Ferdinando Acerbi was born in Milan in 1965, and today lives in Brescia. Passionate about horseback riding since childhood, he made his debut in 1982 at the European Junior Riding Championships.

Horses were as well as a passion his main occupation until the 1990s, when his other passion for the sea and diving took over. After several years between Africa and the Middle East spent as a skipper and diving instructor, a dramatic accident in 2004 caused him a very serious spinal cord injury that paralyzed him from the waist down. As he embarks on a lengthy rehabilitation that will enable him to walk again with the help of a cane, Ferdinand begins to come to terms with disability, a hitherto unknown reality.

“An upward process does not begin until you have accepted what happened to you,” he tells us today with a big smile. But how much strength is behind this statement? How to restart and, in Ferdinando’s case, compete again until he represents Italy at the Paralympics in Rio?

Come and find out with us on July 5.
It will be a dialogue full of insights, reflections, emotions and even anecdotes.

Why Ferdinand? Because we are convinced that each of us, too, can encounter moments when the paradigm shifts completely. And it is precisely in these moments that the support of our passions is crucial.