Conference program 2026
May 13 - Morning
11:00 AM
OFFICIAL OPENING – WELCOME SPEECH
Danny D’Alessandro, Managing Director of NürnbergMesse Italia
Cristina Balbi, Councillor at the Municipal Council of Vicenza
Luca Durante, Head of the Capital Goods Office, Italian Trade Agency (ITA)
11:30 AM
Electronics Market: Shortages, Costs and New Supply Chain Balances — The Assodel Observatory
Speakers:
Diego Giordani, Director of Assodel
Luca Giovelli, Coordinator of the Assodel PCB Group
Alberto Maggi, Coordinator of the Assodel Production & Design Group
The conference will be moderated by the journalist Massimo Cerofolini.
May 13 - Afternoon
2:15 PM
Algorithms in Production: Industry Enters the Era of Intelligent Agents
BI-REX Big Data Innovation & Research Excellence
Speaker: Paolo Cosseddu, R&D Engineer
Title: Defect monitoring in 3D printing of electronic circuits
TTLab® di Franco e Daniele Tampieri
Speaker: Franco Tampieri, CoFounder di TTlab®, Developer Software Senior, Consultant
Cybersecurity (CISO)
Title: The Developer as Project Lead: Multi-Agent Architectures for Software Development (and
Beyond)
CEFRIEL S.C.A.R.L. SB
Speaker: Luca Campelli, Marketing Manager
Title: AI Adoption: turning strategy into real business outcomes
SAKI Europe s.r.o.
Speaker: Martin Kostadinov, Technology Sales Manager
Title: AI transforms SMT PCB inspection into faster, sharper, and defect-free manufacturing
Luminovo GmbH
Speaker: Márton Teker, Customer Success Manager
Title: AI in the Supply Chain: How Intelligent Agents Are Transforming PCBA Quoting for European EMS
The conference will be moderated by the journalist Massimo Cerofolini.
May 14 - Morning
Round table at 10:30 AM
Building a resilient electronics ecosystem: strategies, investments and
policies needed
Alison James – Senior Director Global Electronics Association, European government relations
Thomas Michels – Vice President, EIPC; CEO of ILFA, a German PCB manufacturer
Cosimo Musca – President ANIE Electronic Components
The round table will be moderated by the journalist Massimo Cerofolini.
May 14 - Afternoon
1:45 PM
Counterfeit Electronic Components in Avionics, Railway and High-Reliability Applications
Speakers:
Luca Agostoni, Executive Director – Gestlabs e Julien Conversano, Area Sales Manager – SERMA TECHNOLOGIES
2:15 PM
Tech me up
Speaker:
Marianna Marrazzo – Training Hub Development Manager, Gi Group
The conference will be moderated by the journalist Massimo Cerofolini.