SOLWorld Steering Group

SOL International Steering Group

The Role of the International Steering Group

As a member of the SOL International Steering Group, your role is:

To put your name and reputation alongside the SOL conferences in future – and be listed as a supporter on the materials, website etc.
To be involved in building the profile of SOL – particularly in your own country
To be involved in the policy development, planning and quality management of future events
To come to the international SOL conferences as a participant (and possibly as a presenter) to share, learn and participate
Be involved in planning and executing specific aspects of the next conference – for example the overall schedule, plenary sessions etc
To consider involvement in the hosting of future SOL conferences – both international and possibly national/regional

Membership of the steering group is open to relatively experienced solutions practitioners, and is entirely voluntary and unpaid. Membership will be reviewed at each conference.

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The SOL International Steering Group comprises (in alphabetical surname order for this year):

Yasuteru Aoki

Vonneke Beeker

Katrin Berger

Bea Bincze

Annie Bordeleau

John Brooker

Susanne Burgstaller

Jesper Christiansen

Jenny Clarke

Dries Cox

Elfie Czerny

Timea Dropka

Yoram Galli

Andrew Gibson

Alex Giurca

Dominik Godat

Ute Habenicht

Kati Hankovszky

Ben Hughes

Paul Z Jackson

Veronika Jungwirth

Julia Kalenberg

Tomy Kanics

Stefan Kreil

Christiane Kosub

Simon Lee

Frigyes Lehoczky

Sue Lickorish

Aron Levendel

Bart van Loon

Alan Lyons

Mark McKergow

Jan Marklund

Marco Matera

Ralph Miarka

Haesun Moon

Petra Müller-Demary

Irini Nikolaidou

Sussan Öster

Christoph Papst

Dorota Parys

Peter Röhrig

Marco Ronzani

Klaus Schenck

Anton Stellamans

Wim Sucaet

John Teager

Wendy van den Bulck

Janine Waldman

Jonas Wells

Notes of Steering Group Meeting, SOLWorld 2025 in Mechelen

(Notes taken by Jenny Clarke)

Present (in no particular order): Bart van Loon, Marco Ronzani, Kati Hankovszky, Peter Röhrig, Dominik Godat, Vonneke Beeker, Ute Habenicht, Elfie Czerny, John Teager, Stefan Kreil, John Brooker, Tomy Kanics, Annie Bordeleau, Andrew Gibson, Christoph Papst, Veronika Jungwirth, Christiane Kosub, Jonas Wells, Katrin Berger, Ben Hughes, Irini Nikolaidou, Bea Bincze, Timea Dropka, Julia Kalenberg, Wim Sucaet, Paul Z Jackson, Anton Stellamans, Wendy Van den Bulck, Ralph Miarka, Jenny Clarke, Dries Cox, Mark McKergow, Klaus Schenck, Janine Waldman, Sussan Öster, Frigyes Lehoczky

1. Rapturous applause for the organising group of SOLWorld 2025: Anton Stellamans, Wendy van Bulck, Vonneke Beeker, Wim Sucat, Ciska de Pillecyn, Chris Aertsen and Lily Deforce.

2. Review of activities since the previous international SOLWorld conference in Vienna, 2023

· The SolWorld Unconference on Sustainability, attended by 39 people in April 2024

· 119 people celebrated SF World Day 2024 in Ghent

· SOLWorld was represented in SF24 in 2024 & 2025

3. Future events (all details will be posted on the website at www.solworld.org )

· Post conference Retreat, May 2025 in Land an Zee

· Summer Retreat in Moeschberg in Switzerland, 10-15 August 2026, announced by Kati Hankovszky & Julia Kallenberg

· The Silent Writing events hosted by Anton & Jonas for the past 5 years will be held under the SOLWorld banner and posted on the website in future. 2025 dates have already been planned.

· SF24 will be on 6 February in 2026. SOLWorld will support it.

· John Teager will float the possibility of a SOLWorld conference in Australasia with colleagues in the region and report back.

· John Brooker (and SFiO) plan to host either an Unconference or a Summer University in 2026

· There will be another Belgian event on SF World Day in 2026.

4. It was agreed that the SLACK account should be closed (Stefan Kreil).