Digital Ethics Forum (DEF) returns from October 29th to 30th: the event on digital ethics at its 7th edition

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Published on: 15 October 2025

Sloweb, a pioneer in digital ethics, announces dates and details for the Digital Ethics Forum (DEF) 2025, the seventh edition organized in collaboration with CSI, Digital Campus, Senior CSI, Frontiere, and Piano D. The Digital Ethics Forum is aimed at civil society and aims to inform and educate, excluding academic discussions and self-referential environments. This edition surpasses 100 contributions collected from the DEFs held so far.

The first day takes place on Wednesday, October 29 at CTE Next – CSI in Turin from 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM; at the same time, the second day is held Thursday, October 30 at Frontiere in Rome. On the morning of October 29, DEF will host three classes of Italian high schools at the CSI premises for an educational session of digital collage.

Participation via streaming is planned through Webex (on the 29th) and Zoom (on the 30th). Links to access the live streams will be shared after registration via the Eventbrite platform.

The 2025 program (available here) covers the most current themes:

  • AI: risks and biases, including gender and others, experiences in risk analysis and reduction, bias generation in the political field. Risks and risk management in various domains.

  • EXPERIENCES WITH SLOWEB: Experiences of citizens, teachers, and managers who inform themselves, raise awareness, and self-organize at school, in cities, and companies to oppose the misuse of digital technologies, according to Sloweb’s mission aimed at combating misuse of inherently wonderful technologies.

  • IT GREEN: experiences applying green IT in software and hardware production, managing corporate policies on digital responsibility and behaviors of employees and users.

  • EUROPEAN DIGITAL AND SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRY: Looking at experiences such as CERN and Airbus, the online roundtable among European speakers aims to identify examples of emerging plans, projects, and initiatives between countries and/or industries from different European nations.

«With this edition of DEF, we surpass one hundred contributions, and while educating about risks, we also look at opportunities — both the prospects of Green IT in companies and industrial policies for developing a durable and sustainable European digital industry, as a democratic alternative to Chinese and American monopolies.» Pietro Jarre, one of the founders in 2017 of the Sloweb Association.