Digital Futures welcomes new Executive Director

At Digital Futures, we are proud to announce Annika Szabo Portela as our new Executive Director. Annika brings over two decades of international experience from leading medical, technical, and business-oriented academic institutions in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and France. With a PhD in medical science from Karolinska Institutet, she has combined her background as a speech-language pathologist and researcher with a passion for strategic innovation and digital transformation…

Honorable Mention for Paper on Intimate Technologies

A team of researchers, including Digital Futures postdoctoral researcher Alejandra Gómez Ortega, received an Honorable Mention Award at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Conference 2025, held in Portugal this July. The award recognizes the paper “Designing for Secondary Users of Intimate Technologies”, co-authored by Alejandra Gómez Ortega, Joo Young Park, Deepika Yadav, Madeline Balaam, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Anupriya Tuli, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, and Airi Lampinen…

Join us – REGISTRATION is OPEN – Digitalize in Sthlm ’25!

Get ready to be inspired! Join us for Digitalize in Stockholm 2025, a premier annual conference that brings together global thought leaders, emerging talents, and innovators from academia, industry, government, and civil society.

The Theme: AI EVERYWHERE – Exploring the Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities of Autonomous Systems​​

📅 When: 11 November 2025
📍 Where: Onsite at Münchenbryggeriet, Stockholm

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with groundbreaking innovations and transformative ideas!

How AI affects the energy demand of a Google search

Anna Furberg, researcher at KTH and affiliated with Digital Futures, was interviewed on AI and environmental impact on SVT Rapport and on TV4 Nyhetsmorgon in August. Find out more in this article with links to the interviews…

Apply for Future Digileaders 2025

The event, held in Stockholm, for selected early-career researchers interested in the broad area of digitalization, focuses on career development, offers opportunities to meet inspiring role models, and encourages networking among participants. This year’s Future Digileaders program includes:
– Mingling event on 10 November 2025
– Poster presentations at the Digitalize in Stockholm conference on 11 November 2025
– Onsite workshop at the Digital Futures hub on 12 November 2025

Open Calls!

Digital Futures provides funding for strategic research projects that advance its vision. Explore upcoming calls, including details on objectives, available funding, timelines, application procedures, eligibility criteria, expected outcomes, and key selection criteria – everything you need to submit a proposal.