About AI WEEK
Europe's largest meeting point for artificial intelligence.
Every few decades, a technology stops being a topic and becomes a condition of everyday life. Artificial intelligence is crossing that line right now, in boardrooms and hospitals, classrooms and studios, factories and city halls.
AI WEEK exists for that moment. Each May, Fiera Milano Rho becomes the place where Europe's AI community gathers in person: founders and researchers, CEOs and policymakers, engineers and artists, students and the simply curious. Over two days, the stages host more than 700 speakers across thematic tracks that run from frontier models and autonomous agents to AI governance, robotics, healthcare and sport, while hundreds of AI companies show what works today, not what is promised for tomorrow.
What sets the event apart is its tone. No wall of jargon, no hype for its own sake. AI WEEK is built on a simple idea: the future of AI should be understood by everyone who is going to live in it. That is why the conversation is open, practical and international, bringing together participants from 78 countries and more than 105,000 people across its editions.
The seventh edition arrives in May 2027, with one promise: come to see where artificial intelligence is going, stay to meet the people who are building it, and leave with something concrete to do on Monday morning.
105K+
participants across all editions
700+
speakers on stage
78
countries represented
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thematic tracks
Our Story
From Altamura to the biggest stage on AI in Europe.
AI WEEK was born from a conviction shared by its two founders, Pasquale Viscanti and Giacinto Fiore: artificial intelligence is too important to be explained only to experts.
Together they created IA Spiegata Semplice, which means “Artificial Intelligence Explained Simply”, a company based in Altamura, in Puglia, with a mission written right in its name: to make AI understandable for entrepreneurs, managers and students, without watering it down. Today it is the largest Italian community on the subject, and it speaks in many voices: a podcast released every Monday, with hundreds of episodes; a newsletter read by more than 64,000 managers and entrepreneurs; books, including Human Reloaded, published in 2025 with a preface by Guido Scorza; and AI Play, a streaming platform with all of AI in one place.
Pasquale and Giacinto bring the same approach to the stage. They have spoken at TEDx events at the Politecnico di Torino, in Castelfranco Veneto and in Piazzola sul Brenta, they work with Italian universities and research centres, including SEMEION in Rome, and they advise tech start-ups. Through their Observatory of Italian AI Excellence, they connect companies with the partners that can turn an idea into a working AI solution.
AI WEEK is where all of this comes together: the same clear, practical, curious way of talking about artificial intelligence, brought to the scale of a continent.
64,000+
managers and entrepreneurs in our newsletter
#1
Italian podcast on artificial intelligence, every Monday
TEDx
stages from Turin to Castelfranco Veneto
The founders
Pasquale Viscanti
Co-founder, AI WEEK
“I imagine a world where companies work with artificial intelligence to make the strategic decisions that help their business grow: focusing on the value they offer to their customers, instead of chasing revenue targets.”
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Giacinto Fiore
Co-founder, AI WEEK
“Uber, Facebook, Google and Amazon thrive thanks to artificial intelligence and have defined a new kind of company: the AI-founded factory. The AI Factory is the scalable decision engine that powers the digital operating model of the twenty-first-century company.”
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IA Spiegata Semplice S.r.l. – Via E. Montale n.26, 70022 Altamura (BA), Italy – VAT no. 08717290723. For information: info@aiweek.it.
