The penultimate stop of the Innovation Roadshow, the innovation tour that involved the cities that host the Houses of Emerging Technologies (CTE), financed by the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy (MIMIT), started in Cagliari, at the covered promenade of the Bastione di Saint Remy.
The event was inaugurated by the mayor of Cagliari Massimo Zedda : "For two days Cagliari will be the epicenter of innovation and startups. A great opportunity for the city, thanks also to the Cagliari Digital Lab project, the home of emerging technologies and entrepreneurial ideas that aspire to improve life in our cities, create employment and well-being. Technological innovation is able, if used in the right direction, not only to improve accessibility to public services and their efficiency, but also to solve complex procedures and save public resources".
The speech was followed by those of Gianfranco Fenu, Deputy Rector of the University of Cagliari and Roberta Serroni, Director of the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy. A video message from the Deputy Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy Valentino Valentini is also scheduled.
The purpose of the Roadshow is to present the activities carried out by the CTE of Cagliari and illustrate the objectives achieved. But during the two days it will also be possible to see and touch the prototypes developed by the guest companies and partners , so as to better understand the impact generated by the use of new technologies on the city and on specific targets.
The Cagliari event also pays particular attention to the world of start-ups. During the event, a Startup Challenge is planned, a challenge that began months ago with the selection of 22 young companies operating in the area in the emerging technology sectors and which will see the best four compete with their projects in front of a jury composed of all the investors present. All the start-ups, moreover, will have the opportunity to meet individually with investors and companies looking for solutions for their own and their customers' innovation needs.
"We want to provide a vision of how different actors, at various levels of governance, can work and collaborate to give new impetus to innovation on the island - says Riccardo Castrignanò, head of the Smart City and technological innovation area of the Municipality of Cagliari - so as to be able to look not at what happened in the past but at how to build the future in the coming years".
(Online Union)
