2025
Panelist during the Italian Design Day on Inequalities, Design for a better life, San Francisco, February
2024
Speaker at ‘Diversity & Inclusion in Design‘ Panel at Innovit, San Francisco, May
Featured Speaker at Product School, San Francisco, April 19 (webinar event)
Selected to be part of the Global Youth Leaders Program to focus on Innovation and Digital Transformation for Y7 and G7 Summit
2023
Podcast guest at Parallelo42 on the Artribune, TBC Nov
Fireside Chat speaker and Startup Mentor at Innovit Demo Day, San Francisco, Sept 21
2022
Moderated the panel “Design for Inclusion“ at the annual Meta Design Summit, Menlo Park, October
2021
Speaker at the Facebook Accessibility Summit, Menlo Park, May
Speaker at Accessibility Days Italy
Speaker at the Inclusive Product Week
2020
Speaker at the University of Miami, Interactive Media Lab, October 2020
Speaker at the Facebook Accessibility Summit, Menlo Park, on May 21
Mentor at Hack for Italy COVID-19 hackathon, on March 27
2019
Speaker at the World Usability Day Milan, on Nov 13
Presented ’'Design for Access and Inclusion’, UX New Zealand, Wellington, Oct 31
Speaker at the Facebook Accessibility Design Summit, San Francisco, May 23
Presented “Design per un web inclusivo e senza barriere” at TEDx Livorno, March 17
2018
Selected as Samsung Diversity Ambassador to participate to the Grace Hopper Conference on September 26-28 in Houston, Texas
Awarded with Premio Capperuccio from Livorno's mayor for her social mission in design
2017
Co-Curator and Speaker at Friends of Tomorrow Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil - August 5th
Presented Bridging the gap between designers and social ventures at the Design Week 2017, San Francisco June 14th
Speaker at Design Disruptors Night, Milano - June 7th
Presented Design for X @ISIA, Firenze - June 6th
2016
Mentor at Blackbox acceleration program powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, San Francisco, November 2016
Selected as member of the Global Shapers Community, San Francisco
Selected for the art exhibition Women in Italian Design in Milano at Triennale April/December, 2016
Speaker at the film screening of Exxpedition Making the Unseen Seen at the University of Berkeley, 17/01/2016
Selected as member of the IVY Network San Francisco, January 2016
2015
Speaker at TED X Youth, Roma 14/11/2015
Title Designing for Empathy
Speaker at Frontiers of Interaction, Milano 12-13/11/2015
Workshop One Click Interaction
Selected as Design & Business Consultant at EASME the European Commission
Executive Agency for Small and Medium sized Enterprises part of the Horizon 2020 Program
Awarded as one of the 15 most influential women in Italy in the digital field by Digitalic, 13/09/2015
CoolIdea Award Winner at SolidCon, San Francisco 25/06/2015
Awarded as one of the 20 most talented innovators and creative young people in Italy by Riccarlo Luna at La Repubblica.
Speaker at NEXT, La Repubblica degli Innovatori, Genova 5/06/2015
Title of my presentation: How To Survive the Plastic Age
Speaker at CISCO Internet of Everything, Fuori EXPO, Milano 8/05/2015
Title of my presentation: FutureCraft: A Look Ahead. Trends Impacting Design & Innovation.
Guest at Audi Innovative Thinking, Milano 15/04/2015
Presenting Makr Shakr at FutureCraft | Tomorrow by Design, Milano 9/04/2015
Guest at CERN and WeForum at the European Global Shapers Meeting, Geneva 13-15/02/2015
2014
Panel of judges at Premio Marzotto, Milano 27/11/2014
Panel of judges at What’s up giovani talenti, Campidoglio, Roma 21/11/2014
1st place with Floome at Wired Hack EXPO, Milano 4/10/2014
Speaker at Maker Faire Roma, 4/10/2014
Global Shapers World Economic Forum Conference: Roma, 3/10/2014
Less is more: doing science the frugal way
Title of my presentation “If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand Design”
Panel of judges at Global Impact Competition, Singularity University, Milan 3/06/2014
Organizer & Presenter at Milan Startup Weekend 31/01/2014
2013
Panel of judges at premio What’s up giovani talenti, Campidoglio, Roma 20/11/2013
Speaker at Frontiers of Interactions, Milano 24-25/10/2013
Workshop: God Save The Drone: Preparing for the Drones invasion” with Anish Mohammed
Speaker at Pioneers Unplugged, at TAG Milano 1/10/2013
Speaker at Challenge Your Assumptions: the future is better than you think! at HUB Trieste 14/6/2013
Speaker at Next, La Repubblica delle Idee, Firenze, 8/6/2013
Panel and Speaker at Singularity University, Global Impact Competition Italia, at TAG Milano, 9/4/2013
2012
1st place What’s up Giovani Talenti sotto l’Alto Patronato del Presidente della Repubblica, Campidoglio Roma, 27/11/2012
Speaker at TEDx Lecce, 17/11/2012
Selected as Gifted Citizen finalist for Ciudad de Las Ideas, Mexito City, 7-11/11/2012
Finalist at Pioneers Festival with X&Y Genomics (selected as one of the top 50 start up from 850 applications), vienna, 28-31/10/2012
Guest at Off Grid Academy event, Capraia Island, 19-21/10/2012
Interview at Coffee Break LA7, 5/10/2012
Speaker at PKN Florence 16-9-2012
1st place Axelera Contest: scolarship at Singularity University, Nasa Ames Research Centerin Silicon Valley – Enjoy HERE the video
Speaker at “Green night-Vicino Lontano” in Udine, 4-5-2012
Workshop “ReHub, Le idee prendono spazio” at Trieste, 6/10-3-2012
2011
Finalist at “Confine design contest” eco-democratic competition in Torino
Exhibition Architettura in città Festival in Torino, 15/25-7-2011
Speaker at Design ecodemocratico in Design Library Milano, 6-6-2011
Speaker at Biennale democrazia in Torino, 15-4-2011
Speaker at Less is next Reloaded in Firenze, 3-3-2011
2010
1st place “Pesto Project” Creactivity Workout at Piaggio, Pisa
2009
Presented at Moving lights in Livorno, 15-12-2009
Workshop Technology of sustainable materials with Troy Nachtigall, 25-9-2009