Futures Conference 2025 welcomes you to Logomo, Turku!
Futures Conference 2025 will be organised this year in Logomo – a center for culture, art and the creative economy, located in the former locomotive workshop next to the Turku railway station and the city center.
The preliminary session program will be released in early May, so stay tuned. We are excited with the number of registered participants at the moment with total 30 nationalities represented – warm welcome to you all! If you haven’t booked your seat yet, please do so.
Our beautiful city will be filled with different summer events, so we do urge you to arrange your travelling and accommodation asap. There is a quota of rooms reserved for the participants in two of the city center hotels as well as a discount in two other hotel chains. We hope you’ll find a suitable accommodation for your visit.
If you have any questions about the conference and its arrangements, do not hesitate to contact our conference secretariat.
Sneak peek at some of the forthcoming workshops
The Future of Decision-Making
Join us for a hands-on exploration of the Futures Platform’s innovative foresight solutions, including the Foresight Radar, which supports human and artificial intelligence (AI) collaborative decision-making, and the AI Futurist, a generative AI chatbot designed to enhance futures exploration. In this interactive workshop, you can test the tools that go beyond traditional foresight methods by leveraging AI, big data analytics, and digital collaboration.
Mutual Shaping in Large Action Models
This fishbowl-style interactive workshop will explore Large Action Models (LAMs) – systems designed not only to understand, but to act. Unlike Large Language Models (LLMs) that generate responses, LAMs can plan and execute real-time tasks using vast amounts of data from wearables, sensors, and user interactions. Participants will discuss the possible futures of LAMs, and explore their transformative potential, related challenges, and the importance of a human-centric approach to ensure responsible development.
Enacting Futures
Drawing on insights from the EU Policy Lab’s “Risk on the Horizon” report (Muench et al.; European Commission, 2024), this experiential workshop will engage participants in pre-enacting future events by co-creating future news stories. Using AI as both a tool and a creative prop, the session will introduce fiction as a method for imagining futures, anticipating risks and exploring possible responses. Participants can experience AI-powered foresight exercise and get insights on how speculative design can support policy-making.
Just to remind you of the arrangements
Registration for the Conference
We encourage you to register in well advance and also to start planning and booking your travelling as soon as possible. Registration closes on Tue 3 June.
> Registration
Conference Dinner
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.
> Conference dinner
Celebrating 75-year-old Turku School of Economics
Futures Conference 2025 is part of the 75-year anniversary celebrations of Turku School of Economics (TSE), University of Turku. In honor of the anniversary year, we proudly look back at the past, celebrate the present, and eagerly look forward to the futures. Welcome to celebrate with us! > TSE anniversary year events
Pentti Malaska Futures Award 2025
The University of Turku has opened the call for applications to the Pentti Malaska Futures Award (€30,000) 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.
Note that the application period ends on Monday 28 April 2025.
The winner of the award will be announced on the Futures Conference dinner.
Futures of Technologies │ 10–12 June 2025 