Futures Conference 2025 gives you a unique opportunity to network and learn more about the futures of technologies!
We are most delighted to let you know that we received more than 180 submissions to the event. In addition to the six keynote speeches, there will be around 150 presentations in various sessions and around 15 workshops organised. These all will be divided into academia and practice-oriented sessions.
Thank you all who are coming to present your work!
Notification of acceptance of the abstracts has been sent to all the corresponding authors. If you have submitted and have not heard from us, please do check first your email spam folders and then contact us, if needed. We have also updated website with the guidelines for speakers and workshop facilitators.
For those who are not presenting their work at the conference, please do mark your calendar with the dates, follow us on LinkedIn and/or sign up for updates on our website, fill in your registration (note the early-bird fees by 1 April), start planning your travelling, and spread the word in your community. We are excited to host you here in Turku in June!
If you have any questions about the conference and its arrangements, do not hesitate to contact our conference secretariat.
Welcoming the Sixth Keynote Speaker
Rohit Talwar is a global futurist, award-winning keynote speaker, author and the CEO of Fast Future (UK). He helps clients understand and respond to critical forces and developments shaping the future – ranging from geo-political and economic shifts through to sustainability, ’corporation zero’ thinking, and disruptive technologies such as AI.
His current research focus is on how AI/AGI could enable the transformation of money and financial services and what this could mean for how we live, work, ensure social cohesion, run businesses, govern nations, and manage economies. > Read more.
Special Issue for the Conference
The journal Foresight by Emerald Publishing invites scholars participating the conference to submit manuscripts of research articles to the forthcoming special issue. Submission is open from 1 May 2025 to 30 April 2026. > Read more.
Just to Remind You of the Arrangements
Early-bird registration fees are valid until Tue 1 April 2025. We encourage you to register in well advance and also to start planning and booking your travelling as soon as possible.
In the evening of Wed 11 June you are most welcome to the conference dinner at the Ceremonial Hall of the Old Academy Building. Tickets for the dinner can be purchased online during the registration process. > Read more.
Pentti Malaska Futures Award 2025
The University of Turku has opened the call for applications to the Pentti Malaska Futures Award for the fifth time. The competition is open to Nordic actors and teams with a future-oriented and multidisciplinary research approach. We are looking for bold, research-based, visionary, and boundary-crossing solutions supporting the building of a more sustainable global future.
The Pentti Malaska Futures Award is €30,000. The application period is 27 January – 28 April 2025. > Read more.
Futures of Technologies │ 10–12 June 2025 