Global Insights and Inspiration from Intesa Sanpaolo
24 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago -We are Intesa Sanpaolo (Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.), Italy’s leading bank and a major global banking group. We believe that impact banking and innovation build a better future, one that grows a sustainable economy and improves life for all. Our support for circular economy, art and culture is part of that work. This podcast programme explores how we are making our ambitions a reality.
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Building a smart city: Turin, the smart mobility testing ground
April 26, 2021 11:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBTurin, birthplace of Italy’s beloved Fiat 500, prides itself today on being a fertile ground for innovation, allowing nascent tech companies to test and develop ideas for the cities of the future. Intesa Sanpaolo supports this, having paired with Techstars, a specialist in the nurture of nascent tech companies, to form the Techstars smart mobility acceleration programme. Hear from participants in the programme and the head of Techstars on how Turin is leading the way on smart city development.
How AI can superpower finance
April 16, 2021 14:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBAt the Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center’s AI Lab, the team has developed proprietary software that superpowers market risk assessment. Listen to the podcast to find out more about the department and the project, plus what AI can do for business and finance.
Jaron Lanier: the social media model is a threat to us all
March 03, 2021 00:00 - 12 minutes - 8.41 MBJaron Lanier helped to create virtual reality, so he’s no technophobe. Yet today he wants to spread the word that social media in its current form is harming all of us – from individual mental health all the way up to plurality in politics and healthy competition in business. In an interview following his virtual Novathon appearance, Lanier discusses his ideas for a positive future in social media, arguing that it all starts with changing the business model.
Banking in tough times: climate change, Brexit and Covid-19
December 22, 2020 12:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MB2020 has thrown a lot at the world generally – and business and finance are no exception. Covid-19 has stalled business investment and Brexit looms over the eurozone. But the issue of climate change eclipses all of this. Stefano Del Punta, Intesa Sanpaolo’s chief financial officer, explains how using finance to change things for good is a big part of the bank’s identity, as well as the future post-Brexit and Covid-19, in the most recent instalment of the Intesa Sanpaolo Talks.
Artemisia Gentileschi: great painter revealed
November 18, 2020 12:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBDespite deep personal challenges, Artemisia Gentileschi became a master painter in 17th-century Europe, a storyteller who brought a unique angle to her subjects, getting under their skin to bring them to life in paint. A new exhibition, sponsored by Intesa Sanpaolo, explores Gentileschi’s life and work for the first time in the UK. Artemisia at the National Gallery fulfils the underlying objective of Intesa Sanpaolo’s ‘Progetto Cultura’ – to promote Italy’s artistic heritage beyond its n...
Trend forecasting post Covid-19
November 03, 2020 14:00 - 12 minutes - 8.46 MBTrend analysis is one of three Innovation Center departments at Intesa Sanpaolo, working in synergy with the AI lab and neuroscience lab to help predict the shape of the future and pass that knowledge on to clients. But how can it predict the future, particularly at a time when everything is changing so quickly? This podcast features interviews with the team, who share what they are working on and how they go about getting to know what will happen tomorrow, today.
Europe’s plan for a cleaner future
October 19, 2020 09:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBThe European Commission has set out a 35-point action plan to help transform business to a Circular Economy by 2030. In this podcast, we hear from Joanna Drake, deputy director-general for mobility and environment at the European Commission, and Francesca Passamonti, head of European regulatory and public affairs at Intesa Sanpaolo. Both discuss how the plan aims to support business into the positive change that will make Europe greener and more competitive.
Da Vinci’s code, revealed by neuroscience
July 30, 2020 08:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBInside the Museo del Cenacolo Vinciano, a team set up by Intesa Sanpaolo used a variety of sense-tracking devices to measure neurological response to The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci. Listen to hear their findings and discover why a bank has a neuroscience team at all…
Pirelli is on the road to a greener future
July 13, 2020 09:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBIn April 2020, Intesa Sanpaolo announced it would be working with another of Italy's most famous names to advance the Circular Economy. The Italian bank has lent €200m to tyre-maker Pirelli under strict circular conditions, part of a wider €800m sustainability loan taken out by the company. In this episode of Intesa Sanpaolo Talks, we explore how, as a lender, Intesa Sanpaolo can help speed up the transformation to a global Circular Economy.
Covid-19 and the macroeconomic fallout
July 08, 2020 17:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBNothing in our lifetimes has had a greater or more rapid economic impact than the Covid-19 crisis. Its effects have been felt faster and by more people than even the crisis of 2008. How will it play with the already strained relationships of the US and China, or the UK and EU? Luca Mezzomo, Intesa Sanpaolo’s head of macroeconomic research, outlines his thoughts on the global economic outlook after Covid-19 in this, the first of five macroeconomic discussions.
Nature is our inspiration for change
June 04, 2020 14:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBTwo years ago, the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design opened an outpost in Costa Rica. From the outside, this might appear to be a random office move. But, explains Simona Maschi, co-founder and director of the CIID, Costa Rica is the perfect base from which to work on the biggest design problem of our generation: that of saving the planet. This podcast is an interview with Maschi, explaining the process of interaction design and how it might help in our eco-emergency.
Circular Economy Lending: building a new world through finance
May 11, 2020 08:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBTwo years ago, Intesa Sanpaolo launched a €5bn loan fund for businesses and projects supporting the Circular Economy. It has been highly successful, with €1.2bn loaned to 95 such initiatives. In this episode, three people behind sustainability at Intesa Sanpaolo explain the criteria used to decide who gets funding, why investors need educating on sustainability and why innovative thinking is more important than ever before. This podcast was recorded before the latest lending figures became a...
Designing circular cities
March 18, 2020 11:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBWhat would a circular city look like? It would run on renewable energy and have buildings that can change their function and the way they work over time. We would have shared transport facilities, no single-use passenger vehicles, and there would be lots of green space and urban farming. Yet cities have evolved to such an overwhelming level of complexity that, in reality, changing their ways seems almost impossible. In this podcast we hear from Milan, a city taking on the challenge of making...
Canova and Thorvaldsen: rival neo-classicist sculptors
December 18, 2019 23:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBA new exhibition in Milan brings together for the first time the works of Antonio Canova (1757-1822) and the younger Danish artist Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), who were both contemporaries and rivals. Canova and Thorvaldsen were both neo-classicist sculptors working in Italy, sometimes creating works inspired by the same subject, and both working for the same people (including Napoléon and the popes, dukes and monarchs of their time). While Thorvaldsen could never master Canova’s sensua...
Canova and Thorvaldsen: rival neo-classicist sculptors
December 18, 2019 23:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBA new exhibition in Milan brings together for the first time the works of Antonio Canova (1757-1822) and the younger Danish artist Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), who were both contemporaries and rivals. Canova and Thorvaldsen were both neo-classicist sculptors working in Italy, sometimes creating works inspired by the same subject, and both working for the same people (including Napoléon and the popes, dukes and monarchs of their time). While Thorvaldsen could never master Canova’s sensua...
China’s Greater Bay Area holds the key to future business
December 17, 2019 10:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBAlessandro Vitale is head of Intesa Sanpaolo’s Hong Kong branch and its Asia-Pacific hub. He stresses the sheer size of the opportunity for Italian, British and other European business in the Greater Bay Area – taking in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau. “The area has the same GDP as that of Spain or Australia. The peculiarity of this region is that GDP is going to double in the next 10 years. That’s a big element of growth in this region of the world.” This podcast explores how Intesa Sanpao...
The Italian designer denim manufacturer helping the fashion industry clean up its act
November 26, 2019 16:00 - 13 minutes - 9.55 MBIt takes 23,000 litres of water to make a single T-shirt and a pair of jeans. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Candiani Denim – an Intesa Sanpaolo customer that supplies the popular material for numerous high-end brands – works with high tech materials to make its denim kinder to the environment. Alberto Candiani explains how his company is helping to reduce denim production waste and consumption, while retaining the charm of the well-worn fabric. We also hear from Laura Balmond, of the E...
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on AI and tech’s unparalleled pace of change
November 15, 2019 10:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBAI, blockchain, crypto, micro payments, regtech and insurtech are all shifting the working processes of banks. This year, Intesa’s Novathon has evolved from a hackathon for new technologies into a conference focused on innovation and culture transformation, including a talk from the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak. This podcast features an interview with the tech guru at the Novathon event. We hear his reflections on the future of AI and why companies need to use tech ethically. Maurice L...
The Italian car parts company that’s been using circular economy methods since 1939.
November 01, 2019 11:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBIn the automotive sector, there’s an estimated $400bn to $600bn worth of revenue opportunity in the reworking of old parts. Yet the principles of the circular economy are still largely ignored in the everyday business of large automotive manufacturers, which continue to work mostly with traditional linear economy methods. This podcast features Sermec, an Italian car parts company that began using circular economy practices back in 1939, and continues operating the model today, passing huge s...
The Italian Way To A Circular Economy: Momentum for the green revolution
September 03, 2019 13:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBThe Ellen MacArthur Foundation is on a mission to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. Intesa Sanpaolo has been a global partner of the Foundation since 2015 as its financial services lead. With that commitment extended this year, we hear from Andrew Morlet, the Foundation’s chief executive, in another episode of the Italian Way To A Circular Economy podcast series. He explains the importance of the relationship to efforts to move away from the linear economic model of make-use-d...
From Clay to Algorithm. A connection that dates back centuries.
July 26, 2019 15:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBThe relationship between art and technology is celebrated in a unique exhibition, From Clay to Algorithm. It is a collaboration between Intesa Sanpaolo and the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art near Turin. The third episode of the Intesa Sanpaolo Talks podcast programme explores the exhibition. We hear from Castello di Rivoli’s chief curator and curator of collections, Marcella Beccaria, and Alastair Smart, an influential art critic who discuss its innovative non-linear approach ...
The Italian way to a circular economy: Taking a bite out of the circular economy
July 16, 2019 14:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MBHow can we fulfil our most basic needs without destroying our planet at the same time? In this second episode of our series on The Italian Way to a Circular Economy, we look at how producers and consumers are changing the way they think about food. From Intesa Sanpaolo’s lab dedicated to the circular economy, to a food company that’s banned plastic straws, we discover how one of the world’s most resource-intensive sectors is pivoting towards sustainable business practices. Among the guest...
The Italian way to a circular economy: A world without waste
July 07, 2019 17:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBImagine a world without waste, a virtuous loop of reuse and regeneration. In this first episode of our series on The Italian Way to A Circular Economy, we look at how Intesa Sanpaolo is helping to build a circular economy. From the Italian embassy in London, through the bank's relationship with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to the first international investment from Intesa Sanpaolo's €5bn loan facility, we explore how turning words into action is making a real difference.
The Italian way to a circular economy: A world without waste
July 07, 2019 17:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBImagine a world without waste, a virtuous loop of reuse and regeneration. In this first episode of our series on The Italian Way to A Circular Economy, we look at how Intesa Sanpaolo is helping to build a circular economy. From the Italian embassy in London, through the bank's relationship with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to the first international investment from Intesa Sanpaolo's €5bn loan facility, we explore how turning words into action is making a real difference.