An immersion in the future: this is how the Italian and international trade fair We Make Future, or WMF, presents itself, as over three days - from Wednesday, June 4 to Friday, June 6, 2025 - it will offer more than 100 thematic events and a unique format combining exhibition area, education, B2B meetings, networking, culture, concerts, shows and entertainment, again this year within the spaces of BolognaFiere.
Following the 2024 edition, which saw more than 70,000 attendees from 90 countries, more than 700 exhibitors, and more than 1,000 speakers from around the world, the WMF once again brings together an exceptional guest roster of the brightest minds and realities of international innovation in areas such as digital tech, artificial intelligence (AI), open innovation and social innovation. Alongside key players from the technology and entrepreneurial sectors, the WMF will also host representatives from institutions and academia, who will contribute insights on key topics for the development of innovation.
Also present at WMF 2025 will be I3P, the Incubator of Politecnico di Torino, which for more than 25 years has supported the birth and development of innovative start-ups with high technology intensity and growth potential. Representing the multitude of entrepreneurial talents at home in the Campus of Politecnico di Torino will be seven young companies from the I3P network, who will attend the Bologna festival together with the incubator to tell about their innovative projects and take advantage of the meeting opportunities offered by the WMF.
The I3P start-ups at WMF 2025
The companies that will populate the exhibition area dedicated to I3P are Astradyne, Clearbox AI, Dropper, Midori Connect, Mulini, PlantZCare and Salute360. Their projects, active in different sectors, share a high degree of innovativeness, not only technological, and the ability to respond to the challenges of their respective target markets.
- Astradyne has developed an innovative technology called FRET (Flexible, Reinforced Electronics with Textile), which can use textile material to reinforce flexible electronic boards (Flex PCBs), thus making new applications possible. The first one devised is SolarCube, a solar panel with an origami-inspired design that can solve the typical limitations of solar panels in the aerospace field, namely high mass and low capacity to produce power.
- Clearbox AI is a young company born in I3P, with a team from the best technology universities in Europe, that helps companies launch AI projects through the generation of synthetic data. The latter is data generated by artificial intelligence algorithms based on real data, recreating real-life situations. Clearbox AI's most recent project, Replica Italia, consists of a digital twin of the entire Italy and its 60 million inhabitants.
- Dropper is a start-up that uses artificial intelligence to analyze flows of people in real time, ensuring privacy and offering strategic metrics to improve building utilization. At the heart of the project is privacy protection: all data captured by detectors installed in the field are collected anonymously, thanks to the technology used for counting, and then transmitted to the cloud to make them available to customers on a custom-built platform.
- Midori Connect, a tech company specializing in energy data analysis and exploitation, has developed Ned, a mobile energy coaching platform that provides energy monitoring services for home appliances with specific, data-driven insights to guide users to more responsible energy use. Ned's technology integrates patented algorithms to identify how energy is used in buildings to make them more sustainable, efficient and safe.
- Mulini is a start-up specializing in R&D on security and privacy of cyber-physical systems. Its solutions are derived from years of research and open source contributions in IoT security, privacy and auditing for consumer, industrial and medical sectors. Mulini offers IoT security solutions and develops AI tools for cybersecurity threat detection, critical infrastructure protection, and device auditing for certification and regulatory compliance.
- PlantZCare is an innovative start-up founded in February 2025 active in the smart agriculture sector. The young company proposes a wearable plant sensor designed and manufactured to assess crop health in a simple and low-cost way. The solution is employable in applications in agriculture and food production, where PlantZCare enables efficiency in the use of water and nutrient resources to be fed to crops in a targeted manner.
- Salute360 is a digital health company committed to transforming the way patients and health professionals connect and interact. It has designed and developed an integrated platform that simplifies access to reliable health information and digital services, in full compliance with European health regulations and the U.S. HIPAA law. Its mission is to make healthcare more accessible, secure and patient-centered through smart digital solutions.
From Wednesday, June 4 to Friday, June 6, in Hall 21 of BolognaFiere within the Innovation Area, the I3P incubator and the seven young companies from its network will be happy to meet as much with visitors and onlookers as with other SMEs, corporate entities, investors, institutional bodies, journalists and technology experts to exchange information, contacts and possible collaboration opportunities.
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