What is the Venice Climate Week?
Venice Climate Week is more than an event. It’s a collective call to action, a living ecosystem of dialogue and action and a gathering of scientists, institutions, citizens, innovators, activists, and artists united by one shared mission: to imagine and build a future that is not only sustainable, but regenerative, equitable, and profoundly human.
Every generation inherits a defining challenge.
Ours is to reconnect with the planet that sustains us to rebuild our relationship with nature, with water, and with one another.
Venice Climate Week was born from this urgency: a week where science meets culture, innovation meets politics, and imagination becomes a tool for transformation.
Where? In Venice, a city that has always lived in harmony and tension with water.
In Venice we find the perfect metaphor for our age: a time that asks us to adapt, rethink, and rebuild.
From this living tension, Venice Climate Week draws its purpose, transforming fragility into collective strength and vulnerability into a driver of innovation.
Throughout the week, ideas become strategies, and words turn into shared commitments.
Here is where connections are made, where stories and data converge, and where the world comes together to shape a regenerative future: one that restores ecosystems, empowers communities, and protects the fragile beauty of our planet.
This is not just about saving the future.
It’s about choosing it. Together, here and now.
Co-curators
Riccardo
Luna
Riccardo Luna is a journalist and one of Italy’s most influential voices on innovation and sustainability. Former editor-in-chief of Wired Italia and the country’s first Digital Champion, he has long been committed to bridging technology, the environment, and civic engagement.
In recent years, he has co-curated the Sky TG24 documentaries Earth4All and The World of Francis, conducted Al Gore’s only Italian interview, and later met Pope Francis alongside him. He also curated two major photographic exhibitions on climate change at Gallerie d’Italia and promoted a national climate petition that gathered over 200,000 signatures, presented to President Sergio Mattarella. Today, he is a columnist for Corriere della Sera and serves as both creator and curator of the Venice Climate Week.
Sara
Roversi
Sara Roversi is a social entrepreneur and one of the leading international voices on food innovation and sustainability. For over a decade, she has collaborated with global institutions, universities, and corporations to foster systemic change in the way we produce, distribute, and consume food.
She is the founder and president of the Future Food Institute, a global ecosystem for research, education, and innovation designed to accelerate the transition toward a sustainable, inclusive, and regenerative future. With hubs in Italy and abroad, the Institute connects institutions, businesses, and communities to turn knowledge into action and create solutions that unite technology, culture, and environmental responsibility.
The Venice Climate Week is produced by the Future Food Institute under her leadership.
CRISTIANO
SEGANFREDDO
A creative innovator and entrepreneur, he works at the intersection of culture, design, and innovation. He has taught Aesthetics in Fashion Design at the Politecnico di Milano and served as Scientific Director of Corriere Innovazione, the innovation platform of Corriere della Sera. He is the author of The Italian Book of Innovation (Rizzoli, 2017) and currently serves as Director of Progetto Marzotto, one of Italy’s leading initiatives supporting emerging entrepreneurial talent.
He sits on the Italian Advisory Boards of UniCredit and the Santa Margherita Wine Group and acts as a strategic advisor to the United Nations’ Ethical Fashion Initiative. Together with Gea Politi, he is the founder of Agenzia del Contemporaneo and publisher of Flash Art, the international contemporary art magazine, which since 2019 has been a content partner of Arte Fiera.