In 2013, AFinLA's annual autumn symposium was held in Turku. The theme of the symposium was Language users of tomorrow. During the symposium, the theme was approached from many perspectives. This article focuses on the general theme of the symposium and intoduces the articles included in this publication. We discuss language users of tomorrow from three perspectives: immigrants and language, multilingualism and new communication technologies with respect to second language learning. For instance, multilingual immigrants are a potential resource for Finnish society at large. It is also important to consider new technologies and digital environments, which have challenged traditional approaches to language skills: which skills are needed to read write? As language users of tomorrow may also need to master formal languages, more research is needed on the teaching and learning of formal pragramming languages.