Digital Innovation Forum 2026

14-15-16 ottobre | Villa Erba, Cernobbio

DGS is participating in the Digital Innovation Forum 2026, scheduled for October 14–16 at Villa Erba in Cernobbio. Three days of dialogue and discussion among institutions, businesses, the research community, and key players in innovation.


The 2026 edition, dedicated to “Europe: Driving Innovation” will explore the conditions necessary to transform research, investments, and emerging technologies into economic and social value.


Visit our Lounge Area and get an up-close look at the latest advances in Physical AI, in a secure, innovative environment focused on digital sovereignty.

Your Enabler Partner in the era of Digital Sovereignty

DGS in the debate on Digital Security and Sovereignty

“Defense, National Security, and Cybersecurity in the Era of Cutting-Edge AI and the Geopolitical Context”

On October 16, our Co-CEO Vincenzo Fiengo will speak at the plenary session dedicated to the relationship between Artificial Intelligence, national security, cybersecurity, and geopolitical transformations.

As part of a discussion featuring representatives from government institutions, the Armed Forces, and Italian industry, DGS will share its perspective on the role of digital sovereignty as a lever for ensuring control over data, infrastructure, and technologies in an increasingly interconnected and strategic context.

October 16, 2026 | 11:10 a.m. | Plenary Hall

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Walter Ruffinoni
Presidente, DGS
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Visit our Networking Lounge Area

Physical AI experience: where AI comes to life

In our networking area, you’ll have the opportunity to explore some of the technologies driving the evolution of Physical AI and understand how the convergence of artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation is redefining the relationship between digital systems and real-world processes.

The star of the experience will be Unitree G1, one of the most advanced humanoid robots available today, which will offer a tangible demonstration of the potential of the new generation of intelligent systems. Through demos and dedicated content, we’ll show how Physical AI and Secure AI technologies are evolving from the simple ability to analyze information to the capacity to observe, understand, and act within complex operational contexts.

This is an opportunity to explore the role these technologies can play in transforming industrial processes and to discuss with the DGS team topics that connect innovation, technological autonomy, and the governance of intelligent systems.

We’ll be located near the TV Corner in front of the Plenary Hall, where DGS will present at the panel discussion on the morning of October 16.

Why choose X-SOC?

Our eXtended Security Operations Center goes beyond the limits of traditional security, offering:

  • integrated protection across IT, IoT, and digital identities
  • continuous monitoring and intelligent event correlation
  • rapid incident response (≤ 30 minutes)
  • proactive threat prevention
  • a centralized AI platform
  • a team of experts dedicated entirely to your cybersecurity

We ensure complete visibility and an operating model that reduces risk and protects your corporate reputation.

Europe: A Hub for Innovation

Between Digital Sovereignty, Secure AI, and Physical AI

 

Artificial Intelligence is redefining the way businesses and institutions plan, make decisions, and innovate. Against this backdrop, DGS brings to the Digital Innovation Forum a vision that combines AI, cybersecurity, the cloud, data, and domain expertise to guide organizations toward a practical, secure, and sustainable adoption of emerging technologies.

Our approach stems from a clear conviction: the value of AI is not measured solely by the power of its models, but by the ability to govern its use, data, processes, and impacts. This is why DGS promotes “Sovereign Trusted Intelligence”—a reliable, transparent, and business-objective-oriented intelligence, supported by robust Governance & Protection practices that ensure control, security, and compliance throughout the entire lifecycle of digital solutions. All of this rests on an open, governable “Sovereign Technology Stack” designed to preserve technological autonomy and freedom of choice. It is in this context that DGS positions itself as an enabler of digital innovation, supporting companies and institutions in building ecosystems where competitiveness, resilience, and technological autonomy can grow together.

At the Digital Innovation Forum, DGS will bring to the forefront of the discussion some of the issues that are currently redefining Europe’s competitiveness, resilience, and strategic autonomy. From digital sovereignty to Secure AI, and on to the new frontiers of Physical AI, the discussion will focus on the ability to govern data, infrastructure, technologies, and intelligent systems in a landscape characterized by growing geopolitical complexity and accelerating technological change.

 

Digital Sovereignty

Governing Innovation in the Age of AI

In the age of AI, digital sovereignty does not mean shutting oneself off from global technologies, but rather having the freedom to choose how to adopt and use them, while maintaining control over critical data, infrastructure, models, and processes. It means being able to innovate without sacrificing transparency, security, compliance, and autonomy in technological decision-making.

For DGS, digital sovereignty today represents a strategic lever for businesses and public administrations called upon to operate in a landscape increasingly marked by technological interdependencies, new regulations, and geopolitical shifts. In this context, the real challenge is not to replace existing technologies, but to govern them: to strike the right balance between innovation, control, security, and compliance, based on each organization’s objectives and level of criticality.

DGS positions itself as a Sovereign Enabler—the orchestrator that empowers businesses and institutions to govern data, AI, and infrastructure with full digital sovereignty.

Thanks to our distinctive expertise in cybersecurity, cloud, open source, data platforms, AI, and governance, we design and orchestrate secure, resilient, and compliant digital ecosystems by combining the best available technologies and ensuring control over them throughout their entire lifecycle.

The goal is to enable organizations to drive innovation while maintaining full control over their strategic assets. Because the real challenge isn’t simply accessing AI, but understanding it, controlling it, and orchestrating it within a reliable, governable ecosystem focused on creating long-term value.
 

Digital Sovereignty

Physical AI

The New Frontier of Industrial Transformation

While the market is still debating scenarios and prospects, Physical AI is already an evolving reality. The convergence of artificial intelligence, automation, and physical systems is ushering in a new phase of industrial transformation, in which data, algorithms, and decision-making capabilities are no longer confined to the digital realm but extend directly to operational processes and real-world environments.

In our networking lounge area, you’ll have the opportunity to explore up close some of the technologies driving this evolution and understand their potential impact on industry, infrastructure, and strategic sectors. The demonstrations presented will offer a concrete illustration of how Artificial Intelligence is progressively acquiring the ability to observe, understand, and interact with the physical world, opening up new prospects for advanced automation, human-machine collaboration, and the transformation of industrial processes.

For DGS, Physical AI represents one of the most significant trajectories of European industrial transformation.

This transformation is not merely about the evolution of technologies, but about the ability to combine innovation, digital sovereignty, and cybersecurity into a model where data, algorithms, and intelligent systems can operate securely, in a governed manner, and with resilience. It is in this convergence of artificial intelligence, strategic asset control, and the protection of critical processes that some of the greatest challenges—but also the most significant opportunities—for businesses and institutions lie today.

Physical AI

Secure AI

Governing and Protecting the Digital Ecosystem

For DGS, security is a cross-cutting element that accompanies every phase of digital transformation, from data and identity protection to the defense of critical applications, infrastructure, and processes. In a landscape characterized by increasing interconnectivity among users, systems, platforms, and strategic assets, cybersecurity becomes the necessary prerequisite for ensuring operational continuity, resilience, compliance, and trust throughout the entire digital ecosystem.

Through an integrated approach that combines Governance & Compliance, identity and access protection, application security, infrastructure defense, continuous monitoring, and Managed Security Services, DGS supports businesses and institutions in managing increasingly complex risks. These capabilities are complemented by a growing focus on AI Security to ensure that the adoption of intelligent models and systems occurs in a secure, controlled, and compliant manner.

The growing focus on digital sovereignty makes this issue even more relevant: governing data, infrastructure, and technologies also means protecting them, ensuring control, resilience, and a reduction in strategic dependencies. At the same time, the evolution toward Physical AI extends the scope of security to autonomous systems, operational environments, and physical processes, requiring new models of protection and governance. In this context, cybersecurity is not merely a defensive measure but an enabling lever for building secure, reliable digital ecosystems capable of sustaining innovation over the long term.

Secure AI

Digital sovereignty as a strategic, operational and industrial capability

An in-depth look at the relationship between autonomy, data, AI, Open Source, Cybersecurity and the ability to govern digital dependencies.

Why choose X-SOC?

Our eXtended Security Operations Center goes beyond the limits of traditional security, offering:

  • integrated protection across IT, IoT, and digital identities
  • continuous monitoring and intelligent event correlation
  • rapid incident response (≤ 30 minutes)
  • proactive threat prevention
  • a centralized AI platform
  • a team of experts dedicated entirely to your cybersecurity

We ensure complete visibility and an operating model that reduces risk and protects your corporate reputation.

Italian Intensive Technology Innovation Partner

DGS is the leading Italian partner for cutting-edge innovation, supporting businesses and organizations in the AI modernization of processes, systems, and infrastructure, transforming technological complexity into concrete, secure, and sustainable results.
With integrated expertise in AI & Data Science, Cybersecurity, Smart Enterprise Platforms, Digital Engineering, and Management Consulting, DGS approaches transformation as a unified system, ensuring alignment between strategy, technologies, and execution capabilities.
For nearly 30 years, with over 2,700 professionals, 1,200 clients, and 30 offices throughout Italy, we have been designing, building, and modernizing enterprise environments. The entry of ICG (Intermediate Capital Group) in 2024 ushered in a new phase of growth and consolidation for the Group, strengthening its capacity for investment, development, and innovation. Today, DGS builds solid, secure, and AI-ready foundations that enable organizations to evolve continuously and capture the value of innovation.

 

Let's meet at the Digital Innovation Forum

Where ideas find practical applications

We look forward to seeing you in the DGS networking lounge, located behind the TV Corner, across from the Plenary Hall.

Together with our experts, you’ll have the opportunity to explore the topics that are redefining the relationship between Innovation, Digital Sovereignty, Secure AI, and Physical AI, see interactive demos featuring the latest generation of humanoids, and much more.

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AI-Secure

The DGS AI portfolio covers the entire transformation lifecycle, from data platforms to agentic architectures, from core business processes to new digital scenarios, with cybersecurity embedded as a cross-functional dimension in every solution.

 

We provide tailored solutions through an end-to-end approach that connects technology, processes, and organizational needs, ensuring full integration with customer environments and avoiding technology lock-in.

Security is built into every DGS AI solution from the earliest stages of context analysis and design.

 

As AI adoption expands the attack surface and introduces new compliance requirements such as the AI Act, GDPR, and NIS2, we design architectures that meet the highest standards of data protection, AI governance, and operational security.

Physical AI: Where Intelligence Takes Shape

Physical AI: Where Intelligence Takes Shape

DGS brings artificial intelligence into physical environments, enabling new application scenarios in industry, logistics, and operational security.

AI is no longer just an analytical tool. It becomes an operational agent that interacts with the physical world through robots, drones, sensors, and vision systems, extending human decision-making capabilities in contexts where speed, precision, and operational continuity are critical.

At the DGS booth during AI WEEK, visitors will experience live demonstrations and immersive Physical AI assets.


 

Physical AI: Where Intelligence Takes Shape

DGS brings artificial intelligence into physical environments, enabling new application scenarios in industry, logistics, and operational security.

AI is no longer just an analytical tool. It becomes an operational agent that interacts with the physical world through robots, drones, sensors, and vision systems, extending human decision-making capabilities in contexts where speed, precision, and operational continuity are critical.

At the DGS booth during AI WEEK, visitors will experience live demonstrations and immersive Physical AI assets.