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Federation of Austrian Industries, Vienna, Austria
The 6th Viennese Talks on Resilience and Networks is co-organized by IIASA and FASresearch. In an effort to support a convergence of ideas between systems ecology, complexity, ecomimcry, sustainability, networks, resilience and "building back better", authors of the recently published book “A New Ecology: Systems Perspective” are meeting in this workshop to provide insight into ecological principles.
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Irkutsk, Russia / Virtual
Nadejda Komendantova from the Cooperation and Transformative Governance group is invited to provide an opening keynote presentation at the VIII International Workshop on Critical Infrastructures in the Digital World. The aim of the workshop is to discuss theoretical and methodological issues of development and integration of intelligent, agent-based and cloud computing for contingency management in critical infrastructures as well as to talk about Situational Awareness, Semiotics, Visual Analytics, Semantic Modeling and Cognitive Graphics and their applications in critical infrastructures.
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Cairo
IIASA researcher Nadejda Komendantova will give a keynote speech at the International Conference of the Institute of National Planning on Digital Economy and Sustainable Development. She will present her perspective on the role that systems analysis can play in supporting the digital transformation.
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Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan / Virtual
Dmitry Erokhin is invited to speak on the determinants of Chinese outward foreign direct investment in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries with the special focus on the institutional environment of the host countries at the International Workshop “China's Belt and Road Initiative: curse or blessing for democracy in Eurasia?”.
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Laxenburg, Austria
The INQUIMUS workshop has been postponed to Winter 2021. IIASA’s Population and Just Societies Program together with the Advanced Systems Analysis Program will host the INQUIMUS workshop series entitled Risk management and Loss & Damage: What are suitable approaches for assessing climate-related (residual) risks?". The workshop will focus on the pressing issue of climate-related risks that may go beyond social and physical limits for adaptation.
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Virtual event
Nadejda Komendantova from the Advancing Systems Analysis Program is invited to speak at the Stakeholders' Consultation organized by UNECE and UNESCO on Innovation for Sustainable Development in Uzbekistan. Her talk is dedicated to innovation policy and risk perceptions from various stakeholders. These risk perceptions are influencing the intention of the stakeholders to lean towards innovation while reflecting on expectations of premiums for risk, delaying deployment of innovation, and increasing the volume of required investment. The talk also contains examples of de-risking policies and risk mitigation measures.
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Virtual event
Elena Rovenskaya is invited to speak on "Emerging trade routes between Europe and Asia" at the Round Table “Transport and Logistics” of the Northern Dimension Forum. The Forum is organized by the Northern Dimension Business Council in cooperation with the Association of European Businesses and the Moscow Management School Skolkovo and attracts more than 250 participants representing Russian and European key actors in the Northern Dimension area. It focuses on the Northern Dimension Business’s response to the COVID-19 challenge. The keynote speeches address economic forecasts, and safety measures as well as support and aid programs.
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Virtual
Elena Rovenskaya is invited to speak at the Consultations on the next steps in the operationalization of Euro-Asian transport corridors. These consultations are co-organized by the Sustainable Transport Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Office of the Co-ordinator of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Economic and Environmental Activities / Secretariat with the support of the Freight Division of the International Union of Railways.
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Virtual meeting
IIASA is organizing a panel discussion at the 2021 virtual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting. Drawing on the outcomes of the IIASA-ISC Consultative Science Platform, international experts will discuss the impact of the pandemic on food systems, the recovery process from the 2020 crisis and how to better respond to disasters in the future.
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Virtual
The first workshop of the Foresight Exercise is organized in the framework of the “Emerging trade routes between Europe and Asia” scenario building project. The aim of the first workshop is to discuss the key factors that would impact shipping in the Arctic in the next 30 years and their interlinkages. This workshop consists of two virtual meetings.
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Virtual
The second workshop of the Foresight Exercise is organized in the framework of the “Emerging trade routes between Europe and Asia” scenario building project. The aim of the second workshop is to identify plausible realizations of Arctic regional factors under two distinctly different global scenarios. These two global scenarios are the most quintessential out of the four scenarios by the World Economic Forum Future Council on Trade and Investment based on the deliberations of the first workshop.
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Virtual
The aim of the second consultation of the Advisory Group “Emerging trade routes between Europe and Asia” scenario-building project is to present several candidate global scenario frameworks preselected by the project team to the Advisory Group Members and to discuss the potential of their regional downscaling to the Arctic. An attempt is made to prioritize one overarching framework within which regional scenarios focusing on shipping in the Arctic should be positioned.
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Ufa, Russia / Virtual
Nadejda Komendantova from the Advanced Systems Analysis program is invited to give a keynote presentation on "Information technologies and their usage in social media" at the 8th Scientific Conference on Information Technologies for Intelligent Decision Making Support (ITIDS 2020). The conference is organized by the Ufa State Aviation Technical University, the North Caucasus Federal University, and the Ugra Research Institute of Information Technologies in cooperation with the Bashkir Branch of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Methodology of Artificial Intelligence.
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St. Petersburg, Russia / Virtual
Together with colleagues from the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, Silesian University of Technology, Poland, and Saint-Petersburg Mining University, Russia, Nadejda Komendantova from the Advanced Systems Analysis program provides the opening statement of the VI International Conference on Management, Economics, Ethics and Technics (MEET 2020). The conference is organized by the Silesian University of Technology and Saint-Petersburg Mining University.
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Moscow, Russia / Virtual
Nadejda Komendantova from the Advanced Systems Analysis program is invited to give a presentation on "COVID-19 pandemic and artificial intelligence methods for risk analysis" at the 13th International Scientific Conference on Intelligent Data Processing: Theory and Applications (IDP‐2020). The conference is organized by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in cooperation with RAS Computing Center of the Federal Research Center "Informatics and Management" of RAS, the Center for Big Data Storage and Analysis Technologies (CASS) based at Lomonosov Moscow State University and the National Technology Initiative (NTI) Competence Center for Artificial Intelligence based at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).
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Virtual meeting
Are you an early career researcher interested in applying to the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program and would like more information? The US National Member Organization for IIASA is hosting a webinar on the institute’s flagship doctoral fellowship program featuring award winning 2019 participants.
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Virtual
Leena Ilmola-Sheppard gives a talk on "Global economic system behaviour after COVID-19 - how to use systems analysis in the case of extreme uncertainties" at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU 2020) co-organized by Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. The meeting is centered on the theme “New Ideas, Frontiers and Transformations”.