Autumn 2025 Newsletter 🍂

Welcome to our Autumn newsletter! 🍂

In this edition:

🪢 Designing for collaborations 

🌐 Building tech for good

🎉 Celebrating ecosystem wins

🤝 Alkemio in the community 

📅 Upcoming Events 

🤔 Getting us thinking..

🏖️ Our new website 

🚀 Platform updates 

Have you tried Alkemio recently? 🪄

Since you last heard from our product team, we've been hard at work to implement your feedback into designing a platform that easily facilitates your collaboration and also gives users a smooth experience. In this newsletter, we cover our thinking behind the new features and a round-up of our activities. 

🪢 Designing for multi-stakeholder collaborations 

Struggling to keep multi-stakeholder collaborations on track? Our latest blog explores why many partnerships stall and how Alkemio provides a structured, transparent, and adaptive framework to drive collective success. Discover how to turn shared goals into lasting impact. Read our blog here. 

🌐 Theory and practice of responsible technology

At Alkemio, it is important to build technology that users trust, not just adopt. This article highlights elements of a practical playbook for the growing responsible technology movement that embeds agency, privacy, interoperability, transparency, and equity from governance to user experience, through stories and examples. Read our blog here. 

🎉 Celebrating wins in our ecosystem 

1. Our partner, the Startup in Residence Intergov, released their "playbook" to enable smarter collaboration between government and startups. Their work has been shortlisted for the final of the European Enterprise Promotion Awards, which recognises inspiring entrepreneurship initiatives. Congratulations to the team. Details here. 

2. Scaling new innovations is often difficult, and exactly what Digicampus will tackle in their new initiative, ‘Opschalingstickets’. Different stakeholders will collaborate across organisational boundaries and develop solutions that can be scaled across the country. Alkemio will be a part of this journey, providing a digital platform to allow all stakeholders to coordinate and align. Read about their kick-off event.

🤝 Alkemio in the community

1. Our CEO, Neil Smyth, returned from the biggest steward-ownership conference, SO:25, organised by Purpose in Berlin, energised and grateful. Since the last conference, the steward‑ownership movement has matured, and the conference brought together a standout Dutch delegation. A proud moment: seeing Alkemio on the S-O history wall. Read his reflections here. 

2. On October 30, the Alkemio team was at Fokker Terminal in our home town to attend the 10th annual ImpactFest. In addition to wonderful conversations exploring how our digital infrastructure can support the many multi-stakeholder collaborations required to address the challenges of our time, we focused our energies on advocating for our governance model, steward-ownership, and sharing learnings.

3. Alkemio joined the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Trust Conference in London. After two days with leaders from media, business, philanthropy, and research, we were impressed by the momentum around public-interest AI and its potential to turn values into practice. 

📅 Upcoming Events 

Where to find Alkemio in the coming weeks

1. SaaS Summit Benelux | Amsterdam, NL | November 4, 2025

2. Summit on European Digital Sovereignty | Berlin, DE | November 18, 2025

3. Digital Commons Policy Summit | Brussels, BE | November 20-21, 2025

🤔 Getting us thinking..

We asked the Alkemio team to share content that caught their attention. Here are three we enjoyed:

1. Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable | New_ Public

2. We’re doing AI all wrong. Here’s how to get it right | TED 

3. What relational tech do we need? | Relational Tech Project

🏖️Have you seen our refreshed website? 

Yes, we heard you and appreciate your feedback. 

Based on discussions and inputs from our customers, partners, and supporters, we revamped the Alkemio website. In our renewed communications, we placed greater emphasis on our product offering and introduced clear solutions that are best suited for the platform. Please check it out and send us your thoughts here. 

🚀 Platform Updates

Over the past season, we’ve focused on helping you stay more connected to what’s happening in your communities, make video calls directly from your Space, and collaborate more smoothly across the platform.

You can now receive notifications directly in Alkemio. In your Settings, you decide which updates you want to receive, giving you more control over how and when you stay informed.

Video calling is now available through Jitsi integration. You can add a video room to your Space or Subspace, making it easier to meet and collaborate. Jitsi is an open-source tool that supports lightweight, privacy-conscious communication.

You can also experiment with promptable Virtual Contributors. Starting a VC with a prompt helps shape its responses to better fit your context. We have also improved the UI on Posts with Contributions, making it easier for users to switch between Contributions within a Post and assess them more efficiently.

And finally, we’ve made meaningful improvements to accessibility across the platform, making it easier for everyone to navigate and engage. 

Jump back into Alkemio to explore what’s new.  Check out the full details 👉 Read more here.