In Leonardo da Vinci’s time 500 years ago to the present day, Italy remains a beacon of innovation in the arts as well as in science, technology and engineering.
In keeping with Leonardo’s legacy, Machines Italia  and the Italian Trade Commission (ITA) partnered with Collision - a sold out, highly anticipated tech-conference that took place from May 20 to 23, 2019 at the Enercare Centre in Toronto - to contribute to Canada’s high tech boom with a touch of Italian ingenuity. 
Billed as one of the fastest growing and largest tech-conferences in the world with a whopping 25 000 attendees from over 120 countries were joined for four days by some of the greatest minds in technology and A-list speakers including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, producer and artist TIMBALAND and founder and CEO of Medium Ev Williams. 

Collision is the North American edition of a global series of tech conferences that include Web Summit (Europe) and RISE (Hong Kong).  Collision Toronto marked the first time that the event was held outside of the US. 
This was also the first time that ITA and Machines Italia were present at Collision with an information desk (#E124, Main Hall) and 16 brilliant Italian companies, some of which were selected for the Collision Alpha/Beta program: Mindesk, Radoff, Ectabyte, RIC3D, Playcar and Deliverart. These 6 Italian startups had the exciting opportunity to showcase their innovations in  front of leading investors, media and partners.
Giovanni Battistini, Vice President, Open Innovation Science at Ferrero, the Italian manufacturer of household brands such as Nutella and Kinder delivered a speech on May 21st at Collision’s Corporate Innovation Summit’s stage and gave the audience a peek inside the chocolate factory. 

To watch the promo video click on the following link

To watch the Mindesk Machine Demo challenge click on the following link

For further information about this event, please contact machinesitalia [at] ice.it ?subject=Machines%20Italia%20E-newsletter">machinesitalia [at] ice.it