“Where does value come from today?”
On 9 July, the Tech.Emotion Club brought together its members and a select group of guests at Carter & Benson, for an evening built around conversations and perspectives that usually stay apart: those who lead companies, those who fund them, those who study their impact. Ideas began to circulate more freely, and the thread of the evening surfaced early, in the form of a question: where does value come from today? The answer came from the experience and vision of people who — across capital and enterprise — try to build that value every day, each from a different position.
Guiding growth, orienting real value
Corrado Passera, former Minister of Economic Development, Infrastructure and Transport, brought the conversation back to how change is governed: not as a sudden leap, but as a sequence of manageable steps, with intermediate milestones to acknowledge and people to keep together along the way. Giovanna Melandri, economist and president of Human Foundation, called for putting human values back at the centre of how we define value, treating the economy not as mere accounting but as a tool to steer change. Andrea De Micheli, Founder & CEO of Casta Diva Group, shifted the focus to the new generations, recalling how much it matters to make room for Generation Z in the rooms where decisions are made. Massimiliano Bruni, who with The RoS supports companies along their growth journeys, explained his decision to join the Club with a clear conviction: that no strategy holds if it is always born looking at the same horizon. Finally, Mauro Pretolani and Lisa Di Sevo offered the perspective of those who accompany and finance Italian innovation, watching up close the never-obvious passage from insight to enterprise.
The value of the encounter
Beyond the individual themes, the evening brought a shared conviction to the surface: the most solid ideas take shape when distant skills and trajectories cross paths and allow themselves to blend. This is the very reason the Club exists: to turn a network of contacts into a community that meets, listens, and builds together what no one would have built alone.
The next event on the calendar for Premium members of the Tech.Emotion Club runs from 14 to 18 September: Cambridge Tech Week, an exclusive immersion into one of Europe’s leading innovation ecosystems, at the intersection of science, technology, and entrepreneurship.
