Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era


Time & Location
18 Dec 2026, 09:00 – 19 Dec 2026, 17:00
University of Milan, Via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan
About the event
Programme
Day 1 – Emerging Challenges in the Digital Era
09:00 – 09:30: Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:30 – 10:00: Welcome Addresses
University representatives
CRISP Project presentation - Silvia Facchinetti (Department of Economic, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Milan)
MSCA-DIGITAL presentation - Joerg Osterrieder (Department of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente)
genESG project - Maria Iannario (Department of Political Sciences, University of Naples Federico II)
Session 1
10:00 – 10:45: Keynote Lecture
Petros Dellaportas (Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB);
Department of Statistical Science, University College London (UCL))
Reservoir Computing for Modern Finance: Forecasting Across Frequencies and Horizons
10:45 – 11:15
Discussion - Claudia Tarantola (Department of Economic, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Milan)
11:15 – 11:30
Coffee Break
Session 2 – Cyber Risk, AI, and Digital Security
11:30 – 12:15
Sofia Scozzari (Hackmanac)
Monitor the Evolution of REAL GLOBAL CYBER THREATS
12:15 – 13:00
Arianna Zanon & Emilio Gregori (Synergia)
Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity: Industrial Perspectives and Applications
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch
Session 3 – Legal and Ethical Challenges
14:30 – 15:15
Pierluigi Perri (Department of Economic, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Milan)
Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection and Digital Governance
15:15 – 16:00
TBA
16:00 – 16:20
Coffee Break
16:20 – 16:40 genESG Green Generation Challenge
Young Ideas for a Sustainable Future
Maria Iannario, Claudia Tarantola
Stakeholder Round Table
16:40 – 17:30
Building Resilient Digital Ecosystems: Perspectives from Academia, Industry and Institutions
Panel discussion with invited speakers and stakeholders.
Francesco Bonfiglio (Digital Transformation and European Sovereignty)
Representative (Fondazione Mondo Digitale ETS)
Chiara Binelli (Women in Data Science; Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna)
Letizia Giorgetti (Department of Economic, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Milan)
Day 2 – Quantitative Methods for the Digital Era
Session 4 – Statistical Learning and Risk Analytics
10:00 – 10:30: Advanced Statistical Models for Digital Risk Assessment
Claudia Tarantola (CRISP research team)
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break
Future Research and Collaborative Opportunities
11:15 – 12:00: The CRISP Project: Research Perspectives and International Collaboration
Marie Skłodowska-Curie DIGITAL Network
Horizon Europe opportunities
Open Science and data sharing
Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era: The Road Ahead
Open discussion with speakers, stakeholders and participants.
Scientific committee


