Scientific Committee

Agostino Angeloni

Alberto Gallace

Giovanna Marinelli

Expert in cultural management. She has been Councilor for Culture, Tourism and Sport; she has supervised and coordinated major projects such as Estate Romana and Notti Bianche of Rome. She teaches in the most important Italian University and collaborates with cultural magazine. In the 2013 she was named Knight in "The Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur" by the French Republic. Currently he is president of QAcademy, social enterprise that realizes projects of cultural and formative nature for public and private institutions.

Lorenzo Montagna

Lorenzo Prencipe

Scalabrinian missionary for migrants. He completed his theological studies in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Licentiate in dogmatic theology at the PUG in Rome (1990) and in sociology of communication at the Sorbonne in Paris (1993). Until 2003 he directed CIEMI, the Center for Migration Studies in Paris and “Nuovi Orizzonti Europa”, the magazine for the Italians of France, Belgium and Luxembourg.

In 2009 he was Coordinator of the scientific committee of the National Museum of Italian Emigration-MEI and in 2010 vice-president of FUSIE - Unified Italian Press Federation abroad.

From 2019 he summarizes the Presidency of the Center for Migration Studies (CSER) in Rome and the direction of the scientific journal “Studi Emigrazione”.

Nicola Rosa

Gaetano Tieri

Simone Arcagni

Joelle Come

With an artistic university education (master's degree from the Institut Supérieur des Arts in Brussels), Joëlle Comé has over twenty years of experience in managing cultural and international projects, promoting culture, artistic education and cultural policy.

Through a process that led her to the ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross (in the field and then to headquarters in Geneva) to the ECAL école d'art de Lausanne as head of the cinema department, she was active with various mandates in the field of film production before being nominated in 2007 as executive director of the cultural policy of the Canton of Geneva.

Antonio Libonati

Avvocato, esperto in comunicazione,  lavora al Senato della Repubblica, impegnato nei settori “Affari costituzionali” e “Cultura e educazione” nell’implementazione di strategie di comunicazione e gestione di complessi progetti nella sfera istituzionale. Nel 2015 ha contribuito nella fondazione dell’Associazione Italiana Giovani per l’UNESCO, del quale assume il ruolo di Segretario Generale e Tesoriere. Nel 2019 ne viene eletto Presidente e termina incarico al raggiungimento dei 35 anni di età.

Andrey Drobitko

Founder and CEO at SketchAR. Best Use of AR 2018. Webby Awards winner.

Immersive technologies expert, multidisciplinary artist, and designer. Speaker at tech conferences worldwide.

Member of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS).

Member of The International Federation Of Artists (UNESCO).

Melodie Mousset

Melodie Mousset is a French artist based in Zurich, who oscillates between virtual e and physical realms.

She is the director of HanaHana 花華presented in the first edition of VRE and is cofounder of PATCH, a native VR authoring tool that plays electronic music in a tridimensional space.

She is a lecturer, artist and reasearcher in the disciplines of mixed reality, she creates artistic investigations in surrealist narratives.

Marco Sacco

Dr. Marco Sacco, Senior Researcher, head of CNR-STIIMA Lecco subsidiary, and head of division Enterprise Engineering and Virtual Applications (25 people). President of EuroVR (European Association of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality). His experiences are VR/MR/AR applied to the life-cycle of the product/process/factory, discrete event and 3D simulation, Knowledge management and Semantic Web. He has been coordinator of European (two of the larger EU projects in FP-VI and FP-VII) and National/Regional projects. He participated as expert in several board both EU as well at national/regional level for the evaluation of research and development project. He has more than 160 publications (96 Scopus certified – H-index 14 and 738 citations), including papers in academic journals and conference proceedings.

Antonio Veraldi