An inspirational event organised by the projects funded by the Interreg Italy–Croatia Programme under Priority 1 “Sustainable growth in the blue economy”. With this event, EU-funded projects come to play an active role in raising tangible issues coming from territories and exploring ways to find solutions through AI.

AGENDA

09:30 - 10:00 | Institutional Welcome

• Caterina De Pietro - Representative of Interreg Italy–Croatia Programme
  
• Vincenzo Colla - Vice-President Emilia-Romagna Region, in charge for Economic Development and Green Economy, Energy, Vocational Training, Universities and Research
  
• Raffaele Parlangeli - Representative of the Department for the cohesion policy and the South
  
• Elena Fabbri - Director of Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences at Bologna University

10:00 - 10:30 | Unlocking a Resilient Future: Coastal Resilience and the Blue Economy through AI

Keynote speaker: Nadia Pinardi Professor of Oceanography at Bologna University. Member of the European Academy of Sciences and of the Scientific Council of the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe. Chair of the UN Decade of Ocean Science programme CoastPredict and Director of the UN Decade Collaborative Centre for Coastal Resilience.

Representative of EUSAIR: Fabio Fava - Cross cutting pillar Innovation and Blue Economy (TBC)

10:30 - 11:00 | AI Working for Territories to catch new challenges for the blue bio economy

Sanzio Bassini – CINECA Director of SuperComputing Applications and Innovation Department in dialogue with Marina Silverii - Executive Director of ART-ER Attractiveness Research Territory

• What does it mean to be an “AI Factory”?
  
• Which territorial challenges can supercomputing address?
  
• How can AI truly support those working in the sea, fisheries, energy and environmental monitoring?

11:00 - 12:00 | AI at Work: Navigating and Solving Project Ecosystem Issues

Priority 1 projects present themselves as carriers of real challenges, data, contexts, communities, and needs

Insights from Other EU Projects: Presentation of selected experiences from Interreg, Horizon Europe, Digital Europe. Contributions from regional and national Programmes on the strategic value of AI

13:00 - 13:15 | Plenary Conclusions

Davide Baruffi - Regional Minister for Strategic Planning and Programme Implementation, European Fund Programming, Budget, Assets, Personnel, Mountains and Inland Areas

13:15- 14:30 | Networking Lunch & Informal Connections

14:30 - 16:00 | IDEA SPACE – Co-Designing AI in Coastal Territories

Facilitated by Interreg Italy-Croatia Priority 1 projects 5 parallel workshops addressing:

• Which concrete challenges can be entrusted to Leonardo and AI?
• How do we build a valuable “use case” from the territory?
• What data, skills, actors are needed?

14:30 - 16:00 | Guided Study Visit to the Leonardo Supercomputer

Organised by CINECA (upon invitation only)

16:00 - 16:30 | Closing: A Call to Collaborative Intelligence

• Feedback from workshop facilitators
• Final conclusions by the JS of Interreg Italy–Croatia Programme