Talks and Presentations

Recorded Talks

From Future Skills to Emergent Skills: Response-ability in Responsible Management-as-Practice under Industry 5.0
Up-Skill Final Conference, Brussels, February 11, 2026
Presentation examining the paradoxes of Industry 5.0 and arguing that skills and responsibility emerge through situated practice rather than predictive models. Introduces the SPOT framework for skill stewardship and draws on empirical case studies across sectors.

Conference Presentations

2026

Responsible Management and Skill Transformation in AI-Mediated Workplaces
BIG.AI@MIT, Boston, USA
Poster presentation.

From Future Skills to Emergent Skills: Response-ability in Responsible Management-as-Practice under Industry 5.0
Up-Skill Final Conference, Brussels, Belgium
Recording available above.

Stewarding Skills in Technological Change: Organising Responsibility as Situated Moral Practice
Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA
With C. Ivory, M.L. Toraldo & C. Warhurst. Nominated for the Responsible Research Award, AOM OMT Division.

From Future Skills to Skills Emergence: Response-ability in Responsible Management-as-Practice under Industry 5.0
42nd EGOS Colloquium (virtual)
With C. Ivory, C. Land, M.L. Toraldo & C. Warhurst.

From Preserving to Spreading Local Repair Skills: Regenerative Resilience in an Italian Craft SME
WOA Conference, Rome, Italy
With A. Marcolin & M.L. Toraldo.

Brand Dependence and Passion-Driven Self-Employment in the Health and Fitness Industry: Evidence from Zumba® Instructors
34th EASM Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece
With S. Addolorato. Supported by an EASM Early Career Scholarship.

Choreography Versus Competition: A Comparative Analysis of Marketing Strategies in Pre-Choreographed Group Fitness Programs and Competition-Based Functional Fitness Formats
34th EASM Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece
With S. Addolorato.

When Fitness Meets Music: Symbiotic Value Co-Creation in the Zumba–Latin Music Ecosystem
XXXVII AEMARK International Marketing Congress, Málaga, Spain
With S. Addolorato.

Stratified Lifestyle Entrepreneurship in Group Fitness: Precarity, Passion, and Platform-Governed Positions
Ibero-American Congress of Sports Economics (CIED16), Osuna, Spain
With S. Addolorato.

“A Sport for Everybody”? A Discourse Analysis of HYROX Brand Communications
Ibero-American Congress of Sports Economics (CIED16), Osuna, Spain
With S. Addolorato.

Social Identity and Community Construction in Standardised Functional Training: A Comparative Digital Content Analysis of CrossFit® and HYROX
Research Congress in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences (UAM–UPM), Madrid, Spain
With S. Addolorato.

2025

Globalising Local Repair Skills: An Italian SME Thinking Otherwise in Skills Transmission
41st EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece
With A. Marcolin & M.L. Toraldo.

Crafting the Future: Reimagining Artisanal Work in the Age of Digital Technologies
14th International Critical Management Studies Conference (ICMS), Manchester, UK
With M.L. Toraldo & E. Della Torre.

Balancing Tradition and Innovation Amidst Industry 5.0: The Evolving Skills and Work Practices in European Manufacturing Industry
Advancing Industry 5.0 Conference, Leuven, Belgium
With A. Marcolin & M.L. Toraldo.

Tradition Meets Innovation: How Aging Workers Navigate Technology in Italian Artisanal Businesses
SISEC Conference, Pavia, Italy
With A. Marcolin & M.L. Toraldo.

Retaining Foreign Human Capital: The Role of Territorial Factors in International Students’ Career and Location Choices
SISEC Conference, Pavia, Italy
With R. Contiero, Z. Ramovic, A. Lazazzara, M.L. Toraldo & E.E. Della Torre.

2024

Between Professionalism and Amateurism: Pathways for Skills Acquisition in Accordion Repairing
40th EGOS Colloquium, Milan, Italy
With A. Marcolin, M.L. Toraldo & C. Land.

Imaginaries Around Digital Technologies in Craft Work: Perspectives from Craft Organizations in Italy
Creative Industries Conference & AOM AMD PDW, Edinburgh, UK
With M.L. Toraldo & E. Della Torre.

Technology and Craft: Examining the Involvement of Technological Tools in Artisanal Work
Symposium on the Economy and Organization of Craft, Gothenburg, Sweden
With A. Marcolin, M.L. Toraldo & E. Della Torre.

2021

(Re)Configuring Hybrid Meetings: Moving from User-Centered Design to Meeting-Centered Design
19th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW), virtual
With K. Akyüz, S. Rintel & C.N. Klokmose. Winner of the David B. Martin Best Paper Award.

2019

Hybrid Meetings in the Modern Workplace: Stories of Success and Failure
CollabTech, Kyoto, Japan
With R. Rädle, S. Rintel, K. O’Hara & C.N. Klokmose.

Researching Hybrid Meetings: Opportunities and Challenges
ECSCW Workshop, Salzburg, Austria

2018

Observing Hybrid Meetings in the Workplace: Methodological Challenges and Strategies
CSCW Workshop, Jersey City, USA
With C.N. Klokmose.

Conducting Fieldwork at the Crossroads: A Case Study of Hybrid Meetings in the Workplace
EASST Conference, Lancaster, UK

2014

Pathologizing the Unknown: A Cross-cultural Study of the Hair-pulling Disorder
4S Annual Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Trapped between Science and Religion: Theory of Evolution in Turkish Academia
4S Annual Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina
With K. Akyüz.

The Banalization and Legitimization of Hetero-Patriarchal Violence on Page 3
Global Conference on Sexuality, Oppression & Human Rights, Oxford, UK
With E. Karakuş.