updated at 14 September

Afternoon	WELCOME and PLENARY SESSIONS
14:00 - 14:45 WS.1 - WELCOME SESSION
Chair: Maria Sabrina SARTO - Sapienza Università di Roma
WS.1.1	Massimiliano SMERIGLIO - Vicepresident of Regione Lazio
WS.1.2	Eugenio GAUDIO - Rector of Sapienza University of Rome
WS.1.3	Fabrizio VESTRONI - Dean of the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome
WS.1.4	Enrico ZANETTI - Vice-Minister of Economy and Finance
WS.1.5	Giulio MULAS - Industrial Cooperation and International Organisation Office, Italian Trade Agency
14:45 - 15:00 IS. 1 - INTRODUCTORY SESSION
Chair: Maria Sabrina SARTO - Sapienza Università di Roma
IS.1.1	Marco VITTORI ANTISARI - President of Associazione NanoItaly
IS.1.2	Renato UGO - President of AIRI
15:00 - 16:45 PS.1 - PLENARY SESSION I
Advances on Nanotechnology and Nanosciences Chair: Francesco PROFUMO - Fondazione Bruno Kessler
PS.1.1	Cristiano GALBIATI,  Princeton University - USA Nanoelectronics enables advanced searches for dark matter
PS.1.2	Rutledge ELLIS-BEHNKE, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim - Germany  & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston - USA The Intersection of Nanotechnology and Healthcare: Using self-assembled nanomaterials to reverse blindness in mammals and to stop bleeding in less than 15 seconds
PS.1.3	Filippo MANCIA, Columbia University - USA Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy: a revolution in Structural Biology. A new tool for membrane protein research
16:45 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 19:00 PS.2 - PLENARY SESSION II
Research & Innovation Strategies Chair: Stefano FANTACONE - President of Lazio Innova
PS.2.1	Francesco PROFUMO, President of Fondazione Bruno Kessler Analysis of Research and Innovation Dilemma
PS.2.2	Stefano DELLA CORTE, Invitalia New aid measures designed by the MISE to support R&D projects within the framework of the National Operational Programme for "Industry and Competitiveness" 2014-2020 ERDF
PS.2.3	Marco FALZETTI, Director of APRE Clustering the European Material Community within H2020 - the A4M challenge
PS.2.4	Fabrizio Famà, LFOUNDRY The mix of heritage and technology you’d find in the Center of Italy
PS.2.5	Luca GIANNINI, Pirelli Innovation Challenges & Nanotechnology Opportunities in Tyre Development
PS.2.6	Giorgio FERRARI, Mapei Innovative products in construction industry
PS.2.7	Donata MEDAGLINI, Italian Representative in the H2020 Programme Committee on “Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing Italian Participation in the Nanotechnology Calls of Horizon 2020
19:00 - 19:30 NEST Prize
Announcement of the prizewinner edition 2015 Presentation of the edition 2016
19:30 WELCOME COCKTAIL