Dr. Francesco Renzini from our team has presented at the NetLogo conference 2026 in Chicago (June 29th – July 1st, 2026) the lessons learned after years of experience in teaching agent-based modelling and NetLogo to hundreds of PhD students and early career researchers. The title of his workshop was “From Beginner to Modeler: Teaching Agent-Based Modeling with NetLogo at the BEHAVE Summer School“. This workshop presented how NetLogo has been used to train the next generation of agent-based modellers at the BEHAVE Summer School. The workshop detailed our approach: we do not simply teach a programming language, but foster the mindset and practices of a modeller. It drew on over a decade of teaching experience, sharing practical strategies for effective learning and addressing common challenges faced by early-career researchers. He also presented recent developments enabling advanced Bayesian estimation of NetLogo models using PyABC and BayesFlow via PyNetLogo.

Here is the webpage of the conference.
Here is the material from the workshop.