Future Digileaders Event: Nurturing Leadership in the Digital Age

The Future Digileaders event, held as part of the annual Digitalize in Stockholm conference, was a great success, providing participants with valuable insights into leadership in the digital era, diversity and inclusion, and the latest advancements in digitalization research...

Call for Abstract – Digital Futures Young Scientist Conference!

The conference is exclusively designed for PhD students and postdocs collaborating with Digital Futures affiliated faculty, providing a unique platform to share your cutting-edge research, innovative ideas, and groundbreaking solutions in the dynamic digital transformation landscape...
Submission Deadline: 5 January, 2024

Navigating faculty development at the Digital Futures Faculty Workshop

Members of Digital Futures Faculty came together at the Coor Conference – Garnisonen in Stockholm for a Workshop on November 22. Organized by David Broman, the Associate Director of Faculty at Digital Futures, the event aimed to dig into faculty development through interesting discussions, panels, and networking...

Digital transformation requires collaboration on all levels…

…from human-machine teaming to interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral interactions. The theme of “Collaboration and Conflict” took centre stage at Digitalize in Stockholm 2023, where international keynote speakers, as well as representatives from industry, academia and society, came together to discuss and explore this paramount issue...

Digital Futures Researchers Received Google Impact Award

At Google’s 2023 Geo for Good Summit, Digital Futures Faculty, Professor Yifang Ban and her team were honoured with the Google Geo for Good Impact Award. This recognition highlights their remarkable contributions to wildfire monitoring urban mapping and urban risk assessment for enhanced urban resilience and sustainability in the face of climate change and extreme events...

“How to Design Trustworthy Robots” - TEDx talk by Digital Futures faculty member Jana Tumová

Discover the world of trustworthy robots in this insightful TEDx talk. Explore their potential impact, intricate mechanisms, and the delicate balance of trust.
Learn how human behaviour and perception influence our interactions with robots. Gain insights into aligning engineering and human perspectives on trustworthiness. Trust the robots, but don’t forget to read the manual.

Shaping a sustainable society through digital transformation

Digital Futures is a cross-disciplinary research centre that explores and develops digital technologies of great societal importance. It was jointly established in 2020 by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, based on significant long-term support of a Strategic Research Area by the Swedish Government.

The vision of Digital Futures is to shape an economically, environmental and socially sustainable society through digital transformation.

Our mission is to create an international breeding ground to excel in research, empower people by fostering innovation, education, leadership and entrepreneurial spirit and build a strong community.

The overall objective of Digital Futures is to become one of the top five university research centres worldwide in the area of technologies for digital transformation, with tight interactions between academia, industry and society.

Download: Digital Futures Brochure