Bracco backs Team Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka

On Thursday 18 December, Palazzo Visconti in Milan was the venue for a meeting dedicated to “Bracco backs Team Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka: A Bridge of Innovation between Science and Culture.” The meeting highlighted the Bracco Group’s strategic contribution to the World Expo in Japan.

In its capacity as a strategic partner of the Italy Pavilion, the Bracco Group brought to Expo Osaka 2025 a programme that combined diagnostics, art, and cutting-edge technology, and thus contributed to the larger conversation on major global issues ranging from scientific innovation and artificial intelligence to sustainability and human longevity.

Key highlights included: the video installation dedicated to the portrait of Itō Mancho and the scientific diagnostics undertaken with the support of the Bracco Foundation for the restoration of the portrait; a series of meetings and talks that gave rise to new collaborative projects between the European and Japanese scientific communities; high-level institutional cultural initiatives, such as the Italian National Day performance by the Ballet School of Accademia Teatro alla Scala, of which Bracco Foundation is a Founding Member, and the hosting by the Italian Embassy in Tokyo of a photographic exhibition titled Milano con gli occhi di Leonardo [Milan through the eyes of Leonardo Da Vinci].

Some of the works presented at the Italy Pavilion, including the video installation created by Bracco, are still currently on display at the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, testifying to the cultural and scientific legacy of the Expo and to the Bracco Group’s ongoing role in the dialogue between Italy and Japan.

 Diana Bracco, President and CEO of the Bracco Group and Chair of the Bracco Foundation, and Ambassador Mario Vattani, General Commissioner for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka, inaugurated the proceedings in talks that underlined the value of the partnership between Bracco and the Italian system and the role of art and science as instruments of cultural diplomacy in strengthening the bonds joining Italy and Japan, which in 2026 celebrated 160 years of bilateral relations.

Also in attendance were Fulvio Renoldi Bracco, Vice President & CEO of Bracco Imaging, Lorenzo Galanti, General Manager of the Italian Trade Agency, Fabio Tedoldi, Head of Global R&D at Bracco, Viviana Crescitelli, Senior researcher at Hitachi, Gian Giacomo Attolico Trivulzio, Chair of the Trivulzio Foundation, Isabella Castiglioni, Scientific Director of CDI, Fabrizio Grillo, Bracco Director of General Affairs and International Relations, Rossella Menegazzo, Head of Culture, Science and Education for the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, and the students of the Dance School of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala Maria Vittoria Bandini and Gabriele Calcagno.