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March 24 - 25, 2026 | TORINO, ITALY

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CONVENTION
FOR AUTOMOTIVE & VEHICLE INNOVATION

2022 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Day 1 – March 30

Review the plenary conference
08h45 - 14h00 FUCINE ROOM
14h00 - 17h20 DUOMO ROOM
14h00 - 17h00 FUCINE ROOM
Day 2 – March 31

OPENING CONFERENCE

Moderator: Luca Talotta, Influencer Digital Creator
  • 08:45 – 10:00
    Institutional Opening

    Alberto Cirio, President, Regione Piemonte
    Dario Gallina, President, Torino Chamber of Commerce
    Dario Peirone, President, Piemonte Agency
    Stéphane Castet, CEO, abe - advanced business events


    Keynote speech
    Giancarlo Giorgetti, Minister of Economic Development *

    The Italian and Piedmontese automotive industry: present & future

    Moderator: Stefano Tizzani, Member of the Board, Piemonte Agency

    Carlo Ferro, President, Italian Trade Agency *

    Fabrizio Ricca, Regional Minister for Internationalization, Regione Piemonte

    Marco Gay, President, Confindustria Piemonte

    Giorgio Marsiaj, President, Unione Industriali Torino

    Giada Bronzino, Deputy Vice President, API Torino 

    Marco Stella, Vice President, Anfia

    Giorgia Garola, Member of the Board, Piemonte Agency

  • 10:15 – 10:40
    Automotive & Transportation Scenarios

    Economic context and banking support to the automotive industry
    Stefano Cappellari, Regional Director for Piemonte Nord, Valle d’Aosta and Sardegna, Intesa Sanpaolo

    Automotive C.A.S.E. (Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electrified) Outlook: next steps in the disruption and implications for the industry players
    Dario Duse, Managing Director, AlixPartners

  • 10:40 – 11:55
    General Trends in Automotive & Vehicle Innovation
    Anne-Lise Richard, Head of Global E-Mobility, Stellantis *
    Pierpaolo Antonioli, CEO & Board Chairman, PUNCH Torino
    Camillo Mazza, General Manager, Robert Bosch GmbH Branch in Italy
    Maxime Flament, CTO, 5GAA
    Christoph Menne, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, FEV Group
  • 11:55 – 12:25
    How to Meet the Challenges of Technology Transition in the Face of Current Challenges and Regulations
    Aleksandar Damyanov, Technical Manager, Green NCAP
    Salvatore Musumeci, Head On Road Testing, CSI
    Gerhard Meister, Vice President Business Field Electrification, AVL
  • 12:25 – 12:35
    Conclusions
    Andrea Tronzano, Regional Minister for Economic Activities Development and SMEs, Regione Piemonte
  • 12:35 – 12:45
    2020 Start Up Contest Award
    Matteo Marnati, Regional Minister for Innovation, Regione Piemonte
  • 12:45 – 12:50
    City of Torino welcome address
    Chiara Foglietta, Councilor for the Ecologic Transition, Città di Torino
  • 12:50 – 13:15
    5GMETA Hackathon Award
    Pierluigi Freni, Project Manager, Liftt
    Pitch presentation of awarded teams
  • 13:15 – 14:00
    Lunch Break

AFTERNOON SESSION - DUOMO ROOM

VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS
Moderator: Alessandro Coda, Automotive Research & Advanced Engineering, Stellantis CRF
  • 14:00 – 14:20
    The Impact of Digitalization on Future Products
    Gianmarco Brunetti, Head of Commercial Transformation & Officer Structure, Jaguar Land Rover
  • 14:20 – 14:40
    How Microservices and Agile Can Help you Scale Automotive Software Development
    Adam Kozłowski, Solution Architect and Head of Automotive R&D, Grape Up
  • 14:40 – 15:00
    Leading the Technological Transformation of the Automotive Industry
    Johan Amoruso-Wennerby, Business Strategist, Open Innovation Arena, Volvo Cars *
  • 15:00 - 15:20
    Transcending Connectivity: the Future of Connected Cars
    Aryan Habib, Manager, Connected Vehicles and Telematics Business Product & Corporate Strategy, Hyundai *
  • 15:20 - 15:40
    Think out of the box to shape the future together
    Michele Maria Marotta, Business Development Director, Segula Technologies
HYDROGEN
Moderator: Gianmarco Boretto, Director, PUNCH Torino
  • 15:40 - 16:40
    Panel discussion: Strategies for Accelerating the New Vehicle Development Process
    Moderator: Ingrid Tighe, Director of Economic Development, Oakland County, Michigan

    Basant Sharma, VP Engineering, Detroit Engineered Products (DEP)
    Mary Buchzeiger, CEO, Lucerne International, Inc.
    Thierry Rolina, Business Development Manager, Danlaw

AFTERNOON SESSION - FUCINE ROOM

MARKET REPORT
Moderator: Andrea Sanguedolce, FEV
  • 14:00 – 14:20
    Market report 2021 of Commercial Vehicles and Bus sector
    Miriam Sala, Studies and Statistics area Manager, ANFIA
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES: TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Moderator: Andrea Sanguedolce, FEV
  • 14:20 – 14:40
    Rebooting Autonomous Driving
    Gabriel Seiberth, Managing Director, Accenture
  • 14:40 - 15:00
    Assisted and autonomous driving vehicle testing - Latest methodologies per performance development and vehicle validation
    Ivan Zaffaroni, CSI s.p.A. – IMQ Group
  • 15:00 – 15:20
    Understanding and Monetising Big Data from AVs
    Junjie Tang, Principal Consultant, Amazon Web Services *
    Antonia Schulze, Machine Learning Specialist, Amazon Web Services *
  • 15:20 – 15:40
    AV Certification: An Operational Design Domain Based Framework
    Matteo Oldoni, Autonomous Driving Standards, NVIDIA *
  • 15:40 – 16:00
    Cloud Enhanced Autonomous Vehicles
    Kristian Jaldemark, Head of Development, Carmenta
  • 16:00 – 16:20
    AI based driving style estimation for sensorless driver state monitoring
    Ilario Gerlero, Senior Manager, Concept Reply
    Angelo Bonfitto, Politecnico di Torino
  • 16:20 – 16:40
    Smarter Together: swarm intelligence for collaborative missions of autonomous multi-vehicle systems
    Giulia De Masi, Principal Scientist, TII Abu Dhabi *
  • 16:40 – 17:00
    Turin House of emerging technologies - CTE NEXT: opportunities for start-ups and SMEs in the "Smart Road" area
    Elena Deambrogio, Project Manager, City of Torino
  • 17:00 – 17:20
    Torino 2022: Autonomous shuttles in urban mixed traffic
    Maurizio Arnone, Head of the "Future Cities & Communities" Research Domain, Links Foundation

18:30 – 21:00

Networking Cocktail

Meet the speakers
*Remote Speakers