Evening Networking Reception

Registration & Welcome Coffee

Opening Remarks

Welcome & EIC Italian Project Outlook

An opening market intelligence session providing an overview of Italy’s current project landscape, investment activity and major opportunities across the energy sector. This session will explore key developments, upcoming projects and where supply chain engagement is expected to grow in the months ahead.

Keynote: Italy’s Role in Europe’s Energy Transition

Oil & Gas: Supporting Security of Supply While Enabling Transition

As Europe balances affordability, resilience and decarbonisation, oil and gas continue to play an important role in the evolving energy mix. The contribution of engineering services, industrial technologies, skills development and operational best practice remains essential in supporting reliable supply, improving performance and advancing lower-emission operations across the sector. Industry expertise will also be key to delivering a pragmatic and secure energy transition.

• Hazel Lince: From Transition to Delivery: The Workforce Behind Secure and Lower-Carbon Energy Systems
• Paolo Cotone: Navigating the Energy Transition: Challenges, Opportunities and Strategic Choices

Renewable Energy: Scaling Delivery Across Italy and Europe

Renewables remain central to Europe’s decarbonisation goals, with progress across wind, solar and other clean technologies continuing to accelerate through innovation, project development and technical expertise. This session will explore how Europe, particularly Italy, can scale renewable energy from individual projects to fully integrated energy systems, focusing on grid integration, storage, electrification, investment trends, supply chains and digital innovation, as well as the opportunities available for suppliers supporting renewable energy delivery across Italy and Europe.

• Carmelo Bongiovanni: Europe at the Energy Turning Point  
• Roberta Roberto: From renewable growth to integrated energy systems

Nuclear Energy: Europe’s Next Chapter in Reliable Low-Carbon Power

With power demand continuing to rise and energy security becoming increasingly important, offshore wind and nuclear are returning to the spotlight as key pillars of Europe’s energy transition strategy. This session will explore the role of offshore wind, large-scale nuclear reactors and Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in supporting future power generation capacity, while also considering the importance of long-term strategy, infrastructure expertise, heavy lifting, complex project delivery and supply chain readiness in delivering the next generation of energy projects across Europe.

• Davide Andreani: Offshore Wind and Nuclear power are part of the energy transition

Data Centres: Power Demand, Infrastructure and the Digital Energy Challenge

The rapid growth of digital infrastructure is transforming energy demand across Europe. Data centres are increasing requirements for reliable power, grid capacity, energy resilience and sustainable infrastructure development, while also creating new opportunities for investment, regional growth and industrial innovation. This session will explore the role of high-efficiency on-site power generation solutions, strategic partnerships, energy integration and low-carbon infrastructure in supporting the next phase of digital and AI-driven growth. Discussions will also consider how data centres can contribute to energy security, grid stability and the wider energy transition across Europe.

• Danilo Serioli: Building Europe’s sustainable digital infrastructure – regional, renewable, responsible
• Michele Testa: Rewriting The Energy Equation
• Patrizio Prunecchi: Beyond the Grid: Powering Europe’s Digital Future without Compromising our Communities

Industrial Decarbonisation: Smarter Systems for a Lower-Carbon Future

Automation, digitalisation and integrated systems are playing an increasingly important role in helping industry reduce emissions, improve operational efficiency and strengthen long-term competitiveness across energy-intensive sectors. This session will explore how industrial automation, control systems and digital solutions are supporting more sustainable, resilient and future-ready operations, while highlighting the growing role of technology and innovation in accelerating industrial decarbonisation.

• Alessio Rubini: Industrial Decarbonisation: Smarter Systems for a Lower-Carbon Future

Power: Next-Generation Power and Storage Solutions

Cybersecurity has become an essential requirement for critical energy infrastructure. As cyberattacks and geopolitical tensions rise, the EU’s NIS2 Directive — transposed in Italy through Legislative Decree 138/2024 and reinforced by the National Cyber Security Perimeter, Golden Power, CVCN, and CSIRT Italia — imposes stringent obligations on operators and their entire supply chain: technical measures, transparency, strict incident-reporting deadlines, and direct management liability. This presentation outlines the Italian regulatory framework, the exposure facing energy operators, and, through a real-world project in Lithuania, demonstrates how Rolls-Royce embeds security by design across every layer of its systems.

• Daniele Di Franco: NIS2 & Cybersecurity

Carbon Capture: From Ambition to Deployment

Carbon capture is expected to play a critical role in reducing emissions from hard-to-abate sectors. Key areas of focus include project progress, commercial models, infrastructure requirements and what is needed to accelerate deployment across Europe. The importance of engineering capability, project execution expertise and integrated delivery solutions will also be central in turning ambition into operational projects.

• Lorenzo Montemezzo: From Ambition to Deployment: Bonatti's experience in design and construction of Carbon Capture projects
  

Closing Plenary: Partnerships for Italy’s Energy Future

Collaboration across infrastructure, technology, energy supply and industrial capability will be central to Italy’s next phase of growth. This closing plenary will bring together leading organisations from across the sector to share perspectives on investment priorities, system resilience, innovation, decarbonisation and the partnerships needed to deliver Italy’s evolving energy future.

Closing remarks