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Meetings - The past and the future of italian industrial system |
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 The Fondazione Italcementi, top resent the volume on the group’s history Italcementi: From Domestic Leadership to Internationalization by Vera Zamagni, promoted a roundtable entitled “History and Future of the Italian Industrial System”, held at the University of
Bergamo in the presence of
representatives from the academic, institutional and industrial worlds, and followed by faculty and students from four prestigious Italian universities: Bergamo, Bocconi Milan, Bologna and Alta Scuola Politecnica Milan-Turin, linked in web streaming and chat conference.
After opening remarks by Alberto Castoldi, rector of the University of Bergamo, and Giovanni Giavazzi, chairman of the Fondazione Italcementi, the program featured the participation of speakers Alberto Bombassei, Vice President of Confindustria, Mario Deaglio, professor of international economics at the University of Turin, Giampiero Pesenti, chairman of Italcementi, Angelo Tantazzi, chairman of Borsa Italiana, and Vera Zamagni, professor of economic history at the University of Bologna.
The objectives of the initiative were to bring industry and industrial activity, in terms of growth and sustainability, to the attention of university and post-graduate students and to offer entrepreneurs, professors, and representatives of financial and other institutions direct exposure to the curiosity, expectations and passions of today's young people.
 “The choice of the venue, the University, and the protagonists, the young people," noted Giovanni Giavazzi, chairman of the Foundation and vice chairman of Italcementi, "demonstrates our desire to transmit to a new generation about to enter the professional world the memory and values of a successful industrial enterprise.”
Giampiero Pesenti, chairman of Italcementi, who in his address outlined the recent internationalization process of the group, stressed the expansion phase of the group launched in the early '90s and recalled: “From the beginnings in 1864, as Società Bergamasca per la Fabbricazione del Cemento e della Calce Idraulica, we have become today an international group with activities in 19 countries and over 20,000 employees, but the memory of our history and our past are still the foundation for our renewed entrepreneurial commitment”. |
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