Scientific Committee

Agostino Angeloni

Valter Casini

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.

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

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).

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.

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

Marco Sacco, ricercatore Senior, è a capo della filiale di Lecco della CNR-STIIMA  e della divisone Enterprise Engineering and Virtual Applications. Presidente dell’EuroVR (European Association of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality). I suoi campi di esperienza sono VR/MR/AR, applicati al ciclo di vita dei prodotti, processi e industria, ha varie esperienze di eventi e simulazioni 3D, Knowledge Management e Semantic Web. E’ stato coordinatore di progetti a livello europeo (due tra i più importanti progetti della UE nelle FP-VI e FP-VII), nazionale e regionale. Ha partecipato in qualità di esperto in diversi consigli sia dell’unione europea che a livello nazionale e regionale per la valutazione di progetti di ricerca e sviluppo. Ha pubblicato più di 160 lavori (96 certificati da Scopus, 14 H-Index e 738 citazioni), incluse relazioni in giornali accademici e conferenze.

Antonio Veraldi