Metaphorum 2026 Conference

Celebrating 100 Years of Stafford Beer

Speakers' pre-Conference survey

We are delighted with the strong response to Metaphorum 2026 and thank you for contributing to this celebration of Stafford Beer's centenary.

The conference has been designed as a living conversation, emphasizing dialogue, collaboration, and shared learning. To help us prepare an engaging and well-coordinated Conference, we kindly ask you to complete the following short survey:

We have not received the following information from all speakers:

• a photograph

• a biographical summary/CV

• preferred theme (first and second choices)

• preferred format

We would like to be able to display a full set on the Conference web-site at conference2026.metaphorum.org.
Therefore, if you have not provide a biographical summary already, please do so using the box below.

NB, some of the CVs/biographies received have been quite lengthy and detailed, whereas what we need is something between 100 and 200 words. We would prefer to use an abbreviated version of your own choice rather than having to make such a judgement ourselves.

If you have not provided a photograph already, please send it as an attachment to conference2026@metaphorum.org with "PHOTO" somewhere in the subject line.

If you have not already specified your preferred theme(s), please do so below:

If you have not already specified your preferred format(s), please do so below: