Artificial intelligence enters the race
Today, Tuesday 14 October 2025, the national tour DisclAImer. Last warnings before the revolution, promoted by Corriere della Sera in collaboration with Cineca and coordinated by Riccardo Luna, columnist and innovation expert, stops in Padua. The Fondazione Mondo Digitale is participating as a knowledge partner, bringing experience and tools for the ethical, inclusive and educational use of artificial intelligence.
After stops in Rome, Bologna and Naples, the debate arrives in a city that is a symbol of scientific and medical research to address the topic ‘AI in the clinical field. The power of multidisciplinarity’.
The challenge with students
In the afternoon, from 2 to 4.45 p.m., an interdisciplinary challenge will take place involving 37 students and young researchers from the University of Padua. The challenge: to define, in teams composed of students from different disciplines, the fundamental steps for designing research that, thanks to artificial intelligence, helps to predict rare but critical events for the health of children in paediatric emergency rooms, improving the speed and accuracy of diagnoses and reducing the unnecessary use of resources.
Introducing and inspiring the teams' work are professors Silvia Bressan and Raffaella Colombatti, from the Department of Women's and Children's Health (SDB), with the collaboration of the Interdepartmental Group of the University of Padua.
The promoters of the initiative
The activity stems from the synergy between several university departments, under the guidance of a large group of promoting professors:
Gianni Bisogno, Alessandra Biffi, Stefano Sartori, Daniele Donà (Department of Women's and Children's Health),
Giovanni Sparacino, Barbara Di Camillo, Fabio Vandin, Mattia Veronese, Andrea Facchinetti, Marco Castellaro (Department of Information Engineering),
Enrico Longato (Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences),
Manlio De Domenico (Department of Physics and Astronomy – Padua Centre for Network Medicine),
Sabrina Brigadoi (Department of Developmental and Social Psychology).
The activity will be moderated by researchers Veronica Casotto, Elisa Barbieri, Giulia Brigadoi, Jacopo Favaro and Maria Rubega.
