Systems Management Conference 2025 (hybrid event)

UK Systems Society Hybrid Conference 2025

Outline of the programme
Coffee available in Denis Scharmer Building from 8:30
Registration 09:00 - 10:15
10:30 am Formal Welcome and Introduction to the Day Professor Frank Stowell
Plenary 10:45 – 11:30 Professor Nigel Williams
Systems Practice and Theory and interdisciplinarity (topic to be confirmed)
11:30-12:30 Presentations
11:30 -11:45 Saminda Wattuhewa and Nalika Danthasinghe,
Developing the Curriculum- examples and Benefits of Cross disciplinarity
11:45-12:00 Elisabeth Inyang et al,
Challenges and opportunities for systems transformation in transdisciplinary collaboration: findings from the GALLANT city university project
12:00 -12:15 Gary Evans & Petter Ogland,
Integrated Systems Pedagogy: Not adding but integrating systems thinking into the educational curriculum
12:15 -12:30 Lawrence Reavil,
Extending cross-disciplinary open systems analysis to the performing arts
Lunch 12:30 -13:15 -buffet lunch
Plenary 13:15 – 14:00 Tammi Sinha – Systems Thinking and serious play! is this the answer?
14:00 -14:45 Lego workshops
14:45 -15:00 Afternoon break tea/coffee/soft drinks
15:00-16:45 Presentations
15:00-15:15 Johnathan Lee et al
Analysing the potential for devolved power in Glasgow using spatially grounded NK model
15:15 -15:30 Eustathious Triantafellou et al,
Adaptive resilience in complex systems using explainable artificial intelligence
15:30-15:45 Cardong Shi,
A further optimisation for interoperability model adaptations in IoT: a case study on EV charging.
15:45-16:00 Gary Evans,
To what extent can Z score measure systems performance?
16:00-16:15 Julian de Villez,
Rational thinking and learning in small, exciting, wicked projects using soft systems methodologies
16:15-16:30 Christine Welch,
The Impact of Automation in legal practice
16:30-16:45 FAS, Soft Inquiry and the importance of above and below the line to the practice
16:45 -17:30 round table discussion soft systems and its pitfalls
17:30 -18:00 UK Systems Society AGM –including elections -discussions wrt the elections for UKSS management committee how to proceed.

Conference ends

Online link to join will be posted here nearer to the date