A conversation between Luca Cottini and Flavio Tranquillo, journalist, writer, sportscaster, and Italian voice of the NBA for Sky Sport. * How #basketball made it to Italy. Why Italy is one of the hottest markets for the #nba * The Italian reinvention of American products. NBA, Walt Disney, chewing gum * The #business and culture of sports. On money and #education * Basketball as a platform for cultural exchange, diversity, and mutual understanding * Why sports are a fundamental tool in the fight against organized crime * Sports and the Italian Studies curriculum Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2020

A conversation between Luca Cottini and Clio Zammatteo (Co-Founder of ClioMakeUp, Entrepreneur, Author, Blogger, Influencer, TV Presenter) * From the Art of #Painting to the Visual Language of #makeup * Makeup as a Multi-Media Platform: YouTube, Social Media, TV, Publishing * From Ephemerality to Duration. The Culture of the Makeup Business * Mastery, Authorship, and Creativity. A Recipe for Innovation and #success * An Italian #woman in NYC. On Femininity and Entrepreneurship Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2020

A conversation between Luca Cottini (PhD) and Luigi Crema (associate professor of international law at the University of Milan) * Roman #law and the foundation of modern legal systems (0:45) * The post-war making of Italy's constitution and the primacy of #labor (7:00) * A comparative analysis. The young Italian constitution and the old American constitution (12:30) * The Italian #constitution and the status of contemporary Italian democracy (18:00) * The necessary relationship of law and culture. The American, Italian, and European cases (24:00) * The Italian contribution to human #rights (26:53) Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2022

A conversation between Luca Cottini and Nicola Guerini (General Manager at Milano Fashion Institute) * The Milano Fashion Institute at the Intersection of Culture, Business, and Logistics * The Italian #fashion System as a Synthesis of Creativity, Manufacture, and Entrepreneurship * The Collaboration of #Designers and #Managers * What is Italian Fashion in a Global Context? * Fashion & Sustainability. Fashion & Pandemic Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2020

A conversation between Luca Cottini (PhD) and Luca Vullo (actor, director, performer, author, speaker, and communication coach) * From Sicily to the world. Discovering a professional path (1:57) * Gestures as a key feature of the Italian flair and #entrepreneurial success (7:20) * The grammar of the #body. Non-verbal communication and team building (11:42) * From #theatre to social media. The applications of emotional intelligence (19:38) * From theatre to film. The visual language of a documentary (25:23) * The creative #gesture. Where does creativity spring from? (28:05) Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2021

A conversation between Luca Cottini (PhD) and Alberto Milani (entrepreneur, creator of the jewelry & lifestyle luxury brand Alberto Milani "a love affair with Italy", president of the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of New York, and co-founder of Piazza Italia Market in New York City) * A leader in jewelry. The path to #entrepreneurship (1:10) * Between tradition and innovation. What's in a jewel? (3:00) * How does the Italian obsession for beauty translate into #jewelry design? The 3 qualities of Made in Italy (6:48) * The distinctive character of Alberto Milani jewelry lines (11:50) * The history and service of the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce in New York (13:48) * The #innovation hub of Piazza Italia (16:25) * (in italiano) Le difficoltà e le sfide di un'azienda italiana che voglia entrare nel mercato americano; come si fa a creare un'influenza (20:00) * The recipe for excellence: creative #design and strategic thinking (27:05) Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2022

A conversation between Luca Cottini and Mauro Porcini, SVP & Chief Design Officer at PepsiCo * What makes #design Italian? * What is #designthinking? * Design, innovation and aesthetics * Design as a polyglot knowledge Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2019

A conversation between Luca Cottini (PhD) and Emanuele Cappelli (Creative Director at Cappelli Identity Design and Professor in Brand and Graphic Design at the Rome University of Fine Arts) * The story of Cappelli Identity Design and the creative soil of its founder (1:27) * The complementary paths of #academia and #entrepreneurship in creating value (4:40) * Visual #design as effective communication: the Felliniana & Olivetti Lettera 22 fonts (7:00) * Dynamic #branding as a relational way to create consistent and flexible identities, and achieve perennial livelihood in digital #communication (10:05) * What is the difference between recognizing a logo and knowing a #brand? (16:35) * Applying dynamic #branding to teaching and the promotion of the #humanities (20:35) Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2022

A conversation between Luca Cottini and Charles Leavitt (Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Notre Dame) * What is #Neorealism and why Americans (and the rest of the world) are in love with it * Neorealism as a total art and a shared discourse involving different disciplines * Neorealism and the #aesthetics of reconstruction. * Neorealism, #design, and the Italian economic boom * Where is Neorealism today in Italian and Hollywood cinema? Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2020

Study abroad and 'the Italian experience'. A conversation between Luca Cottini, Roberto Andreoni (composer and director of IES Milano), and Stefano Baldassarri (Renaissance scholar and director of ISI Florence) * Two elite #studyabroad programs and two key Italian cities. Studying in #Florence and #Milan * The Italian experience. What can a student really gain studying in Italy? Why does real understanding require time? * The Italian study abroad network. Italy as a destination and a professional resource * Study abroad institutes as sites of cultural mediation and elaboration of new models * The pandemic and the future of study abroad Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2021

A conversation between Luca Cottini and Vic Rallo (restaurateur, wine critic, and host of the show "On the Road with Vic Rallo") * What is Italian #food? * On quality, freshness, and genuineness vs counterfeits * Italian food as a platform to create and recognize value * What makes #Italian wine distinctive? * #Wine as culture, memory, imagination * How to create a wine list? The cellar as a gallery Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2020

A conversation between Luca Cottini and Ignazio Marino (Transplant surgeon, professor of surgery at Thomas Jefferson University, former Italian senator, former mayor of Rome, executive director of the Jefferson Italy Center and executive Vice President for International Innovative Strategic Ventures) * Assessing the Italian #medical system. International ranking, scientific model, & political organization * The Italian culture of #medicine. From early Renaissance hospitals to contemporary healthcare * Translating worlds. An Italian #surgeon in the US. A US-based doctor in Rome * Bridging the American and Italian approaches. The Jefferson-Rome program * The Italian contribution to American medical research Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2020

A conversation between Luca Cottini (PhD) and Gianfranco Zaccai (designer, architect, innovator, founder of the design firm Continuum, president of the Foundation for Augmented Intelligence) * A story in between worlds. From #education to the establishment of Continuum (1:26) * The genesis of Reebok Pump (5:50) * The migrant's mindset as a key to originality (7:40) * Design & food (8:12) * How is an idea born? The explorative and creative process behind P&G's Swiffer (11:36) * How does an object become a web of interactions? How can a product matter? (17:45) * The creation of Omnipod and the power of hiding (21:36) * #designthinking as a key way to #innovation (23:05) * Holistic thinking and the quest for elegant solutions in #design and #academia (26:00) * The foundation for augmented intelligence. Design as a force for good (29:20) * From design of objects to design of experience. Re-inventing the semester abroad in Italy (34:10) Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode of "Italian Innovators". If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2022

A conversation between Luca Cottini and Fiorenzo Omenetto (Frank C. Doble Professor of Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Dean of research for the school of Engineering at Tufts University) * Silk as a cultural object and a fascinating innovation platform * From #fashion to #culture, from industry to #nanotechnology * Innovation, play, and the ability to connect different spheres of knowledge * Imagination as a key resource for #science * Italy in the global research network of #biomedical engineering Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2020

A conversation between Luca Cottini (PhD) and Gianni Riotta (journalist, writer, director of Data Lab at LUISS Guido Carli University School of Government in Rome, and Pirelli visiting professor of Italian Studies at Princeton University) * Seeing America from an Italian/Sicilian perspective (1:30) * On the necessary relationship between #journalism and #academia (5:50) * Storytelling as a key resource in the pursuit of #truth (12:20) * The language of the new media. Italian and new modes of #communication (21:40) * The pandemic & the crisis of academia. A new model for 21st century #universities (34:45) * The vital role of Italian studies in North American academia (49:30) * Where to start with the Italian literary patrimony (01:06:50) Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2021

A conversation between Luca Cottini (PhD) and Patrizio Cionfoli (Director of Design and Interaction at Studio Volpi) * What is the philosophy of Studio Volpi? (1:20) * Disegno and progetto. Italian design as an operative fusion of #aesthetics and functionality (2:20) * The integrated #design of experience. What's behind an interface? (6:12) * The culture and value of virtual reality #VR (11:35) * The Internet of Things (#IoT) and the value of #storytelling (17:10) * The rebranding of a #heritage. Design as a synthesis of user experience and innovation (22:15) * The unique value that an Italian #design company brings to the American market (27:00) Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, make sure to leave a comment here below and subscribe to this YouTube channel as a way to enrich this conversation and receive notification of new episodes. Also, don’t forget to visit the official webpage of the show at www.italianinnovators.com for more information about this project. All rights reserved | © Italian Innovators 2021