Pavia Innovation Week
Four days to explore innovation.
Not only technological innovation, but the kind that emerges from the meeting of science, culture, beauty, and a vision for the future. Directed by Massimo Sideri, Pavia Innovation Week is an international platform for dialogue and discovery, where leading thinkers, scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs, and citizens come together to explore the challenges and opportunities ahead.
From April 8 to 11, 2026, the historic center of Pavia becomes an open laboratory of ideas. International interviews, theatrical performances, family workshops, guided tours, book presentations, and public science talks animate the city.
A festival that looks to the future without losing sight of the past, set in a city where research and knowledge have long shaped its identity.
The Festival’s Extra program features initiatives dedicated to the local innovation ecosystem, continuing until April 14th with exhibition spaces, training sessions, and networking opportunities for startups, managers, professionals, business clusters, founders, and young students.
The Extra program effectively establishes a lasting platform for dialogue that the Festival’s promoters intend to develop around the theme of innovation as the primary driver of competitiveness in the local economic system.
From local expertise to global challenges
Pavia Innovation Week is the festival that activates innovation ecosystems and positions Pavia as a national and international hub of attraction and forward-looking thinking.
Discover Pavia
A city to experience — where history, knowledge, and beauty meet
Pavia is far more than the setting of Pavia Innovation Week. It is a city that has built its identity around research, academia, and culture, weaving together science, architecture, and everyday life over the centuries.
Its historic center, university colleges, magnificent churches, the landscape along the Ticino River, and its rich culinary traditions tell the story of a human-scale destination where time slows down and experiences feel authentic. Attending the festival becomes an opportunity to explore the city, walk through its iconic places, and discover a territory where history and contemporary life coexist in meaningful ways.
