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DateSpeakerTitle
November 6, 2024Fredmund MalikShaping the Future: the Great Transformation
October 2, 2024Stephen HarwoodVSM & Ethics
September 4, 2024Mark JohnsonThe Topologies of Prediction: Management, Cybernetics, and Artificial Intelligence
June 26, 2024Emanuele Quintarelli, Krishan MathisFrom systems to entrepreneurial ecosystemic organizations. Exploring Haier’s RenDanHeYi.
June 5, 2024Rodrigo Fernández AlbornozThe heart of the 4th industrial revolution in the brain of Viable System Model.
May 8, 2024Dr. Peter RobertsonThe Sapient Paradox as the consequence of a cybernetical bifurcation in the evolution.
April 3, 2024Andrew PickeringCybernetics and the Environmental Crisis
March 6, 2024Pille BunnellLanguage as an Enabling Constraint
January 31, 2024Michael ZarghamFrom Viable  Organisations to Viable Ecologies
January 10 2024Krishan MathisMetaphorum Training Programme
December 6 2023Bassam El Baroni & Jose-Carlos MariateguiCybersyn 1973 / 2023
November 7 2023Professor Massimo De AngelisImagining the City (or anything else big scale) as a Commons: a Work in Progress
October 4 2023John Beckford Cybernetics and the Digital Transition and the Cybernetics of the Digital Transistion
September 29 2023Professor Raul EspejoThe Cybersyn Project
October 4 2023John BeckfordCybernetics and the Digital Transition(and the Cybernetics OF the Digital Transition)
May 21st, 2023John Waters and Ian Kendrick‘An overview of a global discussion platform’
May 21st, 2023Angela Espinosa to the American Society for Cybernetics‘Sustainable Self-Governance in Business and Society Book’
May 3rd, 2023Joe Truss‘The Meta architecture of Team Syntegrity for participatory democracy’
April 5th, 2023Raul GonzalezRaul Gonzalez. ‘How to enhance business platforms using the Viable System Model (VSM) to face the current and future complexity business challenges’
March 15th, 2023Mike JacksonProf Mike Jackson. Alexander Bogdanov, Stafford Beer and intimations of a post-capitalist future
March 8th, 2023Jose-Carlos Mariategui Jose-Carlos Mariategui. ‘CENTRO and the construction of a mathematical     model for Latin America’
February 1st, 2023Katharine FarrellKatharine Farrell. ‘Holarchies, heterarchies, and hermeneutics: exploring relationships, between Beer and Bateson’
January 4th, 2023Vanilla BeerVanilla Beer. ‘Interview with Vanilla Beer on her personal learning with Stafford ‘
December 14th 2022M J Van de WijnckelRevisiting Beyond Dispute
December 1st 2022Olaf BrugmanOlaf Brugman. ‘Ten Synergetic Ideas for the VSM and Management Cybernetics Community’
November 4th, 2022Paul PangaroPaul Pangaro. ‘Designing Conversations for Variety’.
October 5th, 2022Jan De Visch.Jan De Visch. ‘Coherent Action: Linking Role and Work Contributions to Each other Through Real-Time Dialogue’.
Sept 7th, 2022L Lavanderos, A. Malpartida.L Lavanderos, A. Malpartida. ‘Ecotomo, Ecopoiesis and No Required Variety’.
May 25 2022Jane Searles and Roger DuckDesigning Freedom Together
May 11 2022Jose Perez-RiosHow to make a fast diagnosis of a complex organization with Organizational Cybernetics? Framework and Tools.
April 20nd, 2022Alan RaynerNatural Inclusion: The receptive simplicity in the heart of complexity and a compassionate, regenerative, and creative community life
Nov 10th. 2021Mark Lambertz“Let’s build a productive social system by connecting people’s needs and technology’s capabilities – and get the job done.” 
Oct 13th. 2021Robin AsbyThinking Systems
Sept 29th 2021Pam SydelkoA Viable System Model Board Game for Designing Interagency Responses to Wicked Problems 
Sept 1st, 2021Pedro Pablo CardosoThe cash of modernism and postmodernism in social activism: the ongoing case of the protesters in Colombia and the weaponization of systemic tools
Aug 18th, 2021Enrique RiveraThe Fourth World Cybernetics
Aug 4th, 2021Maurice YollesMindset agency theory.
July 21st 2021Alfonso Reyes A. A new organisational from for a trans-disciplinary university. The case of Universidad de Ibagué
July 7th, 2021Panagiotis Panagiotakopoulos The role of VSM in designing and managing future-fit organisations
June 23rd. 2021Angus Jenkinson What Is the Identity of an Organisation? 
June 9th, 2021Markus SchwaningerCovid19 Pandemic – Dealing with the Unpredictable: Crisis Management in a Federation
May 26th, 2021Bernhard SterchiAlignment and autonomy on the last mile of execution – in defense of the wriggly lines
May 12th 2021Allenna LeonardA VSM reflection on US politics and democracy
April 28th, 2021Alfredo del ValleThe Participatory Workspace: An online, complexity mgt & communications tool,
April the 14th, 2021Angela EspinosaSustainable Self Governance:Sustainable Self Governance
March 31st. 2021Raghav RajagopalanMeta Rational Ways of Knowing
March 17th, 2021Igor PerkoInvoking AI technology in organisations – a systemic examination
March the 3rd, 2021Martin PfiffnerThe third dimension of organizing
February the 24th  2021.Raul Espejo“The Enterprise Complexity Model: An Extension of the Viable System Model for Emerging Organisational Forms”
February 3 2021Mike JacksonThe soul of the Viable System Model
December 16 2020Jonathan HuxleyThe Viability of Tribes
December 2 2020Czeslaw MesjaszComplexity and ignorance in the Information Society: A new methodological approach YouTube Link coming
November 20 2020Manel Pretel-WilsonThe Neo-Cybernetic Synthesis: Ashby’s True Legacy
November 11 2020Barry Clemson & Hans-Peter PlagMonitoring the health of riverine systems
November 4 2020Steve MorlidgeThe VSM in 2020 – more relevant than ever
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