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September 6, 2025 - September 7, 2025 Incontro

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB
 Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Villa d'Este Via Regina, 40 - 22012 CERNOBBIO (CO)

In parallel with the annual Villa d’Este Forum “The Current and Future Scenarios for Competitive Strategies,” the customary Leader del Futuro meeting will take place—a tailor-made program reserved for young managers and entrepreneurs under the age of 35.
 
This unique event offers a high-level opportunity to gain insights into global, European, and Italian scenarios, challenges, and opportunities, in the presence of key figures from the 51st edition of the Villa d’Este Forum.
 
An exclusive chance to meet in person some of the most authoritative leaders and experts of our time in a closed-door setting, providing a space for networking and dialogue between today’s and tomorrow’s leaders.

Speakers

Nico Acampora

Founder, PizzAut

Ronen Assia

Co-Founder and Executive Director, eToro

Gerard Baker

Editor-at-Large, The Wall Street Journal

Joyce Chang

Chair of Global Research, J.P. Morgan

Jason Furman

Aetna Professor, Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard University

Enrico Giovannini

Founder and Scientific Director, Alleanza Italiana per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile; former Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, Italy

Arancha González Laya

Dean, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po

Hugh Herr

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab; Co-Director, K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics, MIT

Wolfgang Ischinger

President, Foundation Council of the Munich Security Conference

Kai-Fu Lee

Computer scientist, businessman, and author

Monica Maggioni

Journalist, Anchorwoman, Author; Head Editor of News and Anchor, RAI.TV.

Markus Meister

Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences, California Institute of Technology

Vali R. Nasr

Majid Khadduri Professor of Middle East and International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University of Advanced International Studies

Ari Wallach

Futurist; Founder and Executive Director, Longpath

Programme

September 06, 2025
10:00 am - 6:30 pm Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”
September 07, 2025
9:30 am - 1:15 pm Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Documenti dell'incontro

Nota informativa

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB
 Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Nota informativa

Kit

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB
 Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Kit

Documents

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Una certa idea di leadership

Enrico Sassoon, Valerio De Molli

Mind Edizioni

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Presentation

Ari Wallach

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Presentation

Enrico Giovannini

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Presentation

Ronen Assia

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Presentation

Joyce Chang

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Presentation

Jason Furman

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Presentation

Hugh Herr

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Presentation

Kai-Fu Lee

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

AI 2041. Scenari dal futuro dell'intelligenza artificiale

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Qiufan Chen, Kai-Fu Lee

Luiss University Press

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Pensieri lenti e veloci

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Daniel Kahneman

Mondadori

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the new world order

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Kai-Fu Lee

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Presentation

Vali R. Nasr

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

A brief history of the future – Episodio 2 italiano

Futurific

Vimeo

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Made in China 2025: Mission largely accomplished

J.P. Morgan

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

The ascent of money: a financial history of the world

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Niall Ferguson

Penguin Publishing Group

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Lords of finance: the bankers who broke the world

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Liaquat Ahamed

Penguin Press

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

When genius failed. The rise and fall of long-term capital management

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Roger Lowenstein

Random House Publishing Group

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

A random walk down Wall Street: the best investment guide that money can buy

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Burton G. Malkiel

W. W. Norton & Company

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

2025 Brussels Forum Highlights: Mission Not Yet Accomplished

J.P. Morgan

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Scenari per l’Italia al 2035 e al 2050. Il falso dilemma tra sostenibilità e competitività

ASviS

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Iran's grand strategy: a political history

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Vali Nasr

Princeton Univ Pr

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

The Presidents

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Monica Maggioni

Rai Libri

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

American Breakdown: Why we no longer trust our leaders and institutions and how we can rebuild confidence

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Gerard Baker

Grand Central Publishing

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Top Risks 2025

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Ian Bremmer, Cliff Kupchan

Eurasia Group

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Observatory on Women’s Empowerment 2025

TEHA Group

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

World Economic Outlook, April 2025: a critical juncture amid policy shifts

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International Monetary Fund

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Il pericoloso fascino dell’empatia artificiale

Massimo Canducci

Harvard Business Review Italia

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Munich Security Report 2025 – Multipolarization

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Munich Security Conference

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Longpath

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Ari Wallach

Rubbettino Editore

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?

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Jieyu Zheng, Markus Meister

CellPress

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Change or bust: How Europe can shore up the multilateral trading system

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Arancha González Laya

European Council on Foreign Relations

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

The tariffs kicked in. The sky didn’t fall. Were the economists wrong?

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Jason Furman

The New York Times

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

The new balance of power in the Middle East

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Vali Nasr

Foreign Affairs

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

L’era degli Agenti AI

David Casalini

Harvard Business Review Italia

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Spettri. Abbiamo scelto di dimenticarli. Prima o poi torneranno perché sono la cattiva coscienza dell'Occidente

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Monica Maggioni

Longanesi

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

WSJ opinion: free expression

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Gerard Baker

The Wall Street Journal

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

10 Strategic themes for 2H25 and beyond

J.P. Morgan

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

The post-neoliberal delusion and the tragedy of Bidenomics

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Jason Furman

The Council on Foreign Relations

IN PERSON AND VIA WEB Leader del Futuro Meeting on the occasion of the Cernobbio Forum “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy”

Vietato calpestare i sogni. La straordinaria storia di PizzAut e dei suoi ragazzi

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Nico Acampora , Elisabetta Soglio

Solferino

Video of the meeting