By Elisabeth Girgis-McEwen

Last week of July, our team had the privilege of joining the international CSCE/ISARC/MOC 2025 conference in Montréal—a gathering of about 500 interested in both technical excellence and a widening circle of innovation. Our formal presentation, Advancing Knowledge Mobilization through Road Mapping, focused on the knowledge repository model and emerging logic for structuring a robust, responsive database.

The surrounding conversations, questions, and side sessions reminded us of the plurality within the building system. Discernment to move data to knowledge comes from how we work and learn as much as the database we are building.

A heartfelt thanks to Dr. Thomas Froese (photo) who carried our project forward in the presentation room. Dr. Froese walked through an overview of the project, the logic of the knowledge model and our shift toward emergent, rather than rigid, roadmapping – a direct challenge to the often-reductive impulse in systems change. Rigid roadmapping, while effective in stable contexts, can become a structural barrier in complex systems change.