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Nobel Calling 2026: Discover how AI and digital technologies are shaping the society of the future at Digital Futures

Date and time: Wednesday 7 October 2026, 09:00 – 14:00 CEST
Title: Nobel Calling 2026: Discover how AI and digital technologies are shaping the society of the future at Digital Futures
Where: Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus
Directions: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/contact/how-to-get-here/

At Digital Futures, you will encounter research that is shaping the society of tomorrow. Here, researchers from many different fields come together to explore how digital technologies and AI can help address some of our greatest societal challenges — in health, education, sustainability, mobility, cybersecurity, and smart cities.

As AI rapidly transforms the way we live and work, new opportunities emerge alongside important questions about ethics, trust, inclusion, and resilience. At Digital Futures, technology meets humanity in an interdisciplinary research environment where ideas become solutions for a sustainable and equitable future.

Welcome to explore how cutting-edge research, innovation, and collaboration are contributing to the digital society of the future. The program is part of Nobel Calling Stockholm.

Free admission – a maximum of 50 participants will be accepted.

Please take the spiral concrete staircase one floor up to Digital Futures. Coffee and cake will be served.

PROGRAM

Welcome & Introduction followed by EXPO Show & Tell

  • 09:00–10:15 – Reserved for Teacher/School Group Visit #1
  • 10:45–12:00 – Reserved for Teacher/School Group Visit #2
  • 13:00–14:00 – Open program for the General Public – Everyone is Welcome
    Free admission, no pre-registration needed. 50 spots available.

End of Day

A close-up of a shiny, futuristic humanoid robot with a reflective metallic faceplate and yellow accents, on display indoors under bright lighting.
A white quadcopter drone with a camera hovers in mid-air against a blurred, dark blue background.
A detailed model of a black mecha robot stands inside a futuristic, white corridor with a small human figure nearby, emphasising the robot’s large scale and intricate design features.
A person holding a mobile phone stands in front of a screen filled with green, glowing numbers and letters, with the code-like patterns projected onto their back and surroundings.
People walk through a bright indoor space with large, transparent, colourful circular panels that create rainbow reflections and distortions, casting vibrant hues onto the floor and surroundings.
A lone person in a spacesuit stands before a glowing doorway set into a massive, futuristic wall made of dark, geometric, circuit-like patterns illuminated with blue and orange lights.
Aerial view of a city junction at night with bright, colourful light trails from moving vehicles, lit pedestrian crossings, and flyovers creating a dynamic, futuristic scene.
A digital illustration of a human head profile with circuit patterns, surrounded by floating cubes and square tiles on a blue and purple background, representing artificial intelligence and technology concepts.
A digital illustration of a transparent human figure with visible organs and skeleton, showing red concentric circles highlighting pain in the abdominal area. DNA and molecule structures are in the background.

Events & seminars

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Seminar | Open events

Applications of Differential Privacy to Text

June 23, 2026

Harry Nyquist, Malvinas väg 10, KTH main Campus

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Distinguished lecture | Open events

Distinguished Lecture: Prof Bernd Sturmfels, Max Planck Institute Leipzig and UC Berkeley

June 24, 2026

Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus OR Zoom

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Seminar | Open events

Inference-Time Information Theory

June 25, 2026

Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus OR Zoom

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Workshop | Open events

Digital Futures Resilience Workshop

August 19, 2026

Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus

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