A good bigger version with new modern content material in some of the appropriate venues for a continually rising and evolving occasion. “Maker Faire Rome – The European Version”, promoted and arranged by the Rome Chamber of Commerce, returns from October the twentieth to twenty second, within the areas of the Fiera di Roma with virtually 700 exhibitors (https://makerfairerome.eu/en/exhibitors/?version=2023). Given its established success, the format integrates and addresses all key parts of innovation: from digital manufacturing to the Web of Issues, from robotics to synthetic intelligence, from round economic system to agritech, from digital manufacturing to e-sports, encompassing digital well being and aerospace, all the way in which to the newest innovations of the metaverse and augmented actuality.
With seven pavilions overlaying roughly 100,000 sq. meters and virtually 700 points of interest to find, Maker Faire Rome reaffirms itself because the honest the place the digital revolution takes form and the longer term is anticipated. It’s a platform for households, youngsters and all innovation fans, in addition to a consolidated format for corporations {and professional} innovators utilizing digital tradition to sort out new market challenges.
0100 Convention Mediterranean
Some of the vital improvements of this eleventh version is the “0100 Convention Mediterranean.” After 45 occasions in varied European areas, Zero One Hundred Conferences debuts with a format devoted to the non-public capital ecosystem in Southern Europe, selecting Maker Faire Rome as a neighborhood accomplice and privileged networking hub. A whole bunch of high-level buyers from all over the world will collect for a two-day occasion (October 19th and 20 th) that includes plenaries and facet occasions with panels, workshops, devoted keynotes, and matchmaking classes to attach these buyers with among the companies current at MFR. Zero One Hundred Conferences, a number one organizer of unique occasions that includes the most effective PE & VC funds on the worldwide stage from over 25 totally different nations, has already obtained commitments from over 100 funds (together with EIF, Eurazeo, Alpha Associates, Speedinvest, Schroders Capital, High Tier Entry, Octopus Ventures, Ventech, EQT, Pollen Road Capital, UniCredit, Axa Enterprise Companions, Redstone, CDP, United Ventures) and expects round 350 senior-level members, together with non-public fairness and enterprise capital fund companions, pension fund companions, household officers, enterprise angels, insurance coverage corporations, and personal banking decision-makers, who will take part within the plenary day on October the nineteenth; a choice of whom might be current on the Fiera di Roma the next day, October the 20th, for conferences with a choice of startups and corporations exhibiting at Maker Faire Rome. Moreover, Maker Faire Rome 2023 can even be the realm of sustainable innovation. The “Life” space will host promoters of the round economic system and ecodesign. A lot consideration might be devoted to the themes of shared use, reuse, recycling of supplies and merchandise, in addition to FoodTech, a sector revolutionizing the agri-food universe with cutting-edge applied sciences.
Collaborating in Maker Faire Rome means having the ability to preview analysis and market tendencies. The honest is, in reality, a spot to watch and expertise the potential sensible, every day, {and professional} functions of cutting-edge applied sciences and methodologies.
Key Themes
From digital manufacturing to the Web of Issues, from robotics to synthetic intelligence, from round economic system to agritech, from digital manufacturing to e-sports, together with huge knowledge and aerospace, to the newest discoveries in healthcare, the metaverse, and augmented actuality. The occasion will host an intensive Be taught space with many proposals for instructional actions, classes, and laboratories: there are quite a few, new, and ready-to-surprise contents. Moreover, there may be a whole pavilion devoted to conferences, conferences, and talks the place the viewers can take part freely.
Tips on how to Take part
To take part, it’s essential to buy – based mostly on particular person wants and solely on-line – varied forms of tickets for entry: a easy operation that should be achieved instantly from the web site https://makerfairerome.eu/en/tickets/. The entrances to the honest are positioned within the North at By way of Portuense 1645-1647 and within the East at By way of Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, 79 RM (cross avenue of By way of Portuense) from 10 am to six pm (the occasion closes every single day at 7 pm).
The Chamber of Commerce of Rome
“Maker Faire Rome,” explains Lorenzo Tagliavanti, President of the Rome Chamber of Commerce, “is a testomony to how creativity and the facility of concepts can generate modern fashions by way of the contamination and dissemination of particular person initiatives and good tasks. We foster the tradition of Open Innovation, permitting the productive system to resort to concepts, options, instruments, and technological expertise from exterior and grassroots sources, by way of a virtuous connection between innovators, creatives, startups, corporations, college students, universities, and analysis institutes. The Chamber of Commerce,” Tagliavanti concludes, “facilitates this course of, counting on the precious dedication of all of the companions who’ve shared such a work with us.”
“Maker Faire Rome returns to Fiera di Roma,” says Luciano Mocci, President of Innova Digicam, a Particular Firm of the Chamber of Commerce of Rome, “a very powerful European occasion devoted to technological innovation, advised in a easy and casual method: an occasion that continually grows in numbers and proposed content material. We stay extra satisfied than ever that innovation is an unavoidable and decisive problem to create new fashions of labor and growth that may continually change our lifestyle. And this 12 months, due to the 0100 Convention Mediterranean, the occasion can have an much more pronounced entrepreneurial dimension.”
Opening Convention – October 19
Since 2013, Maker Faire Rome has been constructing an ecosystem that helps folks remodel their concepts into tasks. Innovators are the driving drive behind entrepreneurship and the event of services. With out the power to create and implement new concepts, companies and social and political programs might lag behind. Our society depends on breaking patterns to enhance residing circumstances and develop alternatives for everybody. The theme of the opening convention in 2023, “Innovators like us,” goals to discover the DNA of the innovator, the talents of “discovery” that distinguish essentially the most inventive innovators, what makes innovators totally different, and the way this ‘range’ is key for particular person and collective progress, and find out how to domesticate it, additionally with the assistance of Synthetic Intelligence – born to assist us, to not exchange us. Via tales of real-world innovators, the Opening Convention of MFR 2023 will information us in discovering find out how to consider and develop our innovation capabilities. As a result of innovators are precisely like every one in every of us. Among the many audio system Inbal Arieli, Mattia Barbarossa, Brunori Sas, Ken Endo, Karim Randè, Elisa Ricci, Fabio Viola, Pif, and Hiroshi Ishiguro, a professor within the Division of Innovation Methods on the Graduate Faculty of Engineering Science at Osaka College, creator of well-known texts on robotics comparable to “Android Science” and “What’s a robotic?” and builder of some humanoid robots which have made him well-known, together with one in his picture and likeness. Collaborating within the Opening Convention might be an unmissable alternative for all fans, trade professionals, and people fascinated by the debated relationship between man and machine and the longer term social position of robots in on a regular basis life.
The Opening Convention of Maker Faire Rome 2023 will happen on Thursday, October 19, at Gazometro. At 6 pm Italian time and might be additionally streamed on the occasion web site https://makerfairerome.eu/en/ additionally in English.
The primary Associate
Eni reaffirms, for the tenth consecutive 12 months, its position because the Fundamental Associate of “Maker Faire Rome – The European Version.” Technological innovation is without doubt one of the key drivers in Eni’s transformation journey, and at MFR, it should showcase its imaginative and prescient of power by way of an exhibition area that includes experiential installations. Guests, by way of firsthand experiences, will acquire insights into modern options, providers, and merchandise – from wind power to magnetic confinement fusion, encompassing biofuels, automotive sharing, and plastic recycling. On the coronary heart of Eni’s exhibition area, there might be an interactive set up inviting guests to “take a look at issues with new eyes, thereby altering their views.” By collaborating in Maker Faire, Eni goals to speak its imaginative and prescient of power and a decarbonization journey towards carbon neutrality by 2050, achieved by way of tangible and complementary options – “To Zero Collectively.” This journey is made comprehensible and concrete by way of present and future merchandise, providers, and applied sciences that every one Eni corporations put on the service of individuals. The Eni area might be a synthesis of a method that appears to tomorrow with out forgetting to behave already right now: the “power of all the time and new power.” The exhibition areas constituting the Eni area are all experiential, specializing in the potential of power sources. Inside the exhibition space, Plenitude will enable guests to expertise the facility generated by wind, a treasured renewable power supply; Enilive will narrate a brand new mobility enabled by the biofuel HVO (hydrogenated vegetable oil), due to a round economic system mannequin, and can deliver a particular Take pleasure in classic car on board, providing a quiz to boost consciousness of electrical and sustainable mobility; Versalis, Eni’s chemical firm, will have interaction the viewers by illustrating the mechanical and chemical recycling of plastics and the variations between the 2 applied sciences; magnetic confinement fusion might be defined by way of a mannequin of the Tokamak reactor, symbolizing the method that may allow the manufacturing of huge portions of power in a safer, cleaner, and just about limitless method. Lastly, within the area devoted to Analysis and Growth, guests can just about discover a few of Eni’s laboratories and centres of excellence within the metaverse, gaining an understanding that the decarbonization journey is a dynamic and evolving course of.
Aterballetto and Sony CSL
At Maker Faire Rome CCN/Aterballetto and Sony CSL will current the mission “Dis.ready | Hyper.ready,” born from the will of the 2 companions to assist a welfare “centered not on resolving emergencies however centered on selling the well-being and capabilities of people, as an engine for growth, employment, and an element of social inclusion” in accordance with the related definition by Carolina Giaimo, an city planner attentive to a profound understanding of the social dynamics underlying territorial governance. The preview is scheduled in the course of the Opening Convention on October 19, beginning at 5:30 PM, with the efficiency “Physique into the combat,” curated by choreographer Diego Tortelli. The creation is a vital step within the Dis.ready | Hyper.ready mission, pushed by the obligation, as a cultural establishment, to not isolate itself in its sector and to cope with social and cultural welfare themes. Sony CSL goals to contribute to the way forward for humanity and the planet by selling the event of sciences and new applied sciences and their software in varied sectors. Particularly, within the laboratory in Rome, directed by Vittorio Loreto, one analysis line goals to take part within the redesign of our societies with a transdisciplinary method that makes use of creativity as a place to begin to deal with the challenges of right now’s society.
Robotics and Synthetic Intelligence
Robotics is among the many most fascinating applied sciences. Whereas till a couple of years in the past, this self-discipline was thought of pure science fiction, right now it’s extra actual than ever, and Maker Faire Rome is a chance to find out about and expertise the ever-growing progress on this subject. An space that advantages from the collaboration of the Institute of Robotics and Clever Machines (I-RIM) chaired by Antonio Bicchi and the Nationwide Laboratory of Synthetic Intelligence of Cini (Nationwide Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics) presents tasks proposed by particular person makers, universities, college spin-offs, and analysis institutes.
Lately, Synthetic Intelligence (AI) has occupied a major area, representing one of many fundamental scientific improvements promoted on the occasion. Due to the opportunity of utilizing more and more highly effective computer systems and instruments accessible on the web, AI has turn into accessible to makers for the conclusion of their creations.
In parallel and in synergy with Maker Faire Rome, from October 20 to 22, additionally at Fiera di Roma, I-RIM 3D 2023 will happen, the fifth version of the I-RIM 3D occasion organized by the Institute of Robotics and Clever Machines. The occasion is a vital alternative for lecturers, researchers, and corporations to current the progress of analysis within the subject of robotics and clever machines and tackle new challenges, with explicit consideration to the views and alternatives in Italy. The actions of I-RIM 3D 2023 will revolve round three fundamental thematic paths: 1) Scientific analysis: inside the fifth Italian Convention on Robotics and Clever Machines, the newest analysis ends in the sphere of robotics and clever machines might be offered (I-RIM Convention, pavilion 10); Expertise: in a devoted space of the Maker Faire (I-RIM EXPO, pavilion 5), merchandise of Italian analysis and trade and their functions might be offered; Innovation: the RoboPitch competitors for startups and analysis groups will promote modern merchandise and concepts to buyers, corporations, and accelerators to assist their growth till commercialization. In the course of the three days of I-RIM 3D 2023, there can even be discussions concerning the challenges and alternatives of know-how switch, high-level coaching in technical-scientific disciplines, and the dangers and advantages of AI. The actions of I-RIM 3D 2023 are open to all Maker Faire members.
This 12 months, for the primary time at Maker Faire, there might be a bit devoted to Cybersecurity, additionally due to the institutional collaboration of the Nationwide Cybersecurity Company, CINI (Nationwide Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics), and the College of Catania. Within the “Uncover” pavilion, experiences, gaming, and workshops on the subject might be blended with the experience of the nation’s high specialists. For instance, there might be “CyberQuest,” a cyber escape room designed by CINI, to interact and problem members’ minds in a fascinating digital setting. With a stimulating playtime of 20 minutes and the power to be accessible every single day of the occasion, “CyberQuest” guarantees a memorable expertise for teams of 5 gamers. The exhibition “Reconstructed Actuality: Deepfake Showcase,” by the College of Catania, will provide guests the chance to discover the dynamics of Deepfake know-how and perceive its impression on our society. The objective is to advertise consciousness of the rising significance of Deepfake know-how, present an in-depth understanding of the moral and social implications related to manipulated content material, and current countermeasures and methods to deal with rising challenges.
On October 21, each within the morning and afternoon, an thrilling demonstration of CyberMentalist with synthetic intelligence, distinctive in its type, will happen. A synthetic intelligence will try and enter the minds of some volunteers to guess their deepest secrets and techniques. On the afternoon of October 20 and October 21, in accordance with the scheduled program, roundtable discussions and workshops are additionally deliberate with specialists from the Nationwide Cybersecurity Authority, Politecnico di Milano, cybersecurity managers from corporations, and trade professionals.
Maker Faire Rome can even characteristic the ANP, the Nationwide Affiliation of Public Managers and Excessive-Degree Faculty Professionals this 12 months. The ANP goals to advertise innovation and enchancment in instructional and socioeconomic insurance policies by envisioning an modern, sustainable, safe, and inclusive faculty system, together with a reform of the group of the training system by way of the enhancement of digital expertise.
As is the custom yearly, CampuStore, a profit firm and an Italian household enterprise, a pacesetter within the Training market, might be accountable for bringing essentially the most modern and forward-thinking proposals for the varsity world to Maker Faire. At Maker Faire 2023, the proposals for lecturers might be wealthy and modern. Along with an exhibition space the place humanoid robots, instructional synthetic intelligence options for robotic arms, functions within the metaverse, and merchandise developed by CampuStore for main manufacturers like Arduino (the GreenHouse Arduino) may be seen and examined, CampuStore will host two totally outfitted workshop rooms for the varsity world. These rooms will host over 30 coaching occasions for lecturers and college directors, utterly “hands-on” within the full maker philosophy. Moreover, CampuStore will arrange “MakeX,” a contest for secondary faculty college students based mostly on MakeBlock robots, a hackathon for colleges, and the finals of the varsity eSports league, an absolute novelty for Italy however already widespread, even on the college stage, in the USA and the UK. This brings a breath of recent concepts and numerous influences, making certain that everybody stays up to date and acquainted with the world of Italian colleges that appears to the longer term.
Maker Salus
Maker Salus is an occasion that utterly redefines the connection between technological innovation and the healthcare sector, offering a singular alternative to delve into the connection between the current and way forward for healthcare. On one hand, the occasion serves as a possibility to discover the present state of healthcare, delving into current challenges and the instruments and options that look in the direction of the longer term, in collaboration with trade leaders. Then again, being intently aligned with an occasion as visionary and future oriented as Maker Faire Rome 2023, it affords new analytical views for the healthcare trade and the invention of remarkably shocking case research born within the subject.
The primary panel will tackle the subject of high quality of life and digital healthcare, investigating the instruments and applied sciences at the moment in use to advertise wholesome getting old. The second panel, then again, will concentrate on well being communication, highlighting the dangers and alternatives of this digital follow within the healthcare subject with skilled interventions.
Innovation and know-how right now serve the aged and the ailing, contributing to an elevated life expectancy and security when used appropriately. Dwelling automation, using technological units, digital platforms, or apps can join folks with professionals or members of the family, facilitating intervention in any state of affairs.
Well being training is now potential by way of new communication channels and social networks, platforms able to supporting and spreading prevention campaigns amongst each younger folks and adults. At Maker Salus, specialists in well being communication will have interaction in dialogue with influencers and well-known personalities to discover new methods to speak and have interaction the youthful generations on such points.
Maker Salus is, due to this fact, a singular alternative to immerse oneself in healthcare innovation, uncover revolutionary options, and meet the important thing gamers on this subject. Whereas significantly appropriate for professionals within the subject, the occasion is open and able to welcome anybody and passionate concerning the subject.
Life
The event of recent fashions of round economic system is instantly depending on technological innovation and the work and insights that makers have demonstrated within the final decade, due to the introduction of eco-design and circularity in manufacturing processes. Round economic system is a mannequin of manufacturing and consumption based mostly on sharing, borrowing, reuse, restore, refurbishment, and recycling of supplies and current merchandise to increase their life cycle. This has given rise to concrete initiatives and tasks aimed toward creating new options to deal with sustainability. Amongst these, Round Farm is a concrete instance of a round city farm the place “nothing is created and nothing is destroyed, however every thing is remodeled.” Positioned in Scandicci, it’s an agricultural firm impressed by the circularity of pure processes, specializing within the manufacturing of edible Pleurotus mushrooms from used espresso grounds – recovered regionally and remodeled into substrate – and medicinal mushrooms like Shiitake in modern vertical programs inside insulated maritime containers. Cycled You, then again, is a mission that creates a round economic system instantly for the end-user. Its dedication is to remodel used tires into distinctive and customized handmade belts, permitting that materials to have a brand new life by way of those that put on them. When a shopper finishes utilizing the tires from their bike, for instance, they will merely ship them to Cycled You and share their story to obtain a totally sustainable accent produced from the restoration materials of their very own wheel. On this space, there can even be the chance to discover the newest improvements in hydroponic farming, representing a revolution in agriculture and meals provide: a cultivation technique based mostly on using nutrient options in water with out using conventional soil has demonstrated extraordinary potential in altering our method of manufacturing meals.
Agrifood
The Agrifood space presents a wealthy panorama of improvements relevant to companies, agricultural provide chains, and native programs. Maker Faire 2023 includes the participation of main nationwide analysis entities, together with CREA (Council for Agricultural Analysis and Evaluation of Agricultural Economics), CNR (Nationwide Analysis Council), ENEA (Nationwide Company for New Applied sciences, Power, and Sustainable Financial Growth), and the educational world of Rome and Lazio. This version can also be characterised by the in depth presence of personal corporations engaged within the subject of innovation. In whole, over 60 improvements for agriculture and the setting might be offered. Among the many many modern options for the agri-food sector proposed this 12 months at MFR, we spotlight the immersive dice “E&Y,” an immersive actuality expertise to know how plant genetics work and the way agri-food manufacturing chains are organized. Then there may be Polyter, an answer to extend water absorption and storage within the soil, very efficient in combating the consequences of local weather change. Apart from serving as a refrigerated pantry for crops, decreasing soil temperature and stopping water stress, it accommodates a balanced variety of fertilizers particularly designed to nourish root growth. Can gentle be used to evaluate meals high quality? “A Mild on Meals” is the presentation of the newest outcomes of the regional (Lazio) Spectra Meals mission and the prototype developed in recent times, with functions significantly aimed toward verifying the authenticity of meals comparable to saffron, a spice that’s ceaselessly adulterated. It employs spectroscopy, the evaluation of sunshine parts and the supplies’ response to illumination, to know product traits and confirm their contents. Particular consideration can even be devoted to meals security, with the “AflaZeroUV” mission, a tool that makes use of ultraviolet rays to detect aflatoxins in meals. Options for clever water administration can even be showcased, comparable to Ploovium, the cloud-based AI and IoT service for predictive optimization of water sources in agriculture, and Straightforward drop-Saba know-how, which produces water from the moisture current within the ambiance.
Group and Companions
Maker Faire Rome, now in its eleventh version, is promoted and arranged by the Chamber of Commerce of Rome, by way of its particular firm Innova Digicam, and has the assist of institutional companions, together with the Ministry of International Affairs and Worldwide Cooperation, the ICE Company, and the Lazio Area, in addition to non-public companions.” Maker Faire Rome – The European Version 2023? is curated by way of content material by Alessandro Ranellucci, supported by a professional crew of space managers. MFR2023 has the patronage of Rome Capital, the European Fee, and the Embassies of the USA and Israel in Italy-
The success of the occasion and the richness of accessible content material are made potential by quite a few nationwide and worldwide sponsors. Amongst them are Eni (fundamental accomplice), Arduino, DigiKey, Arrow Electronics, Sanofi, Sony CSL, STMicroelectronics, and Unidata (gold companions).
