The theme of this year’s IIC is “Resilience and Sustainability as the Drivers of Growth”. As an intellectual pursuit, the conference will focus on making sense of the interactions of three complex systems: the world economy, the global society, and the Earth’s physical environment. How does an economy of 7.2 billion people and $90 trillion gross world output change over time? What causes economic growth? What happens when billions of people are suddenly interconnected through markets, technology, finance, and social networks? How does a global society of such inequality of income, wealth, and power function? And what happens when the world economy is on a collision course with the physical environment? Is there a way to change course, a way to combine economic development with environmental sustainability? Based on the deliberations, the conference will recommend a holistic framework, in which society aims for economic, social, and environmental goals