Recordings to past events are on the CybSoc YouTube page.
Please find below, a reminder of our programme of events for March onwards. We are also working on an additional event in the spring, we’ll announce this as soon as details are finalised.
Wed 26th March 2025 1800-2000. Cybernetics Live: Steve James – Heath and Wellbeing
Dr Steve James approach of “A System for Health, not a Health system” integrates across traditional “system” boundaries, including the metabolic model situated in day/night cycles, relationships and behaviours, functions and regulatory processes, and emotions. The aim is a whole-person wellbeing metabolism. We are trialing a new timing for this event i.e. 1800-2000 rather than our traditional 1700-1900. A Zoom registration links will be sent out nearer the time. Steve’s website is below:
Wed 30th April 2025 1700-1900. Paul Shiels – The Science of Ageing
Dr Shiels’ career has spanned both industry and academia and has involved 25 years developing a fundamental understanding of biological ageing.
May Cybernetics Live event
We are working on an event for May on the circular economy and details will be communicated nearer the time.
Sat 21st June 1000-1230 Cybernetics Society AGM
This will be held online. Further details will be communicated nearer the time.
Mon 30th June to Wed 2nd July. 2025 Cybernetics Conversation.
The 2025 Cybernetics Conversation will be held at Loughborough University Business School from Mon 30th June to Wed 2nd July 2025. We are delighted to announce that Prof. Andrew Pickering will joining us and will be hosting a keynote session. We’ll communicate further details as we get a bit closer.
Cybernetics and Systems Calendar
As a reminder, below are the links on our website below to the CybSoc calendar and also the Combined calendar including events by other Societies.
Thank you to Peter Tuddenham for having developed and rolled this out and also to Miguel Marcos Martinez who has been working closely with Peter and others on this.
Enacting Cybernetics Journal
The link to the journal homepage is below, access is free please enjoy:
Our last Cybernetics Live event was on Thu 27th February 2025 with Carola Ritzinger-Roll, Michael Frahm & Matvei Tobman.
Carola, Michael and Matvei will look at management cybernetics as a general framework to successfully implement lean management in several industries (construction, mechanical engineering & healthcare). Numerous lean transformation projects fail or do not achieve the desired performance and/or viability that is necessary for a sustainable implementation of lean management. However, there are some factors that support the successful implementation of lean management in day-to-day business. In the opinion of the authors, these include management cybernetics and, in particular, Stafford Beer’s viable system model (VSM) as a structuring element.
The paper was published in our journal and the link is below: