It is held at Venice on 30 and 31 August 2021 the second edition"Soft Power Conference”, two days of meetings of the Club promoted by Francesco Rutelli which will take place between the Cini Foundation and the Ca' Foscari University.
The program will address issues related to environmental transition and the role of culture for the recovery after the pandemic are central to our multilateral agenda". This is what the Prime Minister Mario Draghi writes in the message sent to the Soft Power Conference "
The objective of the second edition of the Conference is to explore the role and potential of a widespread Soft Power, with shared objectives. The current historical phase requires a visionary perspective on the world order and a commitment to values, ideals and projects based on Soft Power and open to the contribution of citizens, business organizations, academies and renewed supranational organizations. Club members share the urgency of soft power to channel the power of ideas into action, with concrete opportunities for local, national, transnational, international or global initiatives, projects, aggregations and campaigns.
Speakers include:
GIOVANNI BAZOLI President of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, LUIGI BRUGNARO Mayor of Venice, FRANCESCO RUTELLI President of Soft Power Club, DAVID SASSOLI President of the European Parliament, SARAH EL HAÏRY Minister of State for Youth and Commitment, attaché to the Minister of National Education, Youth and Sport (France), SIMONE BEMPORAD Director of Communications and Public Affairs of the Group, Assicurazioni Generali, MARCO ALVERÀ Chief Executive Officer of Snam, MARIA CRISTINA PIOVESANA Vice President of Environment, Sustainability and Culture, Confindustria, CARLO DOGLIONI President of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV ), CARLO BARBANTE Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, PAOLO COSTA Former Mayor of Venice.
Followed by speeches on August 31st by:
TIZIANA LIPPIELLO Rector of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, PAOLA MAR Municipality of Venice Councilor for Heritage, Territorial Promotion, Relations with the University, DARIO FRANCESCHINI Minister of Culture, LUIGI GIANNITI Head of the Italian Senate Research Department, IRINA BOKOVA Former Director General of UNESCO, ROBERTO CICUTTO President of the Venice Biennale, ANA LUIZA THOMPSON FLORES Director of the UNESCO Regional Office for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice, ROBERTO RICCARDI Head of the Carabinieri Unit for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, ARIANNA TRAVIGLIA Director of the Center for Heritage Technology Cultural, JUAN IGNACIO VIDARTE General Director of the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao, MANUELA CACCIAMANI Founder of One More Pictures, GAETANO CASTELLINI CURIEL author of the book "Soft power and the art of cultural diplomacy", SIMONE VENTURINI Councilor for Social Security, Tourism, Economic Development and Policies housing in the Municipality of Venice.
Video messages from: MARIA ELISABETTA ALBERTI CASELLATI President of the Senate and LUIGI DI MAIO Minister of Foreign Affairs. Finally, JEAN-LOUIS BOURLANGES President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French National Assembly, AMB. STEFANO STEFANINI Project Associates Director, Brussels Soft Power Prize Award, PHILIPPE DONNET Group CEO, Assicurazioni Generali, BENEDETTO DELLA VEDOVA
Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, GIANCARLO GIORGETTI Minister of Economic Development (remotely).
Furthermore, in the cultural sphere, one month before the start of Expo and while the Venice International Film Festival is being inaugurated, it is announced that the "Author's Nights" review will be held in the Italy Pavilion at Expo Dubai, curated by the National Audiovisual and Digital Film Industries, ANICA. The weekly appointment with a carefully selected film from the boundless national heritage, both classic and contemporary, will punctuate the thematic narration also through tributes and celebrations, in harmony with the Pavilion's schedule of events. The President of ANICA Francesco Rutelli and Gian Luca Farinelli, Director of the Cineteca di Bologna and Artistic Director of "Notti d'Autore", illustrate the meaning and objectives of the review in two video messages.
