An immersion in the future: this is how the Italian and international trade fair We Make Future, or WMF, presents itself, as over three days - from Wednesday, June 4 to Friday, June 6, 2025 - it will offer more than 100 thematic events and a unique format combining exhibition area, education, B2B meetings, networking, culture, concerts, shows and entertainment, again this year within the spaces of BolognaFiere.
Following the 2024 edition, which saw more than 70,000 attendees from 90 countries, more than 700 exhibitors, and more than 1,000 speakers from around the world, the WMF once again brings together an exceptional guest roster of the brightest minds and realities of international innovation in areas such as digital tech, artificial intelligence (AI), open innovation and social innovation. Alongside key players from the technology and entrepreneurial sectors, the WMF will also host representatives from institutions and academia, who will contribute insights on key topics for the development of innovation.
Also present at WMF 2025 will be I3P, the Incubator of Politecnico di Torino which for more than 25 years has supported the birth and development of innovative start-ups with high technology intensity and growth potential, and ESA BIC Turin, the incubation program for space start-ups run by I3P in collaboration with ESA, ASI, Politecnico di Torino and LINKS Foundation.
Representing the multitude of entrepreneurial talents at home in the Campus of Politecnico di Torino will be seven young companies from the I3P network, who will attend the Bologna festival together with the incubator to tell about their innovative projects and take advantage of the meeting opportunities offered by the WMF. Among them is Astradyne, alumni of ESA BIC Turin, which has developed an innovative technology called FRET (Flexible, Reinforced Electronics with Textile), which can use textile material to reinforce flexible electronic boards (Flex PCBs), thus making new applications possible. The first application devised by the start-up is SolarCube, a solar panel with an origami-inspired design that can solve the typical limitations of solar panels in the aerospace field, namely high mass and low capacity to produce power.
From Wednesday, June 4 to Friday, June 6, at the stand B22-A19 in the Pavilion 21 of BolognaFiere within the Innovation Area, I3P, ESA BIC Turin and the young companies from their network will be happy to meet as much with visitors and onlookers as with other SMEs, corporate entities, investors, institutional bodies, journalists and technology experts to exchange information, contacts and possible collaboration opportunities.
