2nd International Symposium on Digital Transformation

Digital transformation has triggered innovation and new processes in our society and businesses. We can see endeavours of introducing driverless public transports in cities around the globe as well as the applications interactively recording sensor data into electronic patient records in healthcare. Businesses such as Airbnb and Lyft, as well as traditional manufacturing firms such as Volvo and Rolls-Royce all have one thing in common: novel uses of digital technologies while trying to improve productivity. Both Volvo and Rolls-Royce combine digital and physical components to develop innovative digital services tied to the use of their products. Digital components such as sensors, data storage, analysis software and 4G connectivity as well as social media have enabled transformational processes in education, social interactions, healthcare, and the like. Despite the abundance of examples of digital transformations in our society and industry, there is still a lack of cohesive understanding of what digital transformation entails. One major challenge is to envision what innovations digital technologies bring to the society and businesses in the near and far future as well as its far-reaching ethical implications.

This second version of the symposium invites international researchers and practitioners in related disciplines to Digital Transformation to present, discuss and demonstrate different possibilities, current efforts and upcoming trends in this emerging field.

Main symposium themes:

• Cases of digital transformation: Digital transformation is certainly happening at various levels of our society and businesses. We need to investigate interesting cases of the phenomenon.
  
  
• Ethical implications of digital transformation: ethical challenges from the design, the use of technologies and the way we deal them are an indispensable aspect of the digital transformation agenda.

• Creating a liaison between academia, public and private sectors: Since DT is taking place in our society, governmental authorities such as municipalities and other public administration bodies will be benefited from scientific research in DT with the development of new approaches for DT or the design of digital services. This research can be done in collaboration between academia and private sectors since private sectors are already ahead in DT initiatives and academic researchers can help with scientific knowledge on DT.
  
  
• Combining methodologies and approaches from different disciplines: tools: Special emphasis should be given to methodological issues of cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Track 1: Digital business

Digitalization has prompted novel forms of doing business. To satisfy constantly changing needs of customers and to stay competitive in the market, organizations need to embark in the digital transformation, hence transforming their way of doing business and organizing. Whereas some organizations have successfully managed to reap the potential of digital technologies in creating innovative products, services, and business models, others face several challenges in this journey. Digital transformation both as a process and an outcome is characterized with uncertainty and inherent complexity unfolding in several dimensions: technological, organizational, business, societal.

This track will address topics related to digitalization and digital transformation. It will include abstracts examining how organizations organize for digital innovation, challenges, and the successful factors in the digital journey process.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Digital business model innovation
• Data driven business models
• Service science
• Challenges and opportunities in the digital transformation
• Impact of digitalization in the public sector
• Digitalization and its impact in the organizations’ ecosystem
• Circular business models
• Sustainable business models
• Digital strategies, development, and implementation
• Digital twins
• Ethical Implications of Digitalization

Track 2: Digital learning – digitalization of education

Digital learning lies in the intersection of digital technologies, education, and life-long learning. This track will address numerous topics related to the transformation of education and the development and application of digital technologies in diverse educational settings. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Pedagogical aspects of digital contexts of teaching and learning
• Digital learning competence
• Organizational aspects of innovative educational practices
• Opportunities and challenges with digital learning
• Remote teaching in the time of pandemic
• VR and AR immersive learning experiences
• E-learning platforms
• Pedagogical case examples related to transformation of educational practices
• Computational Thinking
• Data and learning analytics
• Development of novel technologies to facilitate teaching and learning
• User-centered design
• Innovation of educational practices
• Ethical Implications of Digitalization

Track 3: E-health

E-health focuses on the transformation of health through digitalization and the knowledge- and evidence-based application of digital technology in nursing and care. This track will address how digital technology transforms nursing and care and how digitalization can contribute to secure, sustainable and effective nursing and care practices, as well as good and just health among the population. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Usability in e-health
• Application of AI technology in healthcare 
• Ethics and e-health
• Service models
• The Internet of Things in health care
• Blockchain and secure transfer of patient records
• Telehealth and telemedicine
• Mobile health applications
• Wellbeing and e-health
• The changing role of the patient and patient data

Track 4: Digital humanities

Digital humanities lie in the intersection of computer science and the humanities. This track will address numerous topics in digital humanities and how digital technologies can assist in understanding and analyzing diverse empirical material. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Visualization and data design
• Text and image digitization, archiving and processing
• Digital archives
• Code, software and platform studies
• Cultural analysis and data mining
• Digitalization and cultural change
• Theoretical, critical and educational perspectives on digital societies
• Collaboration, participation and democracy
• Digital literacies and inequalities
• Surveillance and censorship
• Open data and open access
• Computer applications in diverse fields
• Digital humanities in education
• Emerging technologies
• Augmented reality
• Ethical Implications of Digitalization

Track 5: Digital working life

Digital working life centers on how digitalization changes and influences work. This track will address how digital technology is applied and negotiated in work environments, and how digital technology transforms public and private organizations. Possible topics include:

• Organizational achievements
• Employee productivity
• Automation and automated decision making
• Working environment
• Work in the time of pandemic
• Digital competence among employees
• Work satisfaction
• Employee autonomy
• Balance between work and private life
• Work processes and routines
• Control systems and surveillance
• Ethical Implications of Digitalization

Track 6: Digital platforms and reconfiguration of space

The track on Digital Platforms and reconfiguration of space focuses on how diverse digital technologies and tools change how urban and rural spaces are planned, governed and experienced. The focus is on addressing on how digital platforms reconfigure spaces, from particular apps and super-apps on people’s smartphones to mapping and governance platforms. 

Possible topics include, but are not limited to: 

• Everyday life and platforms
• Platforms and smart cities
• Platforms and smart villages
• Platforms, mapping and urban/rural space
• Smart governance of urban and/or rural spaces
• Data practices and governance practices
• Platforms, local engagement, collaboration and participation 
• Platforms and regulatory frameworks 
• Platforms and critical approaches to smart urban/rural development
• Platform labour and professions 
• Platforms, location-based marketing and business practices 
• Sharing platforms and place
• Methodological approaches for studying platforms
• Internationalization of platforms 
• Platforms as urban and/or rural imaginaries - utopia or dystopia?
• Platforms and spatial privacy
• Ethical Implications of Digitalization

Track 7: General track

The general track is intended for abstracts on topics that do not specifically fall within the scope of other tracks. This track aims to provide a greater degree of freedom in comparison with the conference's specific tracks from an epistemological, an ontological and a methodological perspective. Before submitting to the general track, please carefully read descriptions of other tracks, to make sure that your contribution does not fit to either track. 

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Digital divide
• Democratization of digital transformation
• Data democratization
• Digital ready culture
• Automation
• Cloud computing
• Ethical Implications of Digitalization

We will publish a book of abstracts before the symposium in LnuOpen under a Creative Commons licence.

The best abstracts from the 1^st and the 2^nd symposium will be invited for submission as full papers that will be published under the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), free Open-Access Proceedings for Scientific Conferences and Workshops.

1. Eligibility: The conference is open to the researchers whose research deals with business and social transformations that are enabled by different forms of digital technologies. Both senior researchers, doctoral and master’s students are welcome.
2. Submission: To participate, a researcher should submit a 2-page abstract.
3. Reviewing: The submitted abstracts will undergo a double peer review (the reviewers’ names will not be disclosed to the authors). 
4. Presentations: All authors are expected to present their works during the sessions on 21–23 August 2023.   

Download the abstract template.

Make your abstract submission

Organizing Committee

• Prof. Marcelo Milrad, Linnaeus University, Sweden
• Prof. Anita Mirijamdotter, Linnaeus University, Sweden
• Dr. Soumitra Chowdhury, Linnaeus University, Sweden
• Dr. Johan Vaide, Linnaeus University, Sweden
• Dr. Erdelina Kurti, Linnaeus University, Sweden
• Helena Belfrage, Linnaeus University, Sweden

Program Committee will be updated shortly

There is no participation fee for the conference participants. The lunches and coffee breaks during the onsite daytime conference program are provided by Linnaeus University. 

If you need of hotel room during your stay in Växjö, we recommend that you contact one of the hotels/hostels below to make a reservation.

Elite Stadshotellet 
Kungsgatan 6, Box 198
352 33 Växjö
Book by email: reservation.vaxjo@elite.se
or by phone: +46 470 – 134 00
Website: https://elite.se/en/hotels/vaxjo/stadshotellet/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=google-local&utm_content=vaxjo_stadshotellet

Elite Park Hotel
Västra Esplanaden 10
352 31 Växjö
Book by email: reservation.vaxjo@elite.se
or by phone: +46 470 – 70 22 00
Website: https://elite.se/en/hotels/vaxjo/park-hotel/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=google-local&utm_content=vaxjo_park

Clarion Collection Hotel Cardinal
Bäckgatan 10
352 30 Växjö
Book by email: cc.cardinal@choice.se
or by phone: +46 470 – 72 28 00
Website: https://www.nordicchoicehotels.com/hotels/sweden/vaxjo/clarion-collection-hotel-cardinal/?_ga=2.239726091.986266805.1673519636-645733788.1660198179

Quality Hotel Royal Corner
Liedbergsgatan 11
352 32 Växjö
Book by email: q.royalcorner@choice.se
or by phone: +46 470 – 70 10 00
Website: https://www.nordicchoicehotels.com/hotels/sweden/vaxjo/quality-hotel-royal-corner/?_ga=2.79867089.754357241.1672821501-1234792339.1662965398

Teleborgs Slott
Slottsallén
351 96 Växjö
Book by email: info@teleborgsslott.com
or by phone: +46 470 – 34 89 80
Website: https://teleborgsslott.com/

Hotel PM & Vänner
Västergatan 10
352 31 Växjö
Book by email: reservations@pmhotel.se
or by phone: +46 470 – 75 97 00
Website: https://pmrestauranger.se/hotell/

Hotel Esplanad
Norra Esplanaden 21 A
352 31, Växjö
Book by email info@hotelesplanad.com
or by phone: +46 470 – 70 22 00
Website: https://hotelesplanad.com/

Hotel Värend
Kungsgatan 27
352 33, Växjö
Book by email: info@hotellvarend.se
or by phone: +46 470 – 77 67 00
Website: https://www.hotellvarend.se/

Hotel Scandic
Hejaregatan 19
352 46 Växjö
Book by email: vaxjo@scandichotels.com
or by phone: +46 470 - 73 60 00
Website: https://www.scandichotels.se/vaxjo

Öjaby Herrgård
Öjabyvägen 113
352 50 Växjö
Book by email: info@ojabyherrgard.se
or by phone: +46 470 – 70 16 20
Hemsida: https://ojabyherrgard.se/

Are you looking for more affordable accommodations we suggest following hotels below:

Toftastrand Hotel & Konditori
Lenhovdavägen 72
352 71 Växjö
Book by email: hotell@villavik.seor by phone: +46 470 – 652 90
Hemsida: https://www.villavik.se/konditori/

Växjö Vandrarhem Evedal
L J Brandts väg 1
352 63 Växjö
Book by email: info@vaxjovandrarhem.se
or by phone: +46 470 – 630 70
website: http://www.vaxjovandrarhem.se

Skäraton
Väluddevägen 1
352 51 Växjö
Book by email: skaraton@skaraton.com or mattias@skaraton.com
or by phone: +46 70 378 00 95
website: http://skaraton.com/

Bed and Breakfast Södra Lycke
Hagagatan 10
352 35 Växjö
You can book by a registration form via the website
or by phone: +46 70  676 65 06
Website: http://www.sodralycke.se/

If you travel by train to Växjö you will reach Växjö Central located in the city centre. Travelling by train from Stockholm Central to Växjö Central takes roughly 3.5 hours. From Gothenburg to Växjö Central it takes roughly 3 hours.  

If you instead choose to travel by air, you can choose to travel from Bromma Stockholm Airport to Växjö Småland Airport.  You can also reach Växjö via flight to Copenhagen Airport/Kastrup and connecting direct train to Växjö Central (roughly 2.5 hours).

Travel in Växjö
For travel from Växjö Central or Växjö Småland Airport to Linnaeus University we recommend either bus or taxi.

By bus
When travelling by bus from Växjö Central to Linnaeus University, bus number 3, direction “Universitetet”, is the best option. However, there are also other bus routes that pass by one of the university’s bus stops or bus stops nearby, for instance, route number 1 and 5, which take you to Teleborg Centrum, some 8–10 minutes’ walk from the university’s campus.

Bus number 4 will take you from Växjö Småland Airport to Växjö Central where you can change to bus to get to Linnaeus University.

Bus tickets are purchased either on the bus with a debit card or you can download the travel app “Länstrafiken Kronoberg” and purchase your ticket in the app, which will give you a 10% discount on your ticket. You use your debit card to pay in the app.

Click here to perform a search on Länstrafiken Kronoberg:
https://www.lanstrafikenkron.se/en

By bicycle
In case you prefer a bicycle, many hotels can offer this. It takes roughly 20 minutes with a bicycle from the city centre to Linnaeus University’s campus.

By taxi
Most taxi companies start from Södra Bantorget at World Trade Center which means you can find available taxis here.

By car
There is a relative shortage of parking spaces on campus and all are subject to a charge. Parking spaces are marked on the map below.

Here you will find a map of Linnaeus University in Växjö:  https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/contact-and-visit-us/

Linnaeus University is a creative and international knowledge environment that promotes curiosity, creativity, companionship and utility. More than 44,000 students are registered at Linnaeus University.

Linnaeus University is located in Växjö and Kalmar and offers 150 degree programmes and 1,300 single-subject courses. Linnaeus University was established in 2010 through a merger between Växjö University and Kalmar University College.

With some 2,100 employees and 44,000 students it is a modern university with Småland as its base and the world as its arena. Studying and working at Linnaeus University involves being part of an environment that is characterised by knowledge and development. Students acquire new knowledge and learn to have a critical approach. Researchers make new discoveries that can bring change to our society. Employees share stories of a workplace with both challenges and opportunities. Linnaeus University is a university where people can reach their full potential.

Learn more about Linnaeus University

and it's surroundings

Discover Växjö and its surroundings

You can easily take a bus (every 10 minutes) or walk (approx. 45 minutes) from Campus to the city centre - today Växjö is one of the fastest growing cities in all Sweden with a lot to see and experience. 

In the deep forests of Småland you will find Växjö, The Greenest City in Europe 2018*. The city is surrounded by lakes – which, in Swedish, is evident from the name. Environmental issues are at the top of the agenda here, but also music, sports and enterprising characterise Växjö. You can enjoy world-class sports and Michelin star food. But perhaps the proximity to nature is what makes many people choose to stay in Växjö.

On the outskirts of Växjö, you will find Linnaeus University’s campus. The canmpus is surrounded by beautiful parks, forests, meadows, and lakes. On campus, everything is nearby and it takes about 10 minutes to travel by bus to the city centre. Riding a bicycle takes about the same time. If you want to take a walk around one of the lakes this takes roughly 20 minutes. Welcome to Växjö!

Learn more about what to see and do in Växjö 

Learn more about Småland´s Kingdom of Glass

Walking tips
If you are on the university’s campus, you are just a stone’s throw away from Kronoberg County’s greatest wonder, as voted by the inhabitants of Växjö, namely Teleborg Castle. If you start from the University Library, you can walk past Stallvägen and Trummenvägen directly to the castle avenue and reach the castle in just 5 minutes. Behind the castle, in the direction of Lake Trummen, you will find the beautiful and lush castle park.

Learn more about Teleborg Castle: https://teleborgsslott.com/

If you instead choose to start from the city centre, one walking tip is the 4 km walk around Lake Växjösjön. On this walk, you get to enjoy not only the beautiful surroundings but also some 10 works of art.

Learn more about public art in Växjö: https://vaxjo.se/sidor/se-och-gora/kultur-och-noje/konst-och-sevardheter/offentlig-konst-i-vaxjo.html

*Växjö municipality was awarded the European Commission’s European Green Leaf Award in 2018.

Linnaeus University has a zero-tolerance policy against discrimination, harassment and other violations.

Reports of discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment and victimisation taking place at Linnaeus University can be made in the following ways:    

• Registrar: A report can be submitted or sent to the registrar at Linnaeus University in the form of an email, registrator@lnu.se, or via mail to Registrar, Linnaeus University, 351 95 Växjö.      
• Verbal report: Oral reports can also be made to the Coordinator for Equal Rights.  

Both the person who was subjected to some form of discrimination and another person who has observed abuse can make a report. Reports can however not be made anonymously.

What should a report contain?

A report submitted to Linnaeus University should include: 

• an account of what has transpired 
• when the incident took place 
• the name of the victim and their workplace/department 
• the name of the alleged harasser and their workplace/department
• any witnesses to the incident