The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella (Ansa)

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18 October 2019The Italian system is "too routine with respect to the news": "it reflects the inability to help start-ups", forced to find financing abroad. The recall came from the president Sergio Mattarella during a visit to Silicon Valley where the head of state was able to touch the systemic and conceptual delay of Italy with respect to news and new technologies.

Hearing the stories of the Italian founders of two start-ups, the head of state did not hide "concern" about how too often new ideas are not understood, supported and financed in Italy. "It makes the dissociation between the great inventiveness and the ability of the Italians and the inability of the system to understand and accompany these initiatives reflect, this must be realigned in our country", said Mattarella in the second and last stage of his journey in the United States.

In the presence of the Minister of Innovation Paola Pisano, the president launched an alarm that sounds like a call to arms for the government, invited not to waste any more time to wake up a system "which has become too routine". Words that, translated, mean that it is no longer possible to disperse Italian genius and creativity due to a system anchored to patterns of the past which, as Silicon Valley shows, no longer exist.

In San Francisco Mattarella was able to discover the other America, the liberal one, of innovation that anticipates the future and looks at respect for civil rights and environmental protection. Left behind the "frank" confrontation with Donald Trump in Washington, today the head of state has radically changed the atmosphere in California. Especially discovering the Silicon Valley, where he is personally measuring the different pace that is still recorded on these issues between the old continent and this area of ​​the United States. Not surprisingly, the wealthy California is led by a new progressive governor, Gavin Newsom, a former Democrat and mayor of San Francisco, who is often directly attacked by Donald Trump for his liberal view of politics. Mattarella will meet the governor tomorrow.

Today the President of the Republic has visited two start-ups of Italian significance such as the Kong founded by Augusto Marietti and Marco Palladino. The business of Kong (in search of a billion-dollar turnover) concentrates, essentially, on a software that allows you to protect and secure the APIs (Application Programming Interface), a technology that allows a server to communicate with another server. The second is Nozomi Networks, whose co-founder and CEO is Andrea Carcano, with Moreno Carullo, an expert in Artificial Intelligence. The cybersecurity solution developed by Nozomi is experiencing increasing international interest.

Immediately afterwards, the Head of State moved to the prestigious Stanford University to participate in the US-Italy Innovation Forum where he has a breakfast with Italian exponents from the business, scientific, technological and academic worlds. The one at Stanford University is a very high level event that brings together the best Italian and American companies, researchers and innovation players, with the aim of developing technologies for the near future. These are the specialized topics of the forum: "big data and machine learning in the life science sector", "manufacturing 4.0", "mobility and smartcity", "space industry".