IFAB is a place to look ahead, where businesses accelerate their digital transformation, build capabilities and forge meaningful connections. A unique ecosystem in Italy and among the most sophisticated in Europe, designed to help you explore, understand and capture the full potential of AI.
The IFAB Foundation
Connecting the actors of AI innovation
The building blocks of innovation are already out there. They just don’t always talk to each other. IFAB brings them together — connecting businesses, research, startups and institutions into a cohesive ecosystem where AI stops being a promise and becomes a measurable driver of growth.
A hub of expertise
Our strength lies in people and relationships. A unique ecosystem of talents, researchers, businesses and partners — united by a shared belief: that innovation only creates real value when the right competences work together toward a common vision.
Our mission
HPC, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are rapidly evolving technologies with enormous potential for industry and for solving complex challenges across countless sectors. IFAB’s mission is to bridge this world — advanced infrastructures, cutting-edge expertise — with businesses of all sizes and public institutions ready to bet on innovation as a strategic asset.
Alongside this, IFAB carries out interdisciplinary and applied research, training and dissemination activities:
Advancing scientific research and exploring its interdisciplinary implications, with a focus on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.
Building forward-looking scenarios on the transformation of economic and social systems in response to the defining challenges of our time: climate change, public health, resource management and complex urban systems.
Raising awareness among the general public, entrepreneurs and policymakers alike of the role and potential of AI and Big Data in addressing global challenges and improving people’s lives.
NETWORK
At the heart of Europe's AI, HPC and quantum ecosystem
AI, supercomputing and quantum computing are no longer the future — they are operational infrastructures, available today. IFAB is the privileged gateway to these national and European ecosystems, opening new frontiers of experimentation and growth for businesses, startups and public administration.
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