Event created by Jackson Jones
A Risk Engineering Society hybrid event
This presentation examines how complex systems thinking can be adopted by engineers to better understand and solve the problems of the future.
Complex systems are systems that exhibit complex behaviour - they are non-linear with respect to cause and effect, they are open systems that interact with their environment, and they are adaptive and produce emergent behaviour – behaviour that was not designed into the system in the first place.
Adopting a complex systems approach is not simply a new tool for engineers, it's an altogether different model for understanding the world.
Event program
Hybrid event:
Hawken Auditorium QLD
Arrival & registration – 5:30 – 6:00 PM AEST (Brisbane time)
Presentation - 06:00 – 07:00 PM AEST (Brisbane time)
Webinar
Webinar Presentation - 7:00 – 8:00 PM AEDT (Sydney time) / 6:00 – 07:00 PM AEST (Brisbane time)
Speaker
Dr Sean Brady
Brady Heywood Pty Ltd, Managing Director
Sean is a forensic engineer and the managing director of Brady Heywood. He works with business, government and the legal sector to understand and resolve complex issues that typically require a whole system approach. Sean has acted as an expert witness in numerous proceedings involving many constructed facilities.
He is a Chartered Professional Engineer, a Fellow of Engineers Australia, a director of the Society of Construction Law Australia and a member of the Singapore International Mediation Centre’s Panel of Experts. In 2020 he completed the Brady Review, an investigation into the causes of fatalities in the mining industry in Queensland. This review analysed 20 years of incident and fatality information, was data-driven and culminated in 11 recommendations for both industry and the regulator on how to lower the fatality and incident rate. He also speaks, podcasts, and writes on failure, human behaviour, data analytics and engineering disasters.
