Tech events in rome

A two-day cyber security conference and exhibition at La Nuvola in EUR, with a plenary, parallel sessions, a two-day expo and a B2B networking system for attendees. 13–14 October at the La Nuvola Convention Center on Viale Asia. There are dedicated passes for government and defence officials, which tells you a lot about the room; the full speaker list is on the Cybertech Europe site. Pricing matters here. Since 6 October a two-day conference pass is €950 and a one-day pass €800 (more on site); students pay €200 with proof of enrolment. The exhibition visitor pass, covering the expo floor only, is free if you register online in advance and €150 at the door. Government, defence and press passes are free. Why go: one of the largest security gatherings in Rome's calendar, and the free expo pass makes the floor accessible to anyone. Best for security founders and sellers meeting buyers, and for engineers who want a fast read on the Italian and European market.

A full day on autonomous driving in Italy: what the trials so far have shown, the European framework, and what has to change before self-driving vehicles become an everyday part of mobility. Organised by MOST, Italy's National Centre for Sustainable Mobility, with PAVE Europe and TTS Italia, at the Roma Eventi conference centre on Via Alibert, near Piazza di Spagna, 9:30 to 18:00. After registration and institutional greetings, the morning opens with an overview of the European framework; speakers are not listed on the public page. The programme is in Italian and is aimed at public decision-makers, local administrations, industry, researchers and civil society. Online sales are marked as ended, so check with the organisers before going. Why go: the research centre funding Italy's mobility trials, in one room with the regulators and cities who will decide on deployment. Best for mobility founders, transport engineers and policy people.

The Adobe Creative Tour returns to Rome for an afternoon of workshops and live demos on Adobe's creative tools and how generative AI is changing them. Sessions are hands-on and built around the daily workflows of people producing visual content, closing with moving from 2D to 3D using Adobe Photoshop and Wacom. Conceived, promoted and organised by BG&Partners at Hotel Abitart. Useful for designers, art directors, videomakers and marketing teams who want to see the tools in the hands of someone who actually uses them.

An afternoon forum at Europa Experience on Piazza Venezia bringing together institutions, the defence sector, industry, technology companies and researchers to discuss security and competitiveness in Italy and Europe. The programme spans aerospace and space, defence, cybersecurity and hybrid threats, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, industrial supply chains, and European technological sovereignty, through keynotes, round tables and networking. The speaker list was still being confirmed when this listing was written.

SharpCoding's .NET and software-architecture conference: 15 sessions, 17 speakers and around 100 attendees at the Seraphicum in EUR. Small, technical and community-run — the kind of day where you can actually talk to the speakers. Paid; the ticket price is only shown at checkout.

A full-day bilateral session run by Unindustria, Confindustria's Rome and Lazio association, on the trusted-technology agenda linking the United States, Italy and Europe - the policy and procurement frame around secure supply chains, dual-use and strategic technologies, and the business matching that follows from it. Unindustria publishes this on its member calendar with no standalone event page, so there is no public registration form and no venue announced; treat it as members-first and approach the association directly. Listed here for the organiser page rather than the Rome feed.

SERP Conf. brings its single-stage, all-English format to Rome for the first time after eight editions in Bulgaria and Austria. Confirmed speakers include Aleyda Solis, Gianluca Fiorelli, Crystal Carter of Wix, Andrea Volpini of WordLift and Dawn Anderson — an unusually strong search line-up for Italy. Early bird is €279 until 15 September, rising to €749 after.

Two days at Rome's Casa dell'Architettura where the housing ecosystem meets to work through the changes under way and compare notes: communications, digital platforms, data and services reshaping the property and residential market. The format pairs content sessions with structured meetings between companies, professionals, partners and stakeholders, designed to multiply connections rather than stop at presentations. Free access to the full 19 and 20 October programme, with a networking aperitivo and dinner on the 19th.

with Renato Brunetti (President, Fondazione Mondo Digitale) · Mirta Michilli (Director, Fondazione Mondo Digitale) · Valentino Catricalà (Curator, Fondazione Mondo Digitale) + 1 more

Fondazione Mondo Digitale marks twenty-five years with a week-long programme across the Orto Botanico and its own Palestra dell'Innovazione: a digital-economy conference on the opening day, then installation openings by artist Loris Cecchini, guided tours, open labs, family workshops and a documentary premiere. The through-line is the foundation's argument about research, universities, business and social innovation feeding one another. Mostly public engagement and celebration rather than professional programming, so it lives on the organiser and venue pages.

A four-day expoforum on the marine economy, organised by Fiera Roma at Piazzale Mediterraneo in Fiumicino. The programme spans ports and logistics, shipbuilding, offshore energy, environmental monitoring and the digital technologies running through them: sensing, satellite data, modelling and platforms for managing maritime infrastructure. A meeting point for companies, research centres, institutions and investors active in the Mediterranean blue economy.

with Nadine Methner (Head of Business Banking, ING Italia) · Ilaria La Manna (Creative Director and tech expert, Independent) · Dario Costantini (National President, CNA) + 1 more

ING Business Banking and Fondazione Mondo Digitale bring their WeLead format to Rome with CNA Impresa Donna and Citta Metropolitana di Roma Capitale: an afternoon of networking and short talks built around a ninety-minute 'creativethon' in which teams use AI tools to turn a real business problem into a new product or service, then pitch it in sixty seconds. Speakers include ING Italia's head of business banking and CNA's national president. Aimed at women running or starting a business who want hands-on time with AI rather than another panel about it.

with Emanuele Levi (CEO, CDP Venture Capital) · Davide Turco (President, Italian Tech Alliance) · Andrea Ciampalini (General Director and Head of Venture Capital, Lazio Innova) + 2 more

Two days at Lazio Innova on venture capital and startup investment in Italy and the Lazio region. Day one, built around the Italian Tech Alliance, covers market data, the policy debate in parliament, institutional investors and pension funds, and technology transfer, with CDP Venture Capital, Banca d'Italia and Growth Capital among those taking part. Day two is the Fare Venture 2 open day, presenting the INNOVA Venture 2 fund, the TT Lazio programme and the region's accelerator instruments, and closing with one-to-one meetings between startups and funds. Attendance is free and you can book either day or both.

with Camilla Crucito (CEO and Co-founder, Flowlee)

An evening at Talent Garden Ostiense on how AI is actually being put to work inside organisations and across sectors, run with the Mindstone community. The format is case studies and live demos from practitioners, startups and companies, followed by a round table with questions from the room and then informal drinks. Camilla Crucito, CEO and co-founder of Flowlee, is among those presenting. People attending in person also get access to the Mindstone platform, where the demos and video highlights are published afterwards.

The 14th Maker Faire Rome takes over the Gazometro in Ostiense for three days — robotics and AI, AR/VR, IoT, digital fabrication, space, foodtech and circular economy, across exhibitions, conferences and workshops. Main partner Eni, with STMicroelectronics, Arduino and DigiKey among the gold partners. Ticket sales had not opened as of late August, so check the site before planning around it.

The eighth edition of the Italian Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines' annual conference, running inside Maker Faire Rome at the Gazometro. This year adds a full peer-reviewed paper track, with selected work published in Springer's Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, alongside the extended abstracts, hands-on demos, exhibition and outreach sessions the conference is known for. Three days in one place with most of the Italian robotics research community, the spin-outs it produces and the industrial engineers who buy from them - the strongest deep-tech room in Rome this month.

with Roberta Angelilli (Vice President and Councillor for Economic Development, Regione Lazio)

A one-hour workshop inside Maker Faire Rome, in Aula 22 of the ISA pavilion at the Gazometro, on turning research results into companies through the Technology Transfer Lazio programme. It covers the programme's strategy, the investment and networking opportunities open to research teams and spinouts, and marks the opening of its second call. Attendance is free and registered attendees are emailed a free Maker Faire entry ticket. The area is filmed and photographed.

A two-hour evening gathering on the Campidoglio presented as a meeting point for digital culture, creativity and Roman innovation. It is aimed at people following digital trends and innovation in the city and at anyone who wants to meet others working in the field. The organisers describe it as a mix of learning, conversation and informal socialising rather than a conference programme; no speakers were published for this edition.

with Giulia Lotti (Experience Strategy and Service Design Manager, SheTech)

A networking evening at Binario F near Termini on technology and digital careers, in a Career Cocktail Canvas edition. Rather than a panel, the session is a hands-on creative exercise: each person maps their own professional path and then compares it with others in the room. Giulia Lotti, who has spent over a decade consulting on digital transformation, leads the activity, and the evening closes with open networking.

with Paolo Benanti (President of the AI Commission for Information, Presidency of the Council of Ministers) · Paolo Zangrillo (Minister for Public Administration, Government of Italy) · Adriano Paroli (Senator and promoter of the event, Senato della Repubblica) + 3 more

A conference in the Sala Caduti di Nassirya at Palazzo Madama, promoted by Senator Adriano Paroli, on how artificial intelligence can reshape public administration and strengthen Italy's institutions and competitiveness. Four thematic talks bring together public officials, AI practitioners and innovators on the technologies and operating models behind modernising the state, with opening remarks by the Minister for Public Administration and closing remarks by Paolo Benanti, who chairs the government's AI commission on information. The session is also streamed on the Senate's WebTV and YouTube channel.

The Green Building Council Italia's annual forum at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, on decarbonising the built environment and the technologies that make it measurable: building certification and rating, digital twins and energy performance monitoring, low-impact materials, retrofit of existing stock, and the European rules redrawing the sector. Relevant to anyone working in proptech, energy or building data, as well as to designers and construction firms.

Lazio Innova and EISMEA, the EU agency that runs the Interregional Innovation Investments instrument, spend a day on how Italian regions and companies actually use it: who has won, how the multi-region consortium model works in practice, and where Italian participation is thin. I3 co-funds the commercialisation stage of interregional innovation projects, which makes it one of the few EU lines that reaches scale-ups rather than only research consortia. Useful if you are raising non-dilutive money for a cross-border deployment, or advising companies that are. Free, full day, booking required.

A live pitch evening at the Zest hub by Termini: a handful of startups take the stage in front of a panel of investors and operators, while the rest of the room watches, reacts and networks. The pitches are filmed, so founders who make the stage also walk away with usable video. Run by Silicon Startup, who operate the same format in Milan. Useful on two fronts: for founders raising a first round who want to test the pitch on a real audience, and for anyone wanting to see what is moving in Rome's early stage without needing an invitation-only room. Free to attend with registration. The evening is run in Italian.

A recurring English-language evening meetup in Campo de' Fiori for startup founders, aspiring entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, side-hustlers, freelancers, investors and innovators. No programme or speakers - the format is open networking over drinks.

Who is the author of an AI-generated image? Who owns code a model wrote? The rules are not settled, and Talent Garden's sixth Kaleidoscope AI session works through what that means for anyone shipping generated work.