Besana (Speaker, Oracolo del Test)

An Oracolo del Test evening on AI agents applied to testing: how to architect a black-box agentic testing system that goes beyond assisted autocomplete. A technical talk for QA engineers and developers.

An afternoon of matchmaking between startups, corporates and investors run by Innovation Match: short pitches, themed tables and scheduled one-to-one meetings. Built for founders looking for an industrial partner or a first enterprise customer.

An information and networking session for northern Milan companies on artificial intelligence inside the enterprise. Assolombarda introduces forgIA, its project to unlock industrial data and enable high-impact AI applications within a shared, secure and interoperable digital ecosystem. Alstom then presents the concrete AI applications it has adopted in-house, followed by a guided visit of the Sesto San Giovanni production area and Control Room to see the processes, technologies and solutions working in a real industrial setting. Speakers include Gaia Mazzon of Alstom Italia, Giuseppe Bianchi of Zona Nord Milano and Viviana Palmieri of Assolombarda. A networking aperitivo follows at 19:00. Free with registration.

Italy's main gathering on corporate sustainability and social innovation — three days at Bocconi with more than a hundred sessions across plenaries, workshops and working groups. Free and open to anyone working on ESG, impact, partnerships and reporting.

A two-day summit for Italian senior management on digital transformation, AI in the enterprise and growth strategy, with panels and closed-door roundtables. Free access for qualifying C-level profiles and InnovUp members.