FESTIVAL ECONOMY TRENTO - "We are experiencing radical changes: there have been excellent technological advances and we are living at the crossroads of an era that is rapidly changing the world, which is no longer based on the clear-cut opposition between East and West, but on more complex, non-bloc alignments; we are entering a new world, the quantum world": Armen Sarkissian, former president of the Republic of Armenia, with a long diplomatic career, defines the current situation with an approach linked to his training as a professor of theoretical physics. An overview that analyses the role of politics and technology, with the experience of a country that has focused on innovation, the scientific and technical training of new generations and investment in artificial intelligence.
Moderator of the event at the Auditorium, which saw Sarkissian remotely connected, was Barbara Carfagna, journalist for Radio1 Rai and lecturer in Sociology at the Sapienza University of Rome, together with guest speaker Juan Carlos De Martin, lecturer at the Turin Polytechnic.
Publication date: 05/06/2022