Welcome back! It’s been an interesting and eventful beginning of the year. Here’s hoping the remaining 11 months will take us at least slightly closer to life as we used to know it.
This edition of FutuConnect features another selection of articles from various different areas of interest. Among other things, we’ll offer you a closer look at how we recently co-created our technology strategy as well as our no-nonsense, down-to-earth tech trend report for 2021–2022. We’ll also share what we’ve learned about caring for our community in remote mode during last year, and what happened when we gave a high-school student the opportunity to become CEO of Futurice for a day as part of #GirlsTakeover in cooperation with Plan International.
We’ll be back with another information-packed edition in February – stay tuned!
There’s a new disruption brewing in the energy industry, as energy communities and decentralized energy markets enable prosumers and companies to become less reliant on traditional energy suppliers. Futurice’s energy expert Jan Herrmann takes a closer look at what this shift will mean for the industry value chain.
Over the past few months, we’ve put together a no-nonsense technology trend report that focuses on the developments and trends in tech that are happening right now. Instead of looking 10 or 15 years into the future, it covers things that will have an impact on the daily life of software engineers, data scientists and architects in the immediate future. Take a look!
Bringing people together has always been one of our strong suits – at offices, events, workshops, casual afterworks and in many other ways. When the pandemic hit, we, like everyone else, faced a totally new world and had to rethink how we care for and embrace our community. Milla Ryhtä shares what 2020 taught us about building community spirit.
Below is a selection of upcoming webinars, remote events and courses hosted by Futurice in the coming weeks. Spot anything interesting? Sign up today!
Sales Development 101 10 February – Learn how to increase your sales team’s efficiency and build scalable automated sales processes. This webinar is brought to you by our friends at Columbia Road, a Futurice family company.
Baden-Württemberg’s Bets for the Future 11 February – Tuğberk Duman and Emile Stoverinck discuss technologies that will have a considerable impact on the future of various industries and businesses, particularly those in the Baden-Württemberg region in Germany.
Last fall, we set out to co-create our own technology strategy. We took a highly participatory and inclusive approach that involved dozens of people within the company – but we still managed to keep it lean and complete it in under three months. How? Jussi Hacklin tells us all about it in his blog post!
Last October, in an effort to improve gender diversity in STEM, we took part in Plan International’s Girls Takeover and put Jessica Komulainen, an 18-year-old high school student from Sotkamo, Finland, in the driving seat to be CEO for the day. Read more about the day in this Forbes article – and check out our blog post on the topic as well!
Our FutuStories blog series highlights the individuals that make up our company. The posts give our employees an opportunity to discuss their career stories and experiences at Futurice, and share what they’ve learned along the way. This month, we’re featuring an interview with Bence Ágoston, a Junior Designer based in Stuttgart!