Carmelo is an attorney with over 20 years of experience in the fields of intellectual property, data protection and technology transactions. In January 2011, he joined Google legal department where he handles the Italian commercial and regulatory practice. Carmelo currently acts as the EMEA AI legal regional lead, specializing in the regulation of artificial intelligence. Carmelo is a public speaker and university lecturer on the topics of innovation policy, consumer Internet, technology deals and negotiation. Carmelo is qualified to practice law in California and in Italy and is a US Certified Privacy Professional. Carmelo holds a LL.M. degree in Law, Science and Technology from Stanford Law School, a J.D. summa cum laude from Luiss Guido Carli and is a Fulbright scholar.

Dinara Timergaleeva is a PhD of the Business for Society programme at Milano-Bicocca. She holds a Double Master Degree in International Luxury Management from MIP Politecnico di Milano and Neoma Business School in France. She has been a Postgraduate teaching assistant of the Design Management for Fashion Master Program at Poli.Design. Her main research interests are: dynamic capabilities, digital marketing, heritage branding, luxury innovation. Research project: Design Driven Innovation in Luxury Fashion Companies. The role of Heritage-based Dynamic Capabilities in Innovation Adoption.

Marco Zanardi has an experience of 30 years of work in the field of Retail Management, Marketing, Innovation. Citizen of the world, globaltrotter for work and passion, he has worked for important companies (Ac Nielsen, Young & Rubicam, Unilever, Consodata). Now he is working for Beready Srl which is a Retail, Trade and Shopper Marketing agency. Since 01.20 he is President of Retail Institute Italy: www.retailinstitute.it Passionate about lifeLonglearning and corporate foresights. PhD reesarch project: Retail Corporate Foresight: a bluprint/pattern/framework for business strategy.