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13:00-13:05 Professor Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Complexity & Netoworks and Dept of Math, Imperial College London.

Welcome

13:05-13:35 Mr Phil Rivett, Global Financial Services Chairman for PricewaterhouseCoopers. 

The Changing Nature of Governance and Business Models in the Square Mile: what can we learn from history? 

13:35-13:50 Discussion

13:50- 14:35 Professor Didier Sornette, Entrepreneurial Risks, ETH Zurich. 

Quantitative proof of the exhorbitant role of reflexivity/endogeneity in financial markets: Calibration of self-excited models of exogenous versus endogenous shocks in high frequency trading.

14:35-14:40 Discussion

14:40-15:00 Tea+Coffee

15:00-15:45 Dr Hideki Takayasu, Sony Computer Science Laboratoires, Tokyo. 

 Mechanics of Complexity in Foreign Exchange Markets: Stability and Controllability

15:45-15:50 Discussion 

15:50-16:35 Professor Luciano Pietronero, ISC-CNR and Univ. Sapienza, Rome, Italy. 

 The Economic Complexity of Countries and Products

16:35-16:40 Discussion

16:40-17:00 Tea + Coffee

17:00-17:45 Professor Misako Takayasu, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Transition from power law to monopoly in complex business firm network.

17:45-17:50 Discussion

17:50-18:20 Mr Eduardo Viegas ,Complexity & Networks Group, Imperial College London.

Promoting Diversity as an Instrument for Financial Stability

18:25-18:30 Closing remarks