Final Line-Up Announced for SysPrac25! The Systems Thinking Practitioners Conference, 3-4 September 2025, Milton Keynes UK

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We’re thrilled to unveil the full line-up for the SysPrac25 Systems Thinking Practitioner’s Conference – two packed days of exploration, insight, and innovation in systems thinking practice.

Early Bird Discount Ends July 15 at Midnight!

Additional discounts available for apprentices and SCiO members.

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With 45 speakers and 48 hours of topical content, here’s what to expect from this year’s conference:

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 – Final title TBC
Nick Beech – Final title TBC
Ollie Bream McIntosh – Systemic Investing and AI
Mike Burrows – Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
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?
Dr Tim Curtis – Recursive Canvases in Management Consulting: Applied Systems Thinking or Not?
Gareth David – Debunking the Agile Panacea – Using Systems Thinking to Explore Where Agile Will Work Well
Jan De Visch – Humanising Systems (Workshop)
Jennifer Easton-Groves – Systemic Enquiry into Operational and Cultural Behaviours in a Financially Challenged Higher Education Environment
Dr Anne Gambles – Thinking Differently Together: A Long-Lived Systemic Inquiry into Growing Colleagues’ Systems Thinking in Practice at The Open University
Jane Graham – Strengthening the Connection Between Relational Leadership and Practice with Systems Thinking
Alison Guthrie-Wrenn – Opening Keynote (Title TBC)
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 Systems Model (VSM): Balancing Complexity (Workshop)
Richard Hughes – Promoting Psychosocial Well-Being of Young People with Cancer Through Systems Thinking
David Ing & Zaid Khan – Pacing Changes with Living Systems: Rhythmic Threads in Textures, Rhythmic Textures of Threads
Dr Ray Ison – Keynote (Title TBC)
Panel – The Future of Systems Thinking: Dr Mike Jackson, OBE & Patrick Hoverstadt
Mike Jones & Carla Owens – Patterns of Strategy (POS) (Workshop)
Gary Kass – Understanding the Impact of Sustainability Intermediaries in Complex Adaptive Systems
Dr Artem Khudenko – A Sustainability Innovation Challenge: Systems Thinking Meets Design Thinking
Tony Korycki – Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) (Workshop)
Louise Le Gat – Changing Mindsets (Workshop)
Simon MacCormac – Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) (Workshop)
Benjamin Taylor – Systemic Consulting (Workshop)
Carla Owens & Nicola Reeves – Making a Meaningful Impact on the 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 – Cybernetic KPIs in Medium-Sized Companies – A Doctoral Project
Gavin Roberts – Systems Thinking Principles (Workshop)
Ian Rosam – Digitisation, AI, Big Data + Systems Thinking: Transforming Audits and Value Creation
James Stauch – Navigating Problems, Revealing Systems, and Asking Beautiful Questions
Robin Stowell – Boosting Organisational Performance Through Personnel Availability
Ed Straw – 50 Years of Systems Thinking in Government, Society and Life
Dr Matvei Tobman – The Viable System Model as a Framework for AI Integration in Healthcare
Al Walker – Regulatory Strategy Design in the Construction Products Sector
Dr Kim Warren – Systems Dynamics (SD) (Workshop)
Tom Watson – Beyond the Tool Kit (Workshop)
Andrea Weierich – Using Vester’s Sensitivity Model to Build a Flywheel in IT Leadership Teams
Ed van der Winden & Vincent van der Lubbe – Systems Practice for Everyone – Simple, but Not Easy