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Accenture, a company active in the professional services sector with more than 22,000 employees in Italy, today opened the doors of its new corporate headquarters inside the historic Palazzo Marignoli, in the heart of Rome. This inauguration represents another stage of the broader Forward Building program which, with a total investment of 360 million euros, aims to rethink spaces across the national territory through new working models. Accenture, which in the last four years has hired more than 2,700 people in the capital, today employs more than 6,600 in Rome and expects to reach 7,000 by next August. The city is allocated about 30% of the 4,000 national hiring plan the company announced for this fiscal year.
The inauguration
The inauguration took place this afternoon in the presence of important institutional figures including the Undersecretary with responsibility for technological innovation and digital transition, Alessio Butti, the Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, Giorgio Mulè, the Councilor for Security Policies, Activities Productive and Equal Opportunities of Rome Capital, Monica Lucarelli.
Artificial intelligence
Through multifunctional spaces, Accenture offers a place to discuss and collaborate on the development of innovative solutions using cutting-edge technologies and methodologies. In the Immersive Room, for example, through Generative Artificial Intelligence, organizations will be able to live a highly interactive and impactful experience and touch the infinite potential of new technologies applied to different industrial sectors and to the world of Public Administration, today at the center of an evolution towards a valuable citizen experience.
Rome increasingly at the center
Today’s opening in Rome is a further step forward in Accenture’s growth strategy in Italy, demonstrating the centrality of the capital «which has seen the company intensify its presence in the city with a strategy based on the continuous valorization of talents, the creation of innovative spaces and innovation centers in key areas for the country’s development and the acquisition of local excellence, leaders in strategic sectors”, explains the company.
The other locations in Rome
Furthermore, the new headquarters will enrich the network of offices and innovation centers for the development of specialized skills already present in cities such as the People Hub of Rome Shanghai in the Eur Torrino district and innovation centers such as AGIC, the first in Italy dedicated to the innovation of the Public Administration, ACIC, to develop and implement latest generation cloud solutions and the new Gen AI Studio which, like its “twin” in Milan, wants to accelerate the adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence among organisations. A strategy consolidated also through numerous acquisitions of local excellence such as the recent Customer Management IT and SirfinPA, two Roman companies that offer services and technological solutions in the sectors of Justice and public security.