[NB first I’ve heard of this, and very fiddly to sign up – not sure if I succeeded but if I did it was apparently as a delegate from Beijing Planetarium?]

Beijing and Online, February 21-24, 2023Register

The 2023 SESC-IFSR Systems Thinking Symposium aims to discuss and explore systemic impacts arising from the pandemic and explore how they are handled by drawing upon diverse, multiple, and systemic perspectives.  Systemic impacts of the pandemic within crisis management, digital economy, education, industrial supply chains and trade, life and health, scientific development and technological innovation,  and societal governance, will be explored.  The Symposium is expected to illustrate both the multi-disciplinary approach as well as systems thinking perspectives toward the COVID-19 pandemic and to facilitate dialogue among different systems modelers, practitioners and thinkers, for the purpose of aggregating knowledge and insights for future change and improvements in complex and chaotic decision-making contexts.

The Systems Engineering Society of China (SESC)  is joined by the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR) to organize the Symposium, which will be held by online-offline hybrid mode. Worldwide influential scholars will be invited to give keynotes on Systemic impacts of the pandemic in the perspectives of diverse systems.  Considering the time difference, all keynotes talk will be arranged in the afternoon or evening of Beijing Time for convenient participation during February 21-24, 2023. 

SysThink2023 welcomes abstracts relevant to the theme of the Symposium, especially to above mentioned systems. Please submit your abstract with 200~400 words of systems impacts of the Covid-19 towards crisis management, digital economy, education, industrial supply chains and trade, life and health, scientific development and technological innovation,  societal governance, etc. If specific sessions are  planned to be organizied, please directly send proposal by email. 

2023 SESC-IFSR Systems Thinking Symposium