This conference redefines how data, AI, and digital infrastructure transform environmental insight, action, and governance.

Step into the frontier of human–planet intelligence. This is where the systems that will shape our planetary future are imagined, contested, built and live. Co‑hosted by the University Digital Futures platform and the NERC Digital Solutions Hub, the event will begin with keynote from NVIDIA to mark the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem. This is a gathering of leading thinkers, technologists, researchers and policymakers co‑creating the digital fabric of the environment.

A conference that is also a movement. A place to belong to the community redefining how data, AI and digital infrastructure transform environmental insight, action and governance. Featuring a flagship panel bringing together global voices to debate what responsible, just and visionary digital futures should look like.

Explore breakthrough developments in:

• Digital infrastructure and planetary‑scale platforms
• Emerging AI and simulation models
• Radical integration of environmental, health and societal data
• Real‑world impact, policy futures and systems change

OPEN CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS

Interested in presenting your work at The Digital Environment Conference 2026?

We have an open call for presentations and posters. Please email Jade at digitalfutures@manchester.ac.uk with presentation/poster title and topic or area of research.

The open call for presentation or poster submissions deadline is Friday 27th February 2026.

Register your interest today — and help shape the digital environment we choose to build.

About Digital Futures:

Digital Futures is a highly interdisciplinary network that operates across the whole range of the University’s digital research. We aim to present a coherent overview of The University of Manchester's digital research activity to external stakeholders and bring together research communities to explore new research areas and address strategic opportunities.

About NERC Digital Solutions Hub:

Developing a Digital Hub and set of Toolkits that exploits environmental and other data (social, economic & health) to create innovative digital services that deliver economic, societal and environmental benefits across the UK.