Speakers & Talks

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This is a list of the full line-up for the SysPrac25 Systems Thinking Practitioner’s Conference – two packed days of exploration, insight, and innovation in systems thinking practice.

Featured Talks, Panels & Workshops (A–Z by first presenter):

 

  • Chris Abbott – Building and Sustaining Complexity Capabilities in Public Service Organisations
  • Chris Abbott & Simon MacCormac – Making Missions (and Projects) Possible with Systems Thinking
  • Jaime Bainbridge – Ignoring the evidence? Systems Thinking on why we don't learn from building Performance
  • Nick Beech – Reshaping Risk Management to Deliver Critical Reforms in a Complex Environmental Organisation
  • Ollie Bream McIntosh – AI for Systems Change: The Promises and Pitfalls of Augmenting the Practice of Systemic Investing
  • Ken Carroll & Simon MacCormac – Collaboration and Complexity (Workshop)
  • Lauren Clarke – How Can Systems Thinking Help Tackle the High-Stakes Policy Challenge of Enabling Secure, Trusted International Collaboration in Academic Research?
  • Kevin Collins - Systems diagramming: Experiences of inviting people to draw
  • Dr Tim Curtis – Recursive Canvases in Management Consulting: Applied Systems Thinking or Not?
  • Carolina Cullington – Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) (Workshop)
  • Gareth David – Debunking the Agile Panacea – Using Systems Thinking to Explore Where Agile Will Work Well
  • Jan De Visch – Humanising Systems (Workshop)
  • Denis Fischbacher-Smith - A Titanic Syndrome? Information attenuation and the incubation of crises
  • Dr Anne Gambles – Thinking Differently Together: A Long-Lived Systemic Inquiry into Growing Colleagues’ Systems Thinking in Practice at The Open University
  • Jane Graham – How can we strengthen the connection between relational leadership and practice with systems thinking
  • Alison Guthrie-Wrenn – Opening Keynote The Machinery, the Mindset and the Mission: systems thinking in the machinery of Government and why it matters
  • Panel – Reflections and Questions: Alison Guthrie-Wrenn, Patrick Hoverstadt, Dr Mike Jackson, OBE & Dr Ray Ison
  • Timo Hämäläinen & Janne J. Korhonen – Complexity Governance: Structural and Cognitive Underpinnings of Adaptive Institutions
  • Patrick Hoverstadt – Viable System Model (VSM): Balancing Complexity (Workshop)
  • David Ing & Zaid Khan – Pacing Changes with Living Systems: Rhythmic Threads in Textures, Rhythmic Textures of Threads
  • Dr Ray Ison – Keynote Professionalising the Systems Thinking Practitioner: Navigating structure determinism?
  • Panel – The Future of Systems Thinking: Dr Mike Jackson, OBE & Patrick Hoverstadt
  • Mike Jones & Carla Owen – Patterns of Strategy (POS) (Workshop)
  • Gary Kass – Understanding the Impact of Sustainability Intermediaries in Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Louise Le Gat – Changing Mindsets (Workshop)
  • Simon MacCormac – Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) (Workshop)
  • Dr Xavier Matieni - Systems Thinking for Human-AI Collaboration: Navigating Complexity through Reflective Practice and Quantum Perspectives
  • Carla Owen & Nicola Reeves – How can a small charity make a meaningful impact on the entrenched, complex system of animal use in medical research?
  • Anca Popa – Overcoming Boundaries Between Stakeholders for Project Success
  • Nicola Reeves – I Wanted to Say “No” – Instead, I Said “Wait”
  • Dr Martin Reynolds – Towards ‘Requisite Systems Literacy’ for Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Challenges
  • Carola Ritzinger-Roll – Organisational control through cybernetic key performance indicator systems in medium-sized companies – a doctoral project
  • Gavin Roberts – Systems Leadership;  Systems Thinking Principles (Workshop)
  • Luke Roberts - Unleashing innovation from a Systems Practice perspective
  • Ian Rosam – Combining: digitisation, AI, big data and systems thinking to transform how audits are imagined and delivered to increase corporate value.
  • James Stauch – Navigating Problems, Revealing Systems, and Asking Beautiful Questions
  • Robin Stowell – Impacting profits and organisational performance through personnel availability
  • Ed Straw – Reflections on 50 years of seeing life through a systems thinking lens, covering government organisations and society
  • Benjamin Taylor – Systemic Consulting (Workshop)
  • Rosanna Thomasoo – Applying systems thinking approaches to promote the psychosocial well-being of children and young people with cancer and their families
  • Dr Matvei Tobman – Viable system model as an organisational framework for the integration of different AI applications within the healthcare organisations
  • Al Walker – Regulatory Strategy Design in the Construction Products Sector
  • Dr Kim Warren – System Dynamics (SD) (Workshop)
  • Tom Watson – Beyond the Tool Kit (Workshop)
  • Andrea Weierich – Building a flywheel with an IT leadership team - Using Vester's Sensitivity Model to improve IT application cost dynamics
  • Ed van der Winden & Vincent van der Lubbe – Systems Practice for Everyone – Simple, but Not Easy