APPLICATIONS FOR PROJECTS ON THE MDW WEBSITE ARE OPEN
Smart City Lab will be the new central HUB of the event
Milan, 8 June 2026 – The 9th edition of Milano Digital Week returns under the leadership of TIG
– The Innovation Group and will take place from 30 September to 4 October, to showcase the latest news and digital innovations that enliven the city.
The 2026 Call for Proposal is open; anyone can submit their project directly on the event’s website by filling in the online form. The aim of the event is to involve companies, institutions, third sector organizations and private citizens on the key themes of digital evolution.
The title chosen this year by TIG together with the Municipality of Milan is “The Generative City”, a city capable of creating new connections, opportunities and forms of participation through digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence, without losing the centrality of the human component.
Milano Digital Week 2026 will therefore explore in depth the role of Artificial Intelligence in the relationship between city, citizens, businesses and organizations, promoting a reflection on the conscious, sustainable and inclusive use of digital technologies.
Five non-stop days of meetings, workshops, events and conferences to build a dialogue between businesses, institutions and citizens on the main issues related to digitalization, moving along six thematic tracks: Digital for businesses (from future scenarios to tools), Digital citizenship (from health to welfare), Smart City (from sustainability to mobility), Technologies (cybersecurity, cloud, datacenter, devops, AI, etc.), Culture, art and sport (from digital art to the gaming world), Education and work (from new professions to reskilling).
The meeting place and connector between citizens and businesses during the days of the event will be Smart City Lab, which has been assigned the role of central HUB of the 2026 edition. An ecosystem where ideas, people and technologies meet to build the intelligent and sustainable city of tomorrow.
Smart City Lab has been chosen to be a new point of reference for urban innovation: a research and experimentation laboratory that combines technology, sustainability and design to transform ideas into concrete projects at the service of the community.
Alongside the Central Hub there will also be the Knowledge Hubs, spaces spread across the city of Milan that will take up the central themes of the 2026 edition, interpreted according to the expertise of each individual place.
Thanks to the renewed management by the TIG Group, Milano Digital Week is confirmed as an ongoing editorial project thanks to its digital platform, which will play the role
of repository for the events and materials produced during the days of the event, also allowing consultation of the archive of previous editions.
“Artificial intelligence and digital innovations are no longer external elements to the city: they have become part of its connective tissue, of its way of thinking, growing and projecting itself into the future – says Pietro Cerretani, CEO of TIG Events – The city is no longer just the context in which digital is applied, but the active subject that generates new visions, new models, new directions in every sector: from culture to the economy, from governance to everyday life. For this reason, with the 2026 edition and the theme ‘The Generative City’, we want to offer an open and plural space in which citizens, businesses, institutions and communities can together interpret this transformation and help to guide it.”
“Milano Digital Week is a key event for understanding and
interpreting the transformations taking place in our cities – said Layla
Pavone, coordinator of the Board for Technological Innovation and Digital Transformation of the Municipality of Milan – This year’s theme, ‘The Generative City’, invites us to reflect on how digital technologies and artificial intelligence are not just technological tools, but levers capable of enabling new forms of participation, innovation and shared value. The goal is to build an increasingly open and inclusive ecosystem, in which citizens, businesses and institutions can actively contribute to shaping the urban future.”
Link: https://www.milanodigitalweek.com/home
Contacts:
Caterina De Angelis Communication Manager MMM Holding S.r.l.
T: 0249988273
TIG Events, for over fifteen years has been serving the Italian digital, ICT and Retail community with a schedule of proprietary, licensed and custom events. With more than 45,000 participants per year and 400 active clients, it is involved in the conception, creation and management of events, content and research for the digital industry in Italy. Among the most important: the Digital Italy Summit program, Cybersecurity Summit, Smart Manufacturing Summit, the AI Forum, Banking Summit. For over fifteen years TIG Events has been organizing Netcomm Forum, the event conceived and promoted by the Consorzio del Comme
