Trend forecasting post Covid-19

Turin, birthplace of Italy’s beloved Fiat 500, prides itself today on being a fertile ground for innovation, allowing nascent tech companies to test and develop ideas for the cities of the future. Intesa Sanpaolo supports this, having paired with Techstars, a specialist in the nurture of nascent tech companies, to form the Techstars smart mobility acceleration programme. Hear from participants in the programme and the head of Techstars on how Turin is leading the way on smart city development.

At the Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center’s AI Lab, the team has developed proprietary software that superpowers market risk assessment. Listen to the podcast to find out more about the department and the project, plus what AI can do for business and finance.

Jaron Lanier helped to create virtual reality, so he’s no technophobe. Yet today he wants to spread the word that social media in its current form is harming all of us – from individual mental health all the way up to plurality in politics and healthy competition in business. In an interview following his virtual Novathon appearance, Lanier discusses his ideas for a positive future in social media, arguing that it all starts with changing the business model. 

2020 has thrown a lot at the world generally – and business and finance are no exception. Covid-19 has stalled business investment and Brexit looms over the eurozone. But the issue of climate change eclipses all of this. Stefano Del Punta, Intesa Sanpaolo’s chief financial officer, explains how using finance to change things for good is a big part of the bank’s identity, as well as the future post-Brexit and Covid-19, in the most recent instalment of the Intesa Sanpaolo Talks. 

Despite deep personal challenges, Artemisia Gentileschi became a master painter in 17th-century Europe, a storyteller who brought a unique angle to her subjects, getting under their skin to bring them to life in paint. 

A new exhibition, sponsored by Intesa Sanpaolo, explores Gentileschi’s life and work for the first time in the UK.

Artemisia at the National Gallery fulfils the underlying objective of Intesa Sanpaolo’s ‘Progetto Cultura’ – to promote Italy’s artistic heritage beyond its national borders, in Europe and the rest of the world.

Listen to the podcast to hear art critic Alastair Smart, National Gallery curator Letizia Treves and Laurence Aliquot, Director of Promotion, Marketing and Cultural Partnerships at Intesa Sanpaolo, discuss highlights from Artemisia, the first major exhibition of the artist’s work in the UK. 

Trend analysis is one of three Innovation Center departments at Intesa Sanpaolo, working in synergy with the AI lab and neuroscience lab to help predict the shape of the future and pass that knowledge on to clients.  

But how can it predict the future, particularly at a time when everything is changing so quickly? This podcast features interviews with the team, who share what they are working on and how they go about getting to know what will happen tomorrow, today.

The European Commission has set out a 35-point action plan to help transform business to a Circular Economy by 2030. In this podcast, we hear from Joanna Drake, deputy director-general for mobility and environment at the European Commission, and Francesca Passamonti, head of European regulatory and public affairs at Intesa Sanpaolo. Both discuss how the plan aims to support business into the positive change that will make Europe greener and more competitive. 

Inside the Museo del Cenacolo Vinciano, a team set up by Intesa Sanpaolo used a variety of sense-tracking devices to measure neurological response to The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci. Listen to hear their findings and discover why a bank has a neuroscience team at all…

In April 2020, Intesa Sanpaolo announced it would be working with another of Italy's most famous names to advance the Circular Economy. The Italian bank has lent €200m to tyre-maker Pirelli under strict circular conditions, part of a wider €800m sustainability loan taken out by the company. In this episode of Intesa Sanpaolo Talks, we explore how, as a lender, Intesa Sanpaolo can help speed up the transformation to a global Circular Economy. 

Nothing in our lifetimes has had a greater or more rapid economic impact than the Covid-19 crisis. Its effects have been felt faster and by more people than even the crisis of 2008. How will it play with the already strained relationships of the US and China, or the UK and EU? Luca Mezzomo, Intesa Sanpaolo’s head of macroeconomic research, outlines his thoughts on the global economic outlook after Covid-19 in this, the first of five macroeconomic discussions.