International scholars recalled this during the recent World Economic Forum, last week in Davos: economic recovery, environmental protection understood as "green" energy conversion, and digitization, are the three pillars of post-pandemic world development, and hopefully also post-war.

This is a goal shared not only by the global socio-economic community, but also by international administrations, at all levels.

This is the message behind the conference "Ecological transition between digital finance and the energy challenge", scheduled for 6 February at the Auditorium of the Universita della Svizzera Italiana of Lugano.

USI, SUPSI and Franklin University alongside Lugano on the Plan ₿

In Italian-speaking Switzerland, an "aperitif" from the Festival of Economics

The event fits into the internationalization process of the Trento Festival of Economics which, having reached its 18th edition, today stands out for being one of the most authoritative and innovative academic conferences in the world.

During the conference at the University of Ticino, the business, academic and institutional community will take stock of the transformation model underway between the Swiss Confederation and neighboring Italy, with specific attention to the implications in the field of digital finance and energy production.

The proceedings will begin with greetings from the authorities, including: Monica Duke Widmer, President of the Council of USI; Michael Foletti, Mayor of Lugano; the minister Michael Coduri, manager at the Swiss Embassy in Rome; Fabio Tamburini, director of the economic newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore; Silvio Mignano, Ambassador of Italy in Switzerland.

Let us now examine the two sessions into which the debate is divided.

In Borgo d'Anaunia the first mining in a hydroelectric plant

The beginning is with the panel "Ecological transition and digital finance"

The first panel will discuss “Ecological transition and digital finance”.

Moderated by Luca De Biase, economic columnist and currently researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, this meeting will see the intervention of Barbara Antonioli Mantegazzini, Deputy Director at the USI Institute for Economic Research; Generoso Chiaradonna, editor in chief of economics at the Corriere del Ticino; Gabriele Corte, General Manager of the Lugano Banca del Ceresio.

Last but not least speaker of this congress session: Massimo Morini, chief economist at Algorand, whose IT protocols are the basis of the main world cryptocurrencies, and also used by the Società Italiana Autori Editori (SIAE) to protect the copyrights of the productions artistic, by the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) of Zurich, the Government of world football, for the management of digital assets, and by the Bank of Italy in Rome for the automated administration of bank guarantees issued electronically.

Innovation and sustainability run between Zurich and Milan

"Ecological transition and energy challenge" for the second round

The following and final round of speakers will discuss "Ecological transition and the energy challenge".

Moderated by Nicola Zala, RSI journalist and correspondent from Bern, this meeting will be attended by: Stefano Battiston, professor at the University of Zurich at the Faculty of Systems & Sustainable Finance; Maurizio Bona, Vice-Chair International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development; Ilaria Espa, among others Senior Assistant Professor of International Economic Law at the Law Institute of USI as well as researcher at the World Trade Institute (WTI) of the University of Bern; Antonio Fasoli, representing the Federal Polytechnic of Lausanne.

The works will end with the final considerations of Massimo Filippini, Pprofessor Oordinary of Eeconomy Ppolitics at the USI of Lugano and the Polytechnic FHederal of Zurich as holder of a joint USI-ETH chair Zurich, to which is added the free teaching also at the chair of Eeconomy Ppolitics at the Faculty of Sciencies Eeconomics of the University of Zurich.

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