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07:45 08:15 Special(134): Mindfulness Meditation Meagan Colvin
08:30 10:00 Plenary(105): Engaging Decisionmakers with Models Metcalf Hall
  You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Trying To Make a Good Model Relevant in a Short Attention Span World Michael Dill  
  Using the Energy Policy Simulator to Inform Climate and Energy Policy Megan Mahajan  
  Managing Chronic Wasting Disease with System Dynamics Tom Fiddaman, Stephanie R. Penk  
10:00 10:45 Meeting(315): Oceania (Australasia) Chapter Meeting Chris Browne Room 320
10:00 10:45 Special(136): Coffee Break Ziskind Lounge
10:00 10:45 Special(137): Model Expo Ziskind Lounge
10:00 10:45 Special(267): Modeling Assistance Workshop Gary Hirsch, Rod MacDonald Metcalf Small Ballroom
10:00 10:45 Meeting(268): Health Policy SIG Meeting (Hybrid) Wayne Wakeland, Nina Sperber Room 315
10:00 10:45 Meeting(269): Water SIG Meeting (Hybrid) Christine Tang, Gholamreza Eslamifar Room 310
10:00 10:45 Meeting(270): Professional Practice Committee Meeting (Hybrid) Jenson Goh Room 312
11:00 12:00 Parallel(207): Managing Under Pressure
  Simulation Framework to Quantify Supply Chain Resilience Bhavya Gupta, Jayendran Venkateswaran  
  Explaining Fundamental Emergency Department Dynamics with Simple Stock and Flow Concepts J. Bradley Morrison, Brian Kenny, Puja Singh, Anthony Rosania  
  Surviving Budget Cuts in Higher Education: A System Dynamics Approach to Model Long-term Impacts Kavish Malhotra, Saeid Saidi  
11:00 12:00 Parallel(211): Discovering Leverage Points and Model Parameters Ali Akhavan
  Estimating Information Delays in Risk Perception: A Hybrid ARDL-Erlang Approach to Modeling Mobility Change During a Pandemic Gaofei Zhang, Ann Osi, Navid Ghaffarzadegan, Hazhir Rahmandad, Ran Xu  
  Designing tools for Systemic Design: identifying structural Leverage points Laura Guzman-Abello, Juan Nicolas Guarin, Juan David Sanchez  
  How Social Influence Shapes Collective Intelligence in Binary Choices: Reconciling Experimental Disparities with Model Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Levi Grenier  
11:00 12:00 Parallel(197): Modular and Scalable Modeling
  Review of Sub-Models in Groundwater SD Models to Facilitate “Lego-Like” Modeling Mehdi Moghadam Manesh, Allyson Beall King  
  Modularization and Integration of Stock-and-Flow Models using ChatPySD Justin Hoffman, Ricardo Büttner, Bo Hu  
  Application of Life Cycle Assessment Calculation Methodologies to Quantify Upstream Impact within the System Dynamics Framework Takuma Ono  
11:00 12:00 Parallel(208): Unintended Consequences in Human Systems
  Electrifying Away Climate Change: Interactions of Heat Pump Installation Capacity, Adoption, and Grid Load in Massachusetts Alexander Kuptel, John Sterman  
  Eliciting the Dynamics of Regional Banking from Banking Supervisors Mikhail Oet, Chenxu Zhang, Sahil Shah  
  Using CBSD to Explore Unintended Consequences of White Allyship Behavior in a Late 2010s Activist Community Sarah Pritchard  
11:00 12:00 Parallel(203): Mental Health and Systemic Care
  Exploring the Dynamics of Sleep and Depressive Symptoms in Young Adults Jeroen Uleman  
  Addressing syndemic disparities in problematic alcohol use, violence, and reproductive health: A system dynamics approach Arielle Deutsch, Ali Akhavan, Mohammad Jalali  
  Breaking Acute Bed Capacity Bottlenecks: Decision-Support Insights from the MID-CARE Model for Ireland’s Regional Health Area Sinead Madden  
11:00 12:00 Parallel(204): Human Dimensions of Climate and Technology
  A system dynamics modeling framework for endogenizing human behavior change in global-scale integrated assessment models Jefferson K. Rajah, Benjamin Blanz, Birgit Kopainsky, Billy Schoenberg  
  Beyond Climate Vulnerability: How Health Shapes and Is Shaped by Climate Change and Adaptation Mariya Andreeva, Paulo Goncalves  
  Will second-use EV battery start-ups get trapped in the valley of death? Juliane Seika, Merla Kubli  
11:00 12:00 TableTalk(279): Advancing Sustainability through Dynamic Modeling
  A Dynamic Framework for Environmental Impact Assessments: Advancing Sustainability and Resilience Hassan Qudrat-Ullah  
  Utility Scale Battery Energy Storage System Risk and Reward Causal Model Joseph Londa  
  Modeling the Future of Ghana's Cocoa Sector: Tradeoffs Between Export Dependence, Processing, and Sustainability Alexander Tommy Budianto, Roberto Max Protil, April Roggio, Eliot Rich  
11:00 12:00 TableTalk(284): Modeling for Decision-Making and Capacity Management
  Automation of Decision-Making Processes in Construction Management Roman Oldenburg  
  A Real-World Case Study of Using an SD-Based Agent Simulation to Model Multi-Tier Supply Chains and Disruptions J. Chris White  
  Capacity Impact of Revisits on ER Services Luis Lopez, Jose Lopez, Roy Zuniga  
11:00 12:00 TableTalk(278): AI and Decision-Making in Risk Management
  Using System Dynamics to Introduce Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the Operational Environment: Lessons from government-funded Corey Lofdahl  
  Enhancing Dam Safety by Bridging Risk Perception of Engineers and Maintenance Decision-Making Mohammad Pourmatin  
  How AI Shapes Cyber Risk Management Sander Zeijlemaker, Michael Siegel  
11:00 12:00 WIP(230): Environmental Governance
  Evaluating Social-Ecological Dynamics of Irrigation Practices that Impacts Water Conservation Effectiveness Tanvir Ahmed  
  Understanding Current and Future Nitrogen Dynamics in a Canadian Agricultural Watershed Sarah Van Heyst, Jan Adamowski, Andreas Nicolaidis Lindqvist  
  How Does Land Use Changes Affect Acequia’s Water, Agriculture, and Community Systems? Applying an Integrated GIS and SD Hamid Balali, Robert Sabie, Gholamreza Eslamifar, Nageena Makhdoom, Shareen Farha, Benjamin Turner, Carlos Ochoa, Alexander Fernald  
  Towards an Internally Consistent Representation of All Planetary Boundaries - Using the World-Earth Model FRIDA Axel Eriksson, Jannes Breier, David Collste, Dieter Gerten, Lars J. Nilsson, Billy Schoenberg  
  Disaster Recovery at a Local and National Scale James Paine, Jordan Berry  
  Opportunities and Barriers to Building Trust Among Resource Users Through System Dynamics Modeling Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Adam Zwickle, Glenn O'Neil  
11:00 12:00 WIP(241): Managing Risk in Healthcare
  A Modeling Framework for the Epidemiological Impact of Foot and Mouth Disease Control Strategies Applied to Cattle Systems Karun Kaniyamattam  
  A Systems-Based Analysis of Energy Balance Dynamics in Obesity: Modeling Adaptive Behaviors Boyd Swinburn, Saeideh Fallah-Fini  
  From Eligibility to Uptake: Endogenizing Participation Behavior in Lung Cancer Screening Models Hesam Mahmoudi, Alexandra L. Potter, Chi-Fu J, Yang, G. Scott Gazelle  
  Tackling Gun Violence: a Community-Based Systems Approach Brita Roy, Zeynep Hasgul, Mohammad Jalali  
  Patient Empowerment as a Catalyst for Better Health Outcomes: A System Dynamics-AI Augmented Approach. Jorge Andrick Parra Valencia, Ivan Taylor, Saroj Koul, Catalina Henao  
  Testing Human and AI Strategies of Concept-Link Generation for Causal Loop Diagrams. The Case of Biodiversity Programming Texts Krzysztof Kasianiuk  
12:00 13:30 Special(138): Lunch Ziskind Lounge
12:15 13:15 Roundtable(310): How to Increase the Value of System Dynamics Society Membership Rebecca Niles, Fernando Redivo Metcalf Small Ballroom
12:15 13:15 Roundtable(309): System Dynamics for the Chief Executive Officers Usman Ghani Metcalf Small Ballroom
12:15 13:15 Roundtable(308): Using multi-method hybrid System Dynamics approach-feasibility, applications, advantage/pitfalls Takuma Ono Metcalf Small Ballroom
12:15 13:15 Roundtable(305): Returning to the SOURCE: Developing a simple story to explain projections and reality Erin Stringfellow Metcalf Small Ballroom
12:15 13:15 Roundtable(306): Building long-term, meaningful researcher-community partnerships for systems change Andrew Brown
12:15 13:15 Roundtable(307): Can System Dynamics Save the World? April Roggio, Eliot Rich Metcalf Small Ballroom
13:30 14:30 Parallel(186): Dynamics of Innovation Failure
  Why Successful Companies Fail: Innovator’s Dilemma versus Learning Propensity Model Bowon Kim  
  Investigating the Valley of Death and Dynamics of Deep Tech Commercialization from the Firm's Perspective Verneri Välimaa, Nada Oubrhou  
  Failure Modes in Servitization: A Process Theory Xichen Sun, Rogelio Oliva  
13:30 14:30 Parallel(206): Modeling Earth System Sustainability
  Forecasting Groundwater Storage Changes: A Deep Learning Model Leveraging System Dynamics Simulation Data Gholamreza Eslamifar, Ilya Zaslavsky, Hamid Balali, Vytautas Samalavičius, Alexander Fernald  
  Assessing Planetary Boundary Transgressions and Their Causes - Using the World-Earth model FRIDA Axel Eriksson  
  Dynamic Simulation Modeling for Resilience Assessment of Coupled Water-Agriculture-Community Systems in a semi-arid region Hamid Balali, Gholamreza Eslamifar, Connie Maxwell, Alexander Fernald  
13:30 14:30 Parallel(195): Governance in Resource Systems Allyson Beall King
  Digital Textile Microfactories in Urban Manufacturing: A Quantitative Analysis on Market Diffusion and Dominance Juan Esteban Martinez Jaramillo, Yagmur Ergulen, Meike Tilebein  
  A System Dynamics Framework for Mining Planning: From National to District-Level with a Territorial Focus Linda Berrio-Giraldo, Sergio Ospino, Veronica Valencia-Hernandez, Daniela Congote, Clara Villegas-Palacio, Yris Olaya, Santiago Arango-Arango  
  Comparative Phosphorus Governance: Modeling Management Practices Across Different Soil Types April Roggio, Mary Arenberg, Roberto Max Protil  
13:30 14:30 Parallel(218): Participatory Approaches to Social Challenges
  A Participatory Systems Approach for Designing Implementation Strategies and Mechanisms Travis Moore, Yuilyn Chang Chusan, Mark Pachucki, Bo Kim  
  Childhood Cancer Survivorship: Cultivating Shared Understanding of Complex Care Contexts Through Group Model Building Kelsey Werner, Ellis Ballard, Rachel Matsumoto  
  Developing a Design Framework for Community-Engaged System Dynamics Practice Andrew Brown, Ellis Ballard, Kelsey Werner, Tiana Felmingham  
13:30 14:30 Parallel(196): Improving Health Outcomes Wayne Wakeland
  Experiencing Homelessness in Portland, Maine John Voyer  
  Can E-scooters Enhance Active-Mobility Health Outcomes? Ben Pearre  
  Reverse Engineering: Local Implementation of Cervical Cancer Prevention for Global Health Laura Guzman-Abello, Camilo Olaya, Peter Hovmand, Juanita Garcia, Julia Gage, Patti E Gravitt  
13:30 14:30 WIP(248): Human Water Interactions
  Water Challenge Dumas F. Lafontant, ML  
  Community-Led Systems Dynamics Modeling to Understand Sea Level Rise-Related Health Impacts Byomkesh Talukder, Rajiv Chowdhury, Ananda Mondal, Levente Juhasz, Jayantha Obeysekera, Shimon Wdowinski, Rita Kanazeh  
  Socio-ecological Shift in Fishing Practices Influenced by the Draining of the Leyte Sab-A Basin Peatland (LSBP) Jayson Baldesco  
  Domestic Water Management Information Model Based on Cooperation and Powered by Industry 4.0 Technologies in Periurban Regions Beatriz Marin, Jorge Andrick Parra Valencia, Ivan Taylor, Martha Toy  
13:30 14:30 WIP(236): Inequality and Economic Systems
  Income Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility: A Dynamic Hypothesis Proposal Takuma Ono, John Rodat  
  Two Strands in the Spaghetti of Economic Inequality John Rodat  
  Leveraging System Dynamics Modelling for Advancing Energy Justice Research Milton M. Herrera, Adriana Carolina Silva-Arias, Jaime Andres Sarmiento-Espinel  
  Toward a Theory of the Evolution of the Global Political Economy: How Capital & Labor Interact to Co-Create & Distribute Wealth Garry Piepenbrock  
  Qualitative Modeling of Economic and Biological Factors Influencing Profitability in Cow-Calf Operations in United States Vishnudas Kulangara Veettil, Karun Kaniyamattam  
  Understanding the mechanisms driving the starvation cycle in Commercial Nonprofits Ricardo Chavelas Manzo  
13:30 14:30 WIP(232): Health Equity and Innovation
  Rising Burden of Vascular Cognitive Impairment in Singapore: Forecasting Disease Outcomes and Intervention Scenarios Gandhi Naline, Joann Poh, David Bruce Matchar  
  Understanding Syndemic Problems: Lessons from Four Communities on Health Disparities and Structural Inequities Zeynep Hasgul, Mohammad Jalali, Alyssa Luisi, Kuan-Lung Chen  
  Enhancing AI-Based Clinical Interventions through Community-Based System Dynamics Chad Evans, Peter Hovmand, Donald Martin, James Washington, Herman Taylor  
  Evaluating Ethiopia’s Healthcare Financing Reform: A Systems Approach to Improving NCD Care Hannah Lee, Zeynep Hasgul, Nurilign Abebe Moges, Adane Nigusie, Gizew Asres, Edemealem Adimasu, Mezgebu Yitayal, Mohammad Jalali  
  Modelling the systemic impact of health system innovation under uncertainty: Community Hospital of the Future in Singapore Ashish Kumar, Sze Ling Chan , Constance Xue Rui Neo, Fadzillah Nur, Richard Chan, Kailasam Manimegalai, Candelyn Yu, Yao Ge, Yingqi Xu , Sean Shao Wei Lam  
  Analysis of Effects of Patient Education on Early Stage Osteoarthritis Connor Hale, Marin Fisher, Niyousha Hosseinichimeh  
14:45 15:30 Special(311): Coffee Break
14:45 15:15 Special(296): Sponsor Demo: Common Earth (Virtual Only) Bruno Seixas Virtual Room1
14:45 15:30 Special(140): Career Fair (In Person Only) Ziskind Lounge
14:45 15:30 Special(139): Online Speed Networking Virtual Room Main
14:45 15:30 Meeting(271): Environment and Natural Resource Management SIG Meeting (Hybrid) Joseph Londa, Erica Rieder Room 310
14:45 15:30 Meeting(273): Benchmarking and Evaluating AI for Modeling and Simulation (BEAMS) Meeting (Hybrid) Billy Schoenberg, Davidson Girard Terrace Lounge
  Benchmarking and Evaluating AI for Modeling and Simulation (BEAMS) Initiative Billy Schoenberg, Davidson Girard  
15:30 16:30 Plenary(253): Global Political Dynamics Panel John Sterman Metcalf Hall
16:30 18:00 Plenary(106): Bridging Insights for Smarter Decisions Niyousha Hosseinichimeh Metcalf Hall
  From Maps to Meaning: Leveraging Stock and Flow Thinking for Operational Insights at PepsiCo Chris Soderquist, Rob Meyers  
  How AI Can Help System Dynamics (SD) and Why AI Needs SD Donald Martin  
  A Call to Action for Use of Systems Dynamics for Reducing Bias in AI Stephen Brobst  
18:00 18:30 Plenary(141): Closing Ceremony Niyousha Hosseinichimeh, Rod MacDonald Metcalf Hall
19:00 20:30 Special(142): Wednesday Walking Tours Stone Lobby
20:30 21:15 Special(143): Wednesday Dinner (Self Paid)
21:15 22:45 Special(144): After Party (Self Paid)