Fireside chat with Luca Foresti, CEO Niulinx
Luca Foresti
Luca Foresti is the founder and CEO of Niulinx, a deep-tech startup born from research at Politecnico di Milano, developing a full-stack platform for autonomous driving. With a team of over 60 engineers and data scientists and a €38 million funding round, Niulinx aims to build from Italy a European platform to bring autonomous vehicles onto real roads.
Before Niulinx, he led Centro Medico Santagostino for over 13 years, helping scale one of Italy’s leading companies in accessible and digital healthcare.
Alongside his entrepreneurial work, he hosts the Luca Foresti Podcast, a long-form conversation space on technology, entrepreneurship, politics, healthcare, education, and the future of the country. He is also the author of Come lavorare nel XXI Secolo, a book conceived as an “operating system” for people working in modern organizations: decision-making, leadership, communication, measurement, personal energy management, and meaning at work.
About Apeira
Apeira is building a new residence for ambitious builders and researchers in Europe. Cohort 01, in partnership with The Residency, starts in July: a small group of selected builders living and building together for two months. Apply here.
About Bending Spoons
Bending Spoons is one of Europe’s leading software companies, building and scaling products used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. From Milan, they’ve acquired and grown platforms including Evernote, WeTransfer, Meetup, and Vimeo.
About Exein
Exein is the global leader in embedded IoT cybersecurity, protecting over 1 billion devices with AI-powered security built directly into firmware. Their technology secures critical infrastructure, automotive, robotics, and industrial systems worldwide.
About Tech Europe Foundation
Tech Europe Foundation is a nonprofit foundation created with the goal of turning European scientific research into globally competitive deep-tech companies.
About Future Food Institute
Future Food Institute is an international ecosystem working on education, innovation, and sustainability, creating connections between technology, entrepreneurship, research, and social impact.
In recent years, it has brought together founders, researchers, policymakers, and organizations from around the world to imagine and build new models of European innovation.
Agenda
17:30 – 18:00 Welcome
18:00 – 19:00 Fireside chat with Luca Foresti
19:00 – 19:30 Q&A
19:30 – 20:00 Aperitivo
Apeira Tour
The event is part of the Apeira Tour, a traveling journey across six Italian cities with the goal of engaging outstanding STEM talent, young entrepreneurs, and researchers.
The tour was created to offer concrete opportunities through grants, spaces, and tools to work on personal projects, as well as moments of dialogue with Italian entrepreneurs who are proving that it is possible to generate global impact starting from Italy.
Made possible thanks to:
Main sponsor: Bending Spoons
Sponsor: Exein, Tech Europe Foundation
Media partner: Rai News, Urban Vision, Gazzetta Motori
Community partner: JE Italy
Technical partner: Ford