«The mission is to make technologies accessible to all citizens»

From “The Arena”Wednesday 27 November 2024

Since the first edition the objective has been to talk about technology and the future to young people and to all people, not just to professionals in the awareness that these are not complex issues that should cause fear. For me it has always been a social mission which reaches its peak this year, with the integration of the Festival of the Future with Job&Orienta. A mission accomplished."

Luigi Consiglio,CEO of Business Excellence,is the creator and founder of the Festival, who decided to «give as a giftto the Athesis Editorial Group and to MIT, therefore to the Veneto area, even if I will still remain on the scientific committee for the next editions".

The theme chosen this year, «How to build a human-centric world", is very dear to Consiglio, convinced that "there is no possibility that man is not at the centre: the world we are creating is tailor-made for us and technologies should not be seen as alien but represent facilities and are at our service".No app can replace humans, "we see it in fintech: it was feared that the technologies applied to the world of finance would lead to the loss of jobs, but instead it is clear that the human relationship, at the counter, is still fundamental, for the elderly but also for those who have to open a mortgage or manage savings".

Consiglio brings other examples, from the car sharing that is disappearing from Milan,"because models that ignore man cannot work, they represent forward escapes destined to collide"or the return, again in the Lombardy capital, of neighborhood shops «because everywhere people need people to move forward». «Here», continues Consiglio, «at the Festival we want to talk about the use of technology at any level and as in past editions we want to do it by making the concepts accessible to all: because strong people speak in a simple way, on the contrary the use of abstruse words creates a terrifying effect. And on this", he concludes, "young people are very clear".F.Lo.

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