Conference on Technology Ethics (TETHICS) has for seven years now provided a platform for presenting and discussing theoretical and applied research on ethics and information technology.

We invite researchers, professionals, students, and other stakeholders interested in technology ethics to the 8th annual Conference on Technology Ethics (TETHICS 202) organized in Vaasa, Finland on 11.–12.11.2025.

The key aim of TETHICS2025 is to provide researchers and other stakeholders an academic yet a casual environment to present research, discuss ethical challenges and opportunities related to technology.

Call for papers

Organizing Committee:

Ville Vakkuri (University of Vaasa)
Conference co-chair
Tero Vartiainen (University of Vaasa)
Conference co-chair

Juho-Pekka Mäkipää (University of Vaasa)
Program co-chair
Kai-Kristian Kemell (Tampere University)
Program co-chair

Minna Rantanen (University of Jyväskylä)
Posters co-chair

Student Volunteers Chair
TBA

Rachael Garrett

Exploring the Felt Dimensions of Ethics and Technology

This talk explores the value of felt, somatic, and embodied perspectives on ethics in human-computer interaction. It presents two case studies where dancers and artists explored the ethics of our relationships with robots and discusses how a felt perspective can generate deeper understandings of our ethical practices as well as considering how technologies might be designed to relate to our bodies in ethical ways. It argues that a richer understanding of ethics lies, not only in rationalist exposition, but in a critical attentiveness to how ethics are experienced by bodies closely entangled with technologies.

Rachael Garrett is a PhD Candidate at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and a Research Associate on the World Leading Turing AI Fellowship Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI. Her work is situated at intersection of design, ethics, and autonomous technologies, focusing on the felt and embodied practice of ethics within soma design, research through design and performance-led research approaches, as well as physical or proximate interactions with autonomous technologies such as machines, robots and aerial drones.

Kai Kimppa

Ethics and Information Technology Research in Finland: The Past, the Present, and the Future

In this keynote, Adjunct Professor, University Research Fellow, PhD, Kai K. Kimppa will go through the history of IT and Ethics in Finland, where we currently are and where we are headed (although forecasting, especially the future, is difficult, very difficult). The talk will start with the pioneers of IT and Ethics in Finland, go through the building and dispersion of various research groups on the topic to the current situation, and especially the lack of consistent IT and Ethics teaching in Finland. The late development of Large Language Models, such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok amongst others has brought the Ethics of IT, especially in relation to AI to the forefront. But where-to, from here, goeth thee, IT and Ethics?