{"id":6141,"date":"2021-10-25T15:09:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalfutures.kth.se\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2021-11-25T17:08:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:08:28","slug":"digitalize-in-sthlm-2021-record-high-participation-from-all-continents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmu-tris.sys.kth.se\/digitalfutures\/2021\/10\/25\/digitalize-in-sthlm-2021-record-high-participation-from-all-continents\/","title":{"rendered":"DIGITALIZE IN STHLM 2021 – record high participation!"},"content":{"rendered":"

650 participants from over 45 countries across all continents – from India, Brazil, Germany, Norway, Canada, Uganda, Norway just to mention a few – gathered for this year\u2019s hybrid version of Digitalize in Stockholm.<\/strong> The outline was on painting the digital futures \u2013 a vision of 2040 – how we through digital transformation, have the opportunity to impact our future positively.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Recorded keynote talks, panels, and breakouts are available on Youtube \u2013 see PROGRAM<\/a> for links to videos OR go directly to Digitalize in Stockholm on Youtube – Click here to view Day 1 and Day 2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Questions on how will we live, work and play in 2040 and what research, development, innovation, and collaboration will lead the way were discussed. The audience was brilliantly guided through the two days by the moderator Paulina Modlitba<\/strong>, Founder of We Should Be Friends, board member, speaker, and \u00a0Alum of the Year KTH 2018.<\/p>\n

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The two chairs of the event Karl H Johansson<\/strong>, Director Digital Futures, and Magnus Frodigh<\/strong>, VP, Head of Ericsson Research. Johansson welcomed participants:<\/p>\n

– This is the third time we run Digitalize in Stockholm – in 2019 it was held in Stockholm as a physical event, in 2020 it became fully digital due to the pandemic and now in 2021, Digital Futures is proud and happy to host a hybrid event. Digital Futures is a cross-disciplinary research centre that explores and develops digital technologies of great societal importance, explained Karl H Johansson. It was jointly established in 2020 by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, based on significant long-term support by the Swedish Government with the vision is to shape an economically, environmental and socially sustainable society through digital transformation. For this we need collaboration and interactions between academia, industry and society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Digitalization have accelerated during the pandemic and we have discovered the importance of digital infrastructure in our daily lifes, continued Magnus Frodigh.\u00a0At the same time we are rolling out 5G networks across the globe offering a very capable ICT infrastructure and we can expect a lot of innovation across many sectors in industry and society.\u00a0Still this is only the beginning of our journey and there are many challenges that needs to be addressed.\u00a0Painting the long term future we see a full digital representation of the physical world, all objects represented by their digital twin, updated in real-time making it possible to make route cause analysis, predict future events and to control the physical world form the programmable digital world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Irene Svenonius<\/strong>, County Mayor Region Stockholm, pointed out in her\u00a0Introductory note:<\/p>\n

– To have a long term vision and idea for the digital future of tomorrow is both important and a little thrilling. What can we accomplish together? Innovators, researchers, business sector and public sector. As the regional county mayor, I know the importance of using new technology to solve old problems and to make people’s lives better, and easier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The two-day hybrid event provided a mix of international speakers from prominent institutes, universities, organizations, and companies from the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n

DIGITALIZE IN STOCKHOLM Day 1 and Day 2\u00a0<\/strong>main stage\u00a0recordings are available on Digital Futures Youtube channel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Day 1 – OPENING<\/strong><\/p>\n