Cristiano Boscato
Academic Director and Adjunct Professor, Bologna Business School
Executive and Academic Director, Teknè 5.0® Executive Master, Bi-Rex
CEO and Founder, Dinova (Maggioli Group)
Artificial Intelligence, Corporate Culture and Innovation
AI and Doubt as a Method: difficult questions in a market that demands immediate answers in a landscape where Artificial Intelligence is described through a succession of promises of salvation or apocalyptic warnings, Cristiano Boscato offers a different perspective: doubt not as a weakness, but as a working method and a form of listening.
In this keynote, Boscato invites leaders to resist the temptation of simple formulas and artificial optimism, showing how difficult questions , the ones nobody is in a hurry to ask, are today the real competitive lever in a market obsessed with speed and performance.
Through a narrative approach that always starts with a human detail, an everyday scene or a personal contradiction before expanding into business, technology and society, Boscato creates a talk that does not close the conversation, but opens it up, complicates it and makes it fertile.The central message is as simple as it is unsettling: the real revolution of Artificial Intelligence is not about machines; it is about the human beings who will have to decide what to do with them.
The Transformative Power of Language: how words shape the technology we will use.
With a degree in semiotic studies and having studied under Umberto Eco, Cristiano Boscato looks at Artificial Intelligence through a lens that few other managers possess: language as a form of power, even before it becomes a tool for communication. From this perspective, Boscato shows how the words and narratives we choose to describe AI do not simply define it, but actively influence how it is understood, designed and used. With an ironic, humanistic style that never speaks from the ivory tower of theory, Boscato guides the audience through a reflection on how the dominant technological narrative, filled with words such as “disruption”, repeated so often that they have almost lost their meaning, risks flattening the real complexity of the transformation underway. A perspective that invites leaders to regain awareness of language as their first strategic tool.
The Technological Mutation: Artificial Intelligence as an anthropological transformation
Cristiano Boscato looks at Artificial Intelligence not simply as a technology, but as a massive cultural and sociological mutation destined to change the way we speak, think, desire, work and even imagine the future.
He explores how this mutation is redefining work, relationships, identity and our vision of the future, going far beyond the boundaries of technological innovation in the narrow sense.
Starting from insights born out of everyday scenes and seemingly insignificant observations, Boscato builds a narrative that brings together business, technology and society, offering leaders an anthropological perspective to navigate a transformation that concerns people first and machines second.
Cristiano Boscato is Academic Director and Adjunct Professor at Bologna Business School, as well as Executive and Academic Director of the Teknè 5.0® Executive Master at Bi-Rex.
Recognized as one of Italy’s most original voices in the discussion of innovation, Artificial Intelligence and its cultural consequences, he stands out in the public arena for an approach that is decidedly unconventional compared with many contemporary opinion leaders: he does not seek to
sell simple formulas, artificial optimism or absolute truths, but instead cultivates difficult questions as a method.
With a degree in semiotic studies and having studied under Umberto Eco, Boscato belongs to that rare category of managers who consider language a form of power before it is a communication tool.
This is perhaps why he observes Artificial Intelligence differently from most of the market: not only as a technology, but as a cultural and sociological mutation destined to change the way we speak, think, desire, work and imagine the future.
His narrative style almost always begins with a human detail, an everyday scene, a personal contradiction or a sudden insight, and then develops into reflections touching on business, technology, society, relationships and identity.
An approach that makes him difficult to categorize: too humanistic to be a tech manager, too entrepreneurial to be an academic intellectual, too ironic to be a guru, and too restless to settle for easy certainties.
As an entrepreneur, he is CEO and Founder of Dinova, part of the Maggioli Group.
He is the author of In Una Notte d’Estate Ho Visto il Futuro and Era Ora. In 2022 and 2024, he was included by Forbes among Italy’s Top 100 Managers.
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Forbes: Top 100 Italian Managers (2022)
Forbes: Top 100 Italian Managers (2024)

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