INNOVATION METHODOLOGIES for DEFENCE CHALLENGES Towards Practical Strategies Saint Paul University

INNOVATION METHODOLOGIES FOR DEFENCE CHALLENGES Towards Practical Strategies Saint Paul University

January 30 – February 1, 2018

Information and Payment for Services on The Archipelago of Design www.militaryepistemology.com IMDC Definitive Schedule, January 30 – February 1st, 2018

1/30 1/31 2/1 2/2 Start Time Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 7:00 AM Portfolio Pick-up (Breakfast available) Open Admin Meeting (Breakfast available) Open Admin Meeting (Breakfast available)

Founding a Global Community of Practice? - Paul Mitchell Deliverables - Philippe Beaulieu-B. & Philippe Dufort 8:00 AM Welcome (Dr. Philippe D & Dr. Philippe B) 8:30 AM BGen. Carignan – Practicing Innovation Eric Fournier & Col. Earl Vandahl – Ideation, Innovation BGen. Whale – Deliberate Systems Thinking and Accidental Methodologies for Defence Challenges in Army and Special Forces Design: A Practical Application within the RCAF Operations 9:00 AM Dr. Jim Greer (ret. Col) – Enabling Innovation Dr. Ofra Graicer – Outline of a Theory of Special Dr. Harold Nelson – Putting Design in Its Places Through Emergent Transformative Design Operations (Q&A) (Q&A) (Q&A) 10:00 AM Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break 10:30 AM Dr. Antoine Bousquet – Thinking with Maps: Cmdre. Angus Topshee & Col. Matt Palma – Design and Geospatial Reasoning in War Panel Cluster 2 Evolution in North American Defence 11:00 AM Diversity, Education and the Practical Effectiveness of IM Panel Cluster 1 Panel Cluster 3 The Ontology of War: Utile Forms, Gender and 12:00 PM Ben Zweibelson – Fostering Deep Insight Through IM 'Back to Earth': Planning & Institutionalisation System Practices Social Substantive Play Activity 12:30 PM Lunch Lunch

Lunch and Skate on the Rideau Canal Skiing at 1:30 PM Dr. Tarak Barkawi – Battle Imaginaries Mont- 2:00 PM Participant (i.e. attendee) Presentations on their Tremblant 2:30 PM BGen. Porkoláb – NATO’s Future Vision for Design Challenges (QC) Workshop Cluster 1 Thinking Education Innovation Skills for Defence Challenges 3:00 PM Farewell 3:30 PM Workshop Cluster 2 4:00 PM Innovation Skills for Comprehensive Challenges Praxis Café Free time or Departures 5:00 PM Dining Cocktails at SPU

6:00 PM Evening Conference Reception BGen. Whale Fine Dining Army Officers’ Mess BGen. Porkoláb Restaurant L’Orée du bois Honoring Dr. Paul Mitchell Ben Zweibelson 15 Kingsmere Road Dining Cocktails Dr. Chris Paparone Chelsea, Québec 149 Somerset West Dr. Ofra Graicer Ottawa

1 Tuesday, January 30 Start Time 7:00 AM Portfolio Pick-up (Breakfast available in Multi-room) Atrium (Foyer 860F) 8:00 AM Welcome – Philippe Dufort (SPU) & Philippe Beaulieu-Brossard (CFC) Amphitheatre G-1124 8:30 AM General Keynote Series – BGen. Jennie Carignan (Canadian Army) Amphitheatre G-1124 Practicing Innovation Methodologies for Defence Challenges in Army Operations (Introduced by Maj. Mathieu Primeau) 9:00 AM Designer Keynote Series with Q&A- Dr. Jim Greer (ret. Col.) (Leads Institute) Amphitheatre G-1124 Enabling Innovation Through Emergent Transformative Design (Introduced by Ben Zweibelson) 10:00 AM Coffee Break Atrium (Foyer 860 SF) 10:30 AM Scholar Keynote Series – Antoine Bousquet (Birkbeck, University of London) Amphitheatre G-1124 Thinking with Maps: Geospatial Reasoning in War (Introduced by Tarak Barkawi) 11:00 AM The Ontology of War: Utile Forms, Gender and System Practices Panel A: The Power of Devices, Artifacts and Narratives Panel B: Systems Thinking, Systems Practice – Chair: Harold Panel C: Innovation in Global PME: The Gender Chairs: Tarak Barkawi (LSE) Nelson (University of Montana) Dimension – Chair: Ofra Graicer (IDF) Room G-1139 Amphitheatre G-1124 Room G-1130 Matthew Schmidt (US Maj. Mathieu Primeau William Mitchell (DNK SOCOM) Eric Dion (ENAP, CFC) Barbara Falk (CFC) Ian Parenteau (CIEPA, CMR Peacekeeping and Stability (CAF) System of Systems Thinking and Synergy as Canada’s Innovations in PME Saint-Jean) Operations Institute) Meaningful Maps Hybrid Warfare: A SOF Approach Comprehensive Pedagogy: Gender, Non-Normative Pedagogical Security to Stability: Designing a Approach Narrative, and Strategies for Teaching Gender Tool for Combat Commanders Autoethnography in Armed Forces Around the to Plan for Stability World Karena Kyne (Lancaster) Philippe Dufort (SPU) & Robert Lummack (CMR Saint-Jean) LCol. Leon Young Vanessa Brown (U Carleton, CFC) Thinking About Defense Org. Jesús Suarez (ESMIC – Systems, Complexity and Why (ADF) & Donna ‘Feminism is a bad word’: Towards a Heutagogic Approach and Conflict in Relationship Colombia) Militaries Need to Understand the Dupont (OCAD U) to Learning about Gender in Professional Military with the Accelerated Excavating War Women, Peace and Security Agenda Strategic Foresight Education Technological Pace of Change Knowledge: A Workshop Preview via Military Logistics Methodology for Studying Intellectual Military Legacies 12:30 PM Lunch Multi-room 1:30 PM Scholar Keynote Series with Q&A– Tarak Barkawi (LSE) Amphitheatre G-1124 Battle Imaginaries (Introduced by Michael C. Williams) 2:00 PM Workshop Cluster 1 – Innovation Skills for Defence Challenges LCol. Leon Young (ADF) & Donna Dupont (OCAD U) William Mitchell (DNK SOCOM) Ofra Graicer (IDF) An Introduction to Strategic Foresight, Planning & Innovation Deception Planning and Reflexive Thinking Practicing Systemic Operational Design (SOD) – A Practical Approach Masterclass: Bret Nesbitt (CNSS, CFC) & Ben Zweibelson (JSOU SOCOM) in Amphitheatre G-1124 Masters: Voluntary Basis Learning from Second Generation Design in Practice

4:00 PM Praxis Café Multi-Room 6:00 PM Reception at Army Officers’ Mess and Cocktail Dining 149 Somerset West, Ottawa Honoring Professor Paul Mitchell

2 Wednesday, January 31

Start Time 7:00 AM Open Admin Meeting (Breakfast Available in Multi-room) LAF 133 Founding a Global Community of Practice? – Chair: Paul Mitchell (CFC) 8:30 AM General Keynote Series with Q&A – Éric Fournier (ADM, S&T) & Col. Earl Vandahl (CANSOFCOM) Amphitheatre G-1124 Ideation, Innovation and Special Forces (Introduced by Brett Nesbitt) 9:30 AM Designer Keynote Series – Dr. Ofra Graicer (IDF) Amphitheatre G-1124 Outline of a Theory of Special Operations (Introduced by Philippe Dufort) 10:00 AM Coffee Break Atrium (Foyer 860 SF) 10:30 AM Diversity, Education and Practical Effectiveness of Innovation Methodologies Panel Discussion Panel A: Diversity & New Development – Chair: Aaron Panel B: Practical Effectiveness – Chair: William Panel C: Critical Thinking and Holistic Education Design– Jackson (ADF) Mitchell (DNK SOCOM) Chair: Col. (Ret’) Chris Paparone Room G-1139 Amphitheatre G-1124 Room G-1130 Eugenia Kalantzis (CAF Glen Milne Chris Pipes (US Ed Bernacki (Idea Adrian Wolfberg (US Army War LCol. Anne Reiffenstein MILPERSGEN) The Design Brain SOCOM) Factory) College) (CFC) Behavioural Insights in the Optimizing Design Innovation Would be Contradictions: How Facing and The Future of Military Canadian Department of Performance Easy if People Thought Resolving Them is a Catalyst for Education at CFC: Critical National Defence Alike: Understanding Critical Thinking in Educational Thinking and Design Cognitive Diversity and its Settings Application to Solving the Challenges Facing Defence Forces

Nathan Schwagler (Dali Ofra Graicer (IDF) LCol. Piotr Harężlak & Maj. Joel Garrison & John Museum & JSOU) The (F)Utility of Design for Today's Military Challenges Robert Rosa (War Studies Hawley (JWH Enterprise Organizational Creativity University) LLC) War Studies University Attempt to Catalyst Course: A Preview Design Thinking

12:00 PM Designer Keynote Series – Ben Zweibelson (JSOU SOCOM) Amphitheatre G-1124 Fostering Deep Insight Through Substantive Play (Introduced by Aaron Jackson) 12:30 PM Lunch & Skate on the Rideau Canal Multi-room 2:30 PM General Keynote Series – BGen. Porkoláb (NATO ACT) & Ben Zweibelson (JSOU SOCOM) Amphitheatre G-1124 NATO’s Future Vision for Design Thinking Education (Introduced by Chris Paparone) 3:00 PM Workshop Cluster 2 – Innovation Skills for Comprehensive Challenges Glen Milne Nathan Schwagler (Dali Museum & JSOU) Ed Bernacki (Idea Factory) Joel Garrison & John Hawley (JWH Enabling team design thinking and action Ideation Session Translating Ideas into Actions Enterprise LLC) via expert facilitation Catalyst Course: A Practical Introduction Masterclass: Paul Mitchell (CFC) & Philippe Beaulieu-Brossard (CFC) in Amphitheatre G-1124 Masters: Harold Nelson, Chris Paparone, Angus Topshee, Jim Greer Redesigning Canadian Forces College's National Security Programme

5:00 PM Dining Cocktails at SPU Multi-room 6:00 PM Evening Conference – BGen. Whale (RCAF), BGen. Porkoláb (NATO ACT), B. Zweibelson (JSOU SOCOM), Dr. Paparone (NDU), Dr. Graicer (IDF) Amphitheatre G-1124 Post-modern Military Thinking: The Emergence of a Transnational Paradigm (Chaired by Philippe Dufort & Hosted by Jean-François Rioux) 3 Thursday, February 1

Start Time 7:00 AM Open Admin Meeting (Breakfast Available in Multi-room) LAF 133 Deliverables – Chairs: Philippe Beaulieu-Brossard (CFC) & Philippe Dufort (SPU) 8:30 AM General Keynote Series – BGen. Whale (RCAF) Amphitheatre G-1124 Deliberate Systems Thinking and Accidental Design: A Practical Application within the RCAF (Introduced by Robert Lummack) 9:00 AM Designer Keynote Series – Harold Nelson (University of Montana) Amphitheatre G-1124 Putting Design in Its Place (Introduced by Jeffrey Van Der Veer) 10:00 AM Coffee Break Atrium (Foyer 860 SF) 10:30 AM Admiral Speaker Series – Cmdre. Angus Topshee (RCN) & Col. Matt Palma (USMC) Amphitheatre G-1124 Design and Evolution in North American Defence (Introduced by Paul Mitchell) 11:00 AM Innovation Methodologies ‘Back to Earth’: Planning & Institutionalization Panel A: Reconciling Innovation Methodologies and Planning – Chair: Ben Zweibelson Panel B: Institutionalizing Innovation Methodologies – Chair: BGen. K. Whale (RCAF) Room G-1139 Amphitheatre G-1124 Philippe Beaulieu-B. (CFC) Getting Aaron Jackson (ADF) Eric Fournier (ADM S&T, Brad Gladman & Andrew Col. Todd Strickland (CAF, Tango Right (Enough): How do Military Planning Without First Determining an End State: A IDEaS) Billyard (CFAWC) SAMS) Practitioners Translate Design into Multi-Paradigmatic Alternative to Traditional Implementing IDEaS RCAF Innovation: A Case for It's Time for Design Planning? Military Planning Methodologies Pragmatism

Col. (ret.) Chris Paparone (US Army) Maj. Jeffrey van der Veer (Royal Netherlands LCol. George Corbari (US Cyber LCol. Leonardo Bastos (Colombian Army) Designing Meaning for Divergent Army, German Armed Forces Command and Command) The Colombian Army Experience on Practice in Warfare Staff College) Leveraging Design for Innovation at Transforming Its Doctrine Application of Contextual Military Design into Cybercom Praxis

12:30 PM Lunch Multi-room 1:30 PM Participant (i.e. attendee) Presentations on their Challenges Amphitheatre G-1124 3:00 PM Farewell – SPU Rector Chantal Beauvais, Philippe Dufort & Philippe Beaulieu-B. Amphitheatre G-1124 3:30 PM Free Time or Departures 6:00 PM Fine Dining 15 Kingsmere Road, Chelsea, QC Restaurant L’Orée du bois

4 Keynotes – General & Admiral Series

BGen. Jennie Carignan – Canadian Army Director Gen. Éric Fournier – ADM S&T and IDEaS Brigadier-General Jennie Carignan enrolled in the Mr. Fournier is presently the Director General (Science & Canadian Armed Forces in 1986. She obtained a degree Technology) for Strategic Decision Support. He is a in Fuels and Materials Engineering from the Royal Scientific Advisor to the Department of National Defence Military College of Canada and was commissioned into and to the Canadian Armed Forces. His role is to provide the Canadian Military Engineers in 1990. analysis support on policy and strategy, and enterprise BGen Carignan’s command appointments include resource management to the department. Eric began his Commanding Officer of 5 Combat Engineer Regiment career with Defence Research & Development Canada and commanding the Task Force Kandahar Engineer (DRDC) as a Defence Scientist in the Flight Mechanics Regiment. In July 2013, she was appointed as the Group of the Precision Weapons Section at the Valcartier Commandant of the Royal Military College in Saint-Jean. laboratory in August 1992. He spent most of his scientific Serving in a variety of staff assignments over the course of her career in that establishment, where he held a number of career, BGen Carignan held the position of Chief Engineer for the Multinational positions in the Weapons field of study. He also spent one year at the United Division South-West in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and was an instructor at the Kingdom DERA Fort Halstead laboratory as an exchange scientist in the late Canadian Land Force Command and Staff College. In June 2011, she became nineties. In May 2006, he was appointed Director, Science & Technology Air, in the Chief of Staff of Land Force Central Area/Joint Task Force Central (now 4th Ottawa, where he managed the Air Force S&T Program portfolio. As part of his Canadian Division). BGen Carignan’s overseas assignments include deployments duties, he also served as National Representative on the Aerospace Systems to Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Golan Heights, and Kandahar, Afghanistan. group (AER) in The Technical Cooperation Program. From September 2008 to July BGen Carignan is a graduate of the United States Army Command and General 2009, he moved to the Canadian Forces College in Toronto where he completed Staff College and the School of Advanced Military Studies, where she earned a the National Security Program 1 (NSP-1). Upon his return to Ottawa, he was Master's degree in Military Arts and Science. In 2016, she graduated from the appointed Director of Defence Research and Development Canada’s Centre for National Security Studies Programme. In addition, she holds a Master’s degree in Operational Research and Analysis (CORA), and was responsible for the delivery business administration from Université Laval. In December 2011, BGen Carignan of a Science and Technology program in the areas of operational research, was presented the Meritorious Service Medal by the Governor General of strategic analysis, and scientific and technical intelligence. In 2014, Mr. Fournier Canada. She has also received the Major-General Hans Schlup Award for took up the position of Defence R&D Counsellor at CDLS (London) where he was excellence in international relations as well as being ranked amongst Canada's responsible for liaison in defence Science and Technology between Canada and 2011 Top 100 Most Powerful Women. BGen Carignan recently received the the United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. prestigious medal Gloire de l'Escolle which recognizes graduates from Université Upon returning to Canada in July 2017, he was appointed DG for Strategic Laval who have distinguished themselves professionally and in service to their Decision Support, and also selected to develop and lead the implementation of communities. the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) initiative.

5 Keynotes – General & Admiral Series

Col. Vandahl – CANSOFCOM completed the Senior Executives in National and International Security program at Colonel Vandahl was born in Ottawa, Ontario on 12 July 1967. Growing-up in Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Montreal, he undertook Reserve Entry Scheme Officer training with the Canadian

Grenadier Guards and then joined the 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment at Wolsely Barracks, London, Ontario in 1989. Colonel Vandahl served Cmdre. Angus Topshee – Royal Canadian Navy two tours with the 1st Battalion, with operational tours in Cyprus and Kosovo. He Commodore Angus Topshee was born in Ottawa and is a also served in the Regimental Battle School. Colonel Vandahl joined the Canadian Surface Warfare Officer in the Royal Canadian Navy. His Special Operations Forces community in 2001, serving in Command and staff diverse education includes undergrad at the Royal Military positions at the Dwyer Hill Training Center and the Force Development College of Canada in Kingston (1994) and the Australian Directorate of Canadian Special Operations Forces Command Headquarters in Defence Force Academy in Canberra (1993), a Master’s Ottawa, where he was awarded a CDS Commendation for his work there. He degree at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland (1996), commanded the Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit (CJIRU – CBRN) from July and professional military education through the Naval 2009 to June 2012, after which he joined the Office of the Minister of National War College in Newport (2006) and the Canadian Forces Defence as Senior Military Assistant.He has served in the Strategic Joint Staff and College in Toronto (2016). He has deployed in ships was most recently the Special Advisor to the Commander of the Canadian Joint around the world and has accumulated countless sea Operations Command. In August 2016 he returned to CANSOFCOM as the stories involving pirates, sharks, terrorists, volcanoes, whales, fires, and all the Director of Force Development. Col Vandahl’s military qualifications include the other things which make life at sea a true adventure. In 2009-2010, he had the Joint Command and Staff Programme, the Land Force Technical Staff Programme great privilege of commanding HMCS Algonquin, a tour which included providing and the National Security Programme. He holds a Diploma in Mechanical security for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver as well as a deployment to Engineering Technology, a Bachelor of Applied Military Arts and Science and a South America. His shore postings include two tours in the Navy’s Strategy Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies. directorate as penance for all of his sea time and three fantastic years in command of Canadian Forces Base Halifax, home of Canada’s East Coast Navy. He also deployed to Afghanistan for all of 2011 as the director of Afghanistan BGen. Porkoláb – NATO ACT National Police Training within the NATO Training Mission Afghanistan (NTM-A). Brigadier-General Imre Porkoláb is currently serving as He is presently employed as the Deputy Director, Strategy, Policy and Plans at NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation’s NORAD and USNORTHCOM Headquarters in Colorado Springs. He is blessed with representative to the Pentagon, liaising with the US DoD, four fantastic daughters and an incredibly supportive wife. the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and think tanks in Washington DC. BGen Porkoláb has served on operational tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and in different command and leadership positions, including Chief of SOF Department, G3 (operations), Joint Force Command, Chief of Partnering, J3 (operations), SOCEE, and Commander of the 34th Special Forces Battalion. BGen Porkoláb received his BA in Military Engineering from Kossuth Lajos Military College. He holds three Master’s degrees (International Relations, Military Leadership and Defence Analysis) from the University of Economics – BIGIS, Zrínyi Miklós National Defense University, and the Naval Postgraduate School respectively. He received his PhD in Military Leadership from Zrínyi Miklós National Defense University and has 6 Keynotes – General & Admiral Series

BGen. Kevin G. Whale – Royal Canadian Air Force

Brigadier-General Whale enrolled in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1986 and achieved his pilot's wings in 1990. His staff experience includes Training and Concept Development within 1 Wing Headquarters, Kingston, Chief of Staff at the Canadian Defence Academy, Kingston, and various strategic level positions at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa. BGen Whale's command and leadership roles have included those of a US Army Aviation Attack Platoon Leader and Aviation Battalion Battle Captain, Squadron Deputy Commanding Officer (400 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, Borden), Squadron Commanding Officer (427 Special Operations Aviation Squadron, Petawawa) and Wing Commander (1 Wing HQ, Kingston). His international experience includes assignments in Germany, with the US Army, a flying tour in Bosnia, integration of Special Operations Aviation Detachments in Afghanistan and as Chief of Current Operations on OP MOBILE (Libya) in NATO's Combined Joint Task Force Headquarters, Naples, Italy. His professional development and education include a BSc in Physics from the University of Western Ontario, a MSc in Organizational Leadership from Norwich University, Vermont, the Land Forces Transition Command and Staff Course, Kingston, and both the Joint Command and Staff Program and the National Security Program at the Canadian Forces College, Toronto. BGen Whale's recognized achievements include a US Army Commendation for contribution to the US Army Task Force XXI program, a Commander 1 Canadian Air Division Commendation for aviation project development, a Chief of the Air Staff Commendation for Air Force strategy development, and two Chief of Defence Staff Commendations for his service during OP MOBILE and for contributions to RCAF readiness. BGen Whale is currently the Director General & Component Commander -Space, National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa.

7 Keynotes – Designer Series

Dr. James Greer – Leads Institute and operations for the new era. Dr. Graicer’s research areas range from Deep Operations to Special Operations and Cyber, where she develops Future Dr. James Greer, PhD has more than 40 years of Concepts, war-games and simulations. Her book ‘Two Steps Ahead: From Deep experience leading, developing and managing leader Ops to Special Ops - Wingate the General’ has been circulating in leading military development, training, education and operations for command schools since 2009. Ofra served as a Snipers Officer in the IDF and is national and multi-national organizations with varying educated in Art and Film, Political Science and Security Studies. You can visit her missions. Colonel (Retired) Greer served 30 years in dedicated website at www.ofragraicer.com the US Army, commanding organizations up to Brigade level and serving in strategic planning positions on the Ben Zweibelson – JSOU SOCOM Joint Staff and in support of the National Security Council. A past Director of the US Army School of Ben Zweibelson is the Program Director for Special Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), he is a student and practitioner of Design in Operations Forces (SOF) Design Education at the Joint support of planning and decision making. He currently leads the creation of Special Operations University (JSOU) in the U.S. Special leader development programs focused on development of design, strategic Operations Command (USSOCOM) located in Tampa, planning, strategic foresight, complex problem solving, crisis management and Florida. He is also a doctoral student with the Australian values-based leadership skills for commercial and private sector organizations. National University where he is focused on the He has facilitated the application of Design to campaign planning for ARCENT, postmodern military design movement across the ARNORTH, and USARPAC. Jim has taught Design across the Federal Government, Anglosphere. Ben is a retired U.S. Army Infantry Officer including SOCOM, CYBERCOM, CENTCOM, USARPAC, ARNORTH, ARCENT, multiple with over 22 years combined service and multiple combat tours in Iraq and Corps, Divisions, Brigades and Battalions, the Department of Homeland Security, Afghanistan. He has been awarded the Bronze Star on four different occasions the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Federal Emergency Management along with numerous other awards and citations. Ben holds an undergraduate Agency, the Canadian Forces Colleges, and at the university and community degree in Graphic Design with the University of Connecticut, a Masters in Liberal college levels. He holds a Doctorate in Education, focusing on Army leader Arts with the Louisiana State University, a Masters in Military Arts and Sciences development, and Master's Degrees in Education, Operational Planning and from the Air Command and Staff College, and a Masters in Military Operational National Security. Arts and Sciences (focusing on military design) from the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies. Ben is widely published and has educated, lectured, or Ofra Graicer – Israel Defence Force facilitated design education with organizations across the U.S. Special Operations Command, the U.S. Air War College, the Canadian Forces College, U.S. Cyber Command, NATO Allied Command Transformation, the Royal Netherlands Army, Dr. Ofra Graicer is an expert in systemic operational the Polish Army, the Swedish Armed Forces, and numerous other government design (SOD) and aspiring Generalist a-la Joseph agencies, militaries and academic institutions. Ben resides in Tampa, Florida with Campbell, working for the past two decades with his wife Jill and their three children. Militaries and Defense establishments around the globe, towards transforming them into self-disruptive systems. Ofra co-instructs the Israeli Defense Forces Generals’ Course alongside BG (Ret’) Dr. Shimon Naveh, where they prepare Senior Military Officers for General Staff level of performance, and guide them through the process of devising strategy 8 Keynotes – Designer Series

Harold Nelson – University of Montana

Dr. Harold Nelson is a visiting scholar in the School of Computer Science at the University of Montana. He was the 2009-2010 Nierenberg Distinguished Professor of Design in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a Senior Lecturer in the graduate School of Business and Public Policy, and Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. As a consultant, Dr. Nelson has worked with a variety of organizations, including: non-profits and corporations, state and federal agencies, international governments, and the United Nations, and continues to work as an educator, consulatant, and researcher in the field of organizational systems design where he brings both design thinking and systems science to the study of organizations and innovation. Dr. Nelson received his PhD, graduating with distinction, from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Master of Architecture degree from U.C. Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Montana State University.

9 Keynotes – Scholar Series

Antoine Bousquet – Birkbeck, University of London Tarak Barkawi – London School of Economics Antoine Bousquet joined Birkbeck in 2007 and is a Tarak Barkawi is Reader in International Relations at the Senior Lecturer in International Relations. His main London School of Economics and Political Science. He areas of specialism cover war and society, the history specializes in armed conflict and military relations and philosophy of science and technology, and social between the West and the non-European world in and political theory. He is the author of The Scientific Way historical and contemporary perspective. Tarak earned of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of his PhD in Political Science at the University of Modernity (Hurst/Columbia, 2009), a widely cited account Minnesota. He has held fellowships at the Olin Institute of the influence of major scientific paradigms and key for Strategic Studies, Harvard University; the associated technologies on the conceptualisation and Department of War Studies, King’s College London (as a MacArthur Fellow); the practice of war in the modern era. Antoine has also contributed peer-reviewed Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University; and the articles and book chapters on subjects that include Cold War computing, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University. Tarak future of military organisation, jihadist terrorist networks, complexity theory in has been involved in professional military education and consulting. He has international relations, and the conceptualisation and historical sociology of war. lectured at staff colleges and military academies, supervised the research of His second monograph, The Martial Gaze: The Logistics of Military Perception in the military MPhil Students at Cambridge for ten years, and conducted short courses Age of Global Targeting will be published by University of Minnesota Press in 2018. for officers and NCOs in universities and in pre-deployment training.

10 Conference Lead Organizers

Philippe Beaulieu-B. – Canadian Forces College (CFC) Philippe Dufort – Saint-Paul University (SPU)

Dr. Philippe Beaulieu-B is an assistant professor specializing Philippe Dufort is an assistant professor at the School of in Defence, Security Studies and Design Thinking at Conflict Studies of Saint Paul University, Ottawa. He Canadian Forces College (CFC) and a design thinking studies the epistemological roots of strategic innovation facilitator. Philippe is currently writing a book developing a with a special interest in intrinsic reflexive practices of sociology of military design thinking. He literally followed the military practitioners. His researches are based on in footprints of design thinking from Israel Defense Forces depth interviews and ethnographies of high ranked (IDF), the US army, US Special Operations Forces and military officers. His research aims at retrieving tacit and Canadian Armed Forces in the last three years. He is the mētis war knowledge. He holds a PhD from the director of the Archipelago of Design project aimed at Department of Politics and International Studies of the University of Cambridge, making available the experiences of defence practitioners with new planning and UK. He was the founding director of the School of Social Innovation of Saint Paul innovation methodologies for research and education purposes (with Dr. Philippe University. He is an associate researcher at the Superior School of War of Dufort). Under this project, Philippe organized 3 international conferences and Colombia. He directs the Archipelago of Design project with Professor Philippe led the publication of a first special issue including the articles of 16 defence Beaulieu-B, Canadian Forces College (CFC). Apart from his experience in academic practitioners based on four continents published by the Journal of Military and research, he has previously worked as a journalist in Latin America, a Human Strategic Studies (JMSS) in 2017. Philippe holds a PhD in International Relations Rights watcher in conflict zones, and as a contractual analyst for the Canadian from the University of St-Andrews in the United Kingdom. In 2018, Routledge’s Mission toward the European Union in Brussels. New International Relations Series will publish his book on confirmation biases involved in the relationship between theory and practice. Philippe also published in the Review of International Studies (RIS) about Theorizing Ambiguities in Securitization Theory (2017) and in International Relations (2015).