OXHY in Northern Italy: three regions, three formats, and a growing community
From Udine to Vicenza and Como, three very different events created new relationships, reached new audiences, and offered new ways to bring OXHY beyond its usual contexts.
Three days, three regions, and above all, three different experiences.
OXHY’s Northern Italy tour came to an end after stops in Udine, Thiene — in the province of Vicenza — and Como, leaving the team with much more than a simple series of events. Each stop offered a different way to bring OXHY into local communities and engage with different audiences, questions, and expectations.
One element connected all three events: the active role played by shareholders, associations, and people close to OXHY, who directly contributed to their creation and organisation.
For the team, the tour was also an opportunity to meet in person some of the enthusiastic investors who have supported the company since its early stages, turning relationships built remotely into direct conversations.
Udine: a community taking action
The first stop took place in Pradamano, in the province of Udine, together with Vivibensipo.
The event originated from the initiative of Aurelio Riccioli, an OXHY shareholder, with the contribution of Vivibensipo, its President Michele Pucci, Emiliana Peressini, and the association’s wider network.
The value of the event lay above all in its local dimension: bringing OXHY into a community outside the more traditional scientific, industrial, or financial settings, while creating space for questions and direct discussion.
It also showed how the relationship between OXHY and its shareholders can evolve beyond the investment itself, becoming a channel through which new networks, territories, and opportunities for dialogue can be activated.
Vicenza: more than 200 people discussing energy and innovation
The second stop had a very different scale.
In Thiene, in the province of Vicenza, more than 200 people attended the event, making it the most highly attended stop of the tour.
The event was organised with the contribution of Salus Live Foundation and its President, Flavio Vezzaro, together with people who already know OXHY’s journey well, including Paola Zocca of APS VIemozioneRete, Enrico Dianin, Managing Director of Metexhy — the “vehicle” behind OXHY’s recent and exceptional crowdfunding campaign — and Fabio Castellucci.
The evening brought OXHY’s story to a broad and diverse audience, creating a direct discussion around research, technological development, and the prospects offered by new approaches to energy generation and recovery.
The many questions and conversations that emerged during and after the event highlighted how valuable these occasions can be not only for presenting the project, but also for building new relationships with people from different professional backgrounds and territories.
Como: science and business within the same conversation
The final stop in Como experimented with yet another format.
The event “Water: Not Just H₂O”, organised by Davide Franchi and Mattia Tortorelli — two engineers and both OXHY shareholders —, was designed as a broader opportunity to explore the themes of water, research, and energy.
Alongside Roberto Germano, CTO and Co-Founder of OXHY, the speakers included Professor Gloria Tabacchi, Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Science and High Technology of the University of Insubria, and Professor Matteo Fasano, Associate Professor at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Torino, whose research focuses in particular on heat and mass transfer phenomena, multiscale modelling, and applications at the water-energy nexus.
More than 40 people attended the event.
One of the most interesting aspects of the format was precisely the decision not to build the event exclusively around OXHY, but instead to place the company’s journey within a broader scientific conversation.
This approach brought different areas of expertise and perspectives into dialogue and could provide an interesting basis for similar initiatives in other territories.
A network growing in a distributed way
The three events differed in scale, audience, and format, but they revealed the same dynamic: the ability of the community that has formed around OXHY to independently create new opportunities for meeting and discussion.
The tour also generated new contacts with stakeholders from the worlds of research, industry, and investment, which will be explored further in the coming weeks.
There is also a symbolic connection between these events and OXHY’s technological journey.
The company is working towards an increasingly distributed vision of energy, with the aim of developing technologies that, over time, can be integrated into different devices and systems.
This tour grew in a similarly distributed way: not through a single centrally replicated format, but through initiatives created in different territories, by different people, and for different audiences.
And this is perhaps the most interesting outcome of the three days: seeing a community of shareholders, partners, and stakeholders progressively become a network capable of creating new opportunities for dialogue around OXHY’s activities.