The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition: MAKE IN ITALY. 50 Years of Italian Breakthroughs From the First PC to the First Space-Bound Espresso Machine.

Thursday, November 12, 2015, 6pm - Italian Cultural Institute - 686 Park Avenue - New York. RSVP

"The first desktop computer in the world": this is how America welcomed the launch of Programma 101 (P101) in New York in 1965. Created by a small group of "crazy" young Italian engineers at Olivetti, P101's success was so huge, that the US space agency NASA bought it and used it for its mission to the moon.
Since then, Italy has continued to make significant contributions to progress in technology, up to the 2015 experiment of ISSpresso, the first ever system for brewing espresso coffee in the extreme conditions of outer space, made by Argotec and Lavazza.

PROGRAM OF THE OPENING
Welcoming Remarks:
* Giorgio van Straten, ICI Director
* Joseph Sciame, IHCC-NY President/Chair

Screening of the documentary "Programma 101 - Memory of the Future"
by Alessandro Bernard e Paolo Ceretto

Panel discussion "What's next for Italian creativity in technology?"
moderated by Maria Teresa Cometto and Riccardo Luna, with:
* Gianluigi Gabetti, Exor Honorary Chairman, who launched P101 in NYC
* Massimo Banzi, co-founder of the Arduino Project
* David Avino, founder of Argotec
* Riccardo Delleani, CEO at Olivetti
* Alessandro Piol, co-founder at AlphaPrime Ventures

REFRESHMENTS

THE EXHIBITION WILL BE OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC NOVEMBER 13-25 MONDAY TO FRIDAY FROM 10 AM TO 5PM