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Speakers

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• Juergen Schmidhuber

  Professor Jürgen Schmidhuber is often called the Father of AI by the media. His team's deep learning artificial neural networks based on ideas published in the "Annus Mirabilis" 1990-1991 at TU Munich have revolutionized machine learning and AI. By the mid 2010s, they were on 3 billion devices, and used billions of times per day through users of the world's most valuable public companies. He is recipient of numerous awards, Scientific Director of the Swiss AI Lab, IDSIA (USI & SUPSI), and Chief Scientist of the company NNAISENSE, which aims at building the first practical general purpose AI. He is a frequent keynote speaker, and advising various governments on AI strategies.

• Marco Simoni

  Marco Simoni is the first President of the Foundation, nominated on 16 May 2018 with a decree of the Prime Minister of the Italian Government. Marco Simoni is a political economist with experience in government and academia. He holds a degree in Political Science from La Sapienza University in Rome and a PhD in Political Economy from the London School of Economics. He is an Adjunct Professor at Luiss University in Rome where he teaches on European and International Political Economy. From 2007 to 2016, he was a faculty member at the London School of Economics, where he also taught and researched in the same field, up to the title of Associate Professor. He interrupted his academic activity to serve, between 2014 and 2018, as the Advisor to the Prime Minister of Italy – first Matteo Renzi and then Paolo Gentiloni – on International Economic relations and Industrial Policy.