Workshops
Day 1 - March 19th
WS1A: Nuove alleanze per il commercio di vicinato (ITA)
In questo scenario emergono nuove opportunità grazie all’uso combinato di dati urbani, tecnologie per la logistica dell’ultimo miglio, strumenti di welfare innovativo per esercenti e lavoratori, piattaforme di engagement dei commercianti e soluzioni digitali per servizi di prossimità. Queste tecnologie, tuttavia, producono valore solo se integrate in processi collaborativi (“nuove alleanze”) tra amministrazioni, associazioni, reti commerciali, cittadini e operatori privati.
Il workshop presenta il toolkit sviluppato da Feel per l’Economia di Prossimità, rivolto a supportare le amministrazioni nell’analisi dei contesti commerciali locali e nella co-progettazione con il tessuto economico locale di un piano di politiche per il commercio prossimità. Il toolkit combina:
- Dati economici di contesto iper-locali, per leggere i flussi (residenti, visitatori, consumi);
- Indicatori urbani e demografici;
- Analisi dei bisogni di commercianti e comunità;
- Un catalogo di soluzioni innovative (policy, servizi, tecnologie, iniziative) utili a costruire programmi di rilancio del commercio di prossimità.
Durante il workshop, i partecipanti sperimenteranno una breve attività di co-progettazione, applicando il toolkit per costruire alleanze territoriali e delineare interventi integrati basati su dati, tecnologie e policy locali. L’obiettivo è fornire strumenti concreti per rafforzare l’economia urbana, sostenere il commercio di vicinato e contrastare la desertificazione commerciale attraverso approcci collaborativi e responsabilità condivise.
Framing
- Perché “nuove alleanze” per il commercio di vicinato
- Contesto: analisi della desertificazione, polarizzazioni, città che cambiano
- Politiche data-driven, nuovi modelli di governance e leve tecnologiche
Workshop
- Applicazione pratica del toolkit Feel per l’Economia di Prossimità a partire da dati e indicatori urbani - in collaborazione con Mastercard
WS1B: Public-interest technologies to tackle the EU housing crisis (ENG)
The European Commission is preparing its first-ever European Affordable Housing Plan through a 2025 Affordable Housing Dialogue and a dedicated Housing Task Force, signalling a new phase of multi-level action. At the same time, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has launched a Housing Action Plan structured around innovation in construction, energy-efficient renovation, and new affordable build, backed by increased lending and an explicit push to scale “HousingTech” across the supply chain. Complementing this, the New European Bauhaus Affordable Housing Initiative frames affordability together with sustainability, design quality, and inclusion, calling for digital, circular, and modular solutions in real neighbourhoods.
City leaders have also formed a “Mayors for Housing” coalition and a European Housing Action Plan, asking for direct EU funding, better regulation of short-term rentals, and scalable housing delivery models rooted in local realities. In this policy context, the workshop investigates how public-interest technologies can expand governments’ capacity to act along the whole housing chain: planning → financing → building → allocating → managing → retrofitting. Participants will explore a portfolio of solutions including modular/off-site and industrialised construction, data analytics and AI for demand forecasting and zoning scenarios, digital twins for neighbourhood-scale planning, circular and low-carbon building technologies, civic-tech platforms for transparent allocation and participation, and RegTech tools to streamline permitting and compliance.
The session combines policy analysis with collaborative work. Through guided group activities, participants will map policy bottlenecks, match them with relevant technologies, and outline “tech-enabled public interventions” that are feasible, equitable, and aligned with EU goals for affordability, decarbonisation, and social cohesion. The output will be a shared, actionable technology roadmap to pilot and scale housing innovation in the public interest.
14:30 - 15:15 Framing the European Affordability Housing Crisis Panelists: TBD
15:15 - 16:00 Contamination workshop: policies & technologies
16:00 - 16:30 Sharing and discussion: towards a GovTech Affordable Housing Tech Stack
Day 2 - March 20th
WS2A: Come adottare l’Intelligenza Artificiale nelle organizzazioni del sistema pubblico (ITA)
10:30 - 15:00 Intelligenza artificiale: cosa, come e perché. Dagli abilitatori tecnologici al mindset - Marcello Coppa, Feel
10:50 - 11:10 Coordinate normative: i fondamentali da sapere - Carlo Rossi Chauvenet, Data Valley Consulting
11:10 -11:30 Testimonianze
11:30 - 12:30 Workshop pratico: verso una roadmap per adottare l’IA
WS2B: Climate adaptation & food resilience in the Mediterranean and Gulf region (ENG)
The Mediterranean and Gulf regions are confronting accelerating climate pressures that directly threaten the stability of their food systems. Chronic stressors — water scarcity, soil degradation and desertification, sea-level rise, salinisation and coastal erosion — combine with extreme events such as floods, droughts, dust storms and heatwaves to disrupt the natural resource base, damage critical infrastructures, weaken value-chain operations, and heighten vulnerabilities across communities.These pressures reverberate through the food-system value chain: production & sourcing systems, transformation & distribution, communities.This workshop applies a structured framework that links climate stressors to food-system functions, identifies where impacts occur (resource base, infrastructures, value chain, communities), and explores the cross-cutting enabling technology clusters that can strengthen resilience.Through expert insights and collaborative design, participants will examine how Mediterranean and Gulf actors can combine these technological enablers to address shared vulnerabilities and build adaptive, diversified, and equitable food systems. The outcome is a set of actionable pathways for technology-enabled food resilience under accelerating climate stress.
WS3A: Amministrazione condivisa (ITA)
In collaborazione con: ISMU & Labsus
WS3B: Ministry of the impossible: speculating about alternative futures (ENG)
WS3C: Partnerships for Africa Digital Public Infrastructure Stack & AI initiative (ENG - Invite only)
This exclusive meeting gathers key Italian leaders from industry, banking, institutions and NGOs to share possible contributions to the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Stack and AI initiative together with the United Nations for Africa Task Force. The goal is to envision a good governance for multilateral Strategic Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) that aligns Italian expertise and capabilities with the African agenda for digital transformation and inclusion. Chaired by special guest Talla Kebe (UN), we will explore how Italy can contribute to building sovereign, secure, and interoperable digital infrastructures stack (from hard tech to Digital ID, Payments, Data Exchange, infrastructures, AI capabilities).Strategies, practical insights and operational support will be discussed in alignment with the UN Partnerships for Africa Digital Public Infrastructure Stack & AI initiative framework, and the Italian initiatives, such as Mattei Plan for Africa.