1. Artificial Intelligence for Systems Engineering (AI4SE)

AI is increasingly being used to augment systems engineering processes.
This stream focuses on how AI can support decision-making, optimisation, validation, and verification, offering enhanced efficiency and quality throughout the engineering lifecycle.

2. Systems Engineering for Artificial Intelligence (SE4AI)

AI-enabled systems introduce unique challenges in safety, robustness, and human-system integration.
This stream invites contributions that apply systems engineering to the design and assurance of AI systems, including discussion of ethical considerations, integration challenges, and methods for ensuring responsible AI deployment.

3. Data Science and Digital Transformation in Systems Engineering

Data science and digital transformation are reshaping systems engineering into a continuous, data-driven discipline.
This stream invites contributions that highlight how digital engineering approaches reduce risk, improve safety, enable innovation, and create competitive advantage.

4. Systems Leadership

Effective leadership is critical in environments marked by technical, organisational, and socio-political complexity.
This stream invites contributions exploring how systems approaches can be embedded into leadership practices—integrating strategy, risk, finance, innovation, and stakeholder management to drive sustainable transformation.

5. Mission Engineering

Mission engineering elevates focus from individual systems to systems-of-systems, operational concepts, and integrated mission capabilities.
This stream welcomes both theoretical and practical contributions that advance the understanding and implementation of mission engineering in complex operational contexts.

6. Systems Engineering for Complex Transport and Infrastructure

Large-scale transport and infrastructure projects present unique complexity and risk.
This stream welcomes contributions on advances in systems engineering for these systems, including technical leadership, tailored methods, requirements management, integration, and model-based approaches—aimed at enhancing delivery, safety, and long-term performance of critical infrastructure.

7. Defence Case Studies

Defence projects are often characterised by scale, complexity, and extended sustainment requirements.
This stream invites case studies highlighting lessons learned, innovations, and best practices in Defence system development, acquisition, and sustainment.

8. Test & Evaluation: Advancing Strategy

While testing is a cornerstone of systems engineering, ensuring assurance across complex systems-of-systems—particularly in Defence and Transport—is increasingly challenging.
This stream invites contributions that address evolving strategies, innovations, and lessons learned for advancing test and evaluation in these demanding contexts.

9. Modelling and Simulation in Support of Test & Evaluation

This stream explores how modelling and simulation can strengthen test and evaluation practices across domains.
Contributions are invited that share innovative qualitative and quantitative approaches, demonstrating how these techniques can improve outcomes throughout the systems engineering lifecycle.

10. Systems Security Risk Management

Managing security risks is fundamental to modern technical and socio-technical systems.
This stream explores methods for identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks through systems engineering, covering domains such as information and electronic systems, physical systems, and cyber-physical environments.

11. Systems Engineering in Support of Integrated Logistics Support (ILS)

Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) is essential to ensuring systems are maintainable, supportable, and effective throughout their lifecycle.
This stream invites contributions demonstrating how systems engineering can integrate ILS principles from the earliest design phases, with successful examples drawn from diverse domains.

12. Agile Systems Engineering

Agile methods, originally developed for software, are increasingly applied to systems engineering to enable adaptability, collaboration, and faster delivery.
This stream invites case studies, frameworks, and reflections on how Agile Systems Engineering (ASE) can be adopted, adapted, and standardised to support complex projects.

13. System Architecting and Design

System architecting and design are being transformed by digital engineering and integrated modelling approaches.
This stream invites contributions showcasing emerging methods and innovations that advance architecting and design practices across diverse domains.

14. Systems Thinking & Complex Systems

Complex, dynamic, and socio-technical systems require systems thinking to deliver actionable insights.
This stream welcomes submissions showcasing qualitative and quantitative tools, techniques, and frameworks that enhance decision-making, resilience, and understanding in complex environments.

15. Systems Engineering for a Successful Energy Transition

This stream invites contributions on the application of systems engineering to structure, de-risk, and accelerate the global transition to resilient, net-zero energy systems.
Papers are encouraged that address how systems engineering can improve accessibility of capabilities and insights, foster stakeholder trust, and deliver integrated approaches for an equitable energy transformation.

16. Healthcare & Biomedical Systems

Healthcare systems are inherently complex, distributed, and safety-critical—yet systems engineering and systems thinking remain underutilised in this domain.
This stream invites case studies, models, and research demonstrating how a systems approach can enhance healthcare outcomes, improve patient safety, and enable more resilient biomedical systems.

17. Space Systems Engineering

The design, development, and operation of space systems—such as satellites, spacecraft, and launch vehicles—are becoming increasingly complex.
This stream examines how systems engineering principles can be applied to ensure these systems achieve mission objectives and remain fit for purpose over time, accounting for challenges such as extreme environments, reliability, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness.

18. Education for Systems Engineers

Systems engineering education must evolve in step with advances in practice and technology.
This stream seeks submissions on curriculum development, partnerships, research ecosystems, certification pathways, and lifelong learning strategies that prepare engineers for future challenges.

19. Pathways to INCOSE Systems Engineering Vision 2035

Aligned with the INCOSE Systems Engineering Vision 2035, this stream invites contributions that:

• Advance collaboration, education, and standardisation to strengthen competencies for current and future engineers;
• Integrate advanced tools, technologies, and digital methodologies to prepare systems engineering for the future;
• Highlight the value, maturity, and evolution of systems engineering across industries in addressing emerging global challenges.