Festival Opening Ceremony

SPEAKERS
Marco Filippeschi, Mayor of Pisa
Franco Mosca,  President of Fondazione ARPA

PROLOGUE
“Scusatemi se da sol mi presento… io sono il robot”

KEYNOTE LECTURES
19.00-19.20 “Sogni dell’Androide” (Android Dreams)
Danilo De Rossi, Full Professor of Bioengineering Electronics and Computer Science, University of Pisa

19.20-19.40 “Dalla robotica industriale alla bionica, e ritorno: sinergie tra scienza e tecnologia nella biorobotica” (From Industrial Robotics to Bionics, and back: synergies between Science and Technology in Biorobotics)
Paolo Dario, Director of the Istitute of BioRobotics of the Sant’Anna School Of Advanced Studies, Pisa

19.40-20.00 “Robot, storia di una parola: dall’uomo di sabbia all’uomo di ferro”(Robot, a word history: from the sandman to the iron man)
Marco Mancini, Head of Department for the University, High Artistic Music Education and Coreutica and for the Research of MIUR

CONCERT
20.30 CON… CERTO divertimento
The “Duo Baldo”, with the extraordinary participation of Teotronico

Following, there will be a welcome Cocktail with a… “robotic” surprise! (on invitation only)