SiGMA World opens in Rome, the gaming summit is worth 100 million

A summit for the gaming and digital technologies industry, with an impact estimated at over 100 million euros on the capital's economy. SiGMA World 2026 opened at the Rome Fair. It is the Italian stage of the SiGMA Group circuit, a company founded in 2014 and specialized in media and events in the gaming, emerging technologies and affiliate marketing sectors, which today organizes eight international summits, from Manila to Mexico City, and over one hundred collateral events a year.

The figure of 100 million was indicated during the inaugural ceremony by Heathcliff Farrugia, Chief International Relations Officer of the group, who presented the Roman event as the meeting point of summits organized all over the world. In the longer term, the estimates released by the organizers before the opening attribute over 500 million euros of economic impact to the presence of SiGMA in Rome by 2030.

The inauguration was also attended by Tulia Ackson, former president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and Antonello Aurigemma, president of the Lazio Regional Council. The Vice-President of the Council and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani sent a message to the participants. He recalled the Government's commitment to supporting Italian companies on international markets and the opportunities of artificial intelligence, to be addressed taking into account its ethical and social implications, as well as the importance of security, regulation and combating financial crimes.

The conference was opened by Tim Draper, founder of Draper Associates and an early investor in Tesla, SpaceX and Skype, who compared the scope of artificial intelligence to that of the Internet and electricity. Also on stage were faces from sport, from Giancarlo Fisichella to Gigi Buffon, Walter Zenga and Nicola Ventola.

Part of the first day's panels was dedicated to the rules of the sector: the fight against unlicensed operators and the balance between consumer protection and competitiveness of authorized companies. A topic that closely concerns the Italian market.