Events

We are excited to announce that a Dr. Rik Logtenburg will be joining us for a special event you won't want to miss!  Register online to stay updated.

🎤Workshop: The Futures We Can Build: Coordinating Complexity Across Canada

📅 Date: June 26, 2025

🕒 Time: 2:30 pm

📍Location: United College of University of Waterloo, Room 164 (Greenhouse)  |  190 Westmount Road N. , Waterloo, ON | (formerly St. Paul's College)

Stay tuned for more details soon—mark your calendars now!

Canada is at a crossroads—facing simultaneous crises in climate resilience, economic productivity, housing affordability, and institutional effectiveness. Traditional approaches often fragment efforts, limiting their impact.

How can we coordinate complexity, scale effective solutions, and catalyze systemic innovation across sectors, scales, and communities?

Join Rik Logtenberg, Director of CanAdapt, for an inspiring talk and interactive workshop demonstrating how complexity science, AI, and community-led systems thinking can accelerate Canada’s transition.

In this session, you’ll:

• Learn how practical tools—systems mapping, adaptive governance frameworks, and AI-powered decision-support platforms—transform isolated efforts into coordinated action.
• Engage in hands-on mapping exercises and collaborative discussions.
• Identify leverage points and actionable pathways to scale resilient infrastructure and innovative governance.

Leave empowered, connected, and ready to build the shared futures Canada urgently needs.

We are pleased to invite members of the WICI community to join the R 3.0 Conference—Braiding Bioregional Resilience & Regeneration: Learning to Reinhabit Earth Together.

Register to receive updates and please join us for the WICI Open House where you will meet WICI members and learn how to be involved in complexity science research.

📅 Date: September 22, 2025.

🕑 Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm.

📍 Location: DC 1301 (Fishbowl)

POSTPONED FROM SEPTEMBER 22

We invite you to join us for the launch of the bioregion initiative, a collective effort focused on the Grand River watershed. This gathering welcomes all those who share a commitment to reimagining the future of this vital watershed.

The event marks the beginning of a shared journey to imagine an aspirational future for the Grand River region—one that honors ecological integrity, deepens social and cultural connections, and advances regenerative economic pathways. Together we will explore the opportunities and responsibilities of stewarding the watershed, while building a collective vision for resilience, wellbeing, and thriving communities.

This launch will lay the foundation for an ongoing path forward—mapping next steps, identifying leverage points, and strengthening the relationships that will guide this initiative into the future.

All are welcome.

Register for further updates and how to be involved.

Guest speaker, Seanna Davidson joins us for a WICI Talk discussions "Systems Leadership Framework".  Learn more and register for this talk.

📅 October 22, 2025
📍EV1 225
🕑2:00-4:00PM

Join Us for a Reading and Conversation with Madhur Anand

Celebrate the launch of To Place a Rabbit, the debut novel by acclaimed author and former WICI Director Madhur Anand.

📅 October 28, 2025
📍STC 2002
🕑1:30 -3:30PM

Enjoy a live reading, an intimate conversation with the author, and an opportunity to purchase signed copies.

This event is free and open to the public. Presented by the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI), with support from Penguin Random House.

Join us in welcoming Woi Oh to WICI.  He will present his talk,

"Understanding dynamics of forced migration and conflict through the lens of complex systems".

📅 November 3,2025

📍DC 1301 for refreshments; DC 1302 for the talk

🕑1:00-3:00PM

ALIFE 2026 will be held jointly with the AMMCS 2026 conference, giving participants the unique opportunity to attend sessions and talks across both events.