Preface of the 3rd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Applications for Business and Industries Ricardo Matamoros Aragon ricardo.matamoros@socialthingum.com 1 3 4 Francesco Epifania francesco.epifania@socialthingum.com 3 4 Simone Deola s.deola1@campus.unimib.it 1 3 4 Matteo Garavaglia m.garavaglia20@campus.unimib.it 0 1 3 Emanuele Frontoni 2 3 AITech4T , Milan , Italy Department of Informatics , Systems and Communication , University of Milano - Bicocca , Milan , Italy Department of Political Science, Communication and International Relations, University of Macerata , Macerata , Italy Milan , Lombardy , University of Milano Bicocca and University of Macerata Social Thingum , Milan , Italy

The 3rd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Applications for Business and Industries (AIABI) is co-located and held within the 22nd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2023) at Rome and organized by Social Thingum, an Italian notable AI scale-up company and private research and technology-transfer center, located in The workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Applications for Business and Industries (AIABI) holds significant motivation and scientific relevance to the conference audience. With the pervasive influence of AI on various business sectors, understanding its applications and implications has become crucial for both academia and industry professionals.

 1. Background and Motivations

2. Topics of Interest • ML applications to Quality Control • Transfer learning and domain adaptation for industrial applications • Conversational Systems to Business case • NLP to support business products • Ethical considerations and responsible AI deployment in business and industries • Computer vision and image recognition for quality control and inspection

 3. Committee 4. Chairs

As a final remark, the co-chairs would like to thank all the members of the Program Committee (listed below), the organizers of the AI*IA 2023 Conference, the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, the University of Milano – Bicocca and the University of Macerata. Ricardo Matamoros, Social Thingum, University of Milano - Bicocca (ITALY) Francesco Epifania, Social Thingum (ITALY) Simone Deola, Social Thingum, University of Milano - Bicocca (ITALY) Matteo Garavaglia, Aitech4t, University of Milano - Bicocca (ITALY) Emanuele Frontoni, University of Macerata, Marche Polytechnic University (ITALY)

 5. Organizers

Ricardo Matamoros, Social Thingum, University of Milano - Bicocca (ITALY) Francesco Epifania, Social Thingum (ITALY) Simone Deola, Social Thingum, University of Milano - Bicocca (ITALY) Matteo Garavaglia, Aitech4t, University of Milano - Bicocca (ITALY)

 6. Program Committee

Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan (ITALY) Donato De Ieso, dilium srl, Assintel (ITALY) Guido di Fraia, IULM University (ITALY) Alberto Fioravanti, Digital Magics (ITALY) Iuri Frosio, NVIDIA (USA) Altin Kadareja, Cardo AI (ITALY) Eugenia Kovatcheva, University of Sofia (BULGARY) Giulio Massucci, Wavenure (ITALY) Alberto Lucchetti, lastminute.com group (SWITZERLAND) Luca Nardone, Unicredit (ITALY) Filippo Neri, Università di Napoli Federico II, ProMarket 11 (ITALY) Roumen Nikolov, University of Sofia (BULGARY) Alessandro Rozza, lastminute.com group (SWITZERLAND)