Events & festivals
Creating spaces where students, researchers, industry and the wider public can meet around science and technology.
Communication & Public Engagement
Making science public, tangible and worth exploring.
I design and contribute to public-engagement experiences around computing, robotics, artificial intelligence and quantum technologies - from festivals and hands-on workshops to talks, writing and community initiatives.
How I engage
Different ways of opening technology to people.
Public engagement changes with the audience and the context. Sometimes it means creating a festival, sometimes designing a hands-on activity, giving a talk, writing, or contributing to a community that keeps the conversation moving.
Workshops & laboratories
Hands-on experiences built around programming, games, robots, demonstrations and experimentation.
Speaking
Public talks, invited presentations and orientation activities for specialist and non-specialist audiences.
Writing & editorial
Articles, newsletters and editorial work that turn technical material into clear, accessible narratives.
Communities & initiatives
Contributing to wider ecosystems that connect people around computing, quantum technologies and science communication.
Selected public engagement
A practice that moves between audiences and formats.
Festival · public engagement · community
Quantum Festival
Co-founder · Lead Organiser
A public-engagement initiative that brings together school students, young researchers, academia, industry and the wider public around quantum technologies.
The festival combines introductory and hands-on activities with research exchange and public-facing conversations, creating several entry points into quantum computing rather than assuming a single audience or level of expertise.
150+school students in hands-on activities
70+young researchers in the Research Track
220+participants in the final conference
Quantum Leap
Internet Festival · 2025 · 2 workshop sessions
Hands-on public engagement
Viaggio interstellare con la robotica
Internet Festival · 2025 · 10 sessions
Robotics workshop
Qubit e Sfere di Bloch
Bright Night · 2025
Quantum public engagement
AI with MachineLearningForKids
Festival della Robotica · 2025 · 4 activities
Interactive AI engagement
Festivals & events
Building the context around the conversation.
Some engagement happens inside a single workshop or talk. Other work is about creating or repeatedly contributing to the wider event in which those conversations can happen.
Quantum Festival
Co-founder · Lead Organiser
Two editions have developed the festival from a public-facing quantum event into a broader programme spanning schools, early-career researchers, academia, industry and the general public.
2025
- 150+ school-lab participants
- 70+ young researchers
- 220+ final-conference participants
2024
- 120+ participants
- Academia + industry talks
- Introductory lessons + hackathon
2019 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2025
Internet Festival
A recurring public-engagement presence across five editions, with workshops and educational pathways spanning blockchain, physical computing, debugging, quantum technologies and robotics.
Workshops & educational activities
2024 · 2025
Festival della Robotica
Two editions of hands-on engagement around robotics and artificial intelligence, from programming robotic arms to gamified AI and Arduino activities.
Public engagement · Workshops
2024 · 2025
Bright Night
Recurring public activities introducing programming and quantum technologies through accessible, low-barrier demonstrations and interactive formats.
Public-engagement activities
2024 - Present
Italian Quantum Weeks
Scientific and local-organising contribution to the national initiative around quantum science and technologies, including public activities in Pisa.
Scientific Committee · Local Organiser
2024
Shaped By Technology
A public seminar series exploring artificial intelligence, explainability, network medicine and robotics and their impact on everyday life.
Co-organiser
2023
Qiskit Fall Fest
Three days of lectures, workshops, technical hackathons and talks designed to open quantum computing to a wider community.
Organising contribution
Workshops & interactive engagement
When the audience gets to do something.
Hands-on formats make technical ideas concrete. These activities use programming, robots, games and experimentation to give participants an active way into the subject.
Quantum Leap
Internet Festival
An educational workshop introducing quantum ideas through an interactive public-engagement format.
Viaggio interstellare con la robotica
Internet Festival
Repeated robotics activities centred on direct participation and experimentation.
AI with MachineLearningForKids
Festival della Robotica
Gamified activities for primary and secondary students exploring artificial intelligence.
Arduino & robotics
Festival della Robotica
Mini-challenges around how robots are built, how they work and how they are programmed.
Sushi programming with micro:bit
Bright Night
A low-barrier activity introducing programming through physical computing.
Il micro:coin: Come funziona una blockchain?
Internet Festival
An educational workshop unpacking the core ideas behind blockchain systems.
Speaking
Public talks & conversations
Selected public, invited and orientation talks where the aim is to open a subject to a broader audience rather than present a research paper.
2026
La fisica dell’informazione quantistica
Rotary Quantum Day RYLA · Rome · Invited talk
2025
Quantum & Furious: Giri di Prova sul Circuito Quantistico
Google Developer Group Pisa · Public talk
2025
Il Dottorato di Ricerca in Informatica
University of Pisa · Orientation talk
2024
Introduzione al Quantum Programming
Pisa Quantum Festival · Introductory talk
2024
L’Informatica dopo la Laurea: Accademia e Ricerca
University of Pisa · Orientation talk
Writing & editorial
Communication beyond the stage
Writing, editorial work and communication roles have been part of the same thread for years: translating technical subjects into forms that people can enter and follow.
2017–19
thedifferentgroup.com
Science & technology writer · editor · developer
2023–25
Department of Computer Science · University of Pisa
Communication Team · newsletter and event communication
2015–16
NewSicilia.it
Journalism internship following the “Become a Journalist” competition
2018
National Science Communication Award
Jury member evaluating science-communication works across books, articles and video
Communities & ongoing engagement
Staying part of the conversation.
Public engagement also means contributing to communities and initiatives that keep knowledge moving after an individual event is over.
Qiskit Advocate
IBM Quantum · 2025 - Present
Selected community role within the global Qiskit ecosystem, contributing knowledge of quantum computing and quantum software.
Italian Quantum Weeks
Scientific Committee · 2024 - Present
Scientific and local-organising contribution to the national initiative around quantum science and technologies.
BeQuantum
Technical-Scientific Committee & Editorial Team · 2023 - 2025
Scientific-community and editorial contribution to an Italian community dedicated to quantum science and technologies.
Complete record
All communication & public-engagement activities.
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2026
La fisica dell’informazione quantistica: strumenti per capire, usare e insegnare
Invited talk · Rotary Quantum Day RYLA · Rome · Speaker
2025
Quantum Festival 2025
Festival · Pisa · Co-founder / Lead Organiser
Quantum Leap
Workshop · Internet Festival · 2 sessions
L’invasione dei Mostrilli. Programma un mondo che evolve
Workshop · Internet Festival · 3 sessions
Viaggio interstellare con la robotica
Workshop · Internet Festival · 10 sessions
All You Can Code
Public engagement · Bright Night
Qubit e Sfere di Bloch: scopri la fisica quantistica
Public engagement · Bright Night
Intelligenza artificiale con MachineLearningForKids
Interactive activities · Festival della Robotica · 4 activities
Arduino e robotica: costruiamo e programmiamo il nostro robot
Interactive activities · Festival della Robotica · 2 activities
Many Shots, Many QPUs: How to Distribute Quantum Computing?
Public talk · DayStributed · Speaker
Quantum Software Engineering
Public talk · PhD Spotlight · Speaker
Quantum & Furious: Giri di Prova sul Circuito Quantistico
Public talk · GDG Pisa · Speaker
Il Dottorato di Ricerca in Informatica
Orientation talk · University of Pisa · Speaker
2024
Pisa Quantum Festival 2024
Festival · Pisa · Lead Organiser
Shaped By Technology
Seminar series · Co-organiser
Sushi programming con micro:bit
Public engagement · Bright Night
InterAttivaMente
Unplugged workshop · Cittadella Galileiana
Robotic Challenge: Play & Learn with Robots
Robotics activities · Festival della Robotica · Organising contribution
What a Wonderful Quantum World
Educational / public engagement · Italian Quantum Weeks · Organising contribution
Introduzione al Quantum Programming
Introductory talk · Pisa Quantum Festival · Speaker
L’Informatica dopo la Laurea: Accademia e Ricerca
Orientation talk · University of Pisa · Speaker
2023
Qiskit Fall Fest 2023
Lessons, workshops & hackathon · University of Trieste / IBM Quantum · Organising contribution
Dal gatto di Schrödinger al Teletrasporto
Educational pathway · Internet Festival
Mauriana Pesaresi seminar series
Seminar series · University of Pisa · Organising contribution
2022
Bug Hunters
Workshop · Internet Festival · 2 sessions
2021
Contapassi e Micro:bit
Workshop · Internet Festival · 2 sessions
2020
#iorestoacasa e #programmo
Video tutorials · Programming for ages 7–17 · Solidarietà Digitale
2019
#MoonDojo
Educational laboratory · Luna50
Il micro:coin: Come funziona una blockchain?
Workshop · Internet Festival · 2 sessions
2017
Acqua, tesoro dell’umanità
Exhibition / public engagement · XXII Settimana della Cultura Scientifica · Exhibitor
2016
Genesis Soccer
Exhibition · Maker Faire Rome · project creator / exhibitor
Research· Education· Communication· Advisory
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