AGENDA

5:00 p.m.

Registration

5:30 p.m.

European AI Rising Stars Awards Ceremony

6:00 p.m.

Opening Remarks
David J. Berger (Partner, Wilson Sonsini and President of the American College of Governance Counsel)
Pierluigi Matera (Professor of Law, LCU, Visiting Professor of Law, BU, and Founding Partner, Libra Legal Partners)

6:15 p.m.  

Fireside Chat
Giovanni Marini (Professor of Law, University of Perugia)
Roberto Pardolesi (Professor of Law, LUISS)
Dario Villani (CEO, Qognitive)
David J. Berger (Wilson Sonsini)

7:15 p.m.  

Panel: AI, Health, and the Future of Life

Moderator:
Nate Persily (McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law School & Director, the Stanford Law AI Initiative)

Panelists:
Simon Kohl (Founder & CEO, Latent Labs)
Anna Koivuniemi (Head of Google DeepMind Accelerator)
Edward Kliphuis (Head of Digital Medicine, Sofinnova Partners)
Jean-Philippe Vert (Founder & CEO, BioOptimus)
Anne Wojcicki (Founder & CEO, 23andMe)
Rocco Papalia (Rector and Head of Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Campus Biomedico University of Rome)
Virginia Zambrano (Professor of Law, UNISA)

8:30 p.m.  

Cocktail Party and Dinner

9:30 a.m.  

Registration and Continental Breakfast

10:00 a.m.  

Introductions and Opening Keynote Address
Adolfo Urso (Minister of Enterprises, Innovation and Made in Italy)

10:30 a.m.  

Panel 1: AI Across Industries

Moderator:
Ferruccio M. Sbarbaro (Founding Partner, Libra Legal Partners & Professor of Law, LCU)

Panelists:
Luciano Buonfiglio (President, Italian National Olympic Committee)
Emanuele Calà (Senior VP and CTO, ADR)
Francesco Di Ciommo (Founder, Di Ciommo & Partners; Board Member, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti; Professor of Private Law, LUISS)
Ori Goshen (Co-Founder & Co-CEO, AI21 Labs)
Lodovico Mazzolin (Former Special Commissioner, Banca Progetto S.p.A. in A.S.)
Bethany Meyer (Chair of the Board, Box, Director of HPE, Lam Research, Astera Labs)

11:45 a.m.  

Break

12:00 p.m.  

Panel 2: The Benefits and Challenges of AI

Moderator:
Andrew Hall (Davies Family Professor of Political Economy, Stanford University School of Business and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute)

Panelists:
Campbell Brown (Founder & CEO of ForumAI; former VP of Media Partnerships at Meta and CNN Anchor)
Lila Tretikov (Head of AI, NEA & former CEO, Wikipedia)
Ana Makanju (VP, Global Impact, Open AI)
Paolo Boccardelli (Rector, LUISS; Board Member, MPS)
Yoram Elkaim (VP, Legal – International, Google)
Elizabeth Kelly (Head of Beneficial Deployments, Anthropic)
Penny Herscher (Chair of the Board, Lumentum; Chair of the Board, Penguin Solutions; Director of Forvia)

1:00 p.m.  

Lunch

2:00 p.m.  

Panel 3: Investing in Our AI Future

Moderator:
Joe Grundfest (W.A.Franke Professor of Law and Business, Emeritus, Stanford Law School, Senior Faculty, Rock Center for Corporate Governance)

Panelists:
Fabio Corsico (Director of Institutional Affairs and Development, Caltagirone Group & Vice Chairman, Anima Holding)
Natalie Lamarque (Corporate Secretary & Chief Legal Officer, Vanguard)
John Streur (CEO, Boston Common Asset Management)
Jens Foehrenbach (President and CIO, Graham Capital Management)
Suzanne Tavill (Head of Responsible Investment, Stepstone Group)
Brian Halligan (Partner, Sequoia Capital)
Dan Gallagher (CLO, Robinhood)

3:00 p.m.  

Break

3:15 p.m.  

Panel 4: AI, Defense, and the Future of Peace

Moderator:
Sarah Kreps (John L. Wetherill Professor, Department of Government and Director of Tech Policy Institute, Cornell University)

Panelists:
Kendall Collins (President & CEO, Government Cloud, Salesforce.com)
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuellar (President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Trustee of the Anthropic Long Term Benefit Trust)
Mauro D’Ubaldi (Vice Secretary General, Ministry of Defense)
Greg Kausner (Senior VP & Defense, Anduril)
Florian Koehler (Group General Counsel, Helsing)
Dan Lahav (Founder & CEO, Irregular Labs)
Joseph Larson (VP & Head of Government, OpenAI)
Teodoro Valente (President, ASI; Professor of Materials Science and Technology, Sapienza University of Rome)

4:30 p.m.  

Adjourn

7:30 p.m.  

Cocktail Reception (Invitation only)

8:00 p.m.  

Fireside Chat
Marc Benioff (Chairman & CEO, Salesforce.com)

9:00 p.m.  

Gala Dinner

9:30 a.m. 

Registration and Continental Breakfast

10:00 a.m.

Opening Remarks
Cardinal Peter A.K. Turkson (Chancellor, Pontifical Academy of Sciences)

10:15 a.m.

Fireside Chat
Arvind Krishna (CEO, IBM)

11:00 a.m. 

Panel 1: AI and the Future of Work

Moderator:
David Webber (Professor of Law and Paul M. Siskind Scholar, BU)

Panelists:
Nick Clegg (Former Meta President, Global Affairs and Former UK Deputy Prime Minister)
Zoe Hitzig (Anthropic Institute and Junior Fellow, Harvard University)
Antonio Neri (CEO, HPE)
Anne Robinson (Senior VP & Chief Legal Officer, IBM)
Giuseppe Sigillò Massara (Professor of Law, LCU; Former President, Fondo Pensioni Poste Italiane)

12:15 p.m. 

Fireside Chat
Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra (Apostolic Nuncio in Italy and San Marino, Holy See) and Aidan Gomez (Co-Founder and CEO, Cohere)

1:00 p.m. 

Lunch

2:00 p.m. 

Panel 2: AI, Youth, and Relationships

Moderator:
Ron Ivey (Founder & CEO, Noesis Collective)

Panelists:
Dave Baszucki (CEO, Roblox)
Lauren Kunze (Founder & CEO, PandoraBots)
Monica Bickert (Head of Global Policy Management, Facebook)

3:00 p.m. 

Panel 3: The Energy of AI: Infrastructure, Stewardship, and the Common Good

Moderator:
Nate Persily (McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law School & Director, the Stanford Law AI Initiative)

Panelists:
Paolo Clarizia (Professor of Administrative Law, LCU)
Michael Hurlston (CEO, Lumentum)
Oli Pomel (Founder & CEO, Datadog)
K.R. Sridhar (CEO, Bloom Energy)

4:00 p.m. 

Fireside Chat
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia (President Emeritus, Pontifical Academy for Life; President, RenAIssance Foundation)

4:15 p.m. 

Closing Remarks and Adjourn
David J. Berger & Pierluigi Matera