2024 Washington DC Speakers and Schedule

The hybrid meeting was held both online and in person at the Open Gov Hub - 1100 13th St NW, STE 800, Washington, DC 20005   Dates: 9 – 13 June 2024  
 
The conference was followed by a one-day workshop on cybernetics and governance on June 14th. This was followed by the American Society for Cybernetics Meeting from June 15 to 19 and the Archetypes conference from June 15 to 18, all in Washington, D.C.
 
 

 

 

The recordings are presented in thematic groups on the members' conference page. Please click here to view them. The purpose of the thematic groupings is to 1) cluster and focus attention on the society's current main interests and 2) to help connect the related silos of the work and special interest groups. With about 50 talks the average size of each of the five groups is around 10, so that people can browse one group then another.

 
The theme for the conference was influence and responsibility. We all have our spheres of influence. As systems scientists, we have a responsibility to let others know about the work we do. The world is a troubled place, and organizations are trying to navigate in a complex context. Successful navigation partly depends on having good conceptual tools that are suited to meet the challenges. Institutions and organizations have the responsibility to be as well informed as possible about systems science, cybernetics, and complexity theory, at the very least. As a species, we cannot afford to make too many more mistakes. 

Stuart Umpleby is Professor Emeritus of Management at George Washington University.  He is a past president of the American Society for Cybernetics.  He served as president of the Executive Committee of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, an honor society.  As a student, he studied with Heinz von  Foerster and Ross  Ashby at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.  He attended many meetings of the European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research in Vienna, Austria.

His website is blogs.gwu.edu/umpleby

 

 

 

 

 

 

Departamento de Economía, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico Administrativas
Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco, México

 

 

The Socio environmental information system for sustainability and democracy.

 

A systemic experiment for applied public policy. The socio-environmental collapse of the upper basin of the Santiago River, where one of the industrial and agricultural export centers of the country is located, has created the context for the application of alternative adaptation and remediation strategies. We present an exercise in political and academic activism based on trans-disciplinary, uncertainty and systemic issues.

 

Prof. Dr Dorien DeTombe is the founder and chair of the field Methodology for Societal Complexity. She developed the Compram Methodology for political decision-making on complex societal issues like sustainable development, terrorism, credit crisis, climate change, floods, traffic, healthcare, COVID-19, HIV/Aids, and water affairs. The Compram Methodology is advised by the OECD to handle Global Safety. She studied social science and computer science. Her doctorate is in Methodology for Societal Complexity. She spent her main career at Utrecht University and Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands and has since 2015 connected with Sichuan University, Chengdu, P.R. China, and since 2023, she has research professor at the University of Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia. She is a facilitator of many workshops on complexity.  She published many books and more than 150 articles. She gives lectures and workshops as a Visiting Professor and Conferences all over the world. She organizes yearly conferences and is the editor of many journals. She is on the board of many research groups and established a worldwide research network on the International Society on Methodology of Societal Complexity. 

 

 

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Hrvoj Vančik - Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
University of Zagreb, Croatia