Dr. Eric Bonabeau is a theoretical physicist and the founder, Chairman and CEO of Icosystem Corporation, a company dedicated to developing and incubating technologies in the field of artificial intelligence, with applications ranging from e-commerce to drug discovery.

Eric Bonabeau is one of the world’s leading experts in complex systems and distributed adaptive problem solving. His book “Swarm Intelligence” has been a scientific bestseller for eight years. His articles in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review have all been exploring the limits of human decision making in a complex, decentralized and unpredictable world.

His commercial experience includes years of research and development in US and European telecommunications and software companies. He sits on the advisory board of a number of Fortune 500 corporations. Prior to his current position, Dr Bonabeau was the CEO of Eurobios, then a joint venture with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young applying the science of complex adaptive systems to business issues. He has been a research director with France Telecom R&D, an R&D engineer with Cadence Design Systems (in Lowell, MA, USA), and the Interval Research Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.

He is also the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journals Advances in Complex Systems (World Scientific) and ACM Transactions on Adaptive and Autonomous Systems) and serves as a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals.