{"id":108277,"date":"2023-11-20T13:11:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T12:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2023\/11\/lambasciatrice-zappia-visita-lhub-innovit-a-san-francisco\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T13:14:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T12:14:29","slug":"lambasciatrice-zappia-visita-lhub-innovit-a-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/retediplomatica\/2023\/11\/lambasciatrice-zappia-visita-lhub-innovit-a-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Zappia visits the INNOVIT hub in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">As part of her mission to San Francisco, the Ambassador of Italy to the United States,\u00a0<b>Mariangela Zappia<\/b>, together with Consul General\u00a0<b>Sergio Strozzi<\/b>\u00a0visited the\u00a0<b>Italian Innovation and Culture Hub INNOVIT<\/b>, opened at the end of 2021 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation as an outpost of Italian innovation in Silicon Valley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cOver\u00a0<b>100 startups and innovative SMEs accelerated in 2023<\/b>, more than a hundred events organized, over 4,000 guests\u2014these numbers demonstrate the success of this Italian project,\u201d highlighted the Ambassador, who is also the president of Innovit\u2019s advisory board, at the opening of the roundtable on strengthening Italy-United States collaboration in technology and innovation. This commitment was one of the agreements made by the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and US President Joe Biden in their meeting in Washington at the end of July. \u201cWith Innovit, Italy brings its excellence in the sectors of energy, biotech, fintech, digital, aerospace, robotics, cybersecurity, and the internet of things to Silicon Valley,\u201d emphasized the Ambassador, expressing appreciation for the contributions of associations such as the Italian Scientists &amp; Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF), the Silicon Valley Italian Executives Council (SVIEC), and the Business Association Italy America (BAIA) to the growth of Innovit and the entire\u00a0<em>Sistema Italia<\/em>\u00a0[Italian institutional network] in San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">In a ceremony at Innovit, in the presence of representatives from the entrepreneurial and scientific community, the Ambassador awarded\u00a0<b>Luca Maestri<\/b>, Apple\u2019s CFO, the honor of\u00a0<b>Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic<\/b>. The Ambassador recalled how Maestri, a member of the Innovit Advisory Board, has always maintained a close connection with Italy, supporting young Italian entrepreneurs and promoting the creation of the Apple Academy at the University of Federico II in Naples.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">In San Francisco, Ambassador Zappia also met with\u00a0<b>Federico Faggin<\/b>, a physicist, inventor, and Italian entrepreneur who conceived the first microchips for Intel and founded successful high-tech companies such as ZiLOG and Synaptics. She also met\u00a0<b>Marco Trombetti<\/b>, the founder of Translated, an Italian company that is a leader in online translations and collaborates with major American tech companies, such as Google.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of her mission to San Francisco, the Ambassador of Italy to the United States,\u00a0Mariangela Zappia, together with Consul General\u00a0Sergio Strozzi\u00a0visited the\u00a0Italian Innovation and Culture Hub INNOVIT, opened at the end of 2021 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation as an outpost of Italian innovation in Silicon Valley. \u201cOver\u00a0100 startups [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":108275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[397,32],"class_list":["post-108277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-america-settentrionale","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108278,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108277\/revisions\/108278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}