Conference Presentations
The 2026 International System Dynamics Conference
August 3-7 2025
Tentative list of submissions and workshops to be presented at the
conference. Organized by thread and for each thread listed alphabetically by the last name of the first author,
chair or presenter. The presenting author is denoted by a *.
This tentative listing will be adjusted as authors confirm conference attendance.
Business and Strategy
Business and Strategy: Features applications of System Dynamics in businesses and organizations including strategy development, profitability, marketing, competitive dynamics, product launches, project dynamics, and accounting.
Diversity and Ethics
Diversity and Ethics: Features applications of System Dynamics to topics such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, and ability, as well as work that examines structural bias and discrimination and explores ethical considerations in social systems and modeling practices.
Economics
Economics: Features papers improving understanding of economic dynamics including macroeconomics, microeconomics, trade, business regulation, economic development, economic policy, insurance, and risk management.
Environment and Resources
Environment and Resources: Emphasizes dynamics of natural resource management and policy for the environment including food, water, energy and climate change, pollution, environmental laws and regulation, and ecology.
Diaz Caselles, Luz Mery* with Nelly P Garcia and Merla Kubli Circular Construction in Bogotá: Understanding Transition Dynamics
Health
Health: Applies System Dynamics to issues related to health and health care including health policy, health services research, population health, and physiology.
Learning and Teaching
Learning and Teaching: The manner in which system skills are taught and learned including pedagogy, learning experiments, curriculum development, workshop design and interactive activities designed to be part of an educational experience.
Methodology
Methodology: Welcomes contributions to System Dynamics modeling and simulation including quantitative and qualitative aspects of model development, model analysis, validation, graphical presentation formats, computational techniques, and integration of System Dynamics with other approaches such as Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics.
Operations
Operations: Includes business and other process operations including capacity management, quality control, operations management, supply chains, workflow, queuing, and workforce planning.
Psychology and Human Behavior
Psychology and Human Behavior: Explores the dynamics within and between social groups, including social environments or individual psychological factors, and spanning families, organizations, and societies.
Public Policy
Public Policy: Covers issues including governance, social welfare, equity, justice, political science, urban dynamics, and infrastructure.
Security, Stability, and Resilience
Security, Stability, and Resilience: Investigates issues related to security, stability, and resilience, including defense, social and international conflict, military operations, insurgency, counterinsurgency, cybersecurity, disinformation, safety, disaster management, peace engineering, justice, (financial and economic) crime, policing, incarceration, socioeconomic inequality, and food-energy-water security.
Stakeholder Engagement
Stakeholder Engagement: Emphasizes engaging and influencing stakeholders through participatory activities such as group model building, facilitation, facilitated modeling, games and management flight simulators with emphasis on assessing the impact of the engagement.
Transport and Mobility
Transport and Mobility: Covers all aspects of transportation systems and mobility, including transport and urban planning policies; new services, technologies or business models; decarbonization and sustainable mobility; transport and health; and freight and logistics.
Workshops
System Dynamics Society
Conference Proceedings updated: March 13, 2026.