EPIC2025 | September 16-19
Helsinki
Join the essential international conference of practitioners using an ethnographic lens for sensemaking and transformation.
A global community of innovators, researchers and designers.
EPIC People work across all sectors and industries to help organizations make strategic decisions, create value, and navigate uncertainty. This year we explore Intelligences—the multiple, collective, and distributed capabilities of social, technical, business, and environmental systems.
About EPIC
“It truly takes a special community to create such a unique conference.”
– EPIC Member & attendee
Opening Keynote
Meet Peter Sarlin – co-founder & CVP of AMD Silo AI, and co-lead of Europe’s largest open-source AI initiative.
Intelligences
Deeper engagement with multiple intelligences has critical strategic value for organizations and communities.
Aalto University
The EPIC2025 conference venue is Dipoli, the beautiful and iconic heart of Aalto University. This stunning building is a masterpiece of organic architecture, reflecting the integration of nature and innovation that makes Helsinki one of the world’s great design cities.
“The challenges facing our organizations call for innovation that is rooted in deep cultural understanding of the people we serve. EPIC is the conference that has helped me the most in learning about the approaches, methods, and frameworks to achieve that understanding.”
“EPIC is a dynamic community where researchers get a unique opportunity to engage across sectors, borders and institutions. Every time I attend EPIC events I come away inspired to push the boundaries and status quo of what research practice is and can be for the people we serve.”
“EPIC pulls us to the living edge of ethnography, design and data science where we sit in ‘sistercraft’ over-indexing on human(ity) centered design because, well, that’s the only way forward.”
“Always insightful, immediately applicable, and delightfully provocative, EPIC gives us the knowledge and networks we need to be strong voices for people most affected by future technology.”
More from EPIC
Year-Round Events
Join us for Learning Week, meet-ups, courses, and other events all year.
Job Board
Permanent and contract opportunities posted by hiring managers looking for ethnographic expertise.
Community
We build expertise and skills, find inspiration and diverse perspectives, and rise to new challenges.