Pact4Future: The Joint Bocconi and Corriere della Sera Forum Returns on March 25-27
Milan, February 20, 2025 – Following the highly successful debut edition in 2024, which featured more than 80 international speakers and 3,000 registered participants with some 800,000 online viewers, PACT4FUTURE, the international forum by Università Bocconi and Corriere della Sera hosting discussions about a more inclusive and sustainable future for all under the keywords People, Purpose and Planet, returns in Milan from March 25-27.
Three days of debate, reflection and discussion with scientists, journalists, intellectuals, artists, entrepreneurs and experts who are protagonists on the Italian and international scene, for a discussion that starts in the morning with young people from Milanese schools and later becomes open to the whole civil society, in the afternoon in Sala Buzzati, via Balzan 3, and in the evening in the Aula Magna of Bocconi University, via Röntgen 1.
Between interactive lectures, meetings, panel discussions, and keynote speeches, Pact4Future showcases research impacts and investigates best practices from the business and nonprofit world and success stories of entrepreneurs actively producing favorable social and planetary impacts. Calling all to join in a dialogue to look at a shared future that responds to the needs for change in a society calling for new forms of economic and social growth, welfare and inter-generational equality, innovation, science and public awareness to address the climate crisis with a green transition.
In the mornings, Intesa Sanpaolo, for the second year Educational partner of the Forum, will involve students and teachers with activities on the main themes of Pact4Future: from March 20 to 25 in the classrooms of secondary schools, and, from March 25 to 27, at Bocconi University, with young people from high schools.
In the afternoons and evenings, during the People, Purpose, Planet meetings many Italian and international protagonists will take turns on the stages of Sala Buzzati and Università Bocconi, including: Stefano Accorsi, actor and artistic director of the festival "Planetaria - Discorsi con la Terra"; Luca Argentero and Silvia Meacci, founder and managing director of 1 Caffè Onlus; Marta Cartabia, Dean for Social Engagement and Institutional Affairs, Bocconi University; Francesca Colombo, Head of Health Division OECD; Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); Valter Longo, biogerontologist, professor and director of the Institute of Longevity at USC (California); Noemi, singer and social activist; Nicola Palmarini, director of the National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA); Stefan Rahmstorf, Professor of Physics of the Oceans & Head of Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; Maxime Renaudin, CEO and founder of Tree Nation; Don Gino Rigoldi, Chairman of the Guarantee Committee of the Don Gino Rigoldi Foundation.
The all-important topics of Pact4Future 2025 will be presented at a launch event on March 20 in Sala Buzzati, Via Balzan 3, Milan, and will be explored in depth in a special issue of the "L'Economia" supplement of Corriere della Sera on sale Monday, March 25.
On pact4future.it you can read the schedule and register for the events free of charge. The afternoon and evening events of Pact4Future 2025 can be reviewed the following day on corriere.it and on the newspaper's social profiles.
"Equality, respect and access to opportunity are values that we cannot give up regardless of the geopolitical circumstances in which we are going through. Scientists, business and civil society must build a new pact to make the future accessible and fair for all. Pact4Future intends to contribute to this pact with the power of data, research and best practices from companies and organizations. We need to build history together. We must not be afraid of diversity but turn diversity into opportunities for development and growth" says Francesco Billari, rector of Bocconi University.
"Pact4Future in its second edition will explore together with entrepreneurs, scholars, civil society, a world that has seen the overbearing return of geopolitics. But precisely because of this the world appears, if we know how to read its evolutions, to be as rich in risks as in opportunities," explains Daniele Manca, deputy editor of Corriere della Sera.