Tech events in milan

with Timur Tukaev (Cozystack maintainer and co-founder, Aenix)

A four-hour hands-on workshop on moving a real virtual machine off a running VMware host onto Cozystack, the CNCF-hosted open virtualization platform. Each participant gets a live cluster and spends three of the four hours at a terminal rather than in slides. Hosted by Timur Tukaev, Cozystack maintainer and Ænix co-founder, in a meeting room at Flexworking Cerva, Via Cerva 20. 10:00 a 15-minute framing of the Broadcom licensing and vSphere 7 end-of-support changes, then migration, infrastructure build, a GPU demo and a limitations discussion. English. Free, seats strictly limited, and an online option exists. A Meetup RSVP alone does not reserve a cluster: registration on the organiser's own site is also required. Why go: the Broadcom price rises have made this an actual budget problem and this is a room where you leave with a migrated VM and a plan, not a vendor comparison deck. Best for VMware admins, sysadmins and platform engineers; the organiser says explicitly it is not for marketers.

Espressif's first live DevCon outside Asia, two days at the Cosmo Hotel Palace in Cinisello Balsamo, in English. Day one is the global conference, streamed worldwide: new SoCs, a security block built around getting ESP32 products CRA-ready, an AI session covering ESP Private Agents, then solutions and ecosystem tracks, closing with an open Q&A at 18:10. Day two is hands-on workshops — edge AI with ESP-TFLite-Micro and Bosch sensors on the ESP32-C5, ESP32-S31 security, edge AI and vision, and HMI with LVGL and M5Stack. The conference ticket is free; workshops are paid and priced in Hong Kong dollars, and two have already sold out. Why go: if you ship anything on ESP32, this is the one room where the silicon team, the toolchain people and the CRA compliance question are all in the same place. Best for embedded engineers and hardware product leads.

Two days at Allianz MiCo where Italian corporates come to meet startups, structured around Live Shows — 50-minute sessions in which a company walks through an innovation project it has actually run — plus over 50 free workshops, Startup Safari guided tours of the exhibition floor, and speed pitching. Themed areas cover industry, agrifood, retail and travel, healthcare, smart communities, energy, mobility, HR, ICT, sustainability, AI and emerging technologies. The partner list runs to roughly twenty-five large organisations, among them Enel, Eni, Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, FS Group, Lavazza, Terna, KPMG and Iveco Group. The Premio Innovazione SMAU is awarded during the event to organisations featured in the Live Shows. Visitor registration is open; the workshops are free. No speakers were named ahead of the event. Why go: it is the one Italian fixture where corporate innovation teams turn up to buy rather than to talk. Best for founders selling into enterprise, and for corporate innovation and procurement teams.

The Politecnico di Milano's Smart Working Observatory presents its 2026 research, titled "Beyond Smart Working: new certainties and emerging challenges" — a day of findings on how hybrid work has actually settled in Italian organisations. Mariano Corso chairs; Fiorella Crespi and Rita Zampieri present the research. Sessions cover how smart working initiatives are evolving, the smart workplace ecosystem and what offices are becoming, flexible working time, and the trends set to change how work gets done. Discussants include Poste Italiane, JLL, Sedus, THRON, grenke Italia, the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and Brendan Burchell of Cambridge. Free, 10:00 to 16:00 at Aula de Carli, Via Giovanni Durando 10. In person or streamed; in-person registration closes at 17:00 the day before, and the research booklet is a free download on the day. Why go: the Observatory's numbers are the reference data for this argument in Italy. Best for HR leads, workplace and facilities teams, and anyone writing a hybrid policy.

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

A full day on cyber warfare, hybrid threats and critical-infrastructure defence, run by the Digital Forensics Alumni association in the Aula Magna C03 of the Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Mangiagalli 25. Five panels: geopolitical risk and its cyber consequences, with Andrea Billet of ACN and Mark W. Lowe; the move from cyberwarfare to hybrid threats, with Regione Veneto and Assinter Italia; protection of critical infrastructure, with CSI Piemonte; IT supply chain and digital sovereignty, with Pierluigi Perri of the Università di Milano; and a closing session on continuous forensics with Mattia Epifani and Selene Giupponi of Women4Cyber. Opening remarks from DFA, ANRA and Assintel. Registration from 8:30, sessions 9:00 to 17:15, lunch included in the schedule. Why go: the speaker list is practitioners and regulators rather than vendors, and the supply-chain and sovereignty panel is the one most Italian security teams are currently short of answers on. Best for CISOs, forensics practitioners and public-sector security staff.

"Decision First: data and AI in the service of decisions" is the 2026 conference of the Politecnico di Milano's Data & Decision Intelligence Observatory, on data and AI converging into platforms that automate data management and change how decisions get made. Carlo Vercellis and Alessandro Piva present the research: the Italian data and AI market and where investment is going, how ready large Italian organisations are to adopt AI, how companies actually use data to decide, and what stops SMEs from doing the same. Use-case panels bring CNP Assicura, Generali, Trenitalia, Banca Sella, Databricks, Dataiku and Quantexa; A2A and Gruppo Unipol take the finance session. Free, 09:30 to 16:30 at Aula de Carli, Via Giovanni Durando 10. Hybrid, but the afternoon deep-dives are in person only. Registration closes at 17:00 the day before. Why go: this is the closest thing Italy has to a census of enterprise AI adoption, and the afternoon tracks are sector-specific. Best for data leaders, analytics teams and anyone selling into Italian enterprise.

A closed roundtable of business leaders on getting value out of what is locked in legacy systems — using it for modern applications, new digital products and agentic business models. The agenda covers cutting technology debt, building agent-ready architectures, resilience and compliance, and the cost of running AI, from FinOps through to TokenOps. The session closes with networking drinks at the foundation's bistro, run by Michelin-starred chef Andrea Aprea. Organised by The Innovation Group (TIG Events), sponsored by GFT, at the Fondazione Luigi Rovati. The agenda and speaker list had not been published at the time of listing, and the organiser publishes no price — treat the free label as unconfirmed. Registration is through the event page. Why go: legacy modernisation is where most enterprise AI programmes actually stall, and a leaders-only roundtable is a more candid setting for that than a conference stage. Best for CIOs, enterprise architects and heads of platform.

Elixir Language Milano's November meetup is a single technical talk on turning XML into Elixir structs without hand-writing a parser. The walk-through covers sassone, a library that generates a SAX parser from a simple declarative API and maps documents straight into structs such as Ecto schemas. It isn't a toy example: sassone runs in production every day against millions of Italian electronic invoices, so the session doubles as a case study in using metaprogramming to make a messy, high-volume parsing problem simple and fast. It's at Fluida, Via Carlo Imbonati 18, from 19:00, doors from 18:30. Free, RSVP on Meetup, and you give your name on arrival to get into the building. Why go: a specific, production-grade look at Elixir metaprogramming, not a beginner intro. Best for Elixir and BEAM developers who deal with XML, parsing or data pipelines.

with Carlo Cottarelli (Economist, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) · Vittorio Colao (Partner, General Atlantic) · Luca Ferrari (Co-founder and CEO, Bending Spoons) + 1 more

A two-day economics, finance and entrepreneurship event expecting more than 6,000 attendees, over 100 speakers and 50-plus panels. The format combines a main stage with a trading floor running live market analysis, a talent village where companies recruit, and a learning hub of workshops. Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari appears alongside economists Carlo Cottarelli and investors including Vittorio Colao and Giovanni Tamburi; tickets are sponsor-funded and free but limited. Why go: a free room with Cottarelli, Colao and Tamburi in it is unusual in Milan, and the trading floor and talent village make it more than a stage. Best for early-career finance and fintech people, and founders raising in Italy who want investors in person.

A networking-led investment event in the Venture Capital World Summit's international city series, connecting entrepreneurs seeking growth capital with investors. The programme mixes keynotes, fireside chats, panel discussions and elevator pitching across an afternoon and evening. The organiser does not publish a speaker list or an attendee list in advance and there is no live stream. Tickets are tiered and paid, from about USD 159 upwards; the site prices in dollars, so check the current rate before booking. Why go: the pitching slots are the reason to be there, and the format puts founders in front of investors without a gatekeeper. Worth the ticket only if you are actively raising and ready to pitch - with no speaker or attendee list published, you are buying the room rather than the programme.

A half-day executive conference on the agentic, resilient factory: what adopting agentic AI in manufacturing actually opens up, the infrastructure it requires, and the organisational consequences. The programme is built around real case studies and practitioner recommendations on digital transformation for industrial competitiveness. It is hosted inside MADE's 2,500 square metre demonstration factory on the Politecnico's Bovisa campus. The organiser does not publish a price, so treat the free label as unconfirmed. Why go: being inside MADE's demonstration factory while people argue about agentic AI on the shop floor is a different conversation from the same panel in a hotel. Best for operations and plant leads, industrial IT, and anyone with an Industry 4.0 budget to defend.

with Cristiano Chieppa (Backend and embedded developer, )

Cristiano Chieppa built a complete DCC command station on bare-metal ESP32 in Rust, generating DCC wave signals and handling both Roco's Z21 UDP protocol and the bidirectional RailCom standard. He brings the hardware and actual model locomotives to run live on the night. Chieppa is a backend and embedded developer with over thirty years in software engineering, three of them in Rust after a long stretch of C++. The session covers zero-cost abstractions on bare-metal ESP32, real-time UDP handling, and memory safety under hard hardware constraints. The repo is open at github.com/cc90202/DCC-esp32. Doors 18:30, talk and demo 18:45, Q&A 19:30, pizza and drinks from 20:00. Free, in English, intermediate level, hosted by Kalpa and co-organised with Italian Embedded. Seats are capped by room size. Why go: embedded Rust talks that end in a working physical demo are rare, and this one is specific enough to be useful. Best for embedded and systems engineers, and anyone curious what Rust looks like off the server.

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.

A conference on the ethical, political, social and cultural consequences of artificial intelligence in contemporary societies, convened by SEPAI at IULM in Milan. The Milan day on 11 November opens a programme running 11 to 13 November. Full-day format, 09:30 to 19:00, at IULM, Via Carlo Bo 1, in the Barona district. The framing is digital governance and democratic institutions rather than model engineering, and the room mixes academics, policy people and practitioners. Ticketed; the organiser has not published a price on the registration page. Why go: Milan rarely gets a serious, non-promotional room on AI and public institutions, and this one is academically convened rather than vendor-sponsored. Best for people working on AI policy, public-sector digital teams, and researchers who want the governance argument rather than the capability demo.

with Luca Foresti (Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Niulinx)

An evening with Luca Foresti, founder and CEO of Niulinx, the Politecnico di Milano spin-off building a Level 4 autonomous driving platform designed around European regulation rather than retrofitted to it. Niulinx raised 38 million euro in April 2026, began public-road testing in Cernusco sul Naviglio and Brescia in June, and signed a memorandum of understanding with the City of Milan in September. Foresti is a physicist who ran Centro Medico Santagostino from 2010 to 2024 and founded the startup studio First Principles. The conversation covers AI in vehicles, Europe's push for AI sovereignty, competing with global incumbents, shared autonomous fleets, and building deeptech at European scale. Hosted by the HBS Club of Italy at Arca Fondi SGR, framed around the HBS, Wharton and Stanford alumni communities. Two hours, registration on Eventbrite, no ticket price published. Why go: a founder putting driverless cars on Italian roads, taking questions for two hours. Best for deeptech founders, mobility and AI people, and investors looking at European hard tech.

The Politecnico di Milano's Contract Logistics "Gino Marchet" Observatory presents its annual research on AI, outsourcing models and service innovation in logistics. The evidence base is roughly 1,000 survey responses, 21 case studies of AI systems in logistics and supply chain, and over 20,000 company accounts. Marco Melacini leads the programme, with Damiano Frosi, Elena Tappia, Emilio Moretti and Andrea Fossa presenting. The morning covers market scenario and outsourcing, with a panel drawn from DHL Supply Chain, CEVA, DSV, DACHSER, Geodis and Logista, and the Gino Marchet scholarships awarded at 13:15. The afternoon turns to intralogistics automation and logistics real estate, including what data centres are doing to the property market. Free, 08:30 to 16:30 at Superstudio Maxi, Via Moncucco 35. In person only; registration closes at 17:00 the day before. Why go: it is the single best annual read on the Italian logistics market, and the operator panel is unusually senior. Best for supply chain and operations leaders, and anyone selling technology into logistics.

with Fabrizio Adani (Professore ordinario, Università degli Studi di Milano) · Maurizio Iler Marchi (Direttore Operations, Innovhub SSI) · Sergio Riva (Presidente, Lombardy Green Chemistry Association) + 4 more

A technical half-day on how a bioeconomy supply chain actually gets built: from recovered resources to finished products, by way of green chemistry, industrial biotechnology and designing packaging for recycling. Chaired by Fabrizio Adani (Universita degli Studi di Milano), opened by Maurizio Iler Marchi (Innovhub SSI) and Sergio Riva (Lombardy Green Chemistry Association). Speakers include Elisa Casaletta (R&D Manager, Evergreen Italia), Gianluca Ottolina (CNR-SCITEC), Fabrizio Beltrametti (CEO, BioC-CheM Solutions), Miriam Parmigiani (Acqua & Sole), Susanna Paleari (IRCrES) and Carmine Pagnozzi (director general, Biorepack). It closes with a panel on European policy and a networking lunch. Registration from 09:00 at Innovhub SSI, Via Giuseppe Colombo 83. No ticket price is published. Why go: ten speakers working on real plants and real products rather than scenarios. Best for industrial R&D, cleantech and packaging people who want to know which circular supply chains are actually closing in Lombardy.

with Donatella Sciuto (Rettrice, Politecnico di Milano) · Stefano Quintarelli (Presidente, Associazione Copernicani ETS) · Emil Abirascid (Direttore (moderatore), Startupbusiness)

A panel on whether the current AI moment is a bubble, convened by Associazione Copernicani at the Politecnico di Milano. The stated aim is to get past media and financial hype and give the audience a critical compass on what AI is actually doing, with the argument centred on responsibility for decisions delegated to software. Speakers are Donatella Sciuto, Rector of the Politecnico di Milano, and Stefano Quintarelli, president of Associazione Copernicani; Emil Abirascid, editor of Startupbusiness, moderates. Aula Conferenze, ground floor, Largo Volontari del Sangue 6, 18:30 to 20:00. In Italian. Free with registration. Why go: Sciuto and Quintarelli disagreeing in public about AI valuations and accountability is a better ninety minutes than any vendor keynote in the city this month. Best for founders, investors and engineers who have to make a bet on how long this lasts.

with Alessandro Gasbarroni (Senior Rust Developer, Peeriot)

Rust Language Milan runs a hands-on workshop on Myrmic, an open-source distributed runtime built in Rust and powered by WebAssembly. It runs distributed applications across mixed edge and embedded devices, and you build interactive device swarms on it during the session. Alessandro Gasbarroni, senior Rust developer at Peeriot, gives the intro and a live demo, then the room works through the exercises. Thu 12 Nov, 18:30 to 20:30 at Randstad Box, with pizza and drinks after. English, free. Bring a Linux laptop with Rust installed through rustup and finish the setup guide (Myrmic CLI, embedded build tools) before you arrive. The organisers ask for no AI coding tools during the exercises. Why go: a workshop you actually code in, on the part of Rust and Wasm most people only read about. Best for Rust, embedded and edge engineers willing to do the setup homework.

with Jan Wilczek (Speaker, Italian C++ Community)

The Italian C++ Community's November meetup in Milan, hosted at Randstad Box. One session: Jan Wilczek on "(Im)Perfect Forwarding: A Practical Guide to Value Categories in C++" - lvalues, rvalues and forwarding references treated as a practical problem rather than a standards-committee one. Doors 18:30, talk, then an aperitivo paid for by think-cell, the evening's sponsor, with the room open to 22:00. Free but registration is required. Why go: value categories are where most C++ codebases quietly leak copies, and this is a talk by someone who teaches the subject rather than a survey of new language features. Best for working C++ developers, and for anyone in Milan who wants the systems-programming room that is not about Rust for once.

with Marco Ogliengo (Chief Executive Officer, Jet HR) · Daniele Francescon (Co-founder, Serenis) · Andrea Ferrero (Co-Chief Executive Officer, Young Platform) + 2 more

Two days at Superstudio Village built as a sequence rather than a programme: Friday morning on the idea and what to build, Friday afternoon on validation and team, Saturday morning on go-to-market and growth, Saturday afternoon on fundraising. Over twenty speakers, among them Enrico Pandian, Diego Palano and Veronica Mariani on angel investing, Marco Ogliengo and Ivan Fioravanti on scaling, Erika De Santi of WeRoad on customer focus, Andrea Ferrero of Young Platform on fear of failure, and Corrado Blandini on investment clauses. The Startup Showcase final — five teams from 94 applicants — runs on stage on the Saturday in front of roughly 700 people. Run by Startup Geeks, backed by Italian Tech Alliance, InnovUp and Confindustria Lombardia. Doors 09:00 both days, stage from 10:00. Tickets ran €159 to €199 by release; food is paid at the venue. Why go: a first edition aimed squarely at people at the start, with a curriculum rather than a keynote parade. Best for first-time founders and anyone still deciding what to build.

The fifth Lombardia Digital Summit, run by The Innovation Group with Regione Lombardia at Palazzo Lombardia, is the annual stocktake of the region's digital innovation policy and where it goes next. The format is a morning plenary with a roundtable and focus sessions mixing keynotes and partner talks, an afternoon plenary of keynotes, and networking. Stakeholder organisations named around the programme include AgID, ACN, the Politecnico di Milano and Formez. Almaviva is main partner, Engineering platinum. The organiser aims at public and private sector leadership together: top managers, mayors and regional officials, IT and innovation heads, and project and business development staff. Registration runs through the event page; no price is published and no speakers had been announced at the time of listing. Why go: policy for the region gets argued out in this room, with the people who write it and the people who have to implement it both present. Best for public sector IT, govtech vendors and anyone whose roadmap depends on regional funding.

with Raffaele Boiano (Co-founder, Fifth Beat; CEO, Orvian, Fifth Beat)

Raffaele Boiano starts from an uncomfortable question: what is left for product teams once execution becomes a commodity? Writing code, producing wireframes, pulling insight out of data — AI is absorbing more of the operational work, and shipping faster is not the same as shipping the right thing. His argument is that value moves upstream, towards judgement and the bets worth validating: working out which problem is worth solving, reading weak signals, choosing what not to do. That changes what "done" means in a sprint and which skills a team actually needs. Boiano is co-founder of Fifth Beat and CEO of Orvian, and has taught User Experience Design on the Politecnico di Milano Product Service System Design master's since 2015. Free, at the BIP offices. Networking from 18:15, talk from 18:30; registration is required for building access. Why go: this is a talk for people who decide what to build, not for the people building it. Useful for product managers, agile coaches and heads of product.

The closing stage of the seventh Startup Marathon: ten finalists, selected from 121 applications by innovative startups and SMEs, pitching in the UniCredit Tower Hall. Startup Marathon runs as a national open-innovation funnel — regional Digital Days feed candidates in through incubators and science parks across Italy, among them t2i and Area Science Park — and the Final Ten is where the shortlist meets investors and corporate partners in one room in Milan. From 14:00. Registration through the organiser's site. Why go: a shortlist of ten out of 121 is a real filter, and these are companies with traction rather than slides. The pitches are also a quick read on what Italian corporates are currently willing to fund. Best for investors, corporate innovation teams and founders sizing up the competition.

with Diego Negri (Senior Technical Lead and Engineering Manager, Eidosmedia)

Coding Bunker hosts Diego Negri, senior technical lead and engineering manager at Eidosmedia, on building an AI team from zero inside an engineering org: hiring graduates from specialised AI programmes, supervising four research theses in the company, and ending up with an international team of eight. He walks through the AI development lifecycle, from research and prototyping to shipping product. Tue 17 Nov at LUISS Hub, Via Massimo d'Azeglio 3. Check-in 18:30, session 19:15, Q&A 20:15, networking 20:30. In Italian, free, RSVP on Meetup. Why go: a first-hand account of standing up an AI team inside a software company, from the person running it. Best for engineering managers and tech leads about to do the same.

The eighth Cloud Day, a vendor-neutral community conference on cloud computing run by Improove, the community network behind AI Conf and Web Day. A full day, 09:30 to 18:30, across multiple rooms at Talent Garden Calabiana: technology, platform features, real use cases and — the part most conferences skip — what it all costs. In person only. The ticket covers access to every track, networking, a certificate of attendance and the session recordings afterwards; refunds are available up to seven days before. The agenda sits on cloudday.it and no speakers were named on the registration page at the time of listing. Why go: an independent cloud conference is rare — most cloud events in Italy are run by a vendor that wants you on its platform. Best for platform engineers, architects and anyone who has to defend a cloud bill.

A five-hour team competition at the Politecnico di Milano in which each team builds an AI agent to run a company in a simulated market. Agents bid for raw materials at auction, plan production and set prices turn by turn; every team trades in the same market and all decisions resolve simultaneously, so being outbid changes what your agent should do next. Run by AIRIC with PMDS in the Sala conferenze Emilio Gatti at DEIB, Via Giuseppe Ponzio 34/5, from 14:00 to 19:00. English. Free with registration. Why go: a pricing simulation with live opponents teaches more about agent design in an afternoon than a term of reading, because your agent fails against someone else's and you can see why. Best for ML and data students, quant-minded engineers and anyone building decision agents.

An evening of talks for analytics and marketing engineers, organised by Analytics Debugger at Randstad Box the night before the group's main Milan event. The billing is blunt: geek out, debug smarter, share the tricks - tag managers, tracking that breaks in production, and the measurement problems people do not put in conference slides. 18:00 to 20:30, Via San Vigilio 5. English. Free with registration. Why go: analytics debugging is a craft passed on by people who have broken the same thing you have, and this is the Milan room where they talk shop without a vendor on stage. Best for analytics engineers, martech implementers and data people who own tracking.

The sixteenth meetup of [Gen]AI Italy, the Italian data-scientist and AI-builder community run by Improove, on model architectures that are not large language models. The session starts from decision models: models built to turn unstructured information into typed decisions carrying a probability, usable directly by the surrounding software. Wednesday 18 November, 18:30 to 20:30, in person at Talent Garden Calabiana, Via Arcivescovo Calabiana 6. In Italian. Free with registration, 50 places. Why go: almost every AI meetup in Milan is an LLM meetup, and the practical question of what to use when generation is the wrong tool rarely gets a room. Best for data scientists and ML engineers shipping models into products, and for anyone whose autoregressive prototype has stopped improving.

Seventh edition of Italy's main insurtech gathering, two days at Luiss Hub in Milan. Day one (19 Nov) covers customer-centric insurance, distribution 2030, growth and marketing, AI-native insurance and embedded ecosystems. Day two (20 Nov) covers financial protection and wealth, CEO vision, insurance operating models, health and life ecosystems and intelligent risk. Nine parallel workshops are hosted by Datapizza, expert.ai, Humans.tech, indigo.ai, Intesi Group, S2E, Salesforce, Targa Telematics and Visa. The Italian Insurtech Awards run on 19 Nov and the Insurance Innovation Awards on 20 Nov. Proceedings start at 9:00. Registration is required and seats are limited; the organiser has not published a price. Why go: it puts Italian insurers, insurtech founders and the AI vendors selling into them in one building, with workshops that go past keynotes. Best for insurtech founders and product leads who want buyers, and for insurers scouting startups.

Credit Village's flagship annual conference, now in its nineteenth edition, on how AI, data and automation are rebuilding credit management as a growth function rather than a back office. The full-day programme covers the evolution of the NPL and UTP market, the growth of private credit, new regulation, and the practical impact of data platforms, AI scoring and cybersecurity on servicers, banks and corporates. A fintech-adjacent room with a strongly operational audience — credit managers, servicers, legal and technology vendors to the sector.

with Riccardo Righi (Lead Product Manager, Solution Platforms, CRIF)

Riccardo Righi, Lead Product Manager for Solution Platforms at CRIF, on how a credit-bureau and risk-data business scales AI without re-platforming every time the models move. CRIF sits on decades of financial data across Europe, so the interesting part is the plumbing: composable services, where AI gets inserted, and what has to stay deterministic when the output is a credit decision. Hosted by Master The Vibe at Mia-Platform's Milan office. Doors and networking from 18:15, welcome at 18:30, talk at 18:45, Q&A at 19:30, then pizza and drinks from 19:45. Free, and places are capped to keep the round-table workable, so RSVP early. Why go: a straight look at AI inside regulated financial infrastructure from the person who ships it, rather than a vendor keynote. Best for platform engineers, product managers and anyone putting models near a compliance boundary.

with Paolo Antonio Rossi (Organiser, Hackers & Founders Milano)

Hackers & Founders Milano restarts with a working session rather than a talk. Bring a laptop and spend an hour building: a new idea, or the project you are already carrying, alone or with people you meet on the night. The running order is published: arrivals and setup at 18:30, introductions at 18:40, build from 18:55, show and tell at 20:05, close at 20:25. It is open to founders, developers and designers, and English speakers are welcome alongside the Italian. Capped at 25 places with a waitlist after that, at YoRoom Coworking on Via Pastrengo. Reception closes at 19:00, so late arrivals are asked to comment on the event page. Free. Why go: a small room where everyone shows what they made in the same evening, which is rarer in Milan than it sounds. Best for people with something half-built who want an hour of focus and honest reactions.

The November edition of the Mindstone AI meetup series, run by Talent Garden across its Italian campuses. The question this edition puts is who is actually using AI in production today, answered through three live demos from startups in the Talent Garden ecosystem rather than a panel. Thursday 19 November, 18:30 to 20:30, at Talent Garden Calabiana, Via Arcivescovo Calabiana 6, with time for networking with the founders afterwards. In Italian. Free with registration. A parallel Turin edition runs the same evening. Why go: three working products shown by the people who built them beats another talk about adoption, and the demo format makes the claims checkable on the spot. Best for operators and founders deciding where AI actually fits in their own processes.

with Laura Iris Ferro (Life Sciences Investor and Board Director, Founder and CEO, Gentium) · Dario Calogero (Technology Investor and Board Director, Founder and CEO, Kaleyra)

POLIMI Graduate School of Management's Entrepreneurship and Finance Innovation clubs put business angels, investment clubs and funded startups at one table to unpack how an angel investment happens: what investors look for, how a deal gets agreed, what matters in the relationship afterwards. Announced so far: Angels4Women, Laura Iris Ferro (life sciences investor, founder and CEO of Gentium), Dario Calogero (tech investor, founder and CEO of Kaleyra) and the startup Enerwu, with more speakers to come. Thu 19 Nov at the Navigli Campus, Ripa di Porta Ticinese 77: doors 18:45, talk 19:15, Q&A 20:15, networking after. Free, registration required, limited seats. Hybrid, with a Teams link for those who can't make it. In Italian. Why go: few events put founders with real exits and angel networks in one room with time for questions. Best for early-stage founders about to open a round, and anyone thinking of becoming an angel.

A weekly Saturday-morning gathering for founders, investors, tech and creative people around an easy 5K at conversational pace, run in English, followed by coffee and unstructured networking. The meeting point is on Via Pontida. Free, no performance expectations, and the point is the conversation rather than the run.