Tech events in rome

with Massimo Artini (Vice President, DIANA (NATO)) · Francesco Cerruti (Director General, Italian Tech Alliance) · Giorgio Gulienetti (Fund Manager, nvm Ventures) + 4 more

A half-day summit on dual-use and defence technology in Italy and Europe, organised by Ulixes Capital Partners with NATAM, manager of the NVM Venture Lazio Fund, and presented by NVM Ventures. Part-funded by Regione Lazio. Confirmed speakers include Massimo Artini, vice president of NATO's DIANA accelerator and national expert for the Italian foreign ministry; Francesco Cerruti, director general of Italian Tech Alliance; Giorgio Gulienetti of nvm Ventures; Giuseppe Lacerenza of Keen Venture Partners; Pierluigi Paracchi of Genenta Science; Sabrina Zuccalà, CEO of 4ward360 and president of the Polo Nazionale Droni; and Giulio Napolitano of Chiomenti and Roma Tre. More are to be announced. Runs 14:00 to 18:30 at the Ara Pacis, closing with a networking cocktail. Free, mainly in Italian with some English, seats limited and every registration confirmed by the organisers. Why go: it is run by fund managers rather than a defence trade body, so the conversation is about where capital actually goes. Best for deeptech founders and investors looking at dual-use.

with Gianfranco Ravasi (President Emeritus, Pontifical Council for Culture) · Antonio Patuelli (President, ABI) · Alessandra Talamo (Professor of Social Psychology, Cortile dei Gentili) + 3 more

A two-hour public dialogue on what it means to stay human as AI spreads, convened by the Fondazione Cortile dei Gentili and hosted by the Italian Banking Association at its Palazzo Altieri headquarters. The panel is deliberately mixed across finance, ethics, law, psychology and art: Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, emeritus president of the Pontifical Council for Culture and the foundation's founder; Antonio Patuelli, president of ABI; Alessandra Talamo, professor of social psychology; Luca Antonini, vice president of Italy's Constitutional Court; and the art historian Maria Cristina Terzaghi. Fiorenza Sarzanini, deputy editor of Corriere della Sera, moderates. The foundation's youth council takes part and the Accademia Musicale di Santa Cecilia orchestra plays between sessions. Runs 17:00 to 19:00 in Italian. No price is published. Why go: an unusual room — a constitutional judge, a cardinal and a banking association president on the same AI panel is not a line-up you get at a tech conference. Best for people working on AI policy, governance or ethics.

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 structured creative exercise: each person maps their own professional path on a canvas 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. Run by SheTech. The ticket price was not published by the organiser at listing time. Why go: the canvas format gives the conversations something to be about, which is why this works better than the usual drinks-and-business-cards evening. Best if you are mid-career in tech and weighing a move, or want to compare notes with people a few steps ahead.

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. Organised by iNNOVATECH. The session is also streamed on the Senate's WebTV and YouTube channel. The ticket price was not published at listing time. Why go: Italian public-sector AI procurement is written by the people on this stage, and Benanti closing is the clearest signal of where the policy is heading. Go if you sell into public administration or need to read the regulatory direction early.

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. The programme covers building certification and rating, digital twins and energy-performance monitoring, low-impact materials, retrofit of existing stock, and the European rules redrawing the sector. Organised by Green Building Council Italia. Why go: the measurement side of green building is where the software money is, and this is the room where the certification bodies, the designers and the construction firms that have to comply are all present. Worth a day if you sell energy-performance, digital-twin or building-data products in Italy, or need to understand which European rules your customers are about to be held to.

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. The agenda runs from institutional greetings at 09:30 through a session on innovation as a strategic driver, presentations of six funded I3 projects, and an afternoon panel on the instrument in post-2027 programming. Speakers include Giuseppe Casella of EISMEA, Tiziana Petucci of Regione Lazio and Nicola De Michelis of DG REGIO. Free, booking required via a site login, and capacity is 30. Why go: I3 co-funds the commercialisation stage, 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. Thirty seats, so it will close early.

A live pitch evening at the Zest hub by Termini: four startups each present on stage for five minutes to a room of investors and founders, then take questions and direct feedback from a named panel. The panel is Paolo Angelucci, CEO of AFP Capital and business angel, Luca Barboni, growth advisor and author, Pablo Docimo, CEO of 20V and early-stage investor, and Gianluca Comandini, entrepreneur and professor. The pitches are filmed and the recordings go to the presenting startups. After the pitches the mics go off and an aperitivo opens informal networking. Run by Silicon Startup, who run the same format in Milan. The evening is in Italian. Why go: a real panel giving real feedback in public, which is rarer in Rome than the number of pitch nights suggests. Go to test a first-round pitch on a live audience, or to see what is actually moving at Rome's early stage without needing an invitation.

with Fabio Lalli (undefined, undefined) · Eugenio Fierro (undefined, undefined) · Marinela Profi (undefined, undefined) + 4 more

Two days of talks at the Museo dell'Ara Pacis, run by The Next Agency in a talk-show format modelled on TED, with Officine del Sapere as main partner and the patronage of the Comune di Roma. The organisers are explicit that this is not a conference about AI technology. Day one asks how people change when intelligence changes, what originality means when a machine can create, who decides when the machine decides, and the limits of what we should build — speakers include Fabio Lalli, Eugenio Fierro, Marinela Profi and Martina Pennisi. Day two turns to leadership: whether we will work more or less, leading people in the AI era, trust and reputation with Arturo Di Corinto, and how to build an AI strategy. Talks run 10:00 to around 17:30 on both days, in Italian. Free, but registration at thenextstopai.it is required and seats run out. Why go: the framing is organisational rather than technical, which is the gap in most Rome AI programming. Best for managers and founders deciding how AI changes the way their teams work.

The sixth stop of Kaleidoscope AI, a national series by Opening Future with Talent Garden — seven events across five cities on the ethical, regulatory and strategic sides of AI. This edition, at Talent Garden Ostiense, is about intellectual property in synthetic content. The questions it puts are concrete: who is the author of an AI-generated image, who owns code written by a model, and what the models were trained on. The organisers' framing is that AI generates content but does not generate rights, and that generative outputs already go into the products, campaigns and processes of SMEs and startups without anyone having settled ownership. The published programme is welcome from 18:15, a kick-off by Opening Future at 18:40 and a keynote at 18:50; no speakers were named at listing time. Entry from 18:15, start 18:30, free parking. No price is published. Why go: the IP question is the one that actually stops generative work shipping in regulated or client-facing settings, and this is a legal-and-strategy room rather than a build session. Best for founders and product and marketing leads using generative tools in client work.

with Emanuel Tesoriello (Founder, Spaghetti Coders)

A single-talk evening meetup on running coding agents from a phone. Emanuel Tesoriello, founder of Spaghetti Coders, walks through the setup he built after becoming a father rearranged his working hours: agent sessions running in tmux on a remote machine, reached over Tailscale, driven from a terminal client he wrote in Flutter with dartssh2 and xterm.dart, with an Android emulator mirrored back over scrcpy. He covers session persistence when the connection drops, what supervising an agent actually means on a six-inch screen, where the workflow breaks down, and the security posture needed before pointing any of it at client code. Hosted by GDG Roma Città at Sourcesense in Poggio Laurentino, 19:00 to 21:30. Free, and registration is through the GDG chapter page. Why go: it is a specific working architecture rather than a survey of agent tooling, and the failure modes get as much airtime as the demo. Best for developers already running coding agents who want someone else's scar tissue.

The annual public event of MOST, Italy's National Centre for Sustainable Mobility, held at the Acquario Romano on Piazza Manfredo Fanti. MOST is a foundation linking universities, research bodies, companies, regions and institutions on sustainable transport, and this edition marks the end of its PNRR-funded phase. The substance is the presentation of its Strategic Agenda for 2027 to 2029, alongside what it intends to become as a standing body rather than a programme: how research and industry connect through it, and which new national projects follow. Registration opens at 09:30 with a welcome coffee, institutional greetings follow, then the Strategic Agenda presentation. The published agenda names no speakers. Runs 09:30 to 13:00 in Italian. Free with registration, though ticket sales had already closed at listing time. Why go: this is where the next three years of Italian mobility research funding gets described out loud, by the body that routes it. Best for mobility and climatetech founders, and university groups looking for a route into national projects. Check whether registration has reopened before travelling.

The second in-person meeting of the Lazio Aerospace & Defence Platform, the project through which Regione Lazio and Lazio Innova are mapping the region's aerospace and defence supply chains inside the work of the Lazio Aerospace Technology District. Two hours at Lazio Innova's Via Marco Aurelio offices. The core of it is a walkthrough of the innovation and internationalisation funding calls the Region is opening for both chains, and the step from simple visibility on the platform to actual matchmaking between Lazio startups, SMEs, large industrials, research bodies and universities. The page publishes no price; Lazio Innova meetings of this kind are free to attend. Registration goes through the Lazio International site. Why go: two hours to hear how the funding calls will be written from the people writing them, in a sector where Rome decides a lot. Right for anyone in aerospace or dual-use chasing public money or an industrial partner in Lazio.

with Roberto Navigli (Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Sapienza University of Rome / Babelscape)

A ninety-minute evening talk on how AI is changing the study, protection and promotion of cultural heritage, hosted by VIVE | Vittoriano e Palazzo Venezia at the Collegio Romano. The speaker is Arianna Traviglia, who coordinates the Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. The published scope is specific: using AI on satellite imagery to find buried archaeological sites and traces of illegal digging, automatic transcription of historical manuscripts, reading inscriptions on ancient surfaces, pulling condition data about heritage out of large datasets, and the role of robots and physical AI in documenting and monitoring sites. It sits in a wider public series on AI curated by Roberto Navigli, within the programme curated by Alfonsina Russo and Edith Gabrielli. Runs 18:00 to 19:30 in Italian. Free, and already showing as sold out. Why go: applied computer vision and NLP on a problem Rome has more of than anywhere, explained by the person running the lab. It is pitched at a general audience, so expect scope over depth. Best for data and ML people curious about heritage applications.

A hands-on evening from the Rome AWS user group built as a coding contest rather than a talk: write a Python Navigator class that walks an avatar through a text maze it cannot see, using Kiro to break the problem into phases and set success criteria before any code is written. That is the real subject - specification-driven development with an AI coding agent, practised on a problem small enough to finish in an evening and awkward enough to expose sloppy specs. 18:30 at Talent Garden Ostiense, free, registration on Meetup. Prizes at the end, and a room of engineers who do this for a living. Why go: writing a specification an agent can actually execute is the part most teams are getting wrong right now, and two hours here tells you whether you can do it. Best for engineers already using an AI coding agent daily and bored of demos.

with Paola Severino (President, Luiss School of Law) · Lorenzo Mariani (CEO and General Manager, Leonardo) · Nunzia Ciardi (Deputy Director General, Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale) + 4 more

A two-hour morning panel at Luiss, built around the book by Paola Severino and Antonio Gullo on criminal law and cybersecurity, held in the Toti lecture theatre on the Viale Romania campus. The line-up is the reason to pay attention. Paola Severino, president of the Luiss School of Law, gives the welcome; opening remarks come from Lorenzo Mariani, CEO and general manager of Leonardo, and Nunzia Ciardi, deputy director general of the National Cybersecurity Agency. The discussion brings in Ivano Gabrielli, director of the Postal and Communications Police cyber service, Giuseppe F. Italiano, Luiss vice-rector for AI and digital skills, and Giovanni Melillo, national anti-mafia and anti-terrorism prosecutor. Antonio Gullo moderates. Runs 11:00 to 13:00 in Italian, with open registration through a public form. No price is published. Why go: Italy's cyber enforcement and prosecution leadership in one room, in public, which does not happen often. Best for people working on security, govtech or compliance, and for anyone whose product touches Italian criminal liability.

Italy's main project management gathering, now in its fifteenth edition, with over a thousand attendees at the last one. A full day at the Auditorium del Massimo across conference rooms, workshop rooms and an exhibition area, organised by ISIPM, the Italian Institute of Project Management. 08:30 to 18:00 on 6 November, free. The angle is practical and cross-sector: much of the content covers running digital and transformation projects, agile and hybrid delivery models, and where AI tooling now sits in a delivery stack. The call for speakers closed in September; the programme is published on the event site. Sessions are in Italian. Why go: a thousand delivery people in one building, and the agenda has moved on from method wars to where AI tooling actually earns its place in a delivery stack. Best for anyone running a PMO, product or delivery in a tech company or one that is digitising.

The third edition of the Roma Game Dev community's game jam: 48 hours to design and build a game from scratch, in small teams, from Friday evening to Sunday evening. AANT - Accademia delle Arti e Nuove Tecnologie hosts at Via Monza 21 and provides the rooms and equipment. The format is the hackathon applied to games: a theme is announced, teams form on the spot, and the goal is a playable prototype by the end. It does not have to be a video game - board games and other formats are welcome too. Open to developers, hobbyists, students, artists and musicians, and to anyone simply curious about how a game gets made. Free, with registration on Eventbrite. Why go: it is the most practical gathering point in Rome's indie scene, two days building something next to people who do game development for a living rather than talking about it. Best for developers, designers and composers who want to work in a team.

A one-day forum promoted by I-Com, the Institute for Competitiveness, in the Aula Magna at Roma Tre, under the patronage of Italy's environment and energy security ministry. The published programme has three strands: the launch of the first national report on energy independence, a run of cleantech innovation examples, and a comparison between open energy initiatives, large corporates and SMEs. The page publishes no detailed agenda, no speaker list and no price. The expected audience is energy and cleantech industry and policy rather than early-stage founders. The forum runs in Italian. Why go: this is the day the first national energy-independence report lands, and in Italy the opening numbers of that debate end up in the tenders and buying decisions that follow. Useful if you sell cleantech into Italian energy incumbents, or need to see where public spending in the sector is moving.

Two days in the Sala Dante at the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, run by the Italian Ministry of Culture's digitalisation directorate with the Central Institute for the Digitalisation of Cultural Heritage. Eight thematic panels cover digital skills beyond the PNRR funding window, AI applied to heritage, European digital strategies, data management, innovation partnerships and digital preservation infrastructure. Both days run 09:00 to 18:00, 11 and 12 November. Free, booking required; the registration details are still to be published on the Ministry page. Sessions are also livestreamed on the Ministry's YouTube channel, and attendance may count as training for Ministry staff. Held in Italian; the panel line-up is announced shortly. Why go: this is where Italian policy on cultural digitisation gets written down, and what comes out of these rooms turns into funding calls. Best for anyone building on cultural data, digitisation pipelines or archives, and for the suppliers who will bid on that work.

The second annual conference on how Italian public administrations should actually introduce AI, run by the think tank Concreta-Mente with Sapienza's DIAG department of computer, control and management engineering, held at DIAG on Via Ariosto. The 2026 edition is about the decision itself: which areas and use cases to target, which technologies to pick, and which implementation approach. The use cases presented were selected by a scientific committee through an open call for papers, and contributions come from academics and serving public administrators rather than vendors. The stated aim is to pool operational experience and work towards a shared adoption model. Doors at 17:15, running 17:30 to 20:00, in Italian. No speakers were named at listing time and no price is published. Why go: govtech is where Rome's AI work actually lands, and a call-for-papers format with practitioners on stage beats the usual panel of suppliers. Best for people delivering AI inside public bodies or selling into them.