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Are Optimization and Efficiency the Enemies of Robustness and Resilience? - Agenda

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Thursday, October 2

Held at Morgan Stanley World Headquarters, 41st Floor, 1585 Broadway, New York, NY

8:00 am Breakfast and Registration
8:45 am Welcome and Overview, Martin Leibowitz, Morgan Stanley and Chris Wood, SFI
9:00 am What is Optimization, Anyway?, Cris Moore, Professor, Santa Fe Institute
10:00 am Break
10:30 am Title TBD, Nassim Taleb, Author of "Fooled by Randomness", "Black Swans", and "Anti-Fragile"
11:30 am Highly Optimized Tolerance, John Doyle, Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineering, and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Building a Better Trading Exchange, Rob Park, CTO and Co-Founder, IEX Group (featured in Michael Lewis' recent "Flash Boys")
2:30 pm Are Humans Optimal?, Juan Enriquez, Chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy LLC, author of "Homo Evolutis, As the Future Catches You"
3:30 pm Break
4:00 pm Talk Title TBD, Speaker TBD
5:00 pm Adjourn