Founder and Managing Director of the YOOX Group, the global Internet retailing partner for leading fashion & design brands.

She is director of the department of comparative biomedical sciences of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (PD).

Italian designer famous throughout the world, founder of Italdesign which is concerned with the production of new vehicles and industrial objects.

President and founder of Kanso, a consultancy society involved with innovation and customer experience. Member of the operations committee for the Prize.

Marco Marinucci is the founder and executive director of Mind the Bridge and he is responsible for Google’s content partnerships activities.

Mayor of Turin since 2001; earlier he worked in the secretariat of the Italian communist party, then with the Turin branch of the CGIL union, and he then became secretary of the Turin and Piedmont PDS party