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a national and global super-community of

trusted connections in our Trusted Universe, September 2026

Italy · Australia

The Italy Australia Business Bridge

ponte. In Italian, a bridge. It only stands if it is built on both banks.

The Crossing: a bridge whose left half is the Venetian Rialto and whose right half is the Sydney Harbour Bridge, meeting at a red keystone

What this is

The Italy Australia Business Bridge is a business introduction network for people trading between Italy and Australia, and for people who live on one side and came from the other.

The distance was never the difficulty. The difficulty is that most people only ever have footing on one bank. A warm introduction from somebody the other side already trusts does what a cold approach cannot, and that is the whole of the mechanism.

A bridge needs both banks

Most business communities have one organiser in one city. This one has a named human at each end, because an introduction is only ever as good as the person making it, and that person has to know the local room.

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Alessio Rinaldo

Host, Italy · Pellegrini S.p.A.

Alessio Rinaldo hosts the Italian side of the Bridge from Milan. He runs banqueting at the PwC Tower with Pellegrini S.p.A., and is a member of the Associazione Italiana Sommelier. His working life sits where Italian business and Italian hospitality meet, which in Milan is where a great deal of business actually gets done, over a table rather than across one.

More about Alessio

Australiaseat open

This seat is open

The founding Australian host seat is open. We are choosing one connector who already has a room of their own, and who wants to build their half of the Bridge from the first member onward.

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How it works

Introductions are made by a human who knows both people.A host weighs whether it actually makes sense, then makes it properly, in their own words, to both people at once. If it does not make sense, it does not happen.
No bots, no scraped lists, no cold outreach.Members are not a database to be sold to. Nobody is pitched on arrival.
Your own trusted network travels with you.Every member keeps a personal profile and their own circle of trusted connections, so the value does not evaporate when an event ends.
It meets in both directions.Online across the gap at an hour that works at both ends, and in person on each side as the local rooms grow.
You join by referral.The point is not to be the biggest network in either country. It is to be a room where everyone in it can be vouched for by somebody already inside it.

Worth a read

Read How to actually do business between Italy and Australia

A practical guide to doing business across the Italy Australia corridor, why the eight to ten hour gap is the smallest of the problems, and how a trusted introduction on the other side does what a cold email never will.

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A ponte is not a road that happens to cross water, it is a structure that needs solid ground at both ends before anyone can walk over it. Between Italy and Australia the distance was never the difficulty, the difficulty is that most people only ever have footing on one side.

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