This book features a collection of peer-reviewed papers that explore novel methods, tools, and applications ranging from health monitoring, flood detection, and thermal comfort optimization to autonomous robotics, Serbian-language question answering, workflow orchestration, and intelligent decision support. In recent years, emerging digital technologies have moved from being isolated drivers of innovation to becoming core enablers of resilient, adaptive, and data-driven societies. Advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, cyber-physical systems, digital twins, intelligent sensing, and large language models are transforming the way complex systems are monitored, optimized, and governed. At the same time, the increasing integration of digital intelligence into healthcare, water systems, energy infrastructures, industrial environments, and software ecosystems is redefining both the scope of technological progress and its societal impact. Beyond improving existing processes, these technologies are opening new possibilities for more sustainable, human-centered, and interconnected information societies.

Emerging Technologies Empowering the Information Society is the proceedings book of the 16th International Conference on Information Society and Technologies, bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines to present current advances in digital health, digital water, energy and industrial IoT, machine learning and computer vision, natural language processing and large language models, and software engineering. Together, this book highlights the growing capacity of emerging technologies to address real-world challenges, strengthen critical infrastructures, and empower the continuing evolution of the information society.