MIT System Design and Management will host Complex Adaptive Systems 2025 from March 5–7, 2025, on the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA. The conference is supported by the New England chapter of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) and the IEEE Smart Cities community.
Keynote speakers for the conference include:
- Professor John D. Sterman, Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), director of the MIT System Dynamics Group and the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative;
- Professor Ali Jadbabaie, JR East Professor of Engineering, head of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, as well as core faculty for IDSS and principal investigator of the Lab for Information and Decision Sciences;
- Professor Siqi Zheng, STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, faculty director of the MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE), and faculty director of the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab;
- and Dr. Michael Watson, president-elect of INCOSE and formerly of NASA.
The CAS conference was founded and organized by Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2011 and continues to bring together the community of practitioners and researchers on an annual basis. This year’s conference theme is “Transdisciplinary Systems & Solutions for Adaptability,” with papers on a wide range of themes and several workshops and panels for sharing and cross-pollinating of ideas.
To register and to find more information including a complete schedule, please visit the CAS 2025 website.