Program – IST 2017

Program overview, detailed program & Keynote speakers

IST 2017 Conference session formats

Across the different thematic tracks, the conference will be structured using different formats:

Paper Sessions: 90 minute sessions with three full paper presentations and discussion.
Speed talk Sessions: 45 minute sessions with 4-5 short presentations, where an idea or a central research finding is presented in 4 minutes. The rest of the session is dedicated to interaction between the presenters and other session participants in small group discussions (app. 20-30 minutes) focusing on the individual presentations.
Dialogue Sessions: 90 minute sessions featuring paper presentations with a specific thematic focus, project presentations, panels, discussions or workshops related to the conference theme. The dialog sessions include non-academic participants and often contain innovative formats. All dialogue sessions have been prepared and submitted by an external session organizer.
Poster Session: posters will be displayed throughout the conference at a central location. There will also be a time slot exclusively dedicated to poster presentations.

Program overview

Program Overview
Sunday
18 June
16.00–20.00
Registration opens
18.00–20.00
Introduction to newcomers
(PhD led session)
19.00-21.00
Welcome drink at the conference venue Lindholmen Conference Centre.
09.45–10.15
Coffee Break
10.15–11.45
Parallell Sessions A
11.45-12.45
Lunch break, exhibition and posters
12.45–14.00
Plenary II: The role of political leadership and scientific knowledge.

Chair: Tomas Kåberger
Panel: Connie Hedegaard, Maud Olofsson, Göran Marklund, Jonathan Köhler.
14.00 – 15.00
Poster Session in Conference Foyer
15.00-16.30
Parallell Sessions B
16.35-18.05
Parallell Sessions C
19.00- 22.00
Welcome Reception at the Museum of World Culture (Världskulturmuseet) with awards for best paper and best poster.

The reception is hosted by the City of Gothenburg and Region Västra Götaland in collaboration with the IST conference.

Reserved trams leave from Stenpiren at 18:45.
You can get to Stenpiren from the IST venue by taking the free ferry from Lindholmspiren located just a few meters walk from the venue. Read more
19.00- approx. 23.00
Conference Dinner – Boat cruise in the Gotheburg archipelago.
Boats depart from Lindholmen pier.
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Program Overview
Monday
19 June
07.30 -18-30
Registration opens
08.30–09.00
Conference opens: Welcome and introductions
09.00–09.45
Plenary I: Peter Senge
Transitioning our Concept of Leadership
09.45–10.15
Coffee Break
10.15–11.45
Parallell Sessions A
11.45-12.45
Lunch break, exhibition and posters
12.45–14.00
Plenary II: The role of political leadership and scientific knowledge.

Chair: Tomas Kåberger
Panel: Connie Hedegaard, Maud Olofsson, Göran Marklund, Jonathan Köhler.
14.00 – 15.00
Poster Session in Conference Foyer
15.00-16.30
Parallell Sessions B
16.35-18.05
Parallell Sessions C
19.00- 22.00
Welcome Reception at the Museum of World Culture (Världskulturmuseet) with awards for best paper and best poster.

The reception is hosted by the City of Gothenburg and Region Västra Götaland in collaboration with the IST conference.

Reserved trams leave from Stenpiren at 18:45.
You can get to Stenpiren from the IST venue by taking the free ferry from Lindholmspiren located just a few meters walk from the venue. Read more
19.00- approx. 23.00
Conference Dinner – Boat cruise in the Gotheburg archipelago.
Boats depart from Lindholmen pier.
Read more

Program Overview
Tuesday
20 June
07.00
Morning Activity
07.30
Registration opens
08.30–10.00
Parallell Sessions D
10.00–10.30
Coffee Break
10.30–12.00
Parallell Sessions E
12.00 – 12.45
Lunch, exhibition and posters
12.45–13.40
Plenary III: Heila Lotz-Sisitka
Invigorating ‘Politics as Potentia’: ‘Composting’ environment and sustainability education policy and learning in a transitioning society
13.45–14.30
Parallell Sessions F, Speed Talks
14.30-15.00
Coffee Break, exhibition and posters
15.00-16.30
Parallell Sessions G
16.35-18.05
Parallell Sessions H
19.00- approx. 23.00
Conference Dinner – Boat cruise in the Gotheburg archipelago.
Boats depart from Lindholmen pier.
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Program Overview
Wednesday
21 June
07.00
Morning Activity
07.30
Registration opens
09.00–10.30
Parallell Sessions I
10.30–11.00
Coffee Break, exhibition and posters
11.00–11.45
Parallell Sessions J, Speed Talk
11.45 – 12.45
Lunch, exhibition and posters
12.45-14.15
Parallell Sessions K
14.20-15.15
Plenary IV: Eva Krutmeijer & Andreas T. Olsson
Communication challenges for transition agents -3 take-home messages that will do the trick
15.30–18.00
Study visits.- Electricity
Visit to Älvrummet on board quiet an emission free busses. Presentation on the project electricity.
Limited availability.
16.35-18.05
Parallell Sessions C
19.00- 22.00
Welcome Reception at the Museum of World Culture (Världskulturmuseet) with awards for best paper and best poster.

The reception is hosted by the City of Gothenburg and Region Västra Götaland in collaboration with the IST conference.

Reserved trams leave from Stenpiren at 18:45.
You can get to Stenpiren from the IST venue by taking the free ferry from Lindholmspiren located just a few meters walk from the venue. Read more
19.00- approx. 23.00
Conference Dinner – Boat cruise in the Gotheburg archipelago.
Boats depart from Lindholmen pier.
Read more

Keynote Speakers

Peter Senge

Peter Senge, PhD,Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management MIT, Founding Chair SoL (Society of Organizational Learning), a global network of organizations, researchers, and consultants dedicated to the “interdependent development of people and their institutions” and co-founder of the Academy for Systemic Change, which seeks to accelerate the growth of the field of systemic change worldwide. His work centers on promoting shared understanding of complex issues and shared leadership for healthier human systems. This involves major cross-sector projects focused on global food systems, climate change, regenerative economies and the future of education.

Peter is the author of The Fifth Discipline and co-author of the three related fieldbooks, Presence, and The Necessary Revolution. The Fifth Discipline (over two million copies sold), was recognized by Harvard Business Review as “one of the seminal management books of the last 75 years,” and by the Financial Times as one of five “most important” management books. The Journal of Business Strategy named him one of the 24 people who had the greatest influence on business strategy in the 20th century. Recently, he was named to the “1000 Talents” Program (Renzai) in China to help China become a leader in systemic change, to benefit itself and the world.

Heila Lotz-Sisitka

Heila Lotz-Sisitka works in the Environmental Learning Research Centre at Rhodes University in the Faculty of Education, where she holds a South African National Research Foundation Chair in Transformative Social Learning and Green Skills Learning Pathways. The Chair’s work focusses on ways in which transformative learning and green skills learning pathways can strengthen people’s participation in securing more socially just and sustainable forms life and living. It foregrounds collective agency for transformative change in society. Her current research interests focus on the relationship between environmental learning, agency and social-ecological and social system transformation.

Connie Hedegaard

Connie Hedegaard is a Danish politician and public intellectual who was European Commissioner for Climate Action in the European Commission 2010- 2014. On behalf of Denmark, she hosted the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. Prior to her position as Commissioner, she was, Danish Minister of Climate and Energy (2007-2009), and Danish Minister for Environment (2004-2007). She is presently Chair of and Board member in various organizations and committees.

Maud Olofsson

Maud Olofsson is a Swedish former politician who was leader of the Swedish Centre Party from 2001 to 2011, Minister for Enterprise and Energy from 2006 to 2011 and Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2010. She was a member of the Swedish Parliament from 2002 to 2011.

Göran Marklund

Göran Marklund is Deputy Director General and Head of Operational Development and Analysis at VINNOVA, which is the Swedish Innovation Agency. Dr. Marklund is also member of the OECD TIP, Working Group on Innovation and Technology Policy.

He has previously been Associate Professor in Economic History at Uppsala University with the focus on innovation and economic change. Dr. Marklund has also been Science and Technology Attachée at the Swedish Embassy in Washington DC and guest researcher at the Center for International Technology Policy (CISTP) at George Washington University. He often gives advice to the Swedish Government and to the EU on research, innovation and growth policy issues. As a researcher, Dr. Marklund has primarily specialized in globalization, innovation and national competitiveness, with a particular focus on R&D, innovation and growth indicators. In this function he has closely followed OECD’s and Eurostat’s indicator work and assisted at the meetings of OECD’s group of national experts of science and technology indicators, NESTI. Dr. Marklund is currently chairman of the Advisory Board for R&D and Innovation Statistics at Statistics Sweden.

Dr. Jonathan Köhler CEng MRINA

Dr. Jonathan Köhler is Senior Scientist at the Fraunhofer ISI (Institute for Systems and Innovation research). He works in transport economics and is an expert on innovation theory and long run technological change, macroeconomics and system dynamics. He has worked on biofuels in the transport sector and sustainable innovation in the transport sector. He is now working on transitions modelling and the modelling of innovation systems and processes in transport. He has developed the agent based models (ABM) of transitions in transport, technology investment and development in shipbuilding. He has undertaken case studies of sustainability in international transport for the EU GLOBIS and PATHWAYS projects and has led a project for the German transport ministry on Carbon Trading in shipping. He is member of the managing committee of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN), responsible for modelling issues. He is manager of the socio-economic analysis of low carbon technologies in aviation for the EU CleanSky research consortium. He was chairman of the EU expert group on Foresight Modelling.

Professor Tomas Kåberger

Academically, Tomas Kåberger got an MSc in Engineering Physics, a PhD in Physical Resource Theory, and Docent in Environmental Science at Chalmers. He has been professor in International Sustainable Energy Systems at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University, and he is currently Professor of Industrial Energy Policy at Chalmers University of Technology and serves as Distinguished Visiting Expert of bio-energy technology at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. Industrially, he has served as vice president of TallOil supplying bioenergy, managing director of TPS providing biomass combustion technologies and president of Ecotraffic developing energy supply systems for the transport sector. He has been chairman of an early wind power company owning wind power plants and board member of several smaller energy technology companies. Currently he serves on the board of directors of Vattenfall AB. Politically, he has served on board of Swedish and European Environmental Citizen’s organizations, several Swedish Government Committees developing energy and environmental legislation, and China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development as a member of a task force on Low-Carbon Industrialization Strategies. From 2008 until 2011 he was Director General of the National Swedish Energy Agency. Currently he serves as vice chairman of the National Swedish Forest Agency and a third of his time in Japan as Executive Board Chairman of the Renewable Energy Institute based in Tokyo.

Eva Krutmeijer

Eva Krutmeijer is one of Sweden’s most renowned science communicators. After many years in publishing she became head of the information department at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and from that experience she has been developing communication projects for the Swedish Research Council as well as the Swedish Parliament. She is a frequent moderator and facilitator in issues related to sustainable development and communication of environmental and climate issues.

Andreas T Olsson

Swedish actor Andreas T Olsson (born 1979) is educated at the Stockholm Theater Academy in Stockholm 2010-2013. He came straight to the Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten) after graduation and became part of the theater’s permanent ensemble. He got his breakthrough with the acclaimed monologue “Sufflören”.

Program overview, detailed program & Keynote speakers

Program overview

Keynote Speakers

Peter Senge

Heila Lotz-Sisitka

Connie Hedegaard

Maud Olofsson

Göran Marklund

Dr. Jonathan Köhler CEng MRINA

Professor Tomas Kåberger

Eva Krutmeijer

Andreas T Olsson

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Program overview, detailed program & Keynote speakers

Program overview

Keynote Speakers

Peter Senge

Heila Lotz-Sisitka

Connie Hedegaard

Maud Olofsson

Göran Marklund

Dr. Jonathan Köhler CEng MRINA

Professor Tomas Kåberger

Eva Krutmeijer

Andreas T Olsson

Hosted by;

Conference Secretariat

Important dates

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