From October 29-30, CETAPS’s digital lab in Porto hosted our first meeting of a two-day conference on digital humanities. We welcomed two other digital labs from around Europe and provided three hands-on workshops. Held in the faculty of arts and humanities at the University of Porto, the event was a wonderful example of uniting digital technologies and their future in humanistic disciplines. 
Our summit hosted three digital labs, each showcasing different viewpoints on digital humanities. The first workshop was conducted by Nils Geißler, the research assistant at CCeH (https://cceh.uni-koeln.de/en/) who presented the ways of interpreting and visualising complex data sets in humanities, followed by our JAARA’s team and their presentation of Digital Humanities Insights into the Field of Feminist Utopian Criticism, using repository and Arus database. Last, but not least we were honoured by Federico Boschetti, the researcher at the CNR-institute of computational linguistics (https://www.ilc.cnr.it/en/) from Venice and his workshop about using digital tools in text analysis techniques. Over the two days, participants gained practical knowledge of different digital lab work and participated in hands-on activities.
A few themes emerged during the conference, one of which being most significant, namely Collaboration. It was clear that separate digital labs have done amazing work with the limited resources they are presented to, yet the conference showed that they can unite their knowledge, experience, and resources contributing to creating something much bigger. The event also reminded us of the ongoing dialogue between technical skills and humanities expertise. And again the conference prompted the eternal question of the need of human resources for humanities discipline to work or not. It sparked lively conversations on what to do in the era of artificial intelligence, and how we as teachers and researchers should be dealing with it. The discussion ended with a take-home message: Are there any ways we can teach to use artificial intelligence, instead of forbidding them in our classrooms. Are there any ways to use artificial intelligent productively in our research? 
Reflecting on the conference, I felt particularly happy about the involvement of young researchers in the actual discussion. As a new voice, we have lots to say, yet usually, this is overshadowed by the expertise. The conference gave us space to discuss our own concerns while getting responses based on years of experience by experts like Carlos Ceia and Fatima Vieira.
As the conference wrapped up, it was clear that these discussions and workshops had only scratched the surface of what’s possible in digital humanities. Events like this are invaluable—not only did they allow us to explore the work of other digital labs, but they also sparked collaborative opportunities across three labs from three different countries. Keep an eye out for more updates as our digital humanities community continues to grow and innovate together!