Sree Sreenivasan will be guest of honour at the University of Turin on 24th November at 5.00 pm.

The Chief Digital Officer of New York City will tell us his 3-year experience as Digital Communication Officer of the Metropolitan Museum, explaining how the strategy of social media and digital tools for visitors have been reshaped.

Before being chosen by the Mayor of New York, Bill De Blasio, not only did Sree Sreenivasan work as Digital Communication Officer of the Metropolitan Museum, but he also worked at the School of Journalism at the Colombia University for more than 20 years.
Moreover he was nominated for Most Creative People 2015 by the Fast Company magazine, and also as the Most Influential CDO 2016.

The meeting, which will take place at Room 1 of Campus Einaudi (Lungo Dora Siena 68/a), will be presented by Enrico Pasini, managing director of Library, Archive and Museum System of the University of Turin and President of Scientific Committee of the Museum System and by Anna Masera, director of the Master in Journalism of the University of Turin. Maria Beatrice Failla, professor of Museology and Coordinator of the Unit of Turin of the PRIN project (Research Projects of National Interest) “Life of works, from sources to digital” will moderate the debate.

The seminar is organized by the Museum System of the University of Turin in collaboration with directors, curators and communications managers of different museum foundations, including Fondazione Torino Musei, Musei Reali, Museo Egizio, Museo del Cinema, Reggia di Venaria, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Pinacoteca Giovanni and Marella Agnelli. They’re going to liven up the final debate.

You will also have the opportunity to participate in the debate and to talk with Sree Sreenivasan and with the museums of Turin through social media, by using the hashtag #sreeturin.