OXHY at the Human Driven AI Summit 2026

On September 18–19, OXHY will be in Pompeii for the Human Driven AI Summit 2026, an event dedicated to the relationship between artificial intelligence, science, industry and society. OXHY will be represented by Roberto Germano, Co-Founder and CTO, and Graziano Terenzi, Co-Founder and CSO, both taking part in the “Science & Life – Consciousness, Mind and New Physics” session, scheduled for September 18 at the Nexus Center Theatre.

It will be a particularly interesting session also because of the quality of the discussion: alongside Roberto and Graziano, the stage will host Federico Faggin, Giuseppe Vitiello, Paolo Silvestrini and Alioscia Hamma, with RAI journalist Ettore de Lorenzo moderating the session. For OXHY, this is a highly relevant context, as it brings together fundamental physics, cognition, computation and energy — areas that are increasingly overlapping.

From neural computation to energy efficiency

Graziano will focus on the new frontiers of neural computation, exploring models more closely inspired by physics and biological systems and their potential contribution to the development of more energy-efficient AI architectures. His work is part of a research path that questions a purely computational view of cognition and considers the possibility that physical and field dynamics may play a deeper role in the functioning of intelligent systems.

Roberto will instead start from a very concrete issue: the growing energy demand of contemporary computing architectures. His contribution will also touch on still-exploratory approaches related to neural-like systems, protonic systems and collective phenomena in matter studied through quantum physics. A natural reference is the efficiency of biological systems: the human brain operates with a power consumption in the order of only a few tens of watts, while still handling language, context, memory and complex cognitive processes. It is precisely this gap between computational capability and energy consumption that raises new questions about how future systems could be designed.

AI, energy and physical infrastructure

For OXHY, this topic also connects with the work already underway on energy harvesting and waste heat recovery. Artificial intelligence, after all, is not only software: it exists within servers, chips, data centers, cooling systems and edge devices that consume energy and generate heat. Thinking about the future of AI therefore also means considering the physical infrastructure that supports it, the materials involved and the technologies that can help make it more efficient.

It is on this ground that OXHY is pursuing two complementary lines of work: on the one hand, the development of technologies for recovering and converting dispersed energy; on the other, the exploration of computational paradigms more closely connected to physics and natural systems. These are still distinct areas and at different levels of maturity, but they share the same direction of research: reducing the energy cost of computing power and better understanding the relationship between energy, matter and information.