Trend Stage

The two-day program of Talks and Matchmaking opens with a focus on the evolving furniture and contract markets, as well as key production sectors connected to subcontracting and supply segments: nautical and shipbuilding, campers and vans, automotive, and transportation (aircraft and rail).

Speakers:

Jörg Buck, Consigliere Delegato AHK - Camera di Commercio Italo-Germanica
Edi Snaidero, Presidente EFIC - European Furniture Industries Confederation
Alessandra Tracogna, Partner e Senior Expert, CSIL 
Federica Dallanoce, Presidente ADACI - Associazione Italiana Acquisti e Supply Management
Volker Irle, Managing Director of AMK – The Association of Modern Kitchen

Moderated by Donatella Bollani, Event manager interzum forum italy

The kitchen is evolving from a product into an integrated system, becoming part of domestic architecture. The overlap between kitchen, living, dining, and workspace is redefining spaces and functions.

Speakers:

Andrea Federici, andreafedericiconsulting
Leonardo Grossi, Chief Operating Officer KICO I DEL TONGO

An overview of how living environments and furniture are evolving through new functions, social dynamics, and modularity through a material interpretation.

In collaboration with:

ARCHITONIC

Speakers:
Paolo Brambilla, Studio CalviBrambilla & Partners
Simon Keane-Cowell, Editor-in-Chief Architonic

The cruise industry is booming, with a growing range of options in the luxury segment. We’ll be discussing this with one of the world’s most renowned shipbuilding groups, which designs and builds thousands of cabins, to understand how concepts, technologies and materials are evolving.

The furniture industry is undergoing a significant transformation in its business models — driven by digitalisation, rising raw material and energy costs, and the need for accurate pricing strategies to capture both established and emerging markets.

Speakers:

Fabian Weiss, Amministratore Delegato Immersight®
Mirko Bartolucci, Chief Procurement Officer IMAB Group

Moderated by Roger Reichert, Customer Experience & Marketing Specialist

In the coming years, the bedding sector will be shaped by major European regulations: the Ecodesign Regulation, the Waste Framework Directive, extended producer responsibility, and the forthcoming Green Claims Regulation. Many products will also integrate technologies for monitoring sleep quality.

In collaboration with:

EBIA – European Bedding Industry Association

Speakers:
Frederik Lauwaert, Managing Director EBIA
Omar Degoli,Head of Environment and Circular Economy at FederlegnoArredo

Neonest is a modular bed base made entirely from post-consumer recycled plastic. Lighter and more durable than traditional structures, and fully circular, it transforms waste into value by simplifying production, reducing material complexity, and setting a new standard for sustainable bedding design.

Speaker:

Ilias Addarkaoui, General Manager, Neonest

The use of artificial intelligence in furniture design processes is transforming the way products are created, making design more efficient and collaborative, accelerating prototyping, and improving cost management.

In collaboration with:

ARCHITONIC

Speakers:

Arturo Tedeschi, Esperto di progettazione computazionale
Simon Keane-Cowell, Editor-in-Chief Architonic.cm

Energy efficiency, durability, reparability, disassemblability, and recyclability are some of the goals of the Ecodesign Regulation, which will profoundly transform product design by providing a digital product passport to make all information and its Life Cycle Assessment fully traceable.

Speakers:

Edi Snaidero, Presidente EFIC - European Furniture Industries Confederation
Paolo Tirelli, General Director Catas

The camper market, which has seen significant growth in recent years, is extremely dynamic and serves as a prime testing ground for interior design. Lightweight materials, new surface and textile moodboards, increasingly compact and multifunctional furniture systems, integrated lighting, and connectivity make these vehicles a sector of great interest for suppliers.

Speakers:

Letizia Bruni, Design Manager Trigano

Post-consumer wood and plastics, glass and metals, as well as food and agricultural waste: materials will play an increasingly central role in evaluating product life cycles, influencing both design and certification processes.

Speaker:

Sascha Peters, Innovation Consultant and Materials Expert, Haute Innovation

Recent years have seen a shift in yacht interior design, with styles increasingly resembling domestic spaces and hotel interiors. Hulls with large openings, lower freeboards, and materials and furnishings that reflect an aesthetic far removed from traditional nautical style, partly in response to new technical and performance requirements.

Building on the work carried out as part of the European R-EVOLVE project, Barbara Del Curto will share the experiences of companies that have been working for years on issues of circularity and low environmental impact. The project aims to accelerate the adoption of innovations for the circular economy, integrating dedicated business models, sustainable design, bio-based or recycled materials, and digital tools such as the DPP.
Within this framework, the perceptual and behavioural dimensions will also be explored: from how companies translate the aesthetic qualities of new materials into design choices and product narratives, to how consumers interpret recycled and bio-based materials, how perceptions of value change, and what resistance emerges. These dynamics are central to defining more effective design and positioning strategies.

Speaker:
Barbara Del Curto, Professore Ordinario in Design, Politecnico di Milano