The Age of Scarcity

Name: The Age of Scarcity — Sparking Thoughts III
Start: 2026-10-22
End: 2026-10-23
Location: Hotel Villa e Palazzo Aminta, Stresa

III edition

22–23 October 2026Hotel Villa e Palazzo Aminta, Stresa

The context

Abundance or scarcityAbundance and scarcity

We do not live in a world of scarcity, but in a world where abundance and scarcity coexist. We may have more capital, data and technology than ever, and still be limited by what is rare: attention, trust, time, courage. That is where the future of organisations is decided.

Attention

The most contested resource of the digital age. Without attention, information and opportunities lose their value and their impact.

Trust

It accelerates decisions, collaboration and change. When it is missing, every process becomes slower and more expensive.

Judgement

The ability to build meaning, form independent interpretations and choose what genuinely deserves attention.

Patience

The willingness to wait for results, learn in depth and build value over time.

The format

Two moments. One continuous thread

A session that opens the right questions. A lab that turns them into scenarios and decisions.

22 October — Evening

The provocation

A talk that shifts the point of view: scarcity is not a theoretical topic, it reaches the business. Not a lecture: an opening.

23 October — Morning

Scarcity Map 2035
Strategic Foresight Lab

Short contributions, then peer-to-peer work. In 2035 there will be no shortage of data or tools. Everything else will be short: which resource will become the real constraint for your organisation?

The signals so far

Two conversations. New questions

Sparking Thoughts | 1st Edition October 2025
The reflections of Marco Bentivogli, Samira Rafaela, co-rapporteur of the EU Pay Transparency Directive, and Gianfranco Chimirri pointed to one shared conclusion: as automation accelerates, the value of human skills grows. And transparency is not just compliance, it is the foundation of trust between people and organisations.

Sparking Thoughts | 2nd Edition May 2026
With Carlo Alberto Carnevale-Maffè, Giuseppe Torre and Monia Cusini we explored another finding: skills evolve faster than professions, and organisations struggle to keep pace. The more powerful technology becomes, the more valuable the capabilities that cannot be automated.

Read the Sparking Thoughts II report

Perspectives

The speakers

Gianluca Spolverato
Employment lawyer | Founder and Managing Partner, WI Legal | Author of BULLDOZER
Gianluca Spolverato
Employment lawyer | Founder and Managing Partner, WI Legal | Author of BULLDOZER
Employment lawyer, entrepreneur and author. Founder and Managing Partner of WI Legal, he founded SHR Italia and Laborability, through which he studies, narrates and experiments with the transformation of work and organisations. In 2026 he published BULLDOZER. Il lavoro cambia, cambiamo il lavoro with Egea, a manifesto that questions what we keep calling normal even when it no longer works. His work holds together law, organisation, technology and responsibility, with one aim: helping build work that can change together with people and companies.
Annalisa Galardi
Founder, The Bravery Store | Partner, Torreluna | Lecturer at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Annalisa Galardi
Founder, The Bravery Store | Partner, Torreluna | Lecturer at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Founder of The Bravery Store and partner at Torreluna, lecturer in Corporate Communication at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and board member of the Fondazione Adriano Olivetti. For over twenty years she has guided people, teams and organisations through change, designing leadership, empowerment and courage-culture programmes, and works with companies on internal communication, employer branding and cultural transformation. Author of books on communication and on courage as an individual and organisational skill, she has been a TEDx speaker and speaks at events and conventions on courage, corporate responsibility and change.
Antonia Comito
CEO & Founder | AEXTHESIA LAB
Antonia Comito
CEO & Founder | AEXTHESIA LAB
CEO & Founder of ÆXTHESIA LAB, a deep-tech company that brings together art, multisensory immersive technologies and applied neuroscience to design experiential paths for cognitive performance and wellbeing in the digital age. She is a Master Neuroplastician at the Institute of Organizational Neuroscience (ION), focused on enhancing individual and organisational performance. A classical pianist with an international career, she holds a PhD in the Conservation of Musical Instruments and three Executive Masters in Interactive Design VR/AR, Neuropsychology and Leadership for International Relations, promoted by the Fondazione Italia-USA, United Nations Academic Program. ÆXTHESIA LAB received the Premio America Innovazione (Fondazione Italia-USA – Chamber of Deputies) and the Le Fonti Awards as Excellence of the Year, Art & Tech for Wellbeing (Palazzo Mezzanotte, Borsa Italiana).
Monia Cusini
Head of People & Head of HR Advisory | Sparq
Monia Cusini
Head of People & Head of HR Advisory | Sparq
Over twenty years in consulting, HR transformation, innovation and strategic foresight. Her work starts from the everyday reality of organisations and people, guiding companies and leadership through the evolution of skills, culture and organisational models. A view in which processes and tools matter, but it is culture that decides whether an organisation can truly transform.
Riccardo Caserini
Senior Account Director | LinkedIn
Riccardo Caserini
Senior Account Director | LinkedIn
After some thirty years in business, fifteen of them at LinkedIn, he has reached one conviction: the quality of our life and work depends largely on the quality of our attention, on the ability to be truly present to what we are living. A manager and mindfulness practitioner, he is the author of Mindfulness: più focus, meno stress (Egea, 2021) and has brought these themes to companies and business schools. In his talks he builds a bridge between managerial experience and contemplative practice, exploring attention as the ability to be present, act with greater awareness and not let urgency, distraction and habit lead us.