She is co-founder, community manager and event organizer of the co-working space  Impact Hub Siracusa and Digital Champion for the Municipality of Siracusa. Her professional background is in organization of cultural events with a strong focus on project management, fund raising and PR with public institutions.

Mauro Filippi is a 27 years old architect. He studied and worked at Università degli Studi di Palermo, Universidad Camilo José Cela of Madrid and Carleton University of Ottawa, focusing on virtual visualization, building information modeling and promotion of cultural heritage. He works as designer and project manager at PUSH.

Matteo Bettoli works in Confcooperative as cooperative development manager, dealing with projects on cooperative start-up support, young cooperative entrepreneurs network and new cooperative models. He completed his studies in International Relations, Diplomatic Affairs and Development Cooperation at the University of Bologna and made some experiences in South Africa and Austria before joining the cooperative movement working first in Brussels and then in Rome, collaborating with the Secretary-General of Confcooperative.

Young Sicilian sociologist, he works for Libera NGO in promoting innovative paths for the social reuse of goods confiscated from organized crime. Teacher in many Universities, he’s Scientific director of the Summer School “GIA’ – Youth and Innovations” and he is also author of several studies and publications on local development, policies for welfare, social cooperation and international fight to the mafia and corruption.

Edoardo Calia graduated from Politecnico di Torino (MSEE: 1987, PhD: 1992), and he spent most of his professional career working on innovation based and Communication Technologies. After several years – some of which in USA – spent working on research projects on Internetworking and distributed computing, he contributed in 2001 to the startup of Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB), a research center set up by Politecnico di Torino and Compagnia di San Paolo, where he is currently Deputy Director for Strategic Programs. ISMB carries out applied research projects in several application domains where Information Technologies play a key enabler role (urban mobility, e-health, energy etc).

Started his research as techno-anthropogist at Carnegie Mellon University, he founded in 1999 i2cat, a leading Internet research center in Catalonia and living labs as Citilab, first citizen laboratory in Europe in 2007. He has participated in lot of European projects, as well as in Latinamerican cities, specially in Medellin, Colombia. Since 2011, he collaborated in starting BCNLab in Barcelona. He is currently interested in citizen-driven regional innovation strategies. Since 2015, he plays the role of Vicepresident of the European Network of Living Labs.

Alessandro Cacciato was born in Vicenza in 1978. He lives in Agrigento since 1994, where he deals with promotion of SME for ProGest, the Agrigento Chamber of Commerce Special Agency. Inspired by social and entrepreneurial innovation he published his first book “Ignore or Innovate”, by Medinova Editore. He contributes to Farm Cultural Park where he’s playing an active role in the development initiatives of the project conceived and set up by Andrea Bartoli and Florinda Saieva.

Giacomo Corvisieri graduated in Electronic Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Palermo. He has been working in Italtel since 1985, always in R&D departments and most of time with the responsibility of software development labs. He has played the role of PL, RL and PM for various product releases. He has also been responsible, either in the internal company activities or for the overall coordination, for several projects funded at national and international levels. He has got CMMI certification and he is a Certified Scrum Product Owner. Currently he heads the “Innovation & Research – PA” Unit.

Born in 1964, he is PhD in Urban Planning. He currently works as Adjunt professor at Polytechinc University of Milan and senior consultant for Avanzi. He has also been Director of “Urban Policies” Area at Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale (Irs). His main fields of research are: urban regeneration and social innovation, community planning and housing policies. He is actively engaged in initiatives of urban innovation, being director of a Community Lab in Milan for the regeneration of a social housing neighbourhood. At international level, he is currently assessor for the First Campaign of Calls for Proposals under Urbact III Programme.