This event is by invitation only
Co-organized with Santa Fe Institute
Thriving in a Turbulent World: Harnessing Complexity for New Possibilities is a closed, all-day roundtable, and part of ADIA Lab’s mission to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration at the frontiers of science, computation, and decision-making.
The roundtable brings together leading researchers and practitioners from complexity science, economics, and applied systems research to explore how complex adaptive systems shape outcomes across climate, digital transformation, economic transition, and the integration of artificial intelligence into human and institutional decision-making.
By connecting insights from multiple disciplines, the roundtable focuses on the shared generative mechanisms underlying intelligence, adaptation, and emergence. These perspectives support the development of new analytical, mathematical, and computational approaches aligned with ADIA Lab’s core research areas and foundational capabilities, including advanced modelling, high-dimensional data analysis, and AI-enabled discovery.
Through these discussions, we aim to catalyse new research pathways and collaborations that are better suited to understanding, anticipating, and navigating systemic change in an increasingly interconnected and turbulent world.
Key themes
Intelligence: Human and artificial intelligence as interacting, multi-level systems shaping markets, organisations, and governance
Agent-Based Models (ABMs): Modelling adaptive decision-making under uncertainty in economic and social systems
Emergent Engineering: Designing and managing systems where agents learn, adapt, and evolve
Speakers
Doyne Farmer
Director of Complexity Economics at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford Martin School, and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute
David Krakauer
President + William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems, Santa Fe Institute
Geoffrey West
Past President, Shannan Distinguished Professor + Science Steering Committee Member at SFI
William Tracy
Vice President for Applied Complexity, SFI
Professor Guido Imbens
Nobel laureate in Economic Science, & Applied Econometrics Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Professor of Economics in the Economics Department at Stanford University
Image credit: "Diatom Plate 148." (from Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde) by A. Schmidt (1890). Courtesy of Public Domain Review.