Winner of a wide range of awards, professor, and director of various Italian and international institutions, Paolo Fresu has performed worldwide with some of the most important names in Afro-American music over the past 30 years.

He has participated in over 350 recordings, some as a bandleader, others as a supporting musician, and other projects that blend ethnic, jazz, world music, contemporary, and ancient music. Fresu is the artistic director of the Time In Jazz Festival in Berchidda and, as an educator, he has led the Jazz Seminars in Nuoro, Sardinia, for 25 years. He is also involved in the production of numerous multimedia projects, collaborating with actors, dancers, painters, sculptors, and poets, in addition to composing music for films, documentaries, videos, ballets, and theatrical performances.

Paolo Fresu resides between Paris, Bologna, and Sardinia. His trumpet sound is recognized as one of the most distinctive in the contemporary jazz scene. He has been honored with a significant honorary degree in Social Psychology from the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, and with the historic "Sigillo di Ateneo" from the University of Urbino.

Frida Bollani Magoni is a young musician, pianist, and singer with a deep connection to the world of music. She began studying classical piano at the age of 7 under the guidance of Maestro Paolo Razzuoli, who also taught her music notation in Braille.

She has collaborated with Massimo Nunzi's Orchestra Operaia, both as a singer and a pianist, performing at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. She was a guest at the Bianca D'Aponte Award and the opening ceremony of the 2018 Special Olympics. Frida has participated in concerts alongside her parents, Petra Magoni and Stefano Bollani, both in Italy and abroad. She also has experience in musical theater, taking part in productions such as "The Adventures of Peter Pan" and "Jesus Christ meets the Orchestra."

She made her debut in 2020 in Pisa and performed at the Quirinale in front of the President of the Republic in the summer of 2021. In the same year, she embarked on her first tour, with over 30 concerts throughout Italy, achieving great success. She played in Milan with Roberto Bolle in "L'Opera Meravigliosa" and "Roberto Bolle per il Duomo di Milano" and participated in "Il tempo delle donne" by Corriere della Sera at the Triennale. In 2022, she was a guest on Roberto Bolle's show "Danza con me" on Rai 1.

Currently, she attends the Carducci Music High School in Pisa, where she studies piano. In addition to her stage commitments, Frida dedicates time to studying and producing music, collaborating with English music producer Jimmy Brixton to create her first podcast.

With forty years of career and thousands of hosting gigs in various programs under his belt, Gerry Scotti is a popular television host, actor, disc jockey, and singer. He made his debut on Radio Deejay alongside Claudio Cecchetto and later found success on the small screen.

Since 2010, he has been the ambassador for the 5x1000 campaign for the Humanitas Institute in Rozzano and has embraced the world of research by personally supporting the work of four talented young researchers through scholarships.

Alessia Ventura is a television presenter, showgirl, actress, and model. She started her career as a model at the age of 15, and a year later, she made her debut on television, where success came when she was just 21.

Since then, she has become one of the most well-known faces on television. On the small screen, she has alternated between participating in TV dramas and hosting various programs, including those related to sports and cinema, all while continuing her work as a spokesperson and model.

Anna Maria Bernini graduated with honors in law from the University of Bologna in 1991. She furthered her legal education through international study programs at prestigious institutions such as the University of Michigan Law School, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris, the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and many others. Since 1995, she has been registered with the Bar Association at the Court of Appeal in Bologna.

She had a distinguished academic career, teaching for ten years in the fields of Domestic and International Arbitration Law at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Bologna, eventually becoming an Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at the same university.

In addition to her academic pursuits, Anna Maria Bernini practiced law at Studio Bernini, rising to become a Partner at the firm. She has extensive experience in various areas of law, including arbitration, civil law, commercial law, international trade law, contract law, competition and antitrust law, communications law, European Union law, administrative law, public and private procurement, and project financing.

Beyond her academic and legal career, Anna Maria Bernini also actively engaged in politics. She served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies and held key roles in various parliamentary committees. She also held the position of Minister for European Union Policies. In her current legislative term, she was reelected to the Senate and assumed the role of Minister of University and Research in the Meloni government.

Attilio Fontana was born in Varese on March 28, 1952. In 1975, he graduated in law from the University of Milan, and since 1980, he has been a criminal lawyer with his own law firm in Varese.

From 1979 to 1982, he served as Conciliator of Induno Olona, and from 1983 to 1988, he held the position of Honorary Vice Magistrate at the Gavirate Magistrate's Court. From 2009 to 2017, he was a board member and deputy vice president of Fiera Milano.

His political career began with the formation of the Northern League. From 1995 to 1999, he was the mayor of Induno Olona. He was elected Mayor of Varese in the first round of elections in 2006 and was re-elected in 2011. During these years, he also served as the President of ANCI Lombardia (from 2009 to 2014) and later became a regional councilor of Lombardy and the President of the Regional Council from 2000 to 2005.

In 2018, he was elected President of the Lombardy Region and was reconfirmed in the regional elections of 2023.

Alessandro Fermi was born in Como on November 11, 1974. After graduating from the Galileo Galilei High School in Erba with a scientific diploma, he earned his degree in Law from the University of Milan. Subsequently, he registered with the Bar Association of Como and started his own legal practice.

His political experience began at the age of 22 when he served as a municipal councilor for two terms in the Municipality of Albavilla. At the age of 27, he was elected to the Provincial Council, and in 2007, after his re-election to the Provincial Council, he was delegated to assume the role of Councillor for Active Labor Policies, Professional Training, Economic Activities, and University. Following the municipal elections in 2009, he became the Mayor of Albavilla.

His political career then continued at the regional level in Lombardy. In the 2013 Regional elections, he was elected as a Councilor (in the X Legislature, he served as President of the Agriculture, Mountain, Forests, and Parks Committee, and was a member of the Institutional Affairs Committees). In 2015, he was appointed Undersecretary to the Presidency.

In the subsequent term, following the 2018 elections, he held the position of President of the Regional Council of Lombardy. In the 2023 regional elections, he was the most voted candidate from the majority and was appointed as the Councillor for University, Research, and Innovation.

Paolo Veronesi graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Milan in 1986 with top honors. He specialized in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 1991 and in General Surgery in 1996, all at the same university.

He served as a professor from 1994 to 1997 at the School of Specialization in General Surgery at the University of Perugia. He is currently the President of the Umberto Veronesi Foundation, a Full Professor in General Surgery at the University of Milan, and the Director of the Senology Program as well as the Director of the Surgical Senology Division at the European Institute of Oncology.

Paolo Veronesi has contributed to the refinement of techniques for breast-conserving surgery and, more recently, to the development of the sentinel lymph node technique and intraoperative radiotherapy as a complement to conservative surgery. He served as the President of the 33rd National Congress of the Italian Society of Oncological Surgery (SICO) and has been an invited speaker at over 282 national and international congresses. He has also been a lecturer in the Senology Master's programs at the University of Milan and the University of Siena and has authored more than 358 scientific publications and 28 book chapters.

Massimo Sideri has been a correspondent and columnist on science, innovation, and technology for the Corriere della Sera since 2001, where he also founded and directed the monthly magazine Corriere Innovazione for five years. He is an adjunct professor of Socio-economic History of Innovation at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome.

He has authored several essays on the history of technology for Bompiani and has won various journalism awards, including the Assobiotec Media Award. He teaches at the Master's program in Science Communication at the University of Trento and hosts the "Geni Invisibili" podcast for the Corriere, dedicated to forgotten Italian science and discoveries.

Luciano Fontana has been the director of the Corriere della Sera since May 2015, marking the culmination of a career spanning over twenty years at the Milanese newspaper founded in 1876. He joined the newspaper in 1997 as a member of the central office, later becoming the deputy director in 2009 and co-director in 2015 alongside Ferruccio De Bortoli. When the latter left, it was Fontana who was chosen by the Board of Directors of the RCS Group to lead the newspaper.

With a degree in Philosophy of Language from Rome, where he hails from Frosinone, Fontana began his journalistic career at ANSA. He then spent eleven years writing about politics and judicial news for l'Unità before being called to join the Corriere.

In 2018, he published "Un Paese senza leader. Storie, protagonisti e retroscena di una classe politica in crisi" ("A Country Without Leaders: Stories, Protagonists, and Behind-the-Scenes of a Crisis-Stricken Political Class").