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Director for “Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry” within Directorate-General CONNECT at the European Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Lucilla Sioli is the Director for “Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry” within Directorate-General CONNECT at the European Commission. She is responsible for the coordination of the European digitisation of industry strategy and for policy development in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductors. The directorate also supports R&D&I in key digital industrial technologies including microelectronics, photonics, robotics and AI. Lucilla holds a PhD in economics from the University of Southampton (UK) and one from the Catholic University of Milan (Italy) and has been a civil servant with the European Commission since 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5786,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLucilla Sioli - Festival della Diplomazia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Director for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry DG CONNECT\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/lucilla-sioli\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lucilla Sioli - Festival della Diplomazia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Director for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry DG CONNECT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/lucilla-sioli\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Festival della Diplomazia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-10-01T08:46:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Lucilla-Sioli.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/lucilla-sioli\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/lucilla-sioli\/\",\"name\":\"Lucilla Sioli - 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