Episodios

  • Painting the light

    Painting the light
    Jun 12 2024
    In the latest episode of NABA INNOVATION STORIES is Omar Hassan, a former boxer and currently one of the most interesting, original and beloved exponents of contemporary art. A graduate of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and a student in the workshop of Alberto Garutti, in the course of the episode Hassan reflects on the pictorial gesture in its randomness and at the same time in its strength, on some events in his biography that have inspired his work, on the search for light, on the importance of failure. The painterly gesture of his work, the fist that characterizes the Breaking Through series, does not destroy but creates; Hassan, a true conceptual artist, also narrates his art by exploring the search for light with another series of works, Injections. Painting light, along the lines already dreamed of by the great masters with his own, autonomous, independent vision of reality, is one of Hassan's great goals. Along with making sense of time, and creating something that lasts beyond time itself-a dream that only art can achieve.
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    11 m
  • Design, Innovation and Silicon Valley

    Design, Innovation and Silicon Valley
    Jun 5 2024
    To be a design innovation executive in the most competitive place in the world. Is it impossible? Not for Leandro Agrò, special guest of NABA INNOVATION STORIES. Agrò has always been linked to Interaction Design and projects with a very high digital impact, and currently lives and works in Silicon Valley, California. Agrò, also a book author and a pioneer of the Internet of Things, focuses on the role of design today, to understand how to read the phenomena that surround us. And there's also room for reflection on artificial intelligences and, above all, the need not to always sit at one's desk, building all possible levers for a better future.
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    29 m
  • Focus on creativity

    Focus on creativity
    May 22 2024
    Annamaria Testa is the special guest of a new episode of Naba Innovation Stories. The focus is on creativity and its infinite nuances - which then build the world we live in. Testa, author of the essay "La trama lucente" reminds us how, after all, creativity represents the greatest factor of change, the expression of intelligence that allows us to adapt to the environment, as well as making us who we are. Creativity, as the communication consultant, journalist, essayist confirms, is the indispensable premise of innovation, a human thought that becomes real in an insight or invention. In the episode, in which Testa also discusses relevant themes such as artificial intelligence and the disruptive power of women, it emerges how creativity is a psychological and individual phenomenon that "happens" in our own minds, or in the minds of groups of people with whom we find ourselves sharing ideas and thoughts.
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    21 m
  • Inclusion, creativity and innovation in big companies

    Inclusion, creativity and innovation in big companies
    May 15 2024
    In her 20+ years career Italian manager Silvana Toppi has worked with ease in finance, M&A, supply chain, digital transformation and much more, sharing her talents with the relevant multinationals she has worked with, with significant roles also as CFO. In her interview with NABA INNOVATION STORIES Silvana Toppi opens up across the board about all that being a woman in business at high management levels entails, with a major focus on diversity: it is impossible, according to Toppi, to work without inclusion. And talking about impact for women is not pleonastic, in the manager's vision: it is necessary.
    At the time of the interview, Toppi held an important management role at HP. She is currently Group Head of Digital Administration, Finance & Control at A2A.
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    26 m
  • The importance of being humans

    The importance of being humans
    May 2 2024
    Giuseppe Mastromatteo is a photographer, artist, president and Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy Italia, among the most influent companies in advertising. With Mastromatteo, who is also vice president of ADCI, the association of Italian art directors, the episode of Naba Innovation Stories explores different nuances of creativity. The artist and creative director tells his story from the beginnings of his career to his most important achievements, sharing an original point of view on communication and the world of work, creative but not only. Mastromatteo focuses on how the exchanges between human beings, the interactions, are the ones that "provoke" the strongest ideas; he also believes that looking into someone's eyes as they talk to you about their understanding of creativity is more important than evaluating their portfolio.
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    23 m
  • Divergent thinking that creates innovation

    Divergent thinking that creates innovation
    Apr 17 2024
    Massimiliano Magrini is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of United Venture, a Milan-based independent venture capital firm founded in 2013 that invests in people and technology. Their Manifesto reads: we are a venture capital firm that supports visionary entrepreneurs in reinventing companies through technology. Magrini's words are not confined only to the philosophy of "venture capital" but become an important opportunity to reflect on the soul of those who wish to innovate. Among the key elements are the need to follow one's own path without others dictating it and the continuous search for divergent thinking that creates discontinuity and change, as he recounts in the essay "Fuori dal gregge" (Egea). For Massimiliano, who has a distinguished track record in leading international technology companies, a key component is motivation, which enables the brightest minds to always bring something different to the table-and to react in the face of difficulties.
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    19 m
  • Discovering Engineering culture

    Discovering Engineering culture
    Apr 3 2024
    Visionary Fields Forever is the first entrepreneurial project on Engineering Culture in Italy, a method for business development that thanks to innovative gears, systems, and processes enhances cultural heritage to create long-term value. Simona Orsini, co-founder of Visionary Fields Forever together with Stefania Vismara, tells what the origins and visions of the project were, with the aim of supporting companies, institutions and partners to expand their horizons with original and creative values.
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    18 m
  • CEO vs. status quo

    CEO vs. status quo
    Mar 20 2024
    Duccio Vitali is the CEO of Alkemy: a company founded to bring digital to Italian businesses, today it enables their growth through generative Artificial Intelligence and data, to define a customer experience suitable to the post-digital context. The innovation of business models, reflections on the future of design, and willingness to listen to the new generations struggling with the world of work, are some of the elements addressed by the top manager, who advises to "always put everything back on the table" in order to succeed in achieving important results.
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    23 m