TEDxCortina

Speakers

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• Anna Marie Frank

  Brain health expert, author, and founder of Happy Whole You®

  Dr. Anna Marie, known as The Mindset Doctor™, is a brain health expert, author, and speaker who helps people rewire their thoughts and reclaim their sense of belonging. With a PhD in Natural Medicine and a Doctorate in Traditional Naturopathy, she has spent 20 years teaching people to heal from the inside out. She is the founder of Happy Whole You® and the author of Stop Bullying Yourself! Her work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, mindset, and human connection. She teaches audiences how to quiet the ego that pushes them to overachieve, people-please, and perform for approval, so they can lead from connection instead of protection. Above all, she helps people remember who they are, embrace their humanness, and trust their body. Her message is simple: you were already enough.

• Emma Prevot

  AI researcher, statistician and science communication enthusiast

  Emma Prevot is an AI researcher, statistician and science communication enthusiast. Born and raised in Crema, Italy, she moved to London to study Physics at University College London, then to Cambridge for a Master’s in Machine Learning, and finally to Oxford, where she is now a DPhil student in Statistics. Her research starts from an ambitious question: can we use AI to understand not only how a disease progresses, but how it will progress for a specific person? To explore this, she develops new generative and causal AI algorithms and digital twins, working particularly with neuroimaging data. Throughout her studies, she has received numerous awards for academic excellence and now travels around the world presenting her research at international scientific conferences. In 2025, she also won the SuperNova Award as Italy’s top young talent under 25 and the Premio Italia Giovane.

• Fabio Bin

  Cofounder and CMO of WeRoad

  Fabio Bin is the cofounder and CMO of WeRoad, Europe’s leading community driven travel scaleup. A marketer with a particular passion for brand building and unconventional marketing, he has built his career finding unexpected ways to grow brands, communities and cultural conversations. He is also a marketing lecturer and angel investor. In recent years, part of his work and research has focused on human connection and the return to IRL experiences, with a particular interest in how technology, algorithms and increasingly optimized lives are changing the way we meet, build relationships and experience belonging. He writes and speaks about IRL, serendipity, social connection and community.

• Fabrizio Acanfora

  Writer, public educator, musician, and scholar of Disability Studies and Critical Autism Studies

  Fabrizio Acanfora is a writer, public educator, musician, and scholar of Disability Studies and Critical Autism Studies. For over twenty years, he built harpsichords—a craft that taught him how differences, even seemingly small ones, can radically change the way we listen to and inhabit the world. After receiving a diagnosis of autism in adulthood, he turned his lived experience into a path of research and public engagement focused on disability, neurodivergence, and normality. He teaches Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Master’s programme in Music Therapy at the University of Barcelona and is a PhD candidate in Education at the University of Turin. Through his books and public talks, he examines the social structures that produce exclusion and explores practices of self-determination, self-representation, and the coexistence of differences. He is the author of Eccentrico, In altre parole, Di pari passo, L’errore, and Rompere il gioco.

• Fabrizio Capobianco

  Imprenditore seriale italiano

  Fabrizio Capobianco è un imprenditore seriale italiano con oltre vent'anni di esperienza tra Italia e Silicon Valley. Dopo una laurea e un dottorato in Informatica all'Università di Pavia, ha fondato la prime web company italiana, per poi trasferirsi in California, dove ha vissuto per 23 anni fondando Funambol, pioniere dell'open source mobile, e TOK.tv, piattaforma per la second screen sportiva. Oggi è Chief Innovation Officer di Minerva Networks, che ha acquisito TOK.tv, e Partner di The Liquid Factory, la startup factory in Valtellina sostenuta da BPER Banca. È Cavaliere dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana e organizzatore di TEDxSondrio. Il suo percorso, dalla Valtellina alla Silicon Valley e ritorno, è la prova che il talento non ha bisogno di un indirizzo fisso.

• Gian Luca Passi

  Imprenditore italiano & Business Strategist

  Imprenditore italiano & Business Strategist

• Gilberto Nobili

  Velista professionista, CTO e COO di Luna Rossa

  Gilberto Nobili è un velista professionista con oltre vent'anni di carriera e tre vittorie in Coppa America, il trofeo sportivo più antico del mondo: nel 2010 e nel 2013 con Oracle Team USA, nel 2017 con Emirates Team New Zealand. A San Francisco, nel 2013, è stato a bordo nella rimonta da 1-8 a 9-8 contro Team New Zealand, considerata la più grande rimonta nella storia dello sport. Ha poi corso con Luna Rossa ad Auckland nel 2021 e a Barcellona nel 2024. Oggi è CTO e COO di Luna Rossa, dove unisce da sempre sport e tecnologia. Nel suo talk racconta cosa ha imparato stando prima dalla parte di chi rimonta, e poi da quella di chi difende.

• Livio Valenti

  Ricercatore e Cofounder di Terrestrial Bio

  Da oltre quindici anni Livio Valenti lavora per trasformare scoperte scientifiche in tecnologie capaci di migliorare la vita delle persone. Ha co-fondato Vaxess Technologies, oggi Terrestrial Bio, che sviluppa cerotti dissolvibili per somministrare farmaci senza aghi, e Mori, che utilizza proteine naturali per prolungare la conservazione degli alimenti. Le aziende che ha contribuito a creare hanno raccolto oltre 261 milioni di dollari. È stato Senior Fellow al Belfer Center di Harvard e ha lavorato con Ashton Carter sui temi dell’innovazione e della sicurezza nazionale. È advisor di T.Rx Capital, il fondo VC fondato da Robert Langer, MIT institute professor e fondatore di Moderna.

• Riccardo Ceccarelli

  Sports Medicine physician and founder of Formula Medicine and Mental Economy

  Riccardo Ceccarelli is a Sports Medicine physician and founder of Formula Medicine and Mental Economy. His career began in 1989 in Formula 1, where for decades he supported drivers in optimizing both physical and mental performance under pressure. He created Mental Economy Training® (MET®), a science-based method designed to improve mental efficiency, reduce brain energy consumption, and optimize performance under stress. MET® has supported elite athletes including Jannik Sinner, who wrote the foreword to Ceccarelli’s latest book, and is used across more than 20 sports disciplines worldwide. He is the author of Nella mente del campione (Inside the Mind of the Champion, 2024), exploring the four stages of self-confidence needed to achieve peak performance and lasting success. He is a sought-after international speaker on stress management, mental efficiency, emotional regulation, and high performance.