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Intersection 25 in Brussels

Untangling the Mess, Together!
  • Conference
  • September 17–19, 2025, 09:00-17:30
  • Ixelles, Belgium

Intersection 25 in Brussels

This is the world's leading conference on Enterprise Design. Our 11th edition brings us to Brussels!

We share one challenge: To design and build enterprises that are more purposeful, useful and successful. We are thrilled to invite you to 3 days of inspiring talks, cases and workshops in Brussels.

11th Edition: "Untangling the Mess, Together!"

Enterprises are complex. They span multiple systems, perspectives, and layers—often leading to tangled structures, misaligned strategies, and fragmented experiences. At Intersection 25, we come together to unravel this complexity.

For over a decade, Intersection has been the leading conference on strategic Enterprise Design. We've brought together practitioners in Enterprise Design and Architecture, Service and Information Design to tackle real-world challenges. We co-created EDGY, an Open Source toolkit to support their work with enterprises.

Now, as we launch our 11th edition in Brussels, we focus on untangling the mess—helping enterprises navigate their complexities, inside and outside, and shape more coherent, connected, and purposeful futures.

Call for Contributions

We invite you to share your experiences, insights, and solutions for making sense of enterprise complexity. We are looking for stories, cases, and methods that help clarify, structure, and transform messy enterprises into well-aligned ecosystems.

We’re especially interested in:

  • Decision-Making in Complexity – How do we enable faster, better joint decisions across silos, organisations and ecosystems?
  • Making Enterprise Information AI-Ready – What does it take to structure, govern, architect and design information to enable machine learning applications?
  • Cross-Enterprise Experiences – How can we design seamless interactions across organisations, products, platforms, and channels?
  • Language, Mental Models & Visualisation – How do we create clarity, consistent terminology and shared understanding for alignment and action?
  • Organisation & Ecosystem Complexity – What strategies help enterprises thrive in interconnected and evolving environments?

If you have a case, method, or insight that helps make sense of enterprise complexity, we want to hear from you!

Submit your contribution

Join us in Brussels and let’s untangle the mess, together.

In collaboration with the International Institute for Information Design (IIID) and the Global Association of Enterprise Architects.

Photo by Fred Romero.

Past editions:
Paris 2014 / Berlin 2015 / Copenhagen 2016 / Barcelona 2017 / Prague 2018 / Lisbon 2019 / Virtual 2020 / Stockholm 2022 / Vienna 2023 / Rome 2024

Get your ticket now!

Student registration is available for currently enrolled students or currently unemployed, and requires sending us a document as proof of status. Intersection Group is a Not for Profit Association under Austrian law and exempt from collecting Value Added Tax (VAT).

By participating in our event you agree to abide by the Code of Conduct for Intersection Group events.

Program

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

  • Conference Welcome
  • Conference Talk
  • Tea and coffee break
  • Conference Talk
  • Conference Talk
  • Conference Talk
  • Lunch break
  • Conference Talk
  • Conference Talk
  • Conference Workshop
  • Conference Workshop

Thursday, September 18, 2025

  • Conference Talk
  • Tea and coffee break
  • Conference Talk
  • Conference Talk
  • Conference Talk
  • Lunch break
  • Conference Talk
  • Conference Talk
  • Conference Workshop
  • Conference Workshop
  • Closing Remarks

Friday, September 19, 2025

  • Welcome to EDGY User Day!
  • EDGY Case
  • EDGY Case
  • EDGY Case
  • Lunch break
  • EDGY Case
  • EDGY Case
  • EDGY Case

Location

Free University of Brussels

 
Free University of Brussels
Bd de la Plaine 2
1050 Ixelles
Belgium

Free University of Brussels
Free University of Brussels

Videos

Videos

The Hum: Patterns of Decentralised Organisation
Richard D. Barlett and Natalia Lombardo at X18 in Prague

Z9Works: Sustainable Enterprise Design
Maria Zenina and Mila Dymchenko at X24 in Rome

OECD: Creating sustainable global impact in international development orgs
Angela Hanson and Tomomi Sasaki at X23 in Vienna

Building Better Worlds
Cennydd Bowles at X19 in Lisbon

&friends: Easy to use, hard to master. How to navigate EDGY.
Jean-Sébastien Daigle at X24 in Rome

Shopify: Designing Systems for Human Impact
Hayley Hughes at Intersection 20 (virtual)

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