Smart Vines: Agritech Meets Campus Grapes

​Smart Vines: Agritech Meets Campus Grapes
Off-Program Workshop – Italian Tech Week 2026

​What happens when precision sensors, viticulture research, and entrepreneurship converge in an urban environment?

​In this workshop, we’ll explore Campus Grapes, the vineyard-laboratory of Politecnico di Torino, to discover how Agritech is used to monitor plant growth, microclimate, and environmental impact in real time—turning a small patch of university land into a scalable model for sustainability.

​Speakers

• ​Luca Balbiano – Founder of Citiculture, Campus Grapes Project Lead
  The Citiculture Case: why Campus Grapes speaks to the urban world

• ​Danilo Demarchi – Professor of Electronics for AgriFood, Campus Grapes Scientific Coordinator (Politecnico di Torino & PlantZCare Srl)
  Sensitive Agritech: from wearable plant sensors to data analysis

• ​Luca Leucci - Founder of DatiMeteoX
  Climate technology: from local climatic data to data analysis of the vineyard

• ​Edoardo Cavagnino & Stefano Fassone – EBT, Campus Grapes corporate partner
  The investor's view: what a company looks for in a sustainability project, and why we believed in this vineyard

• ​Davide Sordi – Vivai Cooperativi Rauscedo
  From rootstock to bottle: PiWi varieties and what micro-vinification makes possible in a small vineyard

​Field visit & tasting
The entire event takes place among the rows, with a live demo of the Agritech devices and informal conversation with the speakers. We'll close with a tasting of the Rauscedo micro-vinifications — the most direct way to taste what this vineyard produces.

​Who it's for
Startups, researchers, ESG investors, corporate players looking for green-tech solutions, students, and anyone curious about sustainable innovation.