Wednesday 22 January 2025 10:00am to 4:30pm
Horizon Leeds, 3rd Floor, 2 Brewery Wharf Kendell Street LS10 1JR
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Spaces are filling up fast! If you wish to join us in person, please register for your place before the 20th December. We will not be able to take registrations for last minute places.
We warmly invite you to join us for Energy & Complexity 2025, in Leeds on Wednesday 22nd Jan 2025! This free one-day conference will be on the topic of energy systems and complexity (complex systems) science, and will provide an opportunity to hear about the latest research and contribute to an updated research agenda for the field. We want to provide a platform for the intersection of these two research domains, which are increasingly significant but often overlooked. In 2012 we held a national conference in Oxford on the same topic, which was hosted by the UK Energy Research Centre. When we regather in Leeds we will discuss new research and developed an updated agenda for the application of complex systems thinking and methods for a just and NetZero energy transition.
Attendees will enjoy opportunities to:
- Engage with the energy and complexity community
- Hear from prominent academics and others engaged in using complexity science to address energy challenges
- Learn about new frameworks, perspectives, methods and application areas
- Connect with other researchers to develop future collaborative work
- Consider the impact of complexity perspectives on policy- and decision-making for energy futures
- Help us develop a research agenda for the intersection of these two fields.
We expect to host more than 100 participants from across the UK and beyond, both academic and from government and other interested organisations. We will have keynote presentations (speakers tbc), lightning presentations from early-career researchers, knowledge cafés on agenda-setting topics, and a panel session. We encourage people to attend in person for the full interactive day, though we will offer live-streamed presentations of some sessions, with a facility for interactive Q&A for those who wish to join online. If you wish to join the presentations remotely, please register selecting that option, so that you receive joining instructions.
The themes for the day are:
- The intersection of complex systems and energy research
- Exploring the interdisciplinary nature of the field, with a focus on the roles of social science and modelling and engineering perspectives
- Setting out current energy challenges and the need for complexity science (including practitioner perspectives)
Registration is open! Please confirm your free place here by 20 December. We look forward to seeing you in Leeds!
Where: Central Leeds, less than 10 mins walk from the train station