We Make Future 2026. Art and AI, in the same hall.
BolognaFiere, 24 to 26 June 2026. A fifth WMF in a row for our team.
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- WhereBolognaFiere
- When24-26 June 2026
- We wereOur team was there
A Fiera District tower, Bologna. Photo Gianlucab1964, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
Seventy thousand square metres.
The organiser counted more than 75,000 people and over 800 exhibitors and sponsors on 70,000 square metres of BolognaFiere, with fourteen districts, twenty international pavilions and 3,000 business meetings.
- Peoplemore than 75,000
- Exhibitors and sponsorsover 800
- Square metres70,000
- Districtsfourteen
- International pavilionstwenty
- Business meetings3,000
Bologna from San Petronio. Photo Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
Who imagines the work.
Artribune picked art and AI as one of the strongest threads of the year.
Artists, historians, creators and technologists argued about whether what matters is who makes a work or who imagines it.
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Who else covered it.
Written up in the local press by Il Resto del Carlino, il Resto del Carlino, InCronaca and Radiabo, in the press by Artribune, covered by the creator Umanoidi, and by 2 others.
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WMF We Make Future 2026, official pageOrganiser (opens in a new tab)Local press
- Il Resto del CarlinoJune 2026In arrivo ’We Make Future’ 2026. Droni, concerti, talk e tecnologia. Torna la kermesse sull’innovazione (opens in a new tab)
Previews 24-26 June at BolognaFiere with a thousand speakers and 800 exhibitors, built around fourteen challenges of tomorrow.
- il Resto del CarlinoJune 2026Ecco ‘We Make Future’. Droni, robot, mobilità: "Qui l’innovazione genera valore reale" (opens in a new tab)
On the eve of the edition, CEO Cosmano Lombardo previews the European Drone Soccer Championship, a Gravity Jet Suit flight and the theme Build What Matters, with Dell and Intel as main sponsors.
- InCronacaJune 2026Al via il We Make Future 2026 (opens in a new tab)
Reports the opening with I Patagarri on stage and, on the floor, Ciruzzo, a humanoid used on packaging lines, and robot dogs meant to guide blind people.
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- il Resto del CarlinoJune 2026Parte ’We Make Future’. Umanoidi, eventi e futuro: "Bologna come nuovo centro dell’innovazione" (opens in a new tab)
BolognaFiere president Gianpiero Calzolari says the city's investment in innovation, starting from the Tecnopolo, made Bologna the right seat, at an opening where a humanoid robot cut the ribbon.
- RadiaboJune 2026We Make Future 2026, Bologna diventa la città del futuro (opens in a new tab)
Meets Teotronica, an Imola firm founded by Matteo Suzzi that builds automata from recycled materials, such as the piano-playing Teotronico and Robotanica, made from recycled jerrycans.
Press
- ArtribuneJune 2026A Bologna tre giorni di convegni per parlare di innovazione e cultura. Come sarà il We Make Future 2026 (opens in a new tab)
Reads the 2026 edition through the relation between art and AI, with over a thousand speakers, artists and creatives from more than 90 countries.
- Focus.itJune 2026WMF, We Make Future: il futuro si costruisce a Bologna (opens in a new tab)
Points to the Robotics & Physical AI area as one of the busiest, with robots learning to do laundry and robotic arms working with surgeons.
Creator
- UmanoidiJune 2026Ho visto i miei Primi Robot Umanoidi! 🤖 | We Make Future 2026 (opens in a new tab)
The Umanoidi channel's first vlog sees humanoid robots live at the fair, among them Tesla's Optimus, Unitree's H2 and R1 and Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot.
Institution
- Università di PisaJuly 2026Guinness World Record per gli studenti di Unipi con l’aeroplano di carta più grande del mondo (opens in a new tab)
The university says its students' paper plane flew 59 metres, beating a record held since 2013, certified on 25 June at the fair.
From the organiser
- AdnkronosJune 2026Innovazione, a BolognaFiere torna We Make Future (opens in a new tab)
Previews the 24-26 June edition with more than 800 exhibitors, investors, research centres, universities and international delegations.
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