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Program Business Convergence
Keynote Speaker: Michael Lewis
Tuesday, May 8 | 8:30 AM GENERAL SESSION | Key Ballroom
economics with their revolutionary theories on decision making
and human errors in judgment. His previous book, the NYT
#1 best-seller Flash Boys, has took the financial market and
business world by storm upon its release in March 2014. The
story reveals how the legal—but highly questionable—practice
of high-frequency trading (HFT) has allowed certain Wall Street
players to work the stock market to their advantage, and has been
called one of the most provocative books to hit shelves since
Lewis’ The Big Short. In The Blind Side, published in 2006,
Lewis tells the story of NFL Offensive Tackle Michael Oher, and
how his life is transformed from being a teen living on the streets
of Memphis after he is adopted by white Evangelical Christians.
Before that, Lewis wrote Moneyball, a book ostensibly about
baseball but also about the way markets value people. Both of
his books about sports became Oscar nominated films.
Two of his most popular releases, The Big Short and Boomerang,
are narratives set in the global financial crisis. His other works
include The New New Thing, about Silicon Valley during the
Internet boom; Coach, about the transformative powers of his own
high school baseball coach; Losers, about the 1996 Presidential
Financial journalist campaign; and Liar’s Poker, a Wall Street story based in part on his
own experience working as a bond salesman for Salomon Brothers.
and New York Times Mr. Lewis is a columnist for Bloomberg News and a contributing
writer to Vanity Fair. His articles have also appeared in The New
best-selling author York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Gourmet, Slate, Sports
Michael Lewis Illustrated, Foreign Affairs, and Poetry Magazine. He has served
as editor and columnist for the British weekly The Spectator
has published sixteen and as Senior Editor and campaign correspondent for The New
Republic. He has filmed and narrated short pieces for ABC-TV’s
books on subjects Nightline; created and presented a four-part documentary on the
social consequences of the internet for the BBC; and recorded
ranging from politics stories for the American public radio show, This American Life.
Mr. Lewis grew up in New Orleans and remains deeply interested
to Wall Street. and involved in the city. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art
History from Princeton and a Master’s degree in Economics from
the London School of Economics. He lives in Berkeley, California
In December 2016, Lewis released The with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their three children: Quinn, Dixie,
Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed and Walker. In 2009, he published Home Game: An Accidental
Our Minds. In keeping with his unparalleled Guide to Fatherhood, about his attempts to raise them.
ability to tell stories about “quirky individuals
who zig when everyone else zags” (as The New
York Times puts it), the new book dives deep Sponsored by
into the world of Daniel Kahneman and Amos
Tversky, who founded the field of behavioral
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