The conference “New Thinking about Global Challenges”, organized by the research network Global Systems Dynamics & Policy and the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) .The conference aimed at fostering the dialogue between the community of scholars and the wide variety of stakeholders involved in the field of global systems, as well as to present research projects and ICT tools aimed at facing global challenges. During the conference scholars presented some tool dealing with advances in economic theory, such as Eurace@Unibi Model, which is an agent-based macroeconomic model suitable for economic policy analysis. Advances in programming for global models, such as: GEM-E3, which is a model of the European economy; Remind, a regionalized coupled energy-economy model; MAgPIE, a global land and water use model; MADIAMS (Multi-Actor Dynamic Integrated Assessment Model System) and finally C-Roads, a decision maker oriented simulator.