Dialogues on Digital 2025 - 10 Oct 2025
This year’s conference is organized around the theme "The Future of You", offering three distinct yet interrelated modules: Health, Work, and Play. Each session invites participants to consider how digital technologies are entering new dimensions of our personal and professional lives - not only changing the systems we operate in, but altering how we understand ourselves and our roles within society.
Our bodies are the epicenter of the future of health. Digital technologies are coming closer to our bodies, engaging with us in enhanced diagnostics, being worn by us to enable live monitoring of our health and wellness and to assist with our disabilities while augmenting our capabilities. Here, with the intimate nature of the connection, digital technologies affect and are affected by us as individuals.
We are also situated in a broader healthcare context that sets the boundaries of our interaction with digital technologies. Emerging regulation on how these technologies are developed, certified, and adopted, but also how our private data are stored, accessed and used, open opportunities but also raise new challenges in health prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
The individual and the institutional arenas of digital health are changing rapidly. On the one hand, an emerging tech-landscape provides us, as individuals, with a range of new opportunities to access personalized healthcare services. From wearable devices to full body scans and AI-augmented prevention and diagnostic services, individuals demand taking control of their own health and wellness. On the other hand, incumbent healthcare providers are taking steps to open their services and data to third party technology providers through digital platforms. This shift towards opening and extending traditional healthcare services through digital platforms, not only responds to the increasing demand of individuals to monitor their own health and wellness through personalized services, but also to the need to synergistically combine capabilities and resources to scale value propositions. No single organization can address the range of individual patient needs nor can they solely manage the ways in which individuals engage with different modalities of healthcare services. It requires distinct capabilities and resources to provide such services, while at the same time expanding to new modalities of digital care including home and self-care through patient engagement and remote monitoring.
While there are interactions and intersections between the individual and institutional arenas of digital health development, they are not always in synchronization or harmony. Managing the relationship between the individual and institutional arenas of development is however a key question for Sweden and Europe in relation to our digital futures.
We bring industry, startup, education, and policy experts to help us explore and navigate this uncertain, exciting, and concerning space.
This session explores utopian and dystopian perspectives on the Future of Work, outlining both how we can use digital technologies to improve workspaces and worklives, and what potential challenges we need to address to avoid technological determinism, preserve integrity, and successfully lead new man-machine interactions. The panel brings together scholars researching the Future of Work, alongside practitioners from firms experimenting with innovative digital working formats. This session is designed to provide the audience with new insights into what challenges and opportunities the future of work entails.
Computer gaming and esports have distinct roots in the Nordics and in Sweden. They have influenced the way people play and learn and continue to shape the biggest slice of the entertainment industry globally.
The way we learn is connected to how we play: Digital gaming experiences can bring people together and help develop skills. Our session offers the audience a taste of interactive play and a discussion about when and how we learn with and through gaming. Which skills do games enhance? When do we play at work or work when playing?
A panel of experts on gaming, including experienced players, entrepreneurs and academics, will cover broad developments within entertainment, learning, and business.
Together, these modules form a program that is both analytical and participatory, encouraging critical dialogue and diverse perspectives on the evolving relationship between humans and technology.
You can VIEW THE PROGRAM here.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM THIS YEAR'S DIALOGUES ON DIGITAL
GAIN INSIGHTS into how digital technologies are shaping the boundaries of health, work, and play.
ENGAGE WITH researchers, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs exploring human-centered innovation.
EXPERIENCE live demonstrations and discussions that bring abstract trends into concrete focus.
CONNECT across sectors and perspectives during a day designed for learning, exchange, and reflection.