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The images below were produced for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young at the 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France in April 2000.

These are all real-time drawings produced on stage while speakers give presentations and participate in discussions.

The medium was PrismaColor marker on 30" x 40" foam core panels.

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5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Paris France, April 2000 SEE SLIDESHOW
	Adaptive Strategy Panel Speakers: Josh Epstein, Frank Nuovo, Mark Riksen, Gary Hamel Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: A panel discussion addressing the nature of the adaptive organization.
	Bios Group Speaker: Stu Kaufman, Santa Fe Institute/ Bios Group Description: Stu Kauffman, acclaimed author of At Home in the Universe and senior scientific officer of Bios Group, Inc., overwhelms everyone by taking on Darwin and grapples with the source of this complex universe.
	Bottom-Up: Emergent Behavior Speaker: Chris Meyer, Director of CGEY, Center for Business Innovation Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Chris Meyers, Director of the Center for Business Innovation, introduces the themes of complexity theory: disequallibrium and connectivity as progenitors of adaptive systems.
	Competitive Intelligence: Success of Disequallibrium Speaker: Robert Salmon Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Salmon exuberantly explores the changing global landscape of complexity in regards to the balance of culture and technology.
	Complexity Defined (1) Speaker: Chris Meyer, Chris Meyer, Director of CGEY, Center for Business Innovation Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Text here
	Complexity Defined (2) Speaker: Chris Meyer, Chris Meyer, Director of CGEY, Center for Business Innovation Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Text here
	Creative Leadership Speaker: Gottlieb Gunthern Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: A medical doctor and co-founder of the Creando Foundation, describes the common traits of creativity and leadership.
	EcoIndustry Speaker: Jorgen Christensen Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: The industrial symbiosis at Kalundborg, Denmark is described.
	Growing Firms (1) Speaker: Josh Epstein, Brookings Institution and Bios Group, Inc. Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Members of Bios Group, Inc. and fellows at the Brookings institute, address how firms grow and die.
	Growing Firms (2) Speaker: Rob Axtel, , Brookings Institution and Bios Group, Inc. Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Learnings from studying artificial, digital societies.
	High Touch at St. Luke's Advertising Speaker: Tim Hunt, Roger Lewin, Birute Regine Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Hunt, St. Luke's advertising firm in London, with Lewin and Regine discuss the culture of the adaptive workspace, in which heirarchies, teams and technologies are modular and reconfigured on a project-by-project basis.
	Innovation Process Speaker: Olivier and Mandelbaum Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Lessons learned from the international bottler, Sidel, in regards to innovation and the attitude of adaptibility.
	Innovation Network Speaker: Stu Kauffman, John Jordan and Jamie Taylor Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: A discussion the nature of the beast called "Open Source" that is turning the corporate notion of command and control of ideas on its ear.
	Keynote: New Pioneers Speaker: Tom Petzinger Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Petzinger, former contributing editor for the Wall Street Journal, shares his view of New Pioneers trying to solve complex sociological problems by referencing the models of biological systems.
	Nokia: Connecting People Speaker: Frank Nuovo, Creative Director of Nokia Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Nuovo relates his experience as long-term creative director of Nokia.
	Organizational Health & Vitality (1) Speaker: Robert Pascale Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Pascale and Tuberville look at old and new industry attitudes toward equallibrium, change and adaptation as elements for maintaining the health and vitality of the organization.
	Organizational Health & Vitality (2) Speaker: Phil Tuberville, formerly of Royal Dutch Shell Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Tuberville looks at the Royal Dutch Shel Company's attitude towards equallibrium, change and adaptation as elements for maintaining the health and vitality of the organization.
	Social Insects Speaker: Rob Axtell, Josh Epstein, Stu Kaufman Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Members of Bios Group, Inc. introduce the lessons learned from social insects as applied to designing more adaptive strategies for human organizations.
	Strategy as Revolution Speaker: Gary Hamel Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Praises the necessary revolution of ideas, and lament the trend of incumbants to stifle innovation, leading to creative burn-out.
	Innovation Speaker: Gary Hamel Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Explores strategy as revolution of ideas in an open market that gives rise to the most robust innovation.
	The Art of Simulation: Agent-based Models of Economy and Society Speaker: Josh Epstein, Brookings Institution and Bios Group, Inc. Event: 5th Annual Embracing Complexity Conference in Paris France, April 2000 Client/Sponsor: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation Description: Epstein, Axtell, Riksen and Nuovo participate in a panel discussion on the adaptive organization and adaptive strategy.