09.10.2025
The 25th Futures Conference focused on the futures of technologies. The event was organised in collaboration with the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland Ltd on 10–12 June in Logomo, Turku, Finland. Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC) was happy to host 330 participants from 39 different countries, representing all the continents of the world.
This special issue of Futuuri includes articles giving insight to the keynote speakers based on their speeches as well as introduces some of the sessions organised during the event.
In this issue:
- Uncertainties and Rapid Changes Define Alternative Futures – What is the Role of Technology in this Change?
- The Uncertainties of Emerging Technologies Highlight the Need for Dynamic and Anticipatory Ethical Assessment
- The Fall and Rise of Finance in the Era of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Imagining Futures: Science Fiction, Technology, and the Power of Creativity
- Future Factory Concept – a Vision for Futures of Life Science Manufacturing
- Industrial Transformations through Technology Foresight and Cross-Sectoral Collaborations
- Bridging Foresight and Management: Futures Studies Approach in Management Practices
- The Gallery of Attunement
- Desirable Futures and Prospective Theorising
- Against Blank Slate Futuring, Factoring in Stickiness and Certainties
- Futures Studies and Strategic Foresight: Insights from a Diverse World
- Future of Artificial Intelligence: Issues, Opportunities, and Geopolitical Synergies
- Exploring Socio-Technical Futures of Work
- FFRC Staff's Latest Publications
- Welcome to Futures Conference 2026!
> Read the issue (pdf)
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Futuuri is the FFRC’s newsletter, published three times a year. Except for this special conference issue, Futuuri is usually published in Finnish. Read more and join the mailing list.