22-05-2026
The Festival del Lavoro continues at La Nuvola in Rome. Today, the spotlight was on the Almaviva Group, with speeches by Valeria Sandei, Global AI Director and CEO of Almawave; Deputy CEO Antonio Amati; and Welfare Director Brunella Tobia.
“The Almaviva Group supports INPS in its digital transformation journey in an effort to make welfare services simpler, fairer, and more accessible,” Sandei emphasized. “We’re living through a time of unprecedented transformation. Artificial intelligence is no longer merely a promise for the future: it’s already here, changing the way we work, communicate, and make decisions. And for an institution like INPS, which interacts with millions of workers and citizens every day, managing this transformation is a responsibility. It’s from this awareness that we developed the Welfare Language Model: a generative artificial intelligence model built and specifically trained on the laws, language, and procedures of the Italian welfare system. This model speaks the language of citizens and institutions and understands the rules of INPS.”
Combating undeclared employment and ensuring oversight to protect workers’ rights and safety were the key topics of the discussion in which Amati participated: “Almaviva is partnering with the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies to implement the SILCA Project, a multidimensional platform that enables more effective and targeted inspection activities while improving the overall efficiency of oversight: a ‘national asset’ available to all institutions. The changes introduced by the Security Decree strengthen this framework by introducing important provisions to ensure worker protection and safety, as well as equal opportunity, transparency, and traceability in the use of social security contribution relief.”
In her speech, Tobia emphasized: “We’re supporting INAIL in the development of its new interoperability hub, from functional assessment to matching supply and demand in order to mitigate the impact of workplace accidents. The effectiveness of job placement programs cannot be achieved without the active participation of all the entities that currently contribute to the welfare ecosystem, including the Institute itself, INPS, the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies, and the individual regions. We’re developing a tool that brings together what is currently fragmented and provides case workers with a more comprehensive, readable, and useful profile of the individual in order to help them plan their professional reinsertion, thanks to integration with the information contained in the SIISL ecosystem—the Information System for Social and Labor Inclusion. It’s not just about cross-referencing data. It’s about restoring continuity and focus to a career that has been interrupted or made more difficult by an occupational injury or illness. For us, this is the most highly evolved form of digital welfare: platforms that reconnect what administrative fragmentation has scattered and that shift the focus back to individuals, their work, and their opportunities.”
