Today, July 12, 2024, the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the European Artificial Intelligence Regulation that will come into force in Italy on August 2, 2024, was published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
With the AI Act, the EU aims to ensure that the use of artificial intelligence is safe and reliable.
All businesses will have to adapt to the new rules of the Union, the first in the world to regulate the disruptive artificial intelligence revolution, becoming trailblazers and pioneers in the technology that now promises to change organizations and the lives of all of us.
These days, Seeds for the Future 2024, the 11th edition of the project organized and funded by Huawei, is taking place in Rome, during which ample space is devoted to the international Tech4Good program, a group project work designed so that students can better understand the role played by technology in solving complex global problems.
The initiative is taking place for the first time in Europe – previous editions have always been held in China – and is involving about 150 students, including 24 from Italy, from July 1 to 5. The program offers a pathway on technology and innovation and aims to promote merit and excellence among young people in the ICT sector, focusing not only on educational aspects but also on concrete application in the industrial world.
The training also has a section dedicated to competition: part of each day is devoted to the project starting with the identification of a problem and ending with the proposal of a technological solution and the development of a plan for its implementation.
The students, divided into groups, are guided by dedicated mentors who help them acquire the necessary skills to develop their idea and present it effectively, assess the feasibility of their project and follow its execution step by step. Afterwards, the two European finalist groups will have the opportunity to participate in the global competition to be held in China in 2025 (TBD). The three global finalist groups will then have access to prizes and additional advanced coaching sessions with industry experts.
On Friday, July 5, the final day of the project, there will be a presentation of the Tech4Good semi-finalist projects, followed in the early evening by the award ceremony for the finalist projects and the most outstanding students.
Seeds for the Future is Huawei’s main global CSR program. Launched in 2008, it aims to develop local ICT talent, improve technology knowledge sharing and promote greater interest in the digital technology sector. To date, Seeds for the Future has involved 140 countries and seen the participation of more than 18,000 students. In Europe, the program was launched in 2011 and, to date, has involved more than 6,000 students from 37 countries.
Consilium took part in the event “How does the organization change with AI?” organized by REDOPEN at the University of Milano-Bicocca. It was the second meeting of the AI Digital Sonar project, supported by Haier Europe and Arlati Ghislandi, during which perspectives and challenges in the stable and responsible integration of AI in the organizational, production and communication flows of Italian companies were discussed. An example of how research and business can merge to promote responsible and informed adoption of artificial intelligence.
The meeting was also the occasion for the presentation of the volume “Assessing Artificial Intelligence. An Introductory Overview of AI Standards and Impact Assessments,” the first public contribution, edited by REDOPEN Factory, whose goal is to help proactively initiate a process of widespread awareness among people, and especially among those who make decisions, use, apply, and design AI technologies.
In addition to speeches by various industry experts, entrepreneurs and innovators, there was also a talk by Enea Nepentini, Founding Partner of Consilium Comunicazione, with the report “AI in Information Management in Complex and Critical Situations,” who contributed to the discussion by recounting his own experience and the procedures implemented by the agency to improve the effectiveness of marketing and communication strategies and embrace innovation.
Crisis communication and reputational intelligence in the time of AI present new challenges and opportunities for organizations. New scenarios are opening up that impact the way workflow is managed, offering powerful tools to improve emergency management.
The path of experimentation and application of Chatgpt and Gemini in Consilium goes in the direction of integrating the tools in an intelligent, ethical and responsible way toward the maximum expression and improvement of our services.
Commenting on the ARERA directive, experts from the app-founded by Giovanni Baroni and now becoming an energy advisor to Italians-are able to say that for now the major energy operators have not introduced any early withdrawal penalties on electricity, adding that “it is not certain that it will not happen in the future.”
The story of It’s Prodigy in the Canavese Confindustria newspaper, as an outstanding example of success that started, really, from scratch.
“For Sano Musab Hijazi, founder of the well-known artificial intelligence startup It’s Prodigy, it hasn’t always been easy,” attacks journalist Giovanni di Giacomo, who recounts the ups and downs of a young man who grew up as a ‘foreigner’ in our country and became an enlightened entrepreneur in the field of artificial intelligence.
Last Friday, we were guests of Enerbrain, which publicly opened the doors of its new headquarters in the presence of partners and stakeholders. For the occasion, together with Enerbrain, we organised a round table at which four experts spoke about digitalisation at the service of energy and sustainability: Giuseppe Giordano (Enerbrain), Graziella Roccella (Planet Smart City), Giovanni Baroni (Confindustria, Billoo), and Ciro Cattuto (Fondazione ISI). It was an opportunity to discuss important topics for the country, giving voice to the great potential for development that exists and the critical issues that still hinder a real energy transition.
