SWISSED – Swiss Systems Engineering Day
2025-09-15 | Lake Side,, Bellerivestrasse 170, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland
Join us at the beautiful Lakeside venue in Zürich as we explore the theme “Stories Experienced”.
SWISSED25 is a forum for participants share current and future practices across systems engineering domains, learn from leading systems engineering practitioners and academics and expand their network.
Conference start 09:00, doors open 08:00. More information see https://www.ssse.ch/swissed. Can’t join us in person? We’ve got you covered. All presentations will be broadcast live, offering a high-quality, TV-like viewing experience. While remote viewers won’t be able to interact or participate directly, you can still follow the full conference program in real-time from the comfort of your home or office.
New this year: We are offering a limited number of seats for the official INCOSE ASEP/CSEP certification exam — as part of your conference experience. This is a unique opportunity to earn your Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) certification. Seats are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Volunteer Sprint & Networking: Bibliography Support
2025-10-23 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Join the Bibliography Sprint & Networking Session
Help us strengthen our community’s bibliography! In just 40 minutes, you’ll work on an essential task: checking and verifying author names in our records. This effort ensures that works are properly attributed, makes research easier to find, and supports valuable analysis of authorship and connections within our field.
Who knows—you may even discover that your own work is listed and in need of an update!
After the sprint, stay for 20 minutes of networking to connect with fellow volunteers and community members.
Be part of this focused, collaborative effort that combines impact, discovery, and connection.

2026 Conference: Systems Thinking and Systems Practice
2026-03-24 - 2026-03-26 | University of Hull, United Kingdom
For the first time ever, leading institutions representing a broad range of systems thinking methods and approaches are coming together for a landmark conference on Systems Thinking and Systems Practice.
This conference has been shaped with input from a wide-ranging committee, including members of the UK Government’s Systems Thinking Interest Group (STIG) and the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR). It’s a unique chance to take part in activities to develop your knowledge of systems thinking, to learn from experts within the field and to take part in workshops designed to develop your systems thinking skills.

About the Conference
This conference aims to bridge the divide between theoretical systems research and its practical application by providing access to activities designed to enhance your understanding of systems thinking and to update your knowledge on developments within the field. The conference is an opportunity to explore the core principles of systems thinking, from its foundations to the latest emerging topics. As a key focus, bridging the gap between theory and practice will be explored through workshops and presentations on how systems thinking is being used to tackle complex, real-world challenges in sectors such as government, health, education, environment, and business providing the opportunity to learn how to apply this knowledge to your own practise.
Attendees can look forward to case studies, interactive workshops, training sessions as well as insightful sessions providing instruction on systems approaches and poster presentations. These sessions aim to support learning of concepts, tools, and techniques to inform decision making, drive effective change, understand complex problems, and engage stakeholders meaningfully. Panel speakers, including Patrick Hoverstadt, Professor Mike Jackson, Professor Kathy Kotiadis, and Alison Gunthrie-Wren will discuss key topics in systems thinking and answer questions from attendees.
A fantastic line up of keynote speakers including Mike Burrows, Kim Warren, Denis Fischbacher-Smith, Gillian Harrison, Carla Owen, Benjamin Taylor, John Seddon, Bartley Madden, Ellen Lewis, Juanita Bernal Alvarado, and Angela Espinosa, will present their expertise on the application and development of Systems Thinking. In addition to this, attendees will have entry to the prestigious annual Mike Jackson lecture on Wednesday 25 March, where Sir John Kay will present his work.
In bringing together a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, and consultants, we aim to foster educational opportunities and fresh perspectives, based on the SCiO framework for professional development as well as the assessment criteria for the Level 7 systems thinking apprenticeship. Whether you are deeply embedded in systems practice or systems curious, this is a moment to come together and help shape the future of the field whilst developing your own understanding and skills.
There will be a special issue of the journal, Systems, which will provide an opportunity for participants to share their work with the wider systems community as well as providing a written record of some of new developments and perspectives that emerge from the conference.Call for abstracts
The call for abstracts is now closed.
Contributors were updated on the status of their proposal in January 2026. If you have not received this communication, please email: Systems.Conference@hull.ac.uk

Registration now open
We encourage you to secure your ticket as soon as possible as tickets are selling out fast!

Link to tickets: https://events.blackthorn.io/en/8eNd4w6/2026-conference-systems-thinking-and-systems-practice-5a1oWS7bIzd/cart-v2

Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research 2026
2026-04-06 - 2026-04-09 | George Mason University
The Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER) was established in 2003 by the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) to advance the field of systems engineering through rigorous academic research. Over the years, CSER has become a premier international forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to share innovations, challenges, and solutions in systems engineering. Each year, CSER attracts thought leaders from academia, industry, and government to explore emerging topics and technologies shaping complex systems across domains.
The CSER 2026 theme, Intelligent Digital Twin-enabled Systems Engineering for 21st Century Sociotechnical Systems, reflects the growing importance of integrating digital twin technologies with systems engineering practices. As systems become increasingly complex, interconnected, and adaptive, digital twins offer a powerful means to simulate, monitor, and optimize performance across the lifecycle. This theme emphasizes the need for innovative approaches to design, analysis, and decision-making in sociotechnical environments—where complex systems
principles converge with human, organizational and technological factors.

Healthcare Working Group: 11th Annual Systems Engineering in Healthcare Conference
2026-04-28 - 2026-04-30 | Doubletree by Hilton Minneapolis Airport
The Healthcare Working Group invites you to participate in the 11th Annual INCOSE Healthcare Systems Conference (2026) in Bloomington, Minnesota. The INCOSE Conference on Systems Engineering in Healthcare enables participants to share the best practices in the latest Systems Engineering topics as applied to Healthcare. The conference theme is “Advancing the Practice of Systems Engineering in the Healthcare Industry.”
The intended audience is Systems Engineers, product developers and testers and leaders of organizations developing complex healthcare products and services. Attendees from other domains interested in learning about systems methods in healthcare are welcome as well.

Elevating Systems Science to Address Humanity’s Greatest Challenges (70th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences)
2026-06-22 - 2026-06-26
Title: Elevating Systems Science to Address Humanity’s Greatest Challenges
Advancing Real-World Applications; Converging on General Systems Science; Harnessing the Power of AI
The 70th Anniversary (Platinum) Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) marks a pivotal moment—not just for the society, but for the world.
Building on the 2025 conference’s emphasis on internal collaboration and unity within the systems sciences community, the 2026 gathering sets its sights outward. It is time for systems science to engage more visibly and meaningfully with the world’s most influential institutions: the United Nations, European Union, World Bank, OECD, IMF, African Union, national governments, major universities, and civil society at large.
Today’s global challenges (e.g., democratic erosion, rising inequality, climate crises, pandemics, and AI disruption) demand more than fragmented expertise or short-term solutions. They call for holistic, integrated, and adaptive thinking rooted in systems science. Yet while the need has never been greater, the discipline itself faces fragmentation and marginalization. Almost all academic systems science departments have closed, and many academics and practitioners remain scattered across fields, departments, and sectors.
This conference calls on systems thinkers (scientists, practitioners, educators, and decision-makers) to close this gap. We must reinvigorate our field by aligning our diverse theories and methodologies into a coherent general systems science and demonstrating its practical value on the global stage. Systems science principles and practices offer powerful tools for addressing contemporary issues, such as enhancing governance, resolving conflicts, promoting peace, and reforming education, healthcare, financial institutions, local authorities, and many other areas.
Importantly, the 2026 conference will spotlight both the promise and peril of artificial intelligence. AI can amplify systemic insight, support anticipatory governance, and help coordinate solutions at scale. But without ethical and systemic oversight, it also risks deepening inequities, automating harm, and eroding human agency. We must therefore explore how systems science can serve as a compass in navigating AI’s uncertain terrain.
ISSS’s Platinum Conference is a call to action to elevate systems science and cybernetics from a niche academic pursuit to a central pillar of planetary stewardship. We invite you to join us in shaping this transition, spanning disciplines, sectors, institutions, and generations.
Let us move from theory to action, and from siloed expertise to systemic solutions.

2026 International Systems Dynamics Conference
2026-07-20 - 2026-07-24
The International System Dynamics Conference (ISDC) brings together a global community of people passionate about System Dynamics and systems thinking. Now entering its 44th year, the conference continues to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration among participants from business, academia, government, and civil society.
The ISDC provides a platform for newcomers to learn from experts, for experienced practitioners to share the latest advancements, and for all participants to expand their professional networks across disciplines and regions.
ISDC2026 will be a hybrid event — join us virtually or in person in Delft, The Netherlands. Whether presenting work, learning new methods, or engaging in discussions, participants from more than 60 countries come together to explore the latest developments and applications of System Dynamics.
Conference Dates: July 20-24, 2026Venue: TU Delft, Aula Conference Center
More information available here: International System Dynamics Conference

Conversational Confluences, American Society for Cybernetics Conference 2026
2026-08-03 - 2026-08-07 | Ouro Preto, Brazil, Ouro Preto, Brazil
Conversational Confluences, to be held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, from August 3–7, 2026.
Founded in 1964, the ASC has long been a home for those exploring cybernetics as conversation — a way of understanding systems, relations, and acts of participation in the world. Each ASC conference offers a space for shared inquiry and experimentation, where participants co-create formats for learning, reflection, and doing together.
For ASC 2026, we turn our attention to the notion of confluence: how distinct perspectives can come together without losing their difference, generating new ways of thinking and acting. We invite proposals for tracks that cultivate such encounters — spaces where ideas, practices, and disciplines meet, merge, and transform.

Conversational Confluences
Confluence, as articulated by Brazilian thinker and activist Nego Bispo, provides a framework for reflecting on how diverse worldviews, practices, and epistemologies can coexist without losing their distinct identities. Rather than assimilation or homogenization, confluence is about mutual amplification, where differences are not obstacles but sources of strength. Like rivers merging to become stronger, this coming together creates new, more resilient possibilities of coexistence. Rooted in decolonial and counter-hegemonic struggles, the concept invites us to imagine collaborations that foster plurality and the emergence of new systems of living and knowing.
Building on this understanding, the ASC 2026 meeting seeks to explore how cybernetics can participate in such confluences — through encounters and experiments that bring it into dialogue with art, science design, technology, ecology, and situated knowledge.
Conference Structure
Dates: August 3–7, 2026
Location: Ouro Preto, Brazil
Languages: English and Portuguese (simultaneous translation may be available, but is not guaranteed for every session)
The five-day event will be structured as follows:
Afternoons (Days 1–4): parallel track sessions designed and facilitated by proposers.
Mornings: shared sessions for all participants — extended breakfasts, thematic dialogues, and collective reflections — where ideas and experiences from the tracks can mingle and resonate.
Day 5: collective synthesis and future-oriented conversations.
Track proponents will be invited to share insights and reflections from their sessions in these morning gatherings, fostering coherence and conversation across the confluence.

For more information see the conference website: https://asc-cybernetics.org/2026
