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The Federated Innovation area in Smart Places and Building Innovation emphasizes sustainability, circularity, and the smart integration of technology to enhance building efficiency and safety throughout their lifecycle. Smart materials, designed to adapt to environmental conditions, play a crucial role in reducing a building's environmental footprint and mitigating the effects of climate change.
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ABB
ABB is a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. By connecting software to its electrification, robotics, automation and motion portfolio, ABB pushes the boundaries of technology to drive performance to new levels.
Daikin
Daikin is a leading global HVAC manufacturer and service provider which people and space are healthier and more comfortable while reducing the environmental impact.
Lendlease
Lendlease is a leading international property and infrastructure group with operations in Australia, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Mapei
Founded in 1937 in Milan, Mapei is now one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chemical products for the building industry and has contributed to the construction of some of the most important architectural and infrastructural works worldwide.
Saint-Gobain
Saint-Gobain's purpose is “Making the world a better home”. The company designs and manufactures materials and solutions that have a positive impact on everyone's life and provide well-being, quality of life and performance, while caring for the planet. Operating in 76 countries, it has been one of top 100 most innovative groups for the last 10 years.
Schindler
Schindler is a leading provider of sustainable and smart urban mobility: our elevators, escalators, and moving walks transport more than 1.5 billion people up and down buildings and across transportation hubs every day.
Schneider
Schneider’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging sustainable development and digitalization for all. We call this Life Is On.
VSBLTY
Headquartered in Philadelphia, VSBLTY (CSE: VSBY) (Frankfurt: 5VS) (OTC: VSBGF) (“VSBLTY”) is the world leader in Proactive Digital Display™, which transforms retail and public spaces as well as place-based media networks with SaaS-based audience measurement and security software that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Wood Beton
Wood Beton, born in 1989, is a leader national firm of wood construction systems. The firm works in the residential and great structure areas to offer the market more evolved standards. This resulted in the creation of certified systems: industrialized systems with higher quality, increased construction safety and reduction of the assembly time.
Würth
Global market leader in the development, production and sale of fastening and assembly materials.
Accenture
“Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers.”
Alira Health
“Alira Health is a global healthcare firm whose mission is to humanize healthcare and life sciences in partnership with patients. We provide consulting and clinical services enabled by technology and real-world evidence. From development to medical care, we complement the expertise of our Pharma, Biotech, and MedTech clients with a full spectrum of services across their entire solutions lifecycle.”
AstraZeneca
“AstraZeneca is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on scientific research, development and marketing of ethical drugs for the treatment of oncological, cardiovascular, renal, metabolic, infectivology, respiratory and immunological diseases. AstraZeneca operates in over 100 countries and its drugs are used by millions of patients around the world.”
Bio4Dreams
“Bio4Dreams S.p.A. is a certified incubator of innovative startups in the field of Life Sciences & Healthcare.”
Bracco
“Bracco is an international Group active in the healthcare sector and a leader in contrast agents production and distribution for medical diagnostic imaging.”
Medtronic
“Providing innovative care for a more sustainable and inclusive health system is our priority. Our technologies and solutions can make a difference for people and healthcare systems facing today’s most challenging issues—such as rising healthcare costs, an aging population, and the burden of chronic diseases. But we do not intend to do this alone: we are committed to collaborating in new ways to make innovation truly extraordinary."
Nippon Gases Italia
“Nippon Gases is a historic company, one of the first in Italy to operate in the industrial gases sector. Founded in 1920, it is now part of Nippon Gases Europe, a company that belongs to Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation (NSHD), a large international company with more than 100 years of experience in the gas industry.”
Novartis
“Novartis is reimagining medicine to improve and extend people’s lives. As a leading global medicines company, we use innovative science and digital technologies to create transformative treatments in areas of great medical need. In our quest to find new medicines, we consistently rank among the world’s top companies investing in research and development.”
Roche
“Founded in 1896 in Basel, Switzerland, as one of the first industrial manufacturers of branded medicines, Roche has grown into one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies and the global leader in in-vitro diagnostics. The company pursues scientific excellence to discover and develop medicines and diagnostics for improving and saving the lives of people around the world. We are a pioneer in personalised healthcare and want to further transform how healthcare is delivered to have an even greater impact. To provide the best care for each person we partner with many stakeholders and combine our strengths in Diagnostics and Pharma with data insights from the clinical practice.”
Sapio Life
“Sapio, the 100th years company, has been active in the healthcare sector since 1989, with services and technologies for homecare, hospitals and research. Highly specialized professionals work in Italy and Europe to create a sustainable healthcare system for the future."
Stevanato Group
“Stevanato Group is a leading global provider of drug containment, drug delivery and diagnostic solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and life sciences industries.”
Synlab
“SYNLAB offers a full range of medical diagnostic and ambulatory services for practising doctors, clinics and patients. SYNLAB is the uncontested leader on the European market for human medicine laboratory services.”
UCB Pharma
“UCB is a biopharmaceutical company with headquarters in Belgium, in Brussels and with an Italian headquarters in Milan, focused on developing innovative solutions to transform the lives of people living with severe immunological and neurological diseases.”
E4Life
“E4life is a joint venture formed by ELT Group and Lendlease with the aim of developing and commercializing devices based on innovative e4shieldtm technology to fight viruses in the air and ensure people's safe social life. Our products can inactivate more than 90% of airborne viruses almost instantly, ensuring the well-being of a safe social life for everyone.”
Innovation Agenda
Agrifood Tech & Wellbeing
Develop and share a value-based implementation model to deliver innovation that supports people living longer and healthier lives with focus on last mile and involvement of multiple stakeholdersExperiment on specific pathological conditions where to develop and test a patient-based journey approach (early diagnosis and treatements, precision medicine, chronic disease, home-care services)Build up a holistic patient-centric modular and scalable data platform (regional area) to provide multiple services from clinical research to telemedicine applications including patient monitoring for disease prevention and safety. Interactions with other collaborative ecosystems at national, European and international level.Re-design processes and products (e.g. re-use / recycle syringes and relevant packaging)” through integration of Circular Economy principles.
Strategic domains
GIuliano dall'O'
Ambassador
“Our struggle for global sustainability will be won or lost in cities. The potential of urbanization to lift millions of people from poverty and to accelerate economic growth is huge, as demonstrate in recent decades by some of the major emerging economies”
~ (Past UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, 2012)
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