Seminar Series
Bringing together academics, practitioners, and studentsOur seminars cover a wide range of topics including modeling, decision-making, sustainability, and public policy, and are designed to be accessible to both beginners and experienced audiences. The Seminar Series provides a valuable forum for learning, sharing, and collaborating on the application of System Dynamics to real-world challenges.
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Seminar Recordings
Webinar Highlights & Recording: Digital Twin Business Models for Strategy and Operational Management
Webinar Highlights & Recording: Digital Twin Business Models for Strategy and Operational Management We had the opportunity to delve into the world of business model simulations with industry experts Kim Warren, founder of Strategy Dynamics, and Martin Lycko,...
Webinar Highlights & Recording: System Dynamics Modeling with R.
Webinar Highlights & Recording: System Dynamics Modeling with R. System Dynamics is a powerful approach to understanding complex systems in various fields, such as public health, ecology, and economics. Prof. Jim Duggan, an expert in applying System Dynamics and...
Exploring Careers in System Dynamics
Exploring Careers in System Dynamics The Exploring Careers in System Dynamics webinar, held on March 29, 2023, was an engaging panel discussion featuring experts Sharon Els, Eduardo Romanenko, and Georg Pallaske, moderated by Shane Carnohan. Attendees had the...
Engaging Younger Audiences in Climate Change Education
Engaging Younger Audiences in Climate Change Education This webinar focused on engaging younger audiences in climate change education using the analogy of a bathtub. Linda Booth Sweeney, a systems educator, and author shared innovative ways to educate children about...
The Role of Creativity in System Dynamics and Systems Thinking
The Role of Creativity in System Dynamics and Systems Thinking A thought-provoking discussion led by internationally renowned expert Dennis Sherwood, as we explore the concept of creativity in System Dynamics and Systems Thinking. Delve into questions such as what...
Planning and Managing Performance Improvement Programs
Planning and Managing Performance Improvement Programs See also a more extensive article based on this post, and watch the recording below on the topic. Organizations of all sizes and types undertake programs of effort to improve their performance, whether it’s...
How To Review for ISDC 2023
How To Review for ISDC 2023 Reviews provide valuable feedback for authors, offering new perspectives and posing insightful questions to help them improve their work. They can inspire authors to think more deeply about their research, while also exposing reviewers to...
Systems Thinking in the Age of Digital Ecosystems
Systems Thinking in the Age of Digital Ecosystems Discover how Systems Thinking can drive world-making innovations and support the evolution of traditional organizational structures and cultures in a rapidly changing business landscape. Navigate the impact of...
How to Sell System Dynamics (Or Anything Else)
How to Sell System Dynamics (Or Anything Else) If it’s so good – why is System Dynamics so hard to sell? The key to selling System Dynamics has nothing to do with what we’ve learned in grad school. Instead, the key is to clarify a fundamental confusion everyone seems...
Q&A Session: From Problem Selection to Modeling and Career Development with Mohammad Jalali
Q&A Session: From Problem Selection to Modeling and Career Development with Mohammad Jalali A Q&A session with Mohammad Jalali. An interactive event where the audience is the main driver of the talk. Questions from all directions, from how to choose a good...
How Food and System Dynamics Gave me A Career
How Food and System Dynamics Gave me A Career A discussion of two System Dynamics projects that had some real impact and then reflect on how this happened, and what needs to be in place for us system dynamicists to have an impact. Papers mentioned: Transforming Food...
Documenting the Modeling Process
Documenting the Modeling Process Building a simulation model requires lots of information to be gathered. This information comes in many formats such as flip charts, pictures, emails, and spreadsheets. How should this information be stored so that it is easily...
Data & Uncertainty in System Dynamics
Data & Uncertainty in System Dynamics Jay Forrester cautioned that “fitting curves to past system data can be misleading”. Certainly, that can be true, if the model is deficient. But we can have our cake and eat it too: a good model that passes traditional System...
Multisolving Working With Complexity and Interconnection
Multisolving Working With Complexity and Interconnection Climate change. Biodiversity loss. Racial, gender, and economic inequity. Global pandemic and other health crises. Each of these challenges is serious on its own, but they also interact. Inaction on one crisis...
Using System Dynamics to Teach and Learn about COVID-19
Using System Dynamics to Teach and Learn about COVID-19 This Webinar is free due to the generous contribution of the University at Albany and California State University, Chico A distinguished team of panelists demonstrated how we can all think globally and act...
New Horizons of Systems Science
New Horizons of Systems Science This Seminar was sponsored by the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). Systems theory is developing to include new perspectives with a focus on integrated and inclusive transdisciplinary system approaches. This panel...
The Food Packaging Problem. A Food System Problem Not a Packaging Problem
The Food Packaging Problem. A Food System Problem Not a Packaging Problem Starting with the five components of the supply chain for food packaging, the presentation proceeds to describe a process for adopting System Dynamics. The process describes and uncovers the...
The Dark Side of Projects: Delays, Disruption, and Disputes
The Dark Side of Projects: Delays, Disruption, and Disputes When a project moves from the honeymoon phase to finger-pointing and distrust, you have reached the dark side of Project Management. Whether a dispute gets to the level of legal action or not, the process of...
How to Publish in the System Dynamics Review
How to Publish in the System Dynamics Review In this webinar, we had an overview of the System Dynamics Review – the journal of the System Dynamics Society. We learned about its growing positive performance and impact. We reviewed the process of submitting, revising,...
Working with Loops That Matter: technique and tools to analyze feedback loops
Working with Loops That Matter: technique and tools to analyze feedback loops In this hands-on webinar, we’ll work together to analyze System Dynamics models and learn how to discover which feedback loops are driving model behavior. We’ll use the Loops that Matter...
Dancing with Systems: Moves for Turbulent Times
Dancing with Systems: Moves for Turbulent Times Seminar recording Learn more about the Seminar Series. Watch the recording below Download Presentation Recent Posts Upcoming Events Recent Business cases Join...
Systems Thinking for Pre-College Education
Systems Thinking for Pre-College Education Pre-College SIG Seminar Series consists of periodic online meetings on K-12 education to the Systems Thinking and System Dynamics communities. These virtual activities cover a wide range of topics on K-12 education from many...
Roundtable: Getting System Dynamics Into Universities Programs
Roundtable: Getting System Dynamics Into Universities Programs During the University roundtable, we explored the following question with input from all of the participants: what are the issues, opportunities, and obstacles to increasing System Dynamics penetration in...
Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling
Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling We had people joining us from all over the world at the “Introduction to Modeling Process” with Leonard (Len) Malczynski Watch the recording below to:• Build a small quantitative System Dynamics model• Use Studio by...
Can You Fix the American Health Care System? ReThink Health Dynamics
Can You Fix the American Health Care System? ReThink Health Dynamics Experience first hand the ReThink Health Dynamics Model used by Dartmouth, Brown, MIT, Atlanta, San Diego, Cincinnati, and many other universities and communities throughout the United States....
Housing Dynamics
Housing Dynamics We had an insightful conversation with David Stroh, Martijn Eskinasi, and Kaveh Dianati at our latest seminar. We learned about how using causal loop diagrams based on simple archetypes, illuminate interdependencies across housing availability, wealth...
Introduction to Modeling Process
Introduction to Modeling Process We had 560 people joining us from all over the world at the “Introduction to Modeling Process” with Nici Zimmermann. Watch the recording below to:• Build your very first quantitative System Dynamics model• Use Vensim...
System Dynamics for Climate Change Mitigation
System Dynamics for Climate Change Mitigation We had an insightful Webinar with the participation of With Juliette Rooney-Varga, Carolyn McCarthy, Sibel Eker, and Steve Arquitt . Integrated System Dynamics models of economy and environment have long been used for...
Top 10 Tips to Engage People with a System Dynamics Model
Top 10 Tips to Engage People with a System Dynamics Model Andrew P. Jones is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Climate Interactive and a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan. Andrew is an expert on climate change and energy issues, a prominent System Dynamics modeler, and a...
System Dynamics Biomedical Modeling
System Dynamics Biomedical Modeling In this Seminar, authors present their work published on the special issue of the System Dynamics Review on Biomedical Modeling. The special issue brings together new research that explores a fascinating array of biomedical...
Responding to The Exponential Demand for Systems Thinking
Responding to The Exponential Demand for Systems Thinking The “demand” for systems thinking has never been greater. Period. And it’s growing. Exponentially. Yet, our ability to meaningfully recognize and respond to that demand comes nowhere near closing such a...
Webinar Q&A | The Effect of Institutional Quality on Economic Growth
Webinar Q&A | The Effect of Institutional Quality on Economic Growth We had an insightful Webinar with the participation of Aman Ullah and Ivan Taylor who presented us with a macroeconomic framework that identifies the structure of institutional quality in...
Webinar Q&A | Group Model Building Online
Webinar Q&A | Group Model Building Online In 2020, when COVID-19 hit, a group of researchers from the University of Bergen found themselves stuck and could not run a planned in-person Group Model Building Workshop. They thought outside of the box and used Miro, a...