Italy Aerospace Competences: Soft Skills and Complexity Management

Aerospace is not just a high-tech sector: it is a production infrastructure of complexity. In this context, skills can no longer be understood as a simple sum of technical knowledge, but rather as a systemic capability to integrate knowledge, manage uncertainty, and coordinate complex production networks.

The future of aerospace skills in Italy increasingly lies at the intersection of hard and soft skills: engineers able to engage in dialogue, designers capable of orchestrating complex processes, and professionals who combine technical depth with relational intelligence. This roundtable aims to open a discussion on this transformation, exploring how to rethink education, organizations, and skills development models from an evolutionary perspective.

Programme

Moderator: 
Lorenzo Ciapetti, Forlì-Cesena Technopole

Speakers:

Franco Bernelli Zazzera, Full Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Former Chairman of Pegasus

Domenico Accardo, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Air Force Academy *

Giovanna Labartino, Centro Studi Confindustria

Hady Milani, European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability - EIIS, Director of the Space Entrepreneurship Program at the European Institute of Innovation for Sustainability

Anna Pia Spada, HR Director SITAEL

* Speaker participation subject to confirmation