Keynote and Plenary Sessions

The ASME 2026 Turbo Expo in Milan will address a critical evolution for the turbomachinery community: moving beyond traditional resilience to design systems that actively thrive in a fast-changing world, acting as a catalyst for leadership, safety, and innovation.

Today's global power, energy, and propulsion sectors are operating in an unprecedented era defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, which, together with the urgency of sustainability actions, mandates the development of resilient and flexible systems. The goal is not only to simply endure disorder, but to learn, adapt, grow stronger, become more efficient, and robust when exposed to stressors, volatility, and the unknown.

This conference invites the global engineering community to showcase the technologies, strategies, and methodologies defining this next generation of systems.

We seek contributions on how deep domain knowledge expertise, combined with advanced materials, high-fidelity diagnostics and predictions, adaptive control, AI-driven digital twins, modular architectures, and innovative lifecycle strategies can converge to create systems that are adaptive and evolutionary by design.

Abstract: This session examines how the turbomachinery industry is moving beyond traditional concepts of resilience toward truly antifragile power and propulsion systems— designed not only to withstand disruption, but to improve and adapt because of it. As energy, mobility, and geopolitical landscapes become increasingly volatile, the ability to operate reliably under highly dynamic and uncertain conditions is becoming a defining requirement.

Industry leaders will share perspectives on how emerging technologies, digitalization, and new design philosophies are reshaping power and propulsion solutions to meet these challenges. The session will highlight how collaboration across the value chain is enabling systems that can respond to variability in demand, operating environments, and energy pathways, while maintaining performance, safety, and sustainability.

By framing antifragility as a strategic imperative, this panel offers attendees a forward-looking industry perspective on how turbomachinery can play a central role in delivering robust, adaptable, and future-ready power and propulsion systems.

PANELISTS

Federico Bonzani
Chief Technology Officer
Ansaldo Energia

Chris Pin Harry
Vice President Technology
Industrial & Energy Technology
Baker Hughes

Luca Bedon
Executive - Advanced Technologies
Avio Aero, a GE Aerospace company

Hervé Morvan
Chief of Future Platforms
Rolls Royce

MODERATORS

Paolo Noccioni
President of Nuovo Pignone
Industrial & Energy Technology
Baker Hughes

Annalisa Muccioli
Head of Research &
Technological Innovation
Eni