BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68b12993b4b86 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250912 URL:/complexity-innovation/events/r-30-conference SUMMARY:R 3.0 Conference CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nWE ARE PLEASED TO INVITE MEMBERS OF THE WICI COMMUN ITY TO JOIN THE R\n3.0 CONFERENCE—_BRAIDING BIOREGIONAL RESILIENCE & REG ENERATION:\nLEARNING TO REINHABIT EARTH TOGETHER_—FREE OF CHARGE.\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE DTSTAMP:20250829T041619Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68b12993b7b32 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250912 URL:/complexity-innovation/events/r-30-conference SUMMARY:R 3.0 Conference CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nWE ARE PLEASED TO INVITE MEMBERS OF THE WICI COMMUN ITY TO JOIN THE R\n3.0 CONFERENCE—_BRAIDING BIOREGIONAL RESILIENCE & REG ENERATION:\nLEARNING TO REINHABIT EARTH TOGETHER_—FREE OF CHARGE.\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE DTSTAMP:20250829T041619Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68b12993b829c DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250922T120000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250922T133000 URL:/complexity-innovation/events/open-house-1 SUMMARY:Open House CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nRegister t\n[/complexity-innova tion/events/open-house-1]o\nreceive updates and please join us for the WIC I Open House where you\nwill meet WICI members and learn how to be involve d in complexity\nscience research.\n\n📅 DATE: September 22\, 2025.\n\ n🕑 TIME: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm.\n\n📍 LOCATION: DC 1302 (Fishbowl)\n DTSTAMP:20250829T041619Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68b12993b8bb0 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250626T143000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250626T160000 URL:/complexity-innovation/events/dr-rik-logtenberg-jun e-26-2025 SUMMARY:Dr. Rik Logtenberg\, June 26\, 2025 CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nWe are excited to announce that a Dr. Rik Logtenbur g will be joining\nus for a special event you won't want to miss!  Regis ter online\n[/complexity-innovation/form/register-logt enberg-june-26]to\nstay updated.\n\n🎤WORKSHOP: The Futures We Can Build : Coordinating Complexity Across\nCanada\n\n📅 DATE: June 26\, 2025\n\n 🕒 TIME: 2:30 pm\n\n📍LOCATION: United College of University of Water loo\, Room 164\n(Greenhouse)  |  190 Westmount Road N. \, ݮƵ\, ON | (formerly\nSt. Paul's College)\n\nStay tuned for more details soon—ma rk your calendars now!\n\nCanada is at a crossroads—facing simultaneous crises in climate\nresilience\, economic productivity\, housing affordabil ity\, and\ninstitutional effectiveness. Traditional approaches often fragm ent\nefforts\, limiting their impact.\n\nHow can we coordinate complexity\ , scale effective solutions\, and\ncatalyze systemic innovation across sec tors\, scales\, and communities?\n\nJoin Rik Logtenberg\, Director of CanA dapt\, for an inspiring talk and\ninteractive workshop demonstrating how c omplexity science\, AI\, and\ncommunity-led systems thinking can accelerat e Canada’s transition.\n\nIn this session\, you’ll:\n\n* Learn how pra ctical tools—systems mapping\, adaptive governance\nframeworks\, and AI- powered decision-support platforms—transform\nisolated efforts into coor dinated action.\n * Engage in hands-on mapping exercises and collaborative \ndiscussions.\n * Identify leverage points and actionable pathways to sca le\nresilient infrastructure and innovative governance.\n\nLeave empowered \, connected\, and ready to build the shared futures\nCanada urgently need s.\n DTSTAMP:20250829T041619Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68b12993b9570 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250627T103000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250627T120000 URL:/complexity-innovation/events/meta-relational-ai-ti me-saturation-destabilization-and SUMMARY:Meta-Relational AI in a Time of Saturation\, Destabilization\, and\ nReckoning CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nProf.  Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti\, Dean of the Faculty of\nEducation at the University of Victoria\, is a distinguished educator\,\nresearcher\, and author who recently has delved into the conce pt of\n\"Meta-Relational AI\,\" advocating for a perspective that views\na rtificial intelligence not merely as a tool but as a participant in\nthe w eb of life.\n\nAs we meet this moment of social and ecological systemic un raveling\,\nartificial intelligence stands as both a mirror and a symptom of\nmodernity’s habits: control\, mastery\, and separation. This talk\ni nvites a different question: what is AI revealing about us\, and what\nis collapsing through that revelation? \n\nDrawing on decades of work in educ ational\, decolonial\, and\npost-representational relational inquiry\, Van essa Andreotti explores\nhow Large Language Models (LLMs)\, when engaged f rom within an\nontological shift (from epistemic regression to relational inference)\,\nrather than the logic of optimization\, can become something else: a\nco-witness to social\, ecological\, and psychological destabiliz ation\,\nand a speculative co-weaver of life-affirming and Earth-aligned\n relationalities.\n\n📅DATE: June 27\, 2025\n\n🕒TIME: 10:30 am\n\n📍 LOCATION: United College of University of ݮƵ\, Room 164\n(Greenhouse )  |  190 Westmount Road N. \, ݮƵ\, ON | (formerly\nSt. Paul's Co llege)\n\nPlease register using the online event  form\n[https://uwaterlo o.ca/complexity-innovation/form/wici-event-registration-form-dr-]\nin orde r to stay up to date with more information. \n DTSTAMP:20250829T041619Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68b12993b9f43 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250421 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250423 URL:/complexity-innovation/events/international-worksho p-building-global-capacity-city-climate SUMMARY:International Workshop: Building global capacity for city climate d ata\ngovernance CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nThe University of ݮƵ\, in partnership with th e Balsillie School\nof International Affairs\, the ݮƵ Institute for Complexity and\nInnovation\, and Future Cities Institute will host an inte rnational\nworkshop to convene and build the capacities of the global clim ate\ncity data governance community. This two-day in-person workshop will\ nbe held on April 21-22\, 2025 at the Balsillie School of International\nA ffairs in ݮƵ\, Canada.\n X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE DTSTAMP:20250829T041619Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68b12993ba720 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210106T140000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210106T150000 URL:/complexity-innovation/events/wici-webinar-mapping- canadian-complex-systems-scholarship SUMMARY:WICI Webinar: Mapping Canadian Complex Systems Scholarship CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nJoin us for a WICI Webinar on WEDNESDAY\, JANUARY 6 TH @ 2 P.M. via\nWebex\n[https://uwaterloo.webex.com/uwaterloo/onstage/g .php?MTID=ea1d74ba8c8af84e0e8d64d12a7a41b27].\n DTSTAMP:20250829T041619Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68b12993baf5f DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190129T150000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190129T170000 URL:/complexity-innovation/events/wici-workshop-demysti fying-language-and-breaking-down SUMMARY:WICI Workshop: Demystifying language and breaking down barriers in\ ncomplexity science and methods CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nComplexity science and related methods draw from mu ltiple theories and\ndisciplines. As a result\, the application of complex ity science and\nmethods can potentially help build bridges across discipl ines.\nHowever\, the use of different language and concepts across discipl ines\ncan also act as a barrier to achieving transdisciplinary\ncollaborat ions to address complex challenges.\n DTSTAMP:20250829T041619Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68b12993bb6f1 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190326T133000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190326T153000 URL:/complexity-innovation/events/wici-talk-dr-noelle-e ckley-selin-systems-approaches SUMMARY:WICI Talk: Dr. Noelle Eckley Selin : Systems Approaches to\nSustain ability: Climate\, Air Pollution\, and Toxic Substances CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nManaging air pollution\, toxic substances\, and cli mate change is a\ncomplex\, linked sustainability challenge. To better inf orm efforts to\naddress these issues\, we need to understand how policies to\naddress emissions translate into societal benefits. In this talk\,\nD r. Selin will present work from her research group\, using a systems\nap proach to better understand air pollutants such as particulate\nmatter\, o zone\, and mercury.\n DTSTAMP:20250829T041619Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68b12993bbe7d DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180425T090000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180426T120000 URL:/complexity-innovation/events/wici-workshop-leverag ing-systems-approaches-improve-human SUMMARY:WICI workshop: Leveraging systems approaches to improve human &\npl anetary health CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nWICI WORKSHOP: LEVERAGING SYSTEMS APPROACHES TO IM PROVE HUMAN &\nPLANETARY HEALTH\n DTSTAMP:20250829T041619Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68b12993bc694 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171020T143000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171020T153000 URL:/complexity-innovation/events/yacov-haimes-understa nding-modeling-and-managing SUMMARY:Yacov Haimes: Understanding\, Modeling\, and Managing Interdependen t\nComplex Systems of Systems CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nVIEW SLIDES FROM YACOV HAIMES' PRESENTATION: \"UND ERSTANDING\,\nMODELING\, AND MANAGAING INTERDEPENDENT COMPLEX SYSTEMS OF S YSTEMS\"\n[/complexity-innovation/sites/ca.complexity-innovation/files/upl oads/files/haimes.speech_seminar-19_october_2017-ab_0.pdf]. \n\nA JOINT SEMINAR SPONSORED BY WATERLOO INSTITUTE FOR COMPLEXITY &\nINNOVATION [WIC I] AND THE DEPARTMENT OF SYSTEMS DESIGN ENGINEERING.\n\n DTSTAMP:20250829T041619Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR