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Complex Systems Symposium Program

Friday, November 6, 2009

Complex Systems Symposium: Engineering Cooperative Networks

  • Information and Check-In, and Coffee
    9:00-9:45 am

  • Opening Remarks
    Prof. Reza Olfati-Saber
    9:45-10:00am

  • Session 1: Networked Complex Systems
    10:00-12:15pm

  • Session 1 Keynote Speech: "Using the Web to Study Social Networks"
    Dr. Duncan Watts, Principle Research Scientist at Yahoo Research
    10:00-10:45am

  • Coffee Break
    10:45-11:00am

  • Session 1 Panel: Each panelist (other than the keynote speaker) will makes a 15 minute opening remark
    11:00am-12:15pm
    Moderator: Prof. Reza Olfati-Saber, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College
    Panelists:
  • Lunch Break (on your own)
    12:15-1:45pm

  • Session 2: Security
    1:45-4:15pm

  • Session 2 Keynote Speech: "Commercializing Complex Systems in the Marketplace"
    George Conrades, Executive Chairman of Akamai Technologies
    1:45-2:30pm

  • Coffee Break
    2:30-2:45pm

  • Session 2 Panel: Each panelist (other than the keynote speaker) will make a 12-15 minute opening remark
    2:45-4:15pm
    Moderator: Prof. George Cybenko, Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College
    Panelists:
    • George Conrades, Executive Chairman of Akamai Technologies
    • Robert Cunningham, Associate Leader of the Information Systems Technology Group, Lincoln Laboratory
    • Phil Venables, Managing Director and Chief Information Security Officer at Goldman Sachs
    • Andy Ellis, Senior Director of Information Security and Chief Security Architect, Akamai Technologies
  • Coffee Break
    4:15-4:30pm

  • Session 3: eCommerce
    4:30-6:30pm

  • Session 3 Keynote Speech: "The eBay Story"
    John Donahoe, CEO of eBay
    4:30-5:15pm

  • Session 3 Panel: Each panelist (other than the keynote speaker) will make a 15 minute opening remark
    5:15-6:30pm
    Moderator: Prof. Robert Graves, John H. Krehbiel Sr. Professor for Emerging Technologies at Thayer School of Engineering and Adjunct Professor, Tuck School of Business
    Panelists:
  • Closing Remarks
    6:30-6:35pm