Speakers

Hosts

Convening the global AI conversation

Pierluigi Matera

Founding Partner at Libra Legal Partners and Professor of Law at Boston University and LUISS.

David J. Berger

Partner at Wilson Sonsini and President of the American College of Governance Counsel.

Conference Speakers

Voice shaping the global AI conversation

Adolfo Urso

Italian Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, overseeing industry and innovation.

Aidan Gomez

Founder & CEO of Cohere, a leading enterprise artificial intelligence company.

Andrew Hall

Professor of Political Economy at Stanford GSB; Senior Fellow at Hoover Institute.

Anna Koivuniemi

Head of the Google DeepMind Accelerator, supporting AI startup development.

Anne E. Robinson

Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at global technology company IBM, Inc.

Anne Wojcicki

Founder & CEO of 23andMe, the consumer genetics and biotechnology company.

Antonio Neri

Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in Houston, Texas.

Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra

Substitute of the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, a senior Vatican official.

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia

President Emeritus of the Pontifical Academy for Life at the Holy See in Rome.

Arvind Krishna

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IBM, the multinational technology company.

Bethany Mayer

Chair of the Board at Box and director at HPE, Lam Research and Astera Labs.

Brian Halligan

Partner at Sequoia Capital and Co-Founder and Board Director of HubSpot.

Campbell Brown

Founder & CEO of ForumAI and former VP of Media Partnerships at Meta.

Cardinal Christophe Pierre

Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America at the Holy See.

Dan Gallagher

Chief Legal Officer at Robinhood, the American financial services platform.

Dan Lahav

Co-Founder and CEO of Irregular Labs, an AI security and model evaluation company.

Dario Villani

CEO of Qognitive, an artificial intelligence and quantitative research firm.

Dave Baszucki

Chief Executive Officer of Roblox, the online gaming and social platform.

David Oks

Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.

Denise Dignam

President and Chief Executive Officer of Chemours, a global chemical company.

Domenico Lombardi

Chief Executive Officer of Fondo Italiano D'Investimento, an Italian investment fund.

Edward Kliphuis

Head of Digital Medicine at Sofinnova Partners, a European venture capital firm.

Elizabeth Kelly

Head of Beneficial Deployments at Anthropic, the AI safety and research company.

Emanuele Calà

Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Aeroporti di Roma (ADR).

Eugenio de Blasio

Founder and Executive Chairman of Green Arrow Capital, an Italian investment firm.

Fabio Corsico

Director of Institutional Affairs, Caltagirone Group; Vice Chairman, Anima Holding.

Fabrizio Fabbri

Chief Executive Officer of Ansaldo, an Italian engineering and energy company.

Ferruccio Sbarbaro

Professor of Comparative Law and Founding Partner at Libra Legal Partners in Rome.

Florian Koehler

Group General Counsel at Helsing, a European defense AI company based in Munich.

Francesco Di Ciommo

Founder of Di Ciommo & Partners, Board Member at Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, LUISS professor.

Giovanni Marini

Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Perugia in central Italy.

Greg Kausner

Senior Vice President & Defense at Anduril, a US defense technology company.

Jean-Philippe Vert

Founder & CEO of BioOptimus, an AI biotechnology research company in Paris.

Jens Foehrenbach

President and Chief Investment Officer at Graham Capital Management in the US.

Joe Grundfest

Professor of Law and Business Emeritus at Stanford Law School in California.

John Morley

Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Principal Legal Counsel of Anthropic's LTBT.

John Streur

Chief Executive Officer of Boston Common Asset Management, a sustainable investor.

Joseph Larson

Vice President and Head of Government at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company.

Kendall Collins

President and CEO of Government Cloud at enterprise software company Salesforce.

K.R. Sridhar

Founder, Chairman and CEO of Bloom Energy, a clean energy company in California.

Lauren Kunze

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PandoraBots, a conversational AI platform.

Lila Tretikov

Head of AI Strategy at NEA and former Chief Executive Officer of Wikipedia.

Lodovico Mazzolin

Former Special Commissioner at Banca Progetto and Senior Advisor at BIP.

Luciano Buonfiglio

President of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), based in Rome.

Marc Benioff

Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Salesforce in San Francisco.

Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuellar

President of the Carnegie Endowment and Trustee of Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust.

Marilù Capparelli

Director of Legal at Google, overseeing legal matters across the organization.

Mauro D'Ubaldi

Vice Secretary General of the Italian Ministry of Defense in Rome.

Michael Hurlston

Chief Executive Officer of Lumentum, an optical and photonic products company.

Monika Bickert

Head of Global Policy Management at Facebook, overseeing content moderation policy.

Natalie Lamarque

Corporate Secretary and Chief Legal Officer at investment giant Vanguard Group.

Nathaniel Persily

McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford and Co-director of its Cyber Policy Center.

Nick Clegg

Former Meta President for Global Affairs and Former UK Deputy Prime Minister.

Oli Pomel

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Datadog, a cloud monitoring SaaS platform.

Ori Goshen

Co-Founder & Co-CEO of AI21 Labs, an artificial intelligence research company.

Paola Severino

President of School of Law, LUISS and Former Italian Minister of Justice.

Paolo Boccardelli

Rector of LUISS University in Rome and Board Member of Monte dei Paschi di Siena.

Paolo Clarizia

Professor of Administrative Law at LCU (Link Campus University) in Rome, Italy.

Penny Herscher

Chair of the Board at Lumentum and Penguin Solutions and board member at Forvia.

Reverend Andrea Ciucci

Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life at the Holy See in Rome.

Richard Fontaine

CEO of the Center for a New American Security and Trustee of Anthropic's LTBT.

Roberto Pardolesi

Professor of Law at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy.

Rocco Papalia

Rector and Head of Orthopaedics at Campus Biomedico University of Rome.

Ron Ivey

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Noesis Collective, a leadership advisory firm.

Sabastian Niles

President and Chief Legal Officer at enterprise software company Salesforce.

Sarah Kreps

Professor at Cornell University and Director of its Tech Policy Institute.

Simon Kohl

Founder & CEO of Latent Labs, an AI research lab focused on biology.

Suzanne Tavill

Head of Responsible Investment at StepStone Group, a global private markets investor.

Teodoro Valente

President of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and Professor at Sapienza University.

Virginia Zambrano

Professor of Law at the University of Salerno (UNISA) in southern Italy.

Yoram Elkaim

Vice President and Head of Legal – International at Google in Europe.

Zoe Hitzig

Researcher at the Anthropic Institute and Junior Fellow at Harvard University.

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Event

Third Annual Conference 

on AI, Ethics, and Governance

Three days in Rome bringing together policymakers, industry leaders, legal experts, academics, and civil society to discuss the governance, impact, and responsible development of AI.

From 18 to 20

June, 2026

Rome

Italy

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