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The Milan edition of Tech Startups in the Pub, the relaxed networking series that has been running in London for three and a half years and now lands monthly on a terrace in Porta Romana. No panels, no pitching, no hard selling: just founders, operators, engineers and people simply curious about the tech scene, talking over a drink at the Open by Joivy coworking space. Host Volodymyr welcomes newcomers personally, so it is an unusually easy room to walk into alone. Note the start is 18:00 Italian time even though the platform displays a GMT slot, and the terrace closes around 21:00 to 21:30, so arriving early matters.

What happens when the people who make video games meet the people who write about them. The Scostumati, a developer community born on Discord during the pandemic that now brings together industry professionals and students, hosts an open debate between game developers and specialist journalists at Tempio del Futuro Perduto. After years of running their panels inside other people's events, the collective decided to build its own: live evenings designed to make the community feel at home and to have a frank conversation about how games get made and how they get covered in Italy. Free entry, and useful for anyone working in game dev, media, design or communications.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.