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Future Digileaders ’24

Future Digileaders is a yearly event organised by Digital Futures for selected early-career researchers interested in digitalization. In this event, you will listen to successful experiences and insights, have in-depth discussions, and get mentorship from established leaders. We cover professional development and provide opportunities to meet inspiring role models and network with each other.

The call for applications to be awarded as “Future Digileaders” and to attend this event is now closed!

Where: Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus
Directions: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/contact/how-to-get-here/

PROGRAM

detailed program to be announced

16 October – Meet & Greet from 17:00 – 19:00 at Digital Futures hub. Registration from 16:30.

17 October – Digitalize in Stockholm 2024: Shaping the Future with Generative AI.  Event at Nacka Strand 09:00 – 17:00 followed by mingle.

18 October – Future Digileaders workshop at Digital Futures hub

09:30 Coffee

10:00 Welcome

10:15 Keynote: Dr. Julie R.Williamson, University of Glasgow

Dr Julie R. Williamson is a Senior Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction at the University of Glasgow in the internationally recognised Glasgow Interactive Systems (GIST) research group.  She has been active leader in publication policy and culture as a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Publications Board (2017-2024), ACM SIGCHI Vice President for Publications (2019-2022), and ACM SIGCHI Technical Programme Chair (2024).

Her leadership roles have focused on publication culture, open science, and publishing accessibility.  In 2024, she was awarded the prestigious European Research Council Consolidator Award to lead a five year programme of research on social signal processing in immersive social environments.  Her research focuses on quantitative techniques for analysing social XR, including digital proxemics, social synchronisation, and conversational success.

11:15 Mentor Speed Dating

  • Sanna Kuoppamäki: Starting your own research group
  • Jelena Zdravkovic: Career Development: tips and suggestions
  • Qianwen Xu: Tips for taking advantage of funding opportunities
  • Ioanna Miliou: Academic Supervisor: How to choose one and build a strong mentor-student relationship
  • Kristina Höök: Work-life balance
  • Ali Reza Majlesi: Innovating at the Intersections: Interdisciplinary Research for Future-Ready Careers
  • Julie Williamson: Building resilience and dealing with rejection

12:15 LUNCH

13:30 Panel discussion

14:30 Wrap-up & Conclusion/Reflection Activity

15:00 Mingle – drinks and wraps

17:00 End of Day – Travel back home or Explore Stockholm on your own

The event is a part of Digitalize in Stockholm, an annual conference and meeting place for global thought leaders and rising stars engaged in transformation through digitalization in academia, industry, government, and civil society. Awarded Future Digileaders are expected to participate at Digitalize in Stockholm,

After these events, we expect that the Future Digileaders will:

  • gain insights into the joys and struggles of becoming and being faculty and awareness of a broad range of career paths and strategies one can choose from
  • have shaped values and practices that should be promoted in a good research environment
  • establish new connections to research and industry leaders and a network of international peers
  • understand the potential of digitalization research in a broader societal context, a peek into different areas of digitalization research, and knowledge about state-of-the-art research challenges and advancements.

Organizing Committee

Co-chair: Laia Turmo Vidal, KTH, laiatv@kth.se
Co-Chair: Donald McMillan, Stockholm University,  donald.mcmillan@dsv.su.se
Sanna Kuoppamäki, KTH, sannaku@kth.se
Qianwen Xu, KTH, qianwenx@kth.se
Ali Reza Majlesi ali.reza.majlesi@edu.su.se
Ioanna Miliou, SU  ioanna.miliou@dsv.su.se
Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, jelenaz@dsv.su.se
Johanna Gavefalk, Digital Futures, jgav@kth.se
Ulrika Larsson, Site & Event Officer, ullis@kth.se

Links from previous years