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with Giordano Guerrini (Co-Founder, Finera) · Danilo Zanni (Consulente finanziario indipendente, Independent)

Connessioni Pro starts from an uncomfortable premise: traditional networking does not work, because it produces too much noise and too many business cards forgotten the next day. Their answer is a structured format at Randstad Box, where after registering you fill in a three-minute profile and an algorithm pairs attendees by role, goal and what they offer or are looking for, assigning your most relevant matches before you even walk into the room. The evening opens at 18:30 with a walkthrough of the matching technology, continues with a practical talk from Giordano Guerrini, Co-Founder of Finera, on grants, export and subsidised finance, and closes with drinks and guided networking. Aimed at entrepreneurs, founders, managers and B2B professionals; places are limited.

Two days at Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber built around a question that concerns anyone working with technology: how do you safeguard time in the age of artificial intelligence. TBH Forum bills itself as the first experiential forum that puts people at the centre of sustainable action, tracing a path from individual awareness through to collective responsibility. On stage are entrepreneurs, artists, neuroscientists and thinkers gathered around a single argument: human value as a common good and a strategic investment, capable of turning uncertainty into trust. Day one, on 11 September, is titled From Lived Time to Stolen Time; day two, on 12 September, From Awakening to Transformation. Both run from 10:00 to 18:00.

Walliance's annual keynote — the Italian real-estate crowdfunding platform sets out the state of the digital property market and its fundraising outlook for 2027. An evening for investors, property developers and fintech operators, with networking afterwards.

A full afternoon built for Italy’s indie game development scene, hosted at Talent Garden Isola. The programme runs gamified icebreakers into technical talks, panels and hands-on workshops, with desks staffed by publishers and studios looking for teams. It closes with an aperitivo from 20:00, so the networking has somewhere to go. Speakers and the full agenda are due to be announced shortly — worth watching if you build, publish or invest in games.

A fortnightly hands-on coding evening run by the TDD Milano community at WAO Isola. Bring a laptop and a problem: the format is pair and mob programming on katas and real code, with test-driven development as the shared discipline rather than the lecture topic. It is deliberately low-ceremony — no slides, no sponsor pitch — and open to anyone who writes software, whatever the language. A reliable way to meet Milan developers who care about craft.

A relaxed aperitivo for women working in or moving into tech in Milan — software engineers, designers, product managers, founders, data specialists, students and career changers all welcome. No formal talks, just an evening to meet people and swap notes.

A meetup of the Startup Geeks community — the Italian online incubator that has worked with over a thousand aspiring founders. An evening for people validating an idea, people already launched and people looking for a co-founder, with themed tables and networking.

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.

A Politecnico di Milano Life Science Observatory conference on moving AI and digital out of the pilot phase and into real value creation in pharma and biomedical. Fresh research data and Italian company case studies.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.