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A space-economy morning at Industrie Fluviali: Rome's institutional role and governance in the sector, then the path from research to market — building a space company, and the capital, incubation and growth routes open to space startups.

The Indian Embassy on Digital Public Infrastructure: open-source, scalable digital tools provided as public goods, and how that model let a country of 1.4 billion leapfrog across sectors. Held in English.

An early-morning working breakfast at Talent Garden Ostiense on getting AI adoption past the pilot stage inside an established organisation. Small-format and free, part of Talent Garden's Rome Future Week programme.

Intelligentiae convenes ROMA.AI at Roma Tre's engineering campus — a survey of what the city's AI companies, labs and research groups are actually shipping, rather than a conference about AI in the abstract. Good for mapping who is doing what in Rome before you go looking for a partner or a hire. Free.

with Xavier Del Giudice (AI Engineer, Data-Driven.Ai)

Data-Driven.Ai engineer Xavier Del Giudice takes the room from chatbots to systems that act — searching, consulting sources, executing operations, choosing their own route to a goal. You build one from scratch in the browser using free models.

with Simone Pozzi (CEO, Deep Blue)

The afternoon half of Rome Future Week's space day: Space for Women, a Serco-led Space for Earth block, human performance in extreme environments, and an interview with Deep Blue CEO Simone Pozzi.

Turning an idea into a product used to need a structured team, real budget and months of development. ZERO Remote Farm walks through how they now use AI day to day, and how a real internal need became AskMentor.

Opening morning of The E-commerce Club: e-commerce as infrastructure rather than a website — platform architecture, data, migration paths and the growth models that sit on top of them.

Confcommercio Roma with TIM Enterprise and BIP on applied AI in retail and fashion — customer understanding, process innovation and the competitive gap it is already opening between firms.

Newsrooms already use AI to research, draft, rework and repackage — but usually outside the CMS and without shared procedure. Assodigit on tools, responsibilities and concrete cases for making it a process.

SaaS made software cheap to adopt and easy to run — and left many companies with a drift of subscriptions, licences and integrations that don't talk to each other and quietly shape their processes. Assodigit on what to rent, what to build and what to own.

SocialHRCamp brings its unconference format to Rome Business School: HR and talent people working through how AI, automation and social tools are changing hiring and internal comms. Relevant well beyond HR if you are scaling a team. Free.

A session at Dotcampus on what changes for developers when the writing of code stops being the bottleneck — review, specification and communication become the job. Practical rather than philosophical, aimed at working engineers. Free.

Maiker Hub caps this one at 25 people and builds something in the room rather than talking about it. €15, at CORE Backstage Hub in Monte Mario. Maiker also runs Rome's monthly AI aperitivo, so the crowd is a mix of builders and curious operators.

42 Roma, the free peer-to-peer programming school, opens its campus: how the method works, interactive activities on site, and staff on hand for people considering it with no coding background at all.

Most AI projects produce nothing measurable — not because the technology fails but because people chase the impressive demo instead of the boring work that eats the day. A practical evening for owners and managers, explicitly not for developers.

Sign language is one of the harder problems in AI: it combines body movement, handshape, orientation, signing space and facial expression, so models have to read multimodal input both in isolation and continuously. SignsMeta on where the research currently stands.

Radical HR's working session on getting past tool-by-tool adoption to an actual agentic org chart: how you govern a hybrid workforce of people and autonomous AI agents, worked through concrete cases.

AgID, Italy's digital agency, runs a five-hour session on digital identity, the IT wallet, public-sector cyber and where AI is being deployed across the administration. Rome is where Italian govtech is decided, and this is the agency itself setting out the roadmap. Free — relevant to any supplier or founder selling into the public sector.

A full-day Rome Future Week hub on cities, professions and real estate: how technology, AI, sustainability and new skills are changing the way urban space gets designed, lived in, managed and valued. Panels and talks at Palazzo Orsini Taverna.

From a photograph of a garment to a finished fashion campaign, generated live with AI. An immersive demonstration of how the creative and production process in fashion is being rebuilt, at Galleria Marte in Monti.

Nobody innovates alone — companies want institutional counterparts, institutions want expertise, research wants a route to the real world. INFORAV, a non-profit institute founded in 1973, on the work of being the place where those groups actually meet.

CyberEthics Lab and Tor Vergata's DITeS on AI, data and the legal and social responsibilities that follow: digital technology does not only change services and markets, it changes how people are seen, profiled and included.

Banca d'Italia takes the digital euro out of the technical committees and into a public session at The Social Hub — what the design decisions mean for banks, PSPs and fintechs building on top of it. Central-bank speakers in an open room are rare; if you work in payments this is the fintech event of the season in Rome. Free.

Tor Vergata's biomedical engineering group demonstrates working brain-computer interfaces driving games and music, run by Prof. Luigi Bianchi. Hands-on lab access rather than a lecture — genuinely unusual, and free.

Startup Grind Rome turns to the Tuscia and Viterbo startup scene and the Via Francigena corridor that links it to the Vatican and Rome. Alongside the heritage and territorial-branding angle, the programme covers the Digital Euro, applied AI and digital currencies, and Viterbo's candidature as European Capital of Culture 2033. The format is the chapter's usual mix of short talks and open networking over food and drink, running to 20:00. Useful for founders working on tourism tech, place branding and payments, and for anyone mapping the ecosystem immediately north of Rome.

One brief, two hours, seventy designers, a real challenge. Newphoria brings its live creative competition to Talent Garden Ostiense for designers, graphic designers and creatives who want to work under the clock.

Via Lattea brings the autonomous weapons debate out of diplomatic rooms and into a Testaccio bookstore inside the former slaughterhouse — meaningful human control, and where the treaty negotiations currently stand.

Technology was meant to simplify work; instead managers, teams and HR spend their days in notifications, disconnected platforms and interruption. Flowlee starts from data on cognitive overload and attention fragmentation and asks whether we are working better or just faster.

Rome's Joomla user group on the part of open source that is not code — governance, contributor pipelines and keeping a volunteer community alive over two decades. Useful for anyone maintaining an open-source project or a developer community, whatever the stack. Free, in a bookshop near Porta Pia.

Radio Soccorso Roma on drones plus AI in emergency management — continuous territorial monitoring, risk prevention and the most critical search-and-rescue operations, where the technology has moved from support to operating method.

Fab Lab & Co.'s Rome Future Week programme on matter's two contemporary transformations: the biological one through digital biofabrication, material recycling and regeneration, and the digital one through fabrication that turns code into real objects.

A masterclass on avatars and synthetic voices, framed around surviving the crisis of trust they create. Part of the Premio PLAY Festival, hosted at Talent Garden.

From Roger Fenton to Midjourney, photography has always lied. Casa della Fotografia di Roma on image ethics, copyright, photographers' professional identity and the future of photojournalism.

Roma Capitale convenes the Smart City Lab consultation inside Palazzo Senatorio on the Campidoglio — the city's own forum for urban technology, data and connected infrastructure. The venue alone is worth the registration, and it is the clearest read available on the municipality's technology priorities. Free.

Four days of intensive hands-on security training in Garbatella, run by the Cyber Saiyan non-profit. The 2025 edition drew 72 students from 21 countries across five courses; every participant also gets a free ticket to RomHack Camp immediately afterwards. Paid, with sales closing 25 September — classes below minimum numbers can be cancelled, so book early.

AlmavivA opens its Rome headquarters for an evening of tech talks and drinks. Almaviva is one of the largest Italian-owned IT groups and runs much of the country's transport and public-sector infrastructure, so the engineering problems on show are at genuine scale. Free, and a rare look inside a corporate that rarely hosts publicly.

The 16th International Forum on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioeconomy lands at WeGil in Trastevere, with structured B2B matchmaking run through the Enterprise European Network. Two days aimed squarely at biotech founders, corporate R&D and investors in the bioeconomy. Paid — the fee is only shown on the external registration platform.

Italy's hacker camp returns for a second edition: three days of self-organised talks, workshops and community villages in an open-air campsite on the Flaminia, with a hardware badge and around 600 attendees across seventeen communities. The From Dusk Till Dawn CTF finals run overnight on the 2nd. Note there is no indoor RomHack Conference in 2026 — the Camp replaces it.

The national AWS Community Day, run by twelve Italian user groups and hosted in Rome this year at Villa Eur. Community-organised rather than vendor-run, which historically produces better talks: real migration war stories, cost work and serverless architecture from people who operate it. Free, and the largest free cloud engineering day in Italy.

A full-day working session at Talent Garden Ostiense for founders and early teams putting a strategy together in a market where AI has reset the assumptions. Rather than a lecture, the day is structured as hands-on strategy work: positioning, what actually differentiates you once a model can replicate the obvious parts of your product, where the defensible value sits, and how to sequence the next two quarters. Follows the Strategy for startups in the AI era sessions Talent Garden ran in September, and suits founders who already have a product in market.

A free technical day on test and measurement instrumentation near Termini — oscilloscopes, RF, power and automated test, with hardware on the tables rather than just slides. Narrow but genuinely useful if you build physical products, work in aerospace or do any hardware validation. Rome's space and defence supply chain means the room is better than the topic suggests.

The closing event for the University of Rome Tor Vergata's PNRR and PNC research programmes, held at the Engineering campus. The morning is a plenary with the university, national institutions and the leads of the main research programmes, followed by the opening of the Discovery Hall, an exhibition space for the projects and prototypes produced. The afternoon is the Innovation Arena: hands-on prototypes and technology demonstrators, B2B meetings and networking built around technology transfer between companies, institutions and research, the Start Cup Lazio prize-giving, and a Defensive Cybersecurity Hackathon pitting student teams against scenarios drawn from real incidents. Free with registration.

A day at MACRO on how artificial intelligence can make cultural heritage genuinely accessible: automatic description, captioning and translation, adaptive interfaces, and museum journeys designed for visitors with sensory and cognitive disabilities. Organised by Fondazione Kainon ETS, it puts cultural institutions, developers and accessibility designers around the same table. Free, registration required, capacity limited.

Italy's data-centre build-out is one of the more consequential infrastructure stories in European tech right now, and this symposium at Parco dei Principi covers power, cooling, siting and the AI-driven demand curve. Paid, and pitched at people who specify or finance capacity rather than rent it.

The Google Developer Group's flagship Rome day: three simultaneous tracks, 500+ expected attendees and a programme built around agentic development, security and scale. Speakers include Google Developer Expert Davide Passafaro and Serena Sensini of Dedalus. Free, bilingual, and the biggest developer gathering in Rome this autumn.

Europe's flagship cyber conference and exhibition returns to La Nuvola for two days on AI, cyber defence, data sovereignty and supply-chain security. The 2025 edition drew senior government officials and C-level speakers including Mike Pompeo and Trend Micro's Eva Chen. The two-day pass is €700 until 9 September and €950 after — but an exhibition visitor pass is free if you register in advance.

A morning on autonomous driving in Italy — the regulatory position, what the current trials have actually demonstrated and what has to change before deployment. Held in a conference centre off Piazza di Spagna, with the institutional and industry mix you would expect in Rome. Free.