On November 24 2008 the ICIS Harvest Event took place at the D-CIS's Systems Innovation Lab. This event can be considered as a special All Project Members (APM) meeting. A considerable number of PhD students, researchers, scientists and industry partners attended the meeting. Both from inside and outside the ICIS community.

PhD students presented their most recent results, 'harvested' from four years of ICIS research and development. Besides exchanging knowledge and presenting research results, the event was all about future challenges. The ICIS project addresses different aspects of actor-agent technology, ranging from fundamental to applied research and from technology-oriented to human-oriented research. The interrelations between all these research activities might not be that clear. To prove that there is indeed exists a strong coherence in all the ICIS work, the Harvest Event defined a challenge: how can ICIS technology be applied to the Olympic Games?

The Netherlands are in the race for hosting the Olympic Games in 2028. Keynote speaker Wim Keijsers sketched the magnitude of this challenge. Wim Keijsers is affiliated with Bureau Nieuwe Gracht in Utrecht, a spatial-planning bureau that advices NOC-NSF (Dutch Olymic Committee and National Sports Federation). Also he is one of the authors of a spatial-planning sketchbook for the Olympic Games (Schetsboek Ruimte voor Olympische Plannen). In his speech he illustrated various alternatives for dealing with transport, logistics, mobility, housing, security and sports accomodations. He argued that the use of modern technology is a prerequisite for success.

Since ICIS is all about support for complex decision making, traffic management and crisis response, the participants of the Harvest Event brainstormed about using ICIS research results to tackle the different challenges related to organizing Olympic Games in The Netherlands. The sessions yielded interesting visions on future technologie and new applications of ICIS research results in a completely different context. Again, the event confirmed the relevance of ICIS for tackling large-scale complex problems.