DTS2027 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Digital transformation was once understood primarily as something organizations did. Firms adopted technologies, redesigned processes, developed digital capabilities, and reinvented business models. Technologies were viewed as powerful tools that enabled organizations to become more efficient, innovative, and competitive. Organizations remained the principal actors: they decided what to adopt, how to deploy it, and for which purposes.

That distinction is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain.

Digital technologies no longer simply support organizational action. They recommend, rank, generate, predict, negotiate, classify, coordinate, monitor, simulate, and increasingly act. Artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, robotics, quantum technologies, digital twins, synthetic data, immersive environments, and intelligent infrastructures are reshaping not only organizational processes, but also how knowledge is produced, decisions are made, authority is exercised, value is created, and responsibility is distributed. Increasingly, digital technologies participate in organizing organizations and, to some extent, those who work within them.