On November 12th at the Università Bocconi, academics, experts, and managers will meet to understand how Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) can become real levers for sustainability and competitiveness, even in the age of artificial intelligence.
On November 12th at the Università Bocconi academics, experts, and managers will meet to understand how Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) can become real levers for sustainability and competitiveness, even in the age of artificial intelligence.
The concluding event, “Inclusion or Illusion? Navigating the complexity of DEI between rhetoric, reality, and algorithms,” organized by Spoke 6 of MUSA, will be held on Tuesday, November 12, 2025, at the Leonardo Del Vecchio Building of the Università Bocconi. It will be a moment of collective reflection on the meanings, contradictions, and prospects of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the world of work and the digital society.
The meeting, which will begin at 6:00 PM in Lecture Hall N08, requires online registration for participation via this link.
THE PROGRAM
After the initial greetings, Professor Barbara Imperatori, Full Professor of Business Organization at Università Cattolica, will open the evening with the speech, “One, nobody, one hundred thousand: The value of diversity.”
This will be followed by reflections from Alessandro Ghio, Associate Professor at ESCP Business School, with a provocation on the topic, “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in organizations: what if it were the end?”, and from Angelo Ditillo, Associate Professor at Bocconi University, who will delve into “Value to differences: unexpected consequences and challenges of DEI in companies.”
Manuela Macchi, Senior Strategy and ESG Advisor, will bring the corporate world’s perspective, discussing how to move “from compliance to impact,” transforming diversity into a sustainability and competitiveness strategy.
The session of speeches will be closed by Marco Mazza, Culture and Inclusion Manager at IBM, with a reflection on “Inclusion at the dawn of AI,” exploring the role of new algorithms in promoting or threatening equity in organizational contexts.
From 7:20 PM, there will be a discussion among the speakers in a public round table, followed by a Q&A session and the final conclusions at 7:50 PM.
