The Piaggio Group at the World Frontiers Forum with Piaggio Fast Forward

Il Piaggio Group with Piaggio Fast Forward (PFF), a company based in Boston which represents the group's research center on the mobility of the future, took part in the World Frontiers Forum which took place in Cambridge andHarvard University.

Founded by Dennis Ausiello (Harvard Medical School/MGH), David Edwards (Harvard, ArtScience) to Robert Langer (MIT), the World Frontiers Forum is an annual event that brings together important international groups and companies, as well as the academic world and cultural institutions, which stand out for their pioneering vision and proposals that can improve the future of the world.

The Forum, which this year hosts 150 participants from all over the world, aims to bring out, share and encourage new and innovative ideas that in the future will be able to increase well-being and quality of life in an increasingly "diverse" world. frontier”, which requires an adaptation of behaviors and ways of thinking and acting.

Piaggio Fast Forward is called upon to represent the transport and mobility sector. The CEO of Piaggio Fast Forward will speak today, Jeffrey Schnapp, bringing the experience of GITA, PFF's first robotics project presented last February in Boston, an intelligent vehicle capable of moving autonomously, designed to improve the mobility of things and people in increasingly complex urban developments.

Numerous personalities attended. We would like to highlight the contribution of Fabrizio Hochschild (Assistant Secretary General at the United Nations) on the future of global issues such as the economic balance between the population, employment and climate change, and the discussion between Robert Langer (MIT professor, engineer, scientist and chemist) e David Edwards on Langer's pioneering works in the field of bioengineering, on the developments and applications they will have for global health.

Piaggio Fast Forward participated in the World Frontiers Forum alongside important companies operating in biomedical research, art, cultural promotion, but also in finance, including Verily (company of the Alphabet group), Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group (active in the bioscience sector), Wyss Institute (Harvard-based biomedical engineering research institute), VIA Art Fund (non-profit organization supporting artistic projects) e Northstar Advisors (private equity firm based in Singapore).