Roberto Battiston

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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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Roberto Battiston is an Italian physicist specializing in elementary particle physics in space. He served as President of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) from 2014 to 2018 and currently chairs the European Space Science Committee (ESSC).

Editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper L'Adige. In the past, he was the web director of the Italian sites of the Athesia group and before that, chief editor of the Alto Adige. For more than a decade, he was also the South Tyrol correspondent for La Repubblica.

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Pierluigi Depentori

Gianluca Dettori is the founder and president of Primo Capital, an independent asset management company and one of Italy’s leading players in technology investments. The firm currently has over 500 million euros committed across several specialized funds in the digital, climate tech, healthcare, and space economy sectors.

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Gianluca Dettori

Dino Dima is a partner at DLA Piper. He advises on M&A, private equity, venture capital and commercial contracts, with experience in domestic and cross-border transactions. He has strong expertise in regulated sectors, particularly telecoms and ICT, assisting clients on complex projects and transactions.

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Dino Dima

Dr Ferrazzani has been ESA’s Director of Resources and Services since 2024, overseeing finance, HR, infrastructure and IT across all ESA sites. Former ESA Legal Counsel, he has led major European space programmes and international negotiations, including with NASA and at the UN.

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Marco Ferrazzani

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In-space data center

Space economy

The MUSE, opened in 2013 and designed by the architect Renzo Piano, is located in the new Albere district of Trento. One of the most frequented science museums in Europe, it combines the traditional exhibition techniques of the best natural history museums with interactive and multimedia routes, which stimulate the curiosity of visitors.  The building, with its profiles, large spaces and bright and light architecture, aims to be in itself a metaphor for the mountain, and proposes the visit of different natural environments, including a large tropical greenhouse.

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Energy, a story of creation and destruction

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Once the seat of the provincial and regional councils, this splendid room inside the Palazzo della Provincia Autonoma di Trento (formerly the Imperial Hotel Trento) takes its name from the artist who designed, furnished and fully decorated it between 1953 and 1956 — Rovereto-born Fortunato Depero, whose artistic trajectory spanned Futurism, Cubism and Abstract Art, resulting in his unmistakable style.

Palazzo della Provincia - Sala Depero

Professor at the University of Naples Federico II, she explores the  future of agriculture from high-tech greenhouses to space missions. Her  research focuses on growing plants while saving water, energy, and  resources, on Earth and beyond. She works on bioregenerative systems for  space and writes about the new frontiers of agriculture.

Stefania De Pascale

Rocket scientist, co-founder & CIO at Frontier Space. Leads orbital biotech payloads, in-space biomanufacturing and R&D, contributing to strategy, partnerships, and $2M+ fundraising. Scaled the team, launched the US subsidiary where he is based, operating across engineering, science, and business. Lead the Future mentor. Founder & President of Space Pioneers.

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In-space data center

Energy, a story of creation and destruction

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