Participation in Climate Conference in Venice, Italy.

Venice, Italy — I was invited to speak at the Dolomite conference on climate change and sustainability in Venice to share my work with the META Foundation around the future of Hospitality.

The conference provides a high-level platform to advance the global debate on climate change, fostering pragmatic, inclusive, and innovative solutions that go beyond abstract or ideological approaches. In today’s complex international context, marked by geopolitical tensions and systemic challenges, the Venice Conference positions itself as a laboratory of ideas contributing to the global agenda leading up to COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

Over three days, the program will feature plenary sessions, thematic workshops, and high-level debates on sustainability metrics, global trade, energy transition, artificial intelligence, and the future of urban and global systems. Outcomes from the working groups will be consolidated into the Venice Manifesto, a policy-oriented document addressed to European and international institutions.

Introduction: Giulio Boccaletti (Scientific Director of CMCC and Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University,) and Josh Parker (Head of Sustainability, NVIDIA)

Discussants: Alexandra Sasha Luccioni Vorobyova (Hugging Face); Savinien Caracostea (Co-founder & Creative Director – META Foundation), Chaitanya Giri (Fellow at ORF’s Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology, Mumbai), Bernardino Sassoli de Bianchi (UNIMI), Laura Cozzi (IEA Director of Sustainability, Technology and Outlooks in 2023), Andrew Wickoff (EUI, Former Director of the Directorate for Science & Technology at OECD), Naren Barfield (Professor Emeritus, Royal College of Art, London)