Date
29/01/2026
Time
09:00 - 18:00
Location
Politecnico di Milano – Campus Bovisa La Masa
HumanTech Day 3
Current and Future Challenges in Shaping Human-Technology Relationships

The HumanTech Day 3, the annual event of the HumanTech Project dedicated to DIG Community, offers a key moment to take stock of our progress and reflect together on the challenges ahead in shaping human-technology relationships.
The event will feature two international keynote speakers and two collaborative sessions:
- the morning Meetup Sessions, dedicated to discussing work-in-progress papers
- the afternoon Parallel Workshops, focused on envisioning future research ideas to face the global Grand Challenges.
PROGRAMME
09:00-09:30 Registration of participants
Venue: Aula Magna Carassa e Dadda - BL28
09:30-10:00 Institutional greetings & presentation of ongoing HumanTech Program results
Prof. Raffaella Cagliano, Director, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
Prof. Federico Caniato, Program Manager, HumanTech Project
10:00-11:00 Keynote speech & Q&A
Prof. Gudela Grote, ETH Zürich
11:00-11:30 Coffee break & transfer to DIG classrooms
11:30-13:00 Meetup Sessions | Taking stock
Venue: DIG – BL26
13:00-14:00 Networking Lunch
Venue: Spazio Vetrato, Aula Magna - BL28
14:00-15:00 Keynote speech & Q&A
Prof. Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Venue: Aula Magna Carassa e Dadda - BL28
15:00-15:15 - Transfer to DIG classrooms
15:15-16:45 - Parallel Workshops | Looking beyond
Venue: DIG - BL26
16:45-17:00 Transfer back to Aula Magna Carassa e Dadda
17:00-18:00 Closing Plenary | Presentation of the research challenges identified and Thesis Award SoM4SdGs
Venue: Aula Magna Carassa e Dadda - BL28
18:00 Happy Hour
Venue: Spazio Vetrato, Aula Magna - BL28