Events

22.9.2026

Convergence in Practice: Doctoral Researchers Share Real Interdisciplinary Experiences

On 21.09.2026, members of the CONVERGENCE community gathered for an engaging afternoon dedicated to one of the project's core ambitions: understanding how meaningful research emerges when different disciplines, perspectives, and methodologies come together.

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7.9.2026

CONVERGENCE at ACM GoodIT 2026: Sensing Stress Through Play

CONVERGENCE doctoral researcher Hsiao-Chun Lin presented ongoing research on exploring stress through participatory and multimodal approaches at the ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2026) in Pisa, Italy.

31.8.2026

Panel Discussion on Sharing Experiences Across Disciplines 21.09.2026

We invite doctoral researchers, supervisors, and members of the research community to an afternoon dedicated to discussing how convergence has been experienced and implemented in practice across different research fields.

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13.4.2026

Knowledge to the youth! A visit to Linnankosken lukio in Porvoo

CONVERGENCE of Humans and Machines is already shaping the minds of the next-next generation of people.

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26.2.2026

Experiences from LOPEC 2026

Ninja Kajas attended International Exhibition and Conference for Flexible, Organic and Printed Electronics in Munich.

9.12.2025

What is (Multi / inter / cross) -disciplinarity for you? Join the spotlight event organised by DigiSus and CONVERGENCE

Come and talk on Cross-Disciplinary Researcher Identities: Academic Nomads, Bridge-Builders, or Jacks-of-all-trades?

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14.9.2025

CONVERGENCE Doctoral Researcher Partha Wins Best Paper Award at EUSIPCO 2025

Parthasaarathy has received the Best Paper Award at the prestigious https://eusipco2025.org Conference for his outstanding work!

8.9.2025

CONVERGENCE at The 26th Interspeech Conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

CONVERGENCE’s Kalle Lahtinen presented results on “Investigating Affect Mining Techniques for Annotation Sample Selection in the Creation of Finnish Affective Speech Corpus” by Kalle Lahtinen, Einari Vaaras, Liisa Mustanoja and Okko Räsänen.

Conferences

4.9.2025

Jurgis Peters' new work with rATs and Aalto University

Jurgis Peters becomes a visiting researcher at Aalto University.

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20.8.2025

Exploring e-Skin at the DELTA Network Event in Turku

Ninja Kajas took part in the DELTA Network Summer School 2025 in Turku, presenting innovative work on piezoelectric sensors for electronic skin (e-skin) while engaging with leading experts and fellow PhD students from Finland.

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22.7.2025

Art, Science, and AI: Reflections from the Riga Contemporary Art Fair

As part of the fair’s public program, Jurgis Peters moderated the panel “Art, Science, and AI” at RIGAF.

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2.7.2025

CONVERGENCE Exploring Technologically Altered Experiences at STS Italia 2025

Samuel and Jurgis participated in the 10th STS Italia Conference in Milan, where they explored how art and technology shape our experiences in an increasingly AI-mediated world.