After a recent visit to London, I reflected on what its data history reveals about visualization today. From John Snow’s cholera map to Charles Booth’s poverty maps and the London Underground diagram, these examples show how visuals frame causality, define categories, and simplify complexity. These lessons are important as visualizations are now produced faster and more automatically than ever.

This interactive session explores how to use AI as a powerful tool to complement your public relations and marketing work. You will gain a deeper understanding of the nuances between AI and these fields, while also exploring the evolving career opportunities in public relations and marketing. Through interactive exercises, we will demonstrate how AI tools can enhance your work in public relations and marketing and give you a competitive edge.

Complex systems are composed of many interconnected components whose interactions produce dynamic and often unpredictable outcomes. Understanding these systems is essential when addressing challenges that cannot be analyzed through simple causal relationships. This session aims to demystify complex systems by introducing the fundamental concepts that characterize them and examining models and analytical approaches commonly used in real-world applications.

In these times of conflict, it is incumbent on supply network managers to ensure the continuity of the products and services. Whether it’s foodstuffs, clothing, medical supplies, car parts or a multitude of daily necessities, disruptions in supply must be identified, mitigated, and maintained. We will present the principal tools and practices in use by key supply networks to maintain integrity of supply and services.

Organizations often assume that having risk registers and written plans means they are prepared. But when disruption occurs, documents alone do not enable action. Real resilience depends on whether the organization has designed the capability to respond. This session introduces a practical approach to visualizing decisions, operational dependencies, and recovery priorities so teams can respond faster and maintain operations when it matters most.

Inclusive leadership is transformational, but not a walk in the park. It requires self-awareness, openness, integrity, humility, comfort with uncertainty, among other traits. Amidst external pressures and internal agendas, leaders can find themselves trying to advance inclusion within the technocratic and adversarial tendencies of public sector and community organizations. This session explores the practical wisdom gained from enacting inclusive leadership within such inherent contradiction.