NABA - Innovation Stories

In the latest episode of NABA INNOVATION STORIES is Omar Hassan, a former boxer and currently one of the most interesting, original and beloved exponents of contemporary art. A graduate of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and a student in the workshop of Alberto Garutti, in the course of the episode Hassan reflects on the pictorial gesture in its randomness and at the same time in its strength, on s...

To be a design innovation executive in the most competitive place in the world. Is it impossible? Not for Leandro Agrò, special guest of NABA INNOVATION STORIES. Agrò has always been linked to Interaction Design and projects with a very high digital impact, and currently lives and works in Silicon Valley, California. Agrò, also a book author and a pioneer of the Internet of Things, focuses on the...

Annamaria Testa is the special guest of a new episode of Naba Innovation Stories. The focus is on creativity and its infinite nuances - which then build the world we live in. Testa, author of the essay "La trama lucente" reminds us how, after all, creativity represents the greatest factor of change, the expression of intelligence that allows us to adapt to the environment, as well as making us who...

In her 20+ years career Italian manager Silvana Toppi has worked with ease in finance, M&A, supply chain, digital transformation and much more, sharing her talents with the relevant multinationals she has worked with, with significant roles also as CFO. In her interview with NABA INNOVATION STORIES Silvana Toppi opens up across the board about all that being a woman in business at high managem...

Giuseppe Mastromatteo is a photographer, artist, president and Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy Italia, among the most influent companies in advertising. With Mastromatteo, who is also vice president of ADCI, the association of Italian art directors, the episode of Naba Innovation Stories explores different nuances of creativity. The artist and creative director tells his story from the beginnings...

Massimiliano Magrini is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of United Venture, a Milan-based independent venture capital firm founded in 2013 that invests in people and technology. Their Manifesto reads: we are a venture capital firm that supports visionary entrepreneurs in reinventing companies through technology. Magrini's words are not confined only to the philosophy of "venture capital" but become...

Visionary Fields Forever is the first entrepreneurial project on Engineering Culture in Italy, a method for business development that thanks to innovative gears, systems, and processes enhances cultural heritage to create long-term value. Simona Orsini, co-founder of Visionary Fields Forever together with Stefania Vismara, tells what the origins and visions of the project were, with the aim of sup...

Duccio Vitali is the CEO of Alkemy: a company founded to bring digital to Italian businesses, today it enables their growth through generative Artificial Intelligence and data, to define a customer experience suitable to the post-digital context. The innovation of business models, reflections on the future of design, and willingness to listen to the new generations struggling with the world of wor...

Nicolas Bovey - acclaimed scenographer and light designer and two-time UBU award winner, is the special guest of the new episode of Naba Innovation Stories. The artist will focus on innovation from a unique perspective: that of an ancient universe like theater, where the archaic and originality intertwine, creating unrepeatable moments. Is it possible to find something innovative on stage? Bovey a...

Maddalena Amoruso is a Data Officer and data scientist applied to business who, in the course of the episode, reflects on topics related to her profession but also to current events. In three points, Amoruso explores the opportunities for integration between artificial intelligence and customer journey, including the future of generative AI in interacting with interfaces and services. Relevant spa...

In a constantly changing world of work, what do companies demand from creatives and designers of the future? Is it more important to have projects or to show oneself as interpreters of new, perhaps still unexpressed, needs? And how important is the word "happiness" in professional life? With Alessandro Rimassa, one of the most innovative thinkers of contemporary work, Massimo Pettiti, and Giacomo...