Daniele Bellasio 

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The palace was built shortly before 1740 on the initiative of the noble Trentini family. The façade, developed in height and characterized by a sober balcony, is among the most elegant of the eighteenth century in Trentino. The interior rooms were decorated between 1750 and 1765 by the Veronese painters Giorgio Anselmi and Orlando Fattori, the Bolzan painter Carl Henrici and the Milanese painter Pietro Antonio Bianchi. Also notable are the exuberant white and gold stucco and the majolica stoves in rococo shapes.Palazzo Trentini is now the seat of the Council of the Autonomous Province of Trento, with the Presidency and all the offices of the entity. The Sala dell 'Aurora, which will host some of the Festival's events, is considered the Palace's most prestigious venue. It is dominated by a large vault decorated with fake architecture and frescoed around 1750 with the Triumph of the Dawn, an allegory of the rise of the Trentini family, by an excellent Venetian school artist whose identity is still disputed by scholars.

Palazzo Trentini – Sala Aurora

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Daniele Bellasio is deputy editor of Il Sole 24 Ore. Law graduate, he studied Big Data Analysis and the evolution of information in the digital environment. He directed La Prealpina and worked for Il Foglio, Class/CNBC and La Repubblica.

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Chairman of the University of Trento and Chairman of Techvisory, he has been CEO of important Italian and international companies including Eni and Telecom. Chairman of the Spanish company Cellnex and Chairman of NEXI s.p.a

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Named after the Trentino irredentist Cesare Battisti, this city piazza is different from others. Its buildings are a 1926 Rationalist reconstruction of the historic, demolished Sas district. Beneath the square lies the ancient Roman Tridentum, an entire Roman district with the remains of a road, houses featuring mosaics, and even a long stretch of the eastern city wall.

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The Diocesan Museum is located in the splendid Piazza Duomo, next to the Cathedral of San Vigilio, in Palazzo Pretorio. In its rooms it exhibits a rich heritage of art and culture ranging from the 11th to the 19th century: paintings, wooden sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, iconographic testimonies of the Council of Trent, precious goldsmith's art, ancient embroideries and sumptuous Flemish tapestries.
The museum also manages the early Christian Basilica of San Vigilio, the Porta Veronensis (1st century AD), or the ancient monumental entrance to the Roman Tridentum, and the Civic Tower, which with its 45 meters high is the unmistakable symbol of the city.

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Alessandro Giordani is full professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Milan and a visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland. His research activities focus on the development of systems of epistemic logic for the analysis of imagination and scientific knowledge.

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Via Belenzani, once called Contrada Larga, is the main street leading to Piazza Duomo and one of the city's most atmospheric streets, surrounded on both sides by Renaissance palaces decorated with beautiful frescoes. Palazzo Geremia, today the seat of the Trento City Council, is one of these: inside there are several rooms - beautifully frescoed and often still with their original wooden ceilings.

Palazzo Geremia - Sala di Rappresentanza

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Elena Beccalli is the Rector of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and a full professor at the School of Banking, Finance, and Insurance Sciences, of which she was Dean from 2014 to 2024. She is a research associate at the London School of Economics and at the University of St. Andrews.

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Marco Buti holds the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa chair at the European University Institute and was Chief of Staff of Commissioner Gentiloni. His book “Evitare il declino: glossario per una politica economica europea”, coauthored with Marcello Messori, was published in May 2024.

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Nazzarena Franco – with over 20 years of experience in the logistics and transportation industry – serves as CEO of DHL Express Italy, the leader in the Italian express air courier market. She is a member of ABIE (Advisory Board for Foreign Investors) and Transport & Logistics Technical Group of Confindustria, as well as the Board of AHK Italien.

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Mario Nava is the Director-General of DG EMPL of the EU Commission. Previously, he was the Director-General of DG REFORM and has held Director and Head of Unit posts in the DG for Financial Services. He was also President of Italian Financial Market Authority. He teaches at Bocconi University and at Solvay Business School. In 2023, he was awarded the title of Bocconi Alumnus of the year.

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Debora Revoltella is Chief Economist of the EIB. She led the work for flagship publications like the EIB Investment Report and launched the idea for the design of the EIB Investment Survey, a unique asset to understand investment dynamics in Europe. She holds a PhD in Economics from Ancona University, Italy.

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