Talent Garden lands in Rome with a highly respected sponsor: Poste Italiane which in its historic building in viale Mazzini next to the people queuing to pay their bills will host, in suitable halls, the talents of Roman innovation and start-ups. The operation was presented by CEO Francesco Caio in collaboration with Digital Magics, the Italian business incubator, listed on the AIM Italia market of Borsa Italiana. 100 employees from 35 start-ups work in the Talent Garden Poste Italiane space. In practice, in the space made available by Poste, more mature companies will work side by side, such as Cisco and the Poste itself, and the Digital Magics incubator which welcomes, selects and promotes digital innovators and start-ups on the launch pad. Talent Garden is a coworking network that has already opened 14 campuses in Italy (including Turin and Milan) and in Europe (including Bucharest and Kaunass).
Rome is the capital and it is no coincidence that the venue is so solemn in the Palazzo, designed in the 30s by the rationalist architect Adalberto Libera. On the ground floor, correspondence will continue to be stamped and pensions collected. The second will focus on the companies of tomorrow. The Talent Garden Poste Italiane follows the others in Turin and was inaugurated by the three company heads involved in the operation: Francesco Caio (Poste Italiane), Alberto Fioravanti (Digital Magics) and Davide Dattoli (Talent Garden). Other important investors are also indirectly involved in the project such as Marco Gay, president of the Young Entrepreneurs of Confindustria and Giovanni Tamburi of Tip, shareholders in Digital Magics and partners in Talent Garden with a 28% stake.
“ We are moving within our business plan – commented the CEO of Poste Italiane – which put three billion on innovation. We want to go and understand which ideas we can invest in. We hope to make these young people understand that a start-up is not made to make a brochure, but to make a billion-dollar company”, that is, to make it clear that “big is beautiful”. In the middle of the year, Caio announced, exemplifying how important innovation is for the group, "there will be the launch of a new application of the Poste Pay App which we see in strong growth". In short, the inauguration of the Talent Garden headquarters “is not an example of university bricolage, but an example of wide-ranging industrial policy. I hope – added Caio – that the interaction between young people and the Post Office will help the country move in this direction”.
The managing director and founder of Talent Garden, Davide Dattoli, a twenty-year-old boy, in turn intervened to announce the next goal of opening "30 new campuses throughout Europe: the idea is to keep people in the area and connect them between them".
Lastly, Viale Mazzini will host the Rome office of Digital Magics, a member of Talent Garden, with its incubation activities, training programs organized by?TAG Innovation School and many events dedicated to innovation also in collaboration with Poste Italiane. Furthermore, the space will host both a series of Poste Italiane events dedicated to innovation and digital technology aimed at children, to facilitate their relationship with new technologies; to families, to promote awareness of some digital issues; to startuppers, to stimulate the creation of new business ideas; and various training sessions also dedicated to Poste Italiane employees to support the literacy process on digital issues.
