SCHEDULE
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DAY 1
| Time 0830 - | Registration & Networking |
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0930- 1000 | Conference Welcome | |||||||
| 1000 - 1045 | Opening Panel Auditorium Learning Systems Practice Alison Guthrie-Wrenn, Gavin Roberts, Sacha Girling | |||||||
| 1045 - 1115 | Break (30 mins) | |||||||
| Room | LR3 | LR6 | LR2 | LR4 | LR1 | |||
| 1115 - 1140 | Simon MacCormac & John Rogers Getting into the Mess | Gordon Niven Variety Calculus: Cybernetic Methodology | Virginia de La Hamayde Editing the system, not the document: applying systems thinking to annual report production in large public organisations | Workshop 1 Jan De Visch Humanising Systems | Workshop 2 De-Misting Critical Systems Heuristics | |||
| 1140 - 1205 | Sacha Girling Square Pegs, Round Holes, and Rich Pictures: Following the Situation Rather than the Method | Kai-Uwe Radde Internalized Liabilities (obvious but invisible) | Pauline Craig/Macmillan Applying systems thinking to support people living with cancer | |||||
| 1205 - 1230 | Gavin Roberts Practice in the real world | Helena Elisabeth Gallbo Qualitative Differences in Attenuators: Country office to headquarters signalling in international companies | Dave Hall What happens when a Governance Review becomes an inquiry into how an institution learns, decides, adapts and legitimises itself? | |||||
| 1230 - 1245 | Q&A | Q&A | Q&A | |||||
1245- 1345 | Lunch ( 60 mins) | |||||||
| 1345 - 1410 | Olivia Horgan Conditions of Perception: What Embodied Experience Reveals About Systems Practice Under Pressure | Jan De Visch Beyond Sustainability | Workshop 3 Xavier Matieni From Systems Thinking to Systems Judgement: Exploring a Neglected Capability in Management Practice | Workshop 4 development clinic | Workshop 5 Simon MacCormac & Patrick Hoverstadt | |||
| 1410 - 1435 | Steve Whitla Systems, purpose and the pursuit of shared meaning | Benjamin Wood Closing the Loop: The Participatory and Cybernetic Founding of SCiO in North America | ||||||
| 1435 - 1500 | Keiron Beardmore System Shapes, Orbital Perspectives and Spheres | Louis Klein Realising the Learning Organisation - | ||||||
| 1500 - 1515 | Q&A | Q&A | ||||||
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Break ( 30 mins) | |||||||
| 1545 – 1610 | Denis Fischbacher-Smith How did it come to this? | Justin Beirold Embedding Systems Thinking at Innovate UK Business Connect: Industrial Strategy, Technology and Innovation Ecosystems | Workshop 6 Takiyah Butler Bridge gap between individual agency and whole system transformation | Workshop 7 Gavin Roberts Systemic Leadership | Workshop 8
Tim Curtis | |||
| 1610 – 1635 | Mark Workman The application of Deep Uncertainty approaches for strategy design in possible dynamic, high dimensional futures | Nick Beech Viable Futures - Cybernetic governance, imagination and many worlds
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| 1635 - 1700 | Edward Hilton From a Search for Intrinsic Value to Persistent Systems: The Deductive Development of TEQR | Bridie Collins Closing the Loop: reflections on developing system change within a local government setting | ||||||
| 1700-1715 | Q&A | Q&A | ||||||
| 1715 -1730 | Break ( 15 mins ) | |||||||
1730 – 1800 | Fireside chat Auditorium From misfits to System shifts DAY ONE CLOSE | |||||||
| 1800 - 1900 | SCiO Members AGM | |||||||
| 19.30 | Dinner | |||||||
DAY 2
| Time 08:30 - | Arrival & Networking | |||||
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Panel Auditorium Building Systems Thinking capability for Governments Alison Guthrie-Wrenn, Gary Kass, Simon MacCormac, Nick Beech | |||||
| 1000 - 1030 | Break ( 30 mins ) | |||||
| Room | LR3 | LR6 | LR2 | LR4 | LR1 | |
| 1030 - 1055 | Joan Lurie From Linear Transformation to 4D System Looping | Mike Bourne Governance of Complex Projects | Meriel Davies Exploring Systems Thinking in Supply Chain Management | Workshop 9
| Workshop 10 Patrick Hoverstadt Viable System Model (VSM) - Balancing Complexity | |
| 1055 - 1120 | Janne J. Korhonen What Happens When Nothing Happens? A Metabolic Perspective on Organizational Change | Anne Gambles Seeing services as systems: what does it mean to design services | Carola Ritzinger-Roll From viability to measurability – Designing governance structures in highly complex and regulated organisational contexts | |||
| 1120 - 1145 | Anca Popa Patterns of systemic relationships in change programmes | Timo J. Hämäläinen Ten complexity governance principles | Jon Elphick Mind the Gap…. in Weltanschauung | |||
| 1145 - 1200 | Q&A | Q&A | Q&A | |||
| 1200 - 1300 | Lunch ( 60 mins) | |||||
| 1300 - 1325 | Kim Warren Implementing the Self-Managing Enterprise with Agentic AI | Roelien Goede Reporting of a CSH Project | Lesley Rowan VSM - starting with a blank piece of paper | Workshop 11 Louise Le Gat | Workshop 12
Carla Owen & Gavin Roberts Systems Laws | |
| 1325 - 1350 | Ivo Velitchkov The Second Law of Technodynamics | Simon Gough Network Analysis and Boundary Critique | Max Shen Reducing Complexity or Relocating It? Applying VSM to NHS England’s Transition into DHSC | |||
| 1350 - 1415 | Patrick Hoverstadt & Ed Straw 42 – Addressing societal level policy problems with systems Principles | Claire Tanton System Asset or Organisation Dataset? Ethical Service User Engagement in Systems Practice | John Mortimer What we can learn from the success and failure of systemic change. | |||
| 1415 - 1430 | Q&A | Q&A | Q&A | |||
14:30– 15:00 | Break ( 30 mins ) | |||||
| 1500 - 1525 | Tim Whitcher Systems in Symmetry: Symmetry in Systems | Melissa Dawson Adapting How We Practice in a Constantly Changing Working Environment | Workshop 13
Charis Lüdtke
Cultivating a Systems Mindset for Circular Value Chains | Workshop 14 From Complexity Theory to Interaction Design: Designing for Emergence with Liberating Structures | Workshop 15 Kim Warren System Dynamics (SD) | |
| 1525 - 1550 | Esmee Wilcox How might understanding tempo help systemic action in government-community interactions? | Christine McNeal Applying Soft Systems Methodology to Review Adult Skills Funding: Lessons from a First-Time Practitioner | ||||
| 1550 – 1615 | Louie Gardiner Symmathesic Agency | Virginia de La Hamayde, Jessica Britton, Mel Harris & Tash Koerner Apprentices without masters: Building systems thinking practice capability | ||||
| 1615- 1630 | Q&A | Q&A | ||||
| 1630- 16:45 | Break ( 15 mins ) | |||||
16:45 – 17.30 | Panel Discussion Auditorium Simon MacCormac, Patrick Hoverstadt, Alison Guthrie-Wrenn & Gary Kass | |||||