Their main focus will be on the self-understanding of the field, in particular, on

(1) illuminating the underlying assumptions that make approaches distinct from each other or are shared by them while

(2) questioning the impact on society.

The meeting is open to any researcher in the field, be it systems biology or information systems, complex adaptive systems or sociocybernetics, evolutionary economics or ecosystems research, systems philosophy or constructivism, self-organisation or cognitive science, network theory or artificial intelligence or any other specialisation that is rooted in cybernetics, systems theory or complexity theory.