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*MONDAY, JULY 19* Intel, Santa Clara, CA
Time displayed in Pacific Time Zone
8:30 am	Welcome
	Diane M. Bryant, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Intel


8:45 am	Overview of Santa Fe Institute’s Business Network
	Chris Wood, Vice President of Administration and Director of the Business Network, Santa Fe Institute


	MODELING THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZATIONS


9:00 am	Universal Aspects of Human Organizations: From Cities to Corporations
	Luis Bettencourt, External Professor, Santa Fe Institute, and Research Scientist, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory


9:45 am	Universal Laws of Technological Evolution: What do Integrated Circuits, Japanese Beer, and Brazilian Ethanol Have in Common?
	Béla Nagy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute


10:30 am	Break


10:45 am	Organizational Growth: Heavy Tails and Excess Volatility in Economics and Biology
	Robert Axtell, External Professor, Santa Fe Institute, and Professor, George Mason University


11:30 am	Innovation and Computation in Evolutionary History
	David Krakauer, Chair of Faculty and Professor, Santa Fe Institute


12:15 pm	Break


1:15 pm	Welcome to the Afternoon Session
	Stephen L. Smith, Vice President, PC Client Operations and Enabling, Intel


	ANALYSIS OF ORGANIZATIONS


1:30 pm	The Risks and Rewards of Organizational Complexity
	Eric Bonabeau, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer, Icosystem Corp.


2:15 pm	Organizational X-Rays: Quantifying Implicit Network Structures Beyond the Org Chart
	Nathan Eagle, CEO, txteagle Inc., Visiting Assistant Professor, MIT Media Lab, Research Assistant Professor, Northeastern Computer Science, and Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute


3:00 pm	Break


3:15 pm	Understanding System Complexity Through Agent-based Modeling
	Charles M. Macal, Director, Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems Simulation and Senior Systems Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory


	Q & As, CLOSING REMARKS, INTEL PERSPECTIVES


4:00 pm	Q & A Speaker Panel


4:40 pm	Martin Curley, Director, Intel Labs Europe


4:50 pm	Karl G. Kempf, Intel Fellow, Intel Architecture Group, and Director, Decision Engineering, Intel


5:00 pm	Adjourn


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