Rome Future Week 2025

Rome, September 5, 2025

A groundbreaking workshop is dedicated to the skills that remain profoundly human in a world increasingly dominated by algorithms and automation. Titled “Cultivating Emotional Intelligence in the Age of AI,” the event is organized by Accademia Italiana as part of Rome Future Week, the largest distributed festival dedicated to the future of the capital city.

This interactive and training session is part of the “The New Intelligence of Made in Italy - NIMI” project, curated by PerFormArti by Margherita Colantuono. It will take place on Thursday, September 19, at the Accademia Italiana's Rome campus in the events room.

While AI redefines professions, skills, and languages, the roundtable and workshop invite attendees to pause and reflect on what makes us deeply human: empathy, relationships, and feelings. This is an opportunity to practice the ability to “be with others” and build new tools for individual and collective awareness in an accelerated, digital age, to question relational dynamics in the era of generative technologies, and to reconnect with our own humanity.

The roundtable speakers will be Margherita Colantuono (Mental Coach, Trainer, expert in Emotional Intelligence), Livia Di Nardo (Campus Manager, Accademia Italiana), and Christian Ludovici (Designer and coordinator of the NIMI project). These industry experts will explore how Italian excellence is evolving by integrating traditional craftsmanship and digital innovation, focusing on the principles and best practices of the New Made in Italy. The central goal of the NIMI project is to relaunch Made in Italy on the global stage, providing the tools to embrace the "intelligences" that have made our production system famous.

The event is part of the official program for Rome Future Week 2025, which Accademia Italiana is participating in with a rich agenda of events spanning art, communication, entrepreneurship, and social innovation. From September 15 to 19, the Institute's Rome campus will host conferences, workshops, and installations open to the public, including:

• September 15–18 – Una stanza per la pace | exhibition by Rasha Amin (Basement)
• September 16 – Comunicare nel 2025: creator e brands a confronto | talk by Digital Angels
• September 17 – 2 events: Ready To Scale: l'arte di fare impresa | talk a cura di Fare Impresa; Professionista da 85K: riscrivi le tue regole | workshop with She is Business
• September 18 – 2 events: Triplica il fatturato con l’AI per arrivare a 85K | workshop with She is Business; SHE LEADS: Il Futuro a Misura di Mamma | workshop by Esmeralda Cullhaj
• September 19 – Coltivare l’Intelligenza Emotiva ai tempi dell’AI | NIMI and PerFormArti workshop

Click here to book your spot.

Additionally, throughout the week, Accademia Italiana students will be involved in creating content for TikTok Academy, providing real-time coverage of the festival's highlights using innovative, digital-native languages.

Event organized as part of the project "La nuova intelligenza del Made in Italy - The New Intelligence of Made in Italy - NIMI," funded by the European Union's Next Generation EU (NGEU) - for the internationalization of higher education institutions for artistic and musical education (AFAM) under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) MISSION 4 COMPONENT 1 - INVESTMENT 3.4 SUB-INVESTMENT T5. CUP: H37G24000080001