On 30–31 October 2025, Prof. Igor Calzada participated in the 2nd International Conference on Digital Sovereignty (ICDS 2025), held at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) in Oslo, Norway. Acting both as session chair and presenter of two papers, Calzada contributed to a high-level dialogue...

On 27 October 2025, Prof. Igor Calzada delivered an invited talk at the Global Innovation Coop Summit (GICS) 2025, held in Torres Vedras, Portugal, within Workshop 2.3 dedicated to “Building a Global Cooperative Network in the Age of AI.” His presentation, titled: “Building a Global Cooperative...

Igor Calzada, with European colleagues, has recently co-edited the volume Multidisciplinary Movements in AI and Generative AI: Shaping Technology for Society, Business, and Education, published by Edward Elgar. The book, also discussed in ElgarBlog, brings together contributions that bridge artificial intelligence, economics, governance, and education...

Accepted Paper in Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy Title: Generative AI and the Urban AI Policy Challenges Ahead: Trustworthy for Whom?Journal: Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (Impact Factor: 2.6; CiteScore: 5.0)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/TG-08-2025-0240Accepted on: 12 October 2025License: CC BY-NC 4.0 This article examines the socio-technical, economic,...

🌐 Call for Abstracts: AAG 2026 Annual Meeting – San Francisco, California Session: Anticipatory AI Governance in Public Administrations Worldwide: Digital Inclusion, Territorial Innovation, and Datafied Democracies📅 Deadline: October 25, 2025📍 Event: AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA (17–21 March 2026)🔗 AAG2026 Organizers & Chairs: Prof. Igor Calzada,...

On 24 September 2025, Professor Igor Calzada contributed to the Cross-Party Group on Cooperatives and Mutuals at the Senedd Research, Welsh Parliament in Cardiff. Senedd10 This intervention followed a productive morning at Cardiff University’s Social Science Research Park (SPARK/SBARC), where he worked with colleagues from WISERD and...

Prof. Dr. Igor Calzada has contributed a chapter to the newly released Springer Nature volume Research and Innovation Forum 2024, edited by Anna Visvizi, Vincenzo Corvello, and Orlando Troisi. The chapter, titled "From Data-opolies to Decentralization? The AI Disruption Amid the Web3 Promiseland at Stake...