FT Future of Italy Summit 2013
 
 
Strategic Partner



Clifford Chance is one of the world's pre-eminent law firms with significant range and depth of resources across five continents. As a single, fully integrated, global partnership, we pride ourselves on our approachable, collegiate and team-based way of working.  We always strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, which include corporates from all the commercial and industrial sectors, governments, regulators, trade bodies and not-for-profit organisations.  We provide them with the highest quality advice and legal insight, which combines the Firm's global standards with in-depth local expertise.

Present in Italy since 1993, we have around 100 professionals in Milan and Rome, including 19 partners and 5 counsel. With 20 years’ experience in Italy from a team of partners who have worked together on a broad series of cutting-edge transactions, domestically and internationally, we have a long-standing commitment to Italy and have been actively involved in the modernisation of the Italian legal and financial markets from the 90's onwards.


Strategic Partner


Today Telecom Italia is Italy’s main ICT group and an important player on the Latin American market. It operates in Argentina and Paraguay, providing fixed and mobile telephony services and internet through Telecom Argentina group and in Brazil, where TIM Brasil  is the second player in the country.

The company’s range of offers - focusing on advanced and integrated solutions for consumers, businesses and institutions - includes: landline and mobile telecommunications, digital and media content, cloud computing, office and system solutions. The offers are provided by the Telecom Italia, TIM  and Olivetti reliable and well-known brands.

Attention towards the needs of its customers and technological innovation are at the base of the company’s strategy.

www.telecomitalia.com



Lead Supporting Partner


24 ORE Group is an Italian multimedia publishing organisation specialized in business, financial and professional information.

Its most popular and best-selling newspaper is Il Sole 24 ORE, the business daily with the highest circulation in Europe, leader in business, financial and regulatory information and key driver of the high brand profile of the Group's operations as a whole.

The range of information it offers integrates with the Radiocor press agency (leader in financial information), the www.ilsole24ore.com portal and the Radio 24 radio station. The Group has a strong competitive market edge as far as services to professionals and companies and specialised publishing are concerned, through its books, magazines, databanks, online services, management software and  Business School with masters and conferences.

In addition to this, the Group has made its own presence felt in arts publishing, in the organisation of cultural exhibitions and events through 24 ORE Cultura.

www.gruppo24ore.ilsole24ore.com


Supporting University



Università Bocconi is Italy's oldest and most respected economics and business university - and the only Italian school to figure in all the major European and global rankings. Its modern urban campus, currently undergoing a major expansion, is located in the center of Milan, Italy’s commercial, financial and fashion capital.

With 12% of the student body coming from other countries, Bocconi offers a range of undergraduate, graduate and executive programs taught in English by an international faculty. Since 1902, the university has aimed to provide selected students with rigorous training that leads to personal growth and an advantageous approach to the job market.

www.unibocconi.eu


Supporting Partners

ANSA is Italy's leading newswire and press agency for national and international news. Created in 1945 by a coalition of Italy's largest newspapers, ANSA actually is a cooperative comprising the 31 publishers owning the major Italian daily newspapers.

ANSA provides a full and impartial source of information through its 22 offices in Italy and over 92 bureaus in 90 countries across 5 continents: Europe, America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Every day, 24/7, over 3,500 news items, more than 1,500 images, and videos are distributed via Internet, TV, satellite, mobile phone and tablets in 6 languages (Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and German) to more than 4,000 users around the world .

The international ANSA network is completed by established partnerships with all major news agencies in the world, the European Pressphoto Agency and the most qualified distributors in order to create a global presence, strategic and widespread by high quality standards.

www.ansa.it






The British Embassy Rome contributes to maintaining and developing the important and longstanding relationship between Italy and the UK. Our work involves services for Britons in Italy, for British companies seeking opportunities in Italy and for Italian companies wishing to do business with the UK. We also develop the strong relationship between our armed forces, and work together in beating international crime and threats to Britain's national security.






The Business Club Italia is a "think  tank" set up in London in September 1995 . Members are Italian and Italian-speaking business men and women involved in various professions, businesses, industries and organisations who deal with Italy and has become one of the most significant forums for discussion about issues relating to Italy as viewed from the City of London.
 
The Club has no political affiliation, and its purpose is to facilitate constructive interchange amongst its members and Italian personalities, entrepreneurs and experts active on the Italian scene in relation to issues of an economic, cultural, political and academic nature and provide a means of conveying in turn the views of its members and the local Italian business Community to the various economic and business forces and markets in Italy.
 
During the course of its seventeen years of existence Business Club Italia has had the honour of having on its role of outstanding speakers Italian Prime Ministers, CEO and Chairman of FTSEMib 30 corporations and many of the most iconic Italian entrepreneurs whose keen business acumen and style have made Italy what it is today.

www.businessclubitalia.org




Business e via Italy (BEV) is a business service provider. It's been designed to help anyone set up in Italy, enter the Italian market or find a business for sale. BEV also helps Italian companies reach international trading partners.

BEV's mission is to be the best and most comprehensive online information source for and about Italian business. The BEV network has become the best of its kind in terms of its services and its international approach. There are English, Russian, Chinese and Italian speaking consultants, so that you can have just one contact for all your needs.

www.businesseviaitaly.com



The Italian Trade Promotion Agency -ICE is the Government agency that supports the globalization of Italian firms, implementing the strategies of the Ministry of Economic Development.

ICE helps to facilitate, develop and promote Italian economic and trade relations with foreign countries, focusing on the needs of SME’s, their associations and partnerships. ICE sustains Italian firms in their internationalization processes and promotes the marketing of Italian goods and services, Italian investments, as well as the image of all that is “Made in Italy” around the world  besides  being directly involved in attracting Foreign Direct Investments. ICE provides information, support and consultancy to Italian companies on foreign markets, promoting exports and fostering cooperation in all areas of industry (consumer and capital goods), agricultural technology and agri-food, services, etc., with the aim of increasing and making the presence of the SME’s effective on international markets.

ICE works closely with the Italian Regions, the network of the Italian Chambers of Commerce, business organizations and other public and private entities. ICE headquarters are in Rome,  and through their extensive network of offices around the world act as “Trade Promotion Sections” of the Italian Embassies or Consulates.

www.ice.gov.it


Puntoit, how should the future of Italy look like?

Puntoit is the Italian Association for the Development of the Information Society.  Since the establishment in 1999, Puntoit has focused its activity on underlying the role played by internet and the digital and creative economy in boosting the overall Italian economy. Bearing in mind that internet, the creative and digital economy are key elements for the achievement of an innovative, competitive and sound economic environment, Puntoit constantly promotes and supports national and International debates and events on the role that Italy could play thanks to the new technologies.

www.puntoit.org




Founded in 2002, Key4biz is the Italian newspaper dedicated to Telecoms, Media, Internet, Smart City and Games. It provides daily news, updates, papers and detailed analysis on markets, services, technologies, companies and rules, regarding Italy, Europe and the most relevant markets on the planet.

The community of Key4biz involves every day more than 21.000 people from ITC world such as journalists, MPs, business leaders and senior decision makers. 

Key4biz.it also encompasses Broadband4Europe.com, an international information website and news aggregator focused on ICT (Information Communication Technology), from multiple online sources.

www.key4biz.it


Wall Street Italia is a leading independent website in Italy specialized in business, financial, political news aimed to institutional and private investors active in the global market.

Wall Street Italia is not a broker, consequently it can be considered "market neutral". Furthermore, Wall Street Italia has never received public contributions or subsidies of any kind. Among independent websites not belonging to big corporations or media portals Wall Street Italia is the n.1 in its segment. In the first semester of 2013 unique visitors grew +16.81% to an average of 404,792 per month, compared to the January/June 2012 period. 

During the summer of 2011 the website experienced a phase of strong growth publishing extensive coverage about Italy and its government sovereign bonds (BTPs) under attack by global speculation.

www.wallstreetitalia.com