May 12-13, 2022 Online
Any Person. Any System.
This year’s theme is, “Any Person, Any System” building off of Cornell’s motto of “Any Person, Any Study” and also referencing the recent emergence of the 4th historical wave in systems thinking based on new discoveries in universal patterns of cognition that underlie systems thinking. This year’s conference highlights fourth wave thinking, DSRP Theory, new empirical developments, and advances in systems thinking based on structural predictions, as well as VMCL Theory, and new developments in Agent Based Approaches (ABAs) to social and policy issues and socio-technical systems.
Due to the relative unpredictability of COVID and changing trends in conferences, this year’s conference will be an entirely online event sponsored by Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and made available to an International audience online. The previous Cornell Systems Thinking Conference drew over 900 people and was the largest of its kind in the world.
The 2022 International Systems Thinking Conference is organized by graduate students in the Systems Thinking, Modeling, and Leadership Certificate program in the Cornell Institute for Policy Affairs (CIPA) in the Brooks School of Public Policy.We are excited to assemble some of the best research scientists and practitioners in the field for this year’s conference. We are also excited to highlight the work of graduate students throughout the conference as speakers and panelists.
Conference Theme
- Any Person. The Conference is designed for novices and experts, scientists and practitioners based on a dual-ethic of basic/applied scientific research and public understanding of science.
- Any System. Systems Thinking represents general cognitive abilities and a mindset that is applicable across the disciplines and in any field, topic, issue, or problem.
- Universality. A focus on underlying patterns of thinking that connect mind and nature and bring together the myriad frameworks of systems thinking and disciplines of knowledge.
- Simplicity-Complexity. There is a deep interconnection between complexity/emergence and agents/simple interaction rules (particularly applied to social or socio-technical systems).
Schedule of Events
| May 12th | Speaker |
| 9:00 – 9:10 a.m. | Opening Remarks |
| 9:10 – 10:00 a.m. | Dr. Derek Cabrera |
| 10:00 – 10:50 a.m. | Dr. David Krakauer |
| 10:50 – 11:40 a.m. | Discussion: The Mathematics of Innovation |
| 11:40 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Bjarne Berg Wig |
| 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. | BREAK |
| 1:00 – 1:50 p.m | Tien Tzuo |
| 1:50 – 2:40 p.m. | Dr. Hise Gibson |
| 2:40 – 3:30 p.m. | Dr. Curt Carlson |
| 3:30 – 4:20 p.m. | Dr. Arturo Castellanos Canales |
| 4:20 – 4:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
| May 13th | Speaker |
| 9:00 – 9:10 a.m. | Opening Remarks |
| 9:10 – 10:00 a.m. | General George Casey |
| 10:00 – 10:50 a.m. | Dr. Laura Cabrera |
| 10:50 – 11:40 a.m. | Panel: STML Certificate |
| 11:40 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Panel: Sustainability |
| 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. | BREAK |
| 1:00 – 1:50 p.m | Panel: Systems Reform |
| 1:50 – 2:40 p.m. | Panel: International Systems |
| 2:40 – 3:30 p.m. | Panel: Social Policy |
| 3:30 – 4:20 p.m. | Panel: Education |
| 4:20 – 4:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks |