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June 24, 2026
From Rome, with Urgency: What FII PRIORITY Europe Agreed On
June 17 to 19, the coffee tables at the Rome Cavalieri were rarely empty. Between sessions, the conversations that had started on stage continued in the corridors, over lunch, and well past the official end of the afternoon program. The packed schedule was itself a strong argument: there is more to say than time allows, […]
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June 24, 2026
Europe’s New Geoeconomics: Industrial Power Becomes Security Power
For decades, Europe operated on a stable assumption: security enabled prosperity. A predictable geopolitical environment, open trade routes, and deep economic integration allowed governments to focus on growth, investment, and competitiveness as separate from security concerns. At FII Priority Europe, speakers pointed to a different reality: that separation no longer holds. In today’s geoeconomic environment, […]
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June 23, 2026
Act or wait: How Europe finances its future
Two days of panels on European finance at FII PRIORITY Europe kept returning to the same uncomfortable observation: the continent’s problem is not a shortage of capital. It is a structural failure to get the capital it has to where it needs to go. The sessions on finance, capital markets, digital infrastructure, and institutional trust […]
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June 21, 2026
The Future of AI Is Built, Not Owned — and the Real Revolution Begins Beyond the Screen
Over the past few years, sovereignty has become one of the defining ideas in artificial intelligence. Countries are investing in sovereign clouds, sovereign compute, sovereign models, and sovereign chips. The ambition is understandable: AI is becoming foundational infrastructure, shaping competitiveness, security, productivity, and public services. But there is a paradox at the heart of the […]
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June 19, 2026
When Talent Alone Is Not Enough: What Truly Lies Behind Europe’s Challenges to Scale
Noor Sweid’s clearest lesson about scale did not come from theory, it came from taking her family business public in 2008. As Founder and Managing Partner of Global Ventures, Sweid recalled one of the landmark listings of that period: the first company from the MENA region ever to list on the LSE, and the first […]
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June 19, 2026
Europe’s Energy System Under Strain: Speed and the New Physical Economy
The global energy transition is no longer defined by a simple trilemma of security, affordability, and decarbonization. As multiple speakers at the FII Priority Europe sessions argued, it has evolved into something more complex: a quadrilemma shaped by geopolitics, infrastructure speed, industrial strategy, and strategic positioning in global value chains. At its core lies a […]
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June 18, 2026
Europe At an Inflection Point: Optimism Against Numbers
Italy, a G7 economy, now has a lower GDP per capita than Mississippi. That single line, dropped midway through a panel on FII PRIORITY Europe’s first full day, did more to frame the morning than anything said before it. Richard Attias had opened by naming the narrative everyone in the room had come to challenge: […]
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June 17, 2026
Day Zero “Verdict”: Europe Has The Capital, But Lacks The Machinery
FII PRIORITY Europe opened on the terrace of the Rome Cavalieri, with Matteo Renzi reminding the room that the European project itself was born a few kilometres away, when six countries signed the Treaties of Rome almost seventy years ago. Europe, he told the room, had a choice to make: keep watching from the sidelines, […]
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June 14, 2026
FII PRIORITY Europe: The Summit Shaping the Continent’s Future
In just three days, global capital converges on Rome. Over 1,600 leading investors, policymakers and innovators from across the globe have registered to gather at a moment of acute uncertainty for Europe’s economic future, as well as acute opportunity. The FII PRIORITY Europe Summit, organised by the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute – a global […]
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2025 FII Institute Annual Report
The 2025 FII Institute Annual Report captures a defining year of momentum as FII Institute accelerated its evolution from global convening power to action-driven “do tank.” Anchored in its three pillars: THINK, XCHANGE and ACT. The report showcases how data-driven insights, high-impact partnerships and targeted investments are being mobilized to address the world’s most urgent […]
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FII PRIORITY Miami 2026 Post Summit Report
What does it take to move capital with conviction in a world defined by volatility, disruption, and rapid technological change? The FII PRIORITY Miami 2026 Summit, themed under “Capital in Motion,” delivered a powerful, insight-driven analysis of the forces reshaping global investment today. Bringing together perspectives from world leaders, investors, policymakers, and innovators, the report […]
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AI-Led Growth and Jobs in the Emerging and Developing Economies
What if artificial intelligence could become the most powerful driver of inclusive growth and job creation across emerging markets? Our latest report by Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University outlines how artificial intelligence is redefining economic growth and job creation across emerging markets and developing economies […]
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Digital Assets & Tokenized Finance Impact Report 2026
What if the global financial system could move at the speed of the internet unlocking trillions in value while expanding access to capital worldwide?
Developed in collaboration with Dante Disparte, Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy & Operations at Circle; Fred Thiel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MARA, Inc.; and Ryan Hayward, Head of Digital Assets and Strategic Investments at Barclays, this report on digital assets and tokenized finance reveals how a rapidly emerging $16–30 trillion market is transforming traditional finance into a real-time, programmable, and borderless ecosystem.
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Investing In The Digital Bridge: A Capital Architecture For The Next Economy
Innovation is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, so why isn’t productivity keeping up? The answer lies not in invention, but in deployment. In our latest op-ed, developed in collaboration with Alberto Fumo and Javier Herrera of Kearney, we uncover the critical missing link: the “digital bridge” – the infrastructure required to scale innovation across entire […]
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The Rise Of The Augmented Leader: Why AI is a Board-level Imperative
Is Your Leadership Ready for the AI Revolution? In an era where artificial intelligence has moved from future promise to present reality, leadership must evolve to harness its potential, responsibly and strategically. In this op-ed, developed in collaboration with David Lopez-Lopez, Associate Dean at ESADE, we explore a critical shift in leadership dynamics: in the […]
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November 4, 2022
Bioinspired robots walk, swim, slither and fly
Engineers look to nature for ideas on how to make robots move through the world.
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July 30, 2022
Miniature medical robots step out from sci-fi
Tiny machines that deliver therapeutic payloads to precise locations in the body are the stuff of science fiction. But some researchers are trying to turn them into a clinical reality.
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July 30, 2022
Learning over a lifetime
Artificial-intelligence researchers turn to lifelong learning in the hopes of making machine intelligence more adaptable.
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July 30, 2022
Teaching robots to touch
Robots have become increasingly adept at interacting with the world around them. But to fulfil their potential, they also need a sense of touch.
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