Tech events in rome

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.

Regione Lazio and Lazio Innova present the region's new Technology Supply Chains call: 55 million euro for innovation projects led by large companies and research centres working alongside smaller suppliers. The hour covers who can apply, how the consortium requirement works between corporates, research bodies and SMEs, grant sizes and the application timetable, with Lazio Innova staff taking questions at the end. Worth an hour if you are building a Lazio-based deep-tech or industrial-innovation project and want public co-funding, or if you run a smaller supplier looking for a consortium to join. Free, central Rome, booking required.

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.

Lazio Innova walks through the region's new call funding SME attendance at international trade fairs: 10 million euro, open to Lazio-based small and medium firms across sectors. The session at WEGIL covers eligible costs, how much of a stand and travel budget the grant covers, the fair calendar it applies to and how to file. Relevant mainly to founders and commercial leads planning export activity rather than to a technical audience, which is why it sits on the organiser and venue pages rather than the Rome feed.

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.

The seventh edition of Rome's healthcare industry fair, themed 'the system that cares', with digital health, data and technology running as named programme strands alongside the clinical and policy content. Three days at Fiera Roma bring together health service managers, suppliers, clinicians and the vendors building the tooling - so for anyone working in healthtech, health data or digital transformation inside the public health estate it is the densest concentration of the buying side in Rome this autumn. Registration is free and the full preliminary programme is published on the event site.

The October edition of Strive's recurring Campo de' Fiori networking evening, marketed simultaneously under sixteen sector labels for the same room on the same night. Free entry with a paid tier; kept off the city page under the diversity guardrail.

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.

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.

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.

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.