On 19 October, ESSI welcomed around 20 researchers and practitioners to the 5th ESSI webinar on the relationship between social innovation and digital innovation with the title: Harnessing the benefits of AI, Industry 5.0 and other digital innovations – more opportunities but also more challenges for social innovations?

ESSI Managing Director Antonius Schröder (TU Dortmund University) welcomed the participants and the presenters. Monica Edwards-Schachter (Consultant & trainer. Founder of monValu) started with a presentation about the power of social innovation in the age of industry 5.0 and AI. Ursula Holtgrewe (ZSI), Mikkel Barslund and Karolien Lenaerts (KU Leuven) continued with a presentation featuring a discussion of two case studies conducted within Project UNTANGLED that looked into how the introduction of innovative solutions impacts workers. Ralf Kopp (TU Dortmund) supported the webinar as a discussant.