#Re_d Rethink Digital Fest

The event took place on 23–24 October 2025.

About the event

The 4th edition of Re_d Rethink Digital Fest is the Łódź SEZ technology festival on digital transformation in the service of people, prepared with strategic partners: the European Space Agency and Filmteractive Festival. On the first day three thematic stages ran: Space Tech, Digital Economy and Creative, with over 50 speakers and around 500 participants, while the festival zones offered more than 30 technology demonstrations, sustainable design by Tomasz Armada, startup consultations with investment funds and an overview of funding sources for digitalisation. The festival was opened by Łódź SEZ President Tomasz Sadzyński, MP Paweł Bliźniuk, Regional Assembly Chair Małgorzata Grabarczyk, Olgierd Cygan of Future.Company and Bahaaeddin Alhaddad of ESA, and Artur Kurasiński gave the keynote "Technophobia". The University of Łódź presented the Polish language model PLLUM, and in the Space Pitching Arena competition satellite startups competed for a PLN 200,000 grant and ESA mentoring: DEPOTracer won and KopterSoft received a distinction. The second day featured a Technology Business Mixer, workshops on technology readiness levels with the Horizontal Contact Point and Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego, film workshops with the Łódź Film School and a VR workshop by Hutchinson Institute.

Video report from the previous edition (2024)