<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">---- About ---- <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Future Digileaders is an event for selected early career researchers interested in the broad area of digitalization who identify as women or are non-binary. The event consists of a career workshop with talks, panels, and sincere discussions. We will cover professional development, and provide opportunities to meet inspiring role models and to network with each other. This year, it will be held online on November 11, 2020. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The event is a part of the Digitalize in Stockholm (<a href="http://digitalizeinstockholm2020.se/" class="">http://digitalizeinstockholm2020.se/</a>), an annual conference and meeting place for global thought leaders and rising stars engaged in transformation through digitalization in academia, industry, government and civil society. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">After the event, we expect that the Future Digileaders will: <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">+ gain insights into the joys and struggles of becoming and being faculty, and awareness of a broad range of career paths and strategies one can choose from; <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">+ have shaped values and practices that should be promoted in a good research environment; <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">+ establish new connections to research and industry leaders, and a network of international peers; <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">+ understand the potential of digitalization research in a broader societal context, a peek into different areas of digitalization research, as well as knowledge about state-of-the-art research challenges and advancements. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Once travel restrictions are lifted, participants will be invited to visit the Digital Futures cross-disciplinary research center in Stockholm, Sweden (travel and accommodation costs for 2 nights will be covered by Digital Futures). The program will include research visits to KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University and the Research Institute of Sweden (RISE), as well as excursions to industry to further establish networking opportunities in Stockholm. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">---- Application ---- <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We welcome applications from early-career researchers who identify as women, or are non-binary, and have obtained their PhD degree no earlier than 2016, or are expected to graduate no later than 2022. The eligibility window can be extended by career breaks, such as parental/adoption leave, long-term illness, or national service during or after PhD studies. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Applicants are expected to be interested in pursuing a research career in digitalization, especially related to research themes trio Trust – Learn – Cooperate. These themes encompass basic as well as applied research in areas including, but not limited to, security and privacy, human-technology interaction, systems and data science, artificial intelligence, robotics, networking, or communication and control. <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Applications must be submitted by October 26, 2020 (anywhere on earth). <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Application material merged into a single pdf should contain: <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">+ CV (max 2 pages) <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">+ Link to google scholar profile or a list of publications <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">+ Brief (max. 300 words) answer to the question: “If you could choose freely, what do you think is the most important digitalization research that you can do to benefit society?” <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">---- Important Dates ---- <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Application deadline: October 26, 2020, 23:59 AoE <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Acceptance notification: October 30, 2020 <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Event: November 11, 2020 (preliminary schedule is planned for 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM CET time) <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Further details about the event and the application: <span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><a href="https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/events/future-digileaders/" class="">https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/events/future-digileaders/</a> <div class=""> </div> <div class=""> <div class="">---- Organising Committee ----</div> <div class="">Iolanda Leite, KTH Viktoria Fodor, KTH Madeline Balaam, KTH Chiara Rossitto, Stockholm University</div> </div> <div class=""> <div class=""> <div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> <div>----------------- Iolanda Leite Associate Professor KTH Royal Institute of Technology School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning (RPL) Lindstedtsvägen 24, 4th floor, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden <a href="https://iolandaleite.com" class="">https://iolandaleite.com</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>