Vetrya, an Italian group listed on the Italian Stock Exchange active in the development of digital services, applications and broadband solutions and the LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome presented the new chair in "Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence".
The course is part of the new degree course in "Management & Computer Science" which will officially start from the year 2018-19. The choice of the Vetrya Group to promote a university chair is part of the strategy to enhance the digital talent of young people, training courses and entry into the world of work.
To enroll in the new educational path, it is necessary to pass the entrance test to be held in Rome and in 25 other cities on 19 April: the only date in 2018 for the admission test to the single-cycle three-year degree courses in Economics, Political Science and Law of LUISS Guido Carli.
In addition to joining the ministerial program of school-work, by hosting students from high schools within its corporate campus, Vetrya promotes internship and placement programs in agreement with universities.
Since 2017, the company founded by Luca Tomassini has been offering a scholarship for the best degree thesis on artificial intelligence applications in industry 4.0 as part of the Graduation Awards of the Leonardo Committee.
The presentation event, hosted by the new LUISS headquarters in Villa Blanc, entitled: "Digital ergo sum: the new training approach between Social and Data Science", was attended by LUISS Executive Vice President Luigi Serra, LUISS Rector Paola Severino and the President and CEO of Vetrya Luca
Tomassini.
Luca Tomassini was also the protagonist of the following round table, moderated by the General Manager of the Digital Division of the GEDI Publishing Group Massimo Russo, on the theme of the value of transversal "digital skills" in every area of knowledge, together with the Director of the LUISS Business School Paolo Boccardelli , to the Director of Human Resources and Organization of ENEL Francesca Di Carlo, to the Director of Europe Tencent International Business Group Andrea Ghizzoni, to the professor of practice in Marketing & Digital at LUISS Marco Francesco Mazzù and to the CEO of ItaliaCamp Fabrizio Sammarco.
“We are proud to have the opportunity to promote a professorship on such a central theme for the technological development of the near future as Artificial Intelligence – commented Luca Tomassini – Machine Learning is nothing more than "teaching" machines those features that are able to expand people's potential. Exactly how teaching this subject to young people will expand their creative potential for the benefit of all.”
"The course is part of the University's broader program of initiatives on the theme of "Digital Transformation" which already sees advanced training courses and workshops active aimed at training new professional figures capable of combining fundamental knowledge and new specializations, moving in a context markedly interdisciplinary. This digital innovation program also includes the Masters in Cybersecurity and Big data management” – explains the Magnificent Rector, Prof.ssa Paula Severino – “adding that these are courses whose timely activation responds to training needs indicated by both the business world and the public administration world.
"We want to contribute to the success", concluded the Rector, "of young people who want and know how to combine economic, legal, sociological knowledge, with engineering, data analysis and technical knowledge, in order to be able to face the new challenges of the digital world ”.
"Our University is the ideal environment for the training of leaders with integrated skills - said Luigi Serra, Executive Vice President of LUISS - Companies require different skills and LUISS responds by offering a reality in which students have the opportunity to broaden the concept of learning by combining study with experience to face the challenges of an increasingly digitized and competitive global economy".
“Digital Transformation challenges us to rethink traditional managerial logic and to use a training approach that is increasingly based on evidence rather than theory. We do not know the work that will come but we are called to plan to guide the future of people and companies also with a "hybridization of knowledge" where the social sciences are fundamental, because data without an application domain has no
sense".
