SME4DD in Turin

December, 2025

SME4DD Talks AI, Blockchain and Cybersecurity at Italian Tech Week

In October, SME4DD was in Turin, Italy for Italian Tech Week!

As the place where the best tech leaders meet, this year’s event featured over 180 world class speakers and more than 45 master classes – including two hosted by the SME4DD project.

The first workshop, ‘AI for Cybersecurity: What’s Real, What’s Next’, covered such topics as:

  • Practical ways AI is already helping teams detect threats faster
  • How AI will reshape both attacks and defence – and what SMEs can do now to prepare
  • Why cybersecurity isn’t just an IT task – it’s a business capability

Our second workshop was all about sports and technology.

Through concrete use cases, the course, entitled ‘The Future of Sports Between Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain’, gave participants a behind the scenes look at the use of data in sports.

“The amount of sports-related data being generated is constantly growing, opening new scenarios and opportunities, including predictive models for injury prevention, advanced training techniques, enhancing the fan base and radically transforming the sports entertainment experience,” explained a presenter.
 

SME4DD by numbers

Our Cybersecurity and Data Protection course consists of 56 hours of learning.

Quotable

Here’s what one participant had to say about our Blockchain for Small Businesses course:

“A very good introductory course on blockchain technology and business use cases. The two instructors have very deep knowledge about the topic and demonstrated various projects that were developed under their supervision. I recommend the course to anybody interested in blockchain!”

Upcoming Events

Join us 10 December for our free webinar on Digitalisation & SME Competitiveness. Hosted by author and expert in creating digital impact for businesses Staffan Movin, this session will focus on how you can leverage the power of digitalisation to power up your SME’s competitiveness, performance and long-term growth.

More information and registration can be found here.

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