We Make Future 2023. The year AI got its own stages.
Fiera di Rimini, 15 to 17 June 2023. Our team was back at WMF, its last year in Rimini.
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The Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini. Photo Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
- ShowWMF We Make Future
- WhereFiera di Rimini
- When15-17 June 2023
- We wereOur team was there
A hundred stages.
The 2023 programme had more than a hundred training stages and over a thousand speakers, a mainstage for talks and shows, a whole hall for start-ups and investors, and a music festival next to it.
Six stages on AI.
Artificial intelligence got six stages of its own, with tracks on what it means for small businesses, for work and education, and for government.
A year later the festival moved to Bologna.
The canal harbour, Rimini. Photo Cicciotto, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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It proposes, you confirm.
In our panel the AI Copilot reads your accounts and suggests where to move budget.
Nothing moves until you press Confirm. Until then it is a suggestion on a screen.
It proposes a change and waits for your approval.
Prospecting on acct_us_14 has the lowest CPA and 8 days of budget left. I would raise it first.
Who else covered it.
Written up in the local press by Altarimini, il Resto del Carlino, Chiamami Città and newsrimini.it, discussed on the podcast Vita da Freelance, covered by the creator Adriano De Arcangelis, and by 3 others.
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WMF We Make Future 2023, official pageOrganiser (opens in a new tab)Local press
- AltariminiJune 2023Rimini: Yalla trionfa alla Startup Competition di We Make Future (opens in a new tab)
Yalla wins the jury prize of the eleventh Startup Competition and goes to the Startup World Cup final in San Francisco; Cyrkl and Wallife also take awards.
- AltariminiJune 2023La guerra in Ucraina al We Make Future, 'lavoriamo tra le bombe' (opens in a new tab)
Elena Malitskaya, CEO of the ISE corporate accelerator, tells the WMF stage that Ukraine's tech community keeps working under air raids, with platforms that help citizens live in a country at war.
- il Resto del CarlinoJune 2023L’emisfero sinistro della musica di Dardust (opens in a new tab)
Interview with pianist and producer Dardust before he brings Left Hemisphere, the electronic half of his Duality tour, to WMF at the Rimini fair.
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- il Resto del CarlinoJune 2023Alla scoperta dell’intelligenza artificiale (opens in a new tab)
About twenty digital entrepreneurs from Confartigianato Federimpresa Cesena visited the fair with Gabriele Savoia of the association's Digital Innovation Hub Romagna.
- Chiamami CittàJune 2023Rimini, Robot Sofia conduce Wmf- We Make Future (opens in a new tab)
On the first day the humanoid Robot Sophia co-hosted the main stage with the festival's creator Cosmano Lombardo and introduced AI scientist Jerry Kaplan.
- AltariminiMarch 2023L'inventore del web Tim Berners-Lee a Rimini. Sarà ospite del We Make Future festival (opens in a new tab)
Announces Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the Mainstage of the eleventh edition, joining more than 130 speakers already confirmed out of over 1,000 expected.
- newsrimini.itJanuary 2023Torna in fiera a giugno il WMF, festival dell’innovazione digitale (opens in a new tab)
Early announcement of the 15-17 June edition with Bill Reichert on stage for the first time and delegations from over 50 countries, among them Morocco's embassy.
- Chiamami CittàDecember 2023We make future addio, la fiera delll’innovazione digitale lascia Rimini per Bologna (opens in a new tab)
Reports that the festival leaves Rimini for Bologna Fiere in June 2024, after drawing over 60,000 attendances from 89 countries and 670 exhibitors in Rimini.
Podcast
- Vita da FreelanceJune 202320 - WMF 2023 Tik Tok e Whatsapp alla riscossa (opens in a new tab)
A freelancer's account of the 2023 fair, centred on WhatsApp marketing and TikTok advertising, with the three books he brought home.
Creators
- Adriano De ArcangelisJune 2023La Mia Settimana a Rimini per il We Make Future 2023! (opens in a new tab)
Vlog of a week in Rimini for the 2023 edition, following the creator through conferences, workshops and networking sessions at the fair.
- Francesco MondelloAugust 2023A Rimini per il WMF 2023! (opens in a new tab)
A visitor's video review of the 2023 edition at the Rimini fair, from the venue and organisation to the companies met on the floor.
Blog
- didardoJuly 2023WMF 2023: anche didardo makes future! (opens in a new tab)
The agency on its talk in the Design&UI room on 15 June, where Chiara Danese explained how to turn a business model from product to service and back.
Institution
- Camera di Commercio Italiana per la SvizzeraJune 2023WMF Rimini 2023: la Swiss-Italian Area (opens in a new tab)
The Italian Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland on its first Swiss-Italian Area at WMF, set up to show Italian startups and SMEs the Swiss market.
Speaker
- University of BolognaIn-VisiBLe project at We Make Future. (opens in a new tab)
University of Bologna and Museo Omero presented the In-VisIBLe learning tool for blind and visually impaired people at the festival on 16 June 2023.
From the organiser
- Startups MagazineJune 2023We Make Future: the curtain falls on the three-day event that made Italy the capital of Innovation (opens in a new tab)
Closing report on the eleventh edition across 10 pavilions of the Rimini Expo Centre, with the Emilia-Romagna Region as main sponsor.
- Money.itJune 2023WMF - We Make Future: numeri e highlights dell’edizione 2023 (opens in a new tab)
Counts over 60,000 attendances from 85 countries, more than 1,000 speakers, 2,000 startups and investors and 670 exhibitors at the eleventh edition.
- La SiciliaFebruary 2023World Startup Fest: al WMF 2023 torna l’evento di riferimento internazionale per Startup, Investitori e Scaleup (opens in a new tab)
Announces the World Startup Fest in a whole pavilion of the Rimini fair, with a Startup Competition whose past prize pools exceeded 3.3 million euros.
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