This is the schedule of the full two day conference.
DAY ONE
| Location | |||||
| Time | Juniper/Medler | Hub Theatre | CMR 1 (ground) | CMR 15 | CMR 11 |
| 0830 - 0930 | Networking/ Registration | ||||
| 0930-1000 | Conference Welcome | ||||
| 1000 - 1045 | Opening Keynote The Machinery, the Mindset and the Mission: systems thinking in the machinery of Government and why it matters | ||||
| 1045 - 1115 | Break | ||||
| 1115 - 1140 | Dr Xavier Matieni Systems Thinking for Human-AI Collaboration: Navigating Complexity through Reflective Practice and Quantum Perspectives | Ed Straw Reflections on 50 years of seeing life through a systems thinking lens, covering government organisations and society | Workshop 1 Simon MacCormac Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) | Workshop 2 Louise Le Gat Changing Mindsets | |
| 1140 - 1205 | Matvei Tobman Viable system model as an organisational framework for the integration of different AI applications within the healthcare organisations | Denis Fischbacher-Smith A Titanic Syndrome? Information attenuation and the incubation of crises | |||
| 1205 - 1230 | Ollie Bream-McIntosh AI for Systems Change: The Promises and Pitfalls of Augmenting the Practice of Systemic Investing | Lauren Clarke How can systems thinking help tackle the high-stakes policy challenge of enabling secure, trusted international collaboration in academic research? | |||
| 1230 - 1245 | Q&A | Q&A | |||
| 1245-1345 | Lunch | ||||
| 1345 - 1410 | David Ing & Zaid Khan Pacing Changes with Living Systems: Rhythmic threads in textures, rhythmic textures of threads | Chris Abbott Building and Sustaining Complexity Capabilities in Public Service Organisations | Workshop 3 Mike Jones and Carla Owens Patterns of Strategy (POS) | Workshop 4 Jan De Visch Humanising Systems | |
| 1410 - 1435 | Timo Hämäläinen & Janne J. Korhonen Complexity Governance: Structural and Cognitive Underpinnings of Adaptive Institutions | Carola Ritzinger-Roll Organisational control through cybernetic key performance indicator systems in medium-sized companies – a doctoral project | |||
| 1435 - 1500 | Jane Graham How can we strengthen the connection between relational leadership and practice with systems thinking | Rosanna Thomasoo Applying systems thinking approaches to promote the psychosocial well-being of children and young people with cancer and their families. | |||
| 1500 - 1515 | Q&A | Q&A | |||
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Break | ||||
| 1545 - 1555 | Student Panel Lucy Loh Memorial Prize | Workshop 5 Carolina Cullington Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) | Jam Session Multi-Discipline Q&A | ||
| 1555 - 1610 | Jaime Bainbridge Ignoring the evidence? Systems Thinking on why we don't learn from building Performance | ||||
| 1610 - 1620 | Robin Stowell Impacting profits and organisational performance through personnel availability | ||||
| 1620 -1630 | Q&A | ||||
| 16:30 -16:45 | Refreshment break prior to Keynote | ||||
| 16:45 -17:30 | Fireside chat: Dr Mike Jackson & Patrick Hoverstadt The Future of Systems Thinking DAY ONE CLOSE | ||||
| 1730 - 1830 | SCiO Members AGM | ||||
DAY TWO
| Location | |||||
| Time | Juniper/Medler | Hub Theatre | CMR 1 (ground) | CMR 15 | CMR 11 |
| 08:30 - 09:15 | Arrival/Networking | ||||
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Keynote Professionalising the Systems Thinking Practitioner: Navigating structure determinism? | ||||
| 1000 - 1030 | Break | ||||
| 1030 - 1055 | Gareth David Debunking the Agile panacea - using Systems Thinking to explore where Agile will work well | Dr Tim Curtis Recursive canvases in management consulting: applied systems thinking or not? | Workshop 6 Patrick Hoverstadt Viable System Model (VSM) - Balancing Complexity | Workshop 7 Benjamin Taylor Systemic Consulting | |
| 1055 - 1120 | Simon MacCormac & Chris Abbott Making Missions Possible with Systems Thinking | James Stauch Navigating problems, revealing systems, and asking beautiful questions in a radically shifting world | |||
| 1120 - 1145 | Anca Popa Overcoming the boundaries between stakeholders for project success | Ed van der Winden & Vincent van der Lubbe Systems practice for everyone – simple, but not easy | |||
| 1145 - 1200 | Q&A | Q&A | |||
| 1200 - 1300 | Lunch | ||||
| 1300 - 1325 | Gavin Roberts Systems Leadership | Gary Kass Understanding impact of sustainability intermediaries in a complex adaptive system | Workshop 8 Ken Carroll & Simon MacCormac Collaboration and Complexity | Workshop 9 Kim Warren System Dynamics (SD) | |
| 1325 - 1350 | Andrea Weierich Building a flywheel with an IT leadership team - Using Vester's Sensitivity Model to improve IT application cost dynamics | Kevin Collins Systems diagramming: Experiences of inviting people to draw | |||
| 1350 - 1415 | Carla Owen and Nicola Reeves How can a small charity make a meaningful impact on the entrenched, complex system of animal use in medical research? | Martin Reynolds Towards ‘requisite systems literacy’ for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary challenges | |||
| 1415 - 1430 | Q&A | Q&A | |||
| 14:30–15:00 | Break | ||||
| 1500 - 1510 | Anne Gambles Thinking Differently Together: A Long-Lived Systemic Inquiry into Growing Colleagues’ Systems Thinking in Practice at The Open University | Nicola Reeves I wanted to say “no” – instead, I said “wait” | Workshop 10 Gavin Roberts Systems Thinking Principles | Workshop 11 Tom Watson Beyond the Tool Kit | |
| 1510 - 1520 | Al Walker Regulatory Strategy Design in the Construction Products Sector | ||||
| 1520 - 1530 | Luke Roberts Unleashing innovation from a Systems Practice perspective | Nick Beech Reshaping Risk Management to Deliver Critical Reforms in a Complex Environmental Organisation | |||
| 15-30 - 1545 | Q&A | ||||
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Refreshment break prior to Keynote | ||||
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Panel Discussion Dr Mike Jackson, Patrick Hoverstadt, Alison Guthrie - Wrenn & Ray Ison Reflections and Questions | ||||
| 16:45-17:30 | Award Ceremony Lucy Loh Memorial Prize Conference Close | ||||