In this Computing Now Industry Perspective video, Andrea Covini, vice CEO of the Italian Association for Computing (AICA, www.aica.it), discusses the importance and pervasiveness of semantics and other enabling technologies such as data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. He points out their role in AICA's activities -- for example, related to competence-framework design, certification, and automatic assessment. He also raises attention to DIDAMATICA 2014 (http://didamatica2014.unina.it), a yearly conference on teaching and education run by AICA. For more on semantics in education, see the April 2014 issue of CN.