LAUNCH: NASA Advisory Committee
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NASA has partnered with USAID, the Department of State, and NIKE to create LAUNCH, which identifies and supports innovative solutions to global challenges. LAUNCH selects visionary innovators working on issues like water, health, energy, and air quality. It convenes forums where innovators present to expert councils and receive feedback to accelerate their work. NASA's expertise in problem-solving and sustaining life in extreme environments makes it well-suited to help innovators address pressing issues on Earth.
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- 1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation Presentation to the NASA Advisory Council Education and Public Outreach Committee http://launch.org Beth Beck Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011
- 2. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation for a Sustainable Future What is LAUNCH? NASA, USAID, Department of State, and NIKE partnership to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to global challenges through a series of forums and follow-up activities. Beth Beck Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011
- 3. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation for a Sustainable Future LAUNCH Innovators: visionaries whose world-class ideas, technologies or programs show great promise for making tangible impacts on society – innovations that matter. Mark Tonkin and son growing trees in the desert! Subsurface irrigation technology uses brackish or saline water without expensive purification, desalination, fine Beth Beck filtering or pressurizing. Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011
- 4. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation for a Sustainable Future LAUNCH Council: a world-class body of entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, venture capitalists, leaders in government, media and business who guide innovators. Each contributes to the cumulative power and wisdom of the LAUNCH network – the Fellowship of Innovation. Beth Beck Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011
- 5. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation for a Sustainable Future LAUNCH Forums focus on key challenge areas – water, health, energy, air – giving thought leaders a venue for evaluating creative ideas among peers and joining in collaborative solution-driven discussions. Each innovator presents to the Council, followed by focused impact rotations, a process we call Innovator Speed Dating. Beth Beck Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011
- 6. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation for a Sustainable Future LAUNCH Accelerator provides individual support to each innovator to help sift through, absorb, and apply LAUNCH forum recommendations. Beth Beck Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011
- 7. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation for a Sustainable Future NASA MindMapr real-time note-taking tool. Note takers capture comments and key words which are displayed in data visualization format on screens. Virtual participants can log in, add comments, and pose questions. Beth Beck Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011
- 8. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation for a Sustainable Future Why LAUNCH? Why NASA? TED: Ideas Worth Spreading Simon Sinek “How Great Leaders Inspire Action” In his TED presentation, he shows how success starts with “why” before deciding “how” or “what.” Beth Beck Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011
- 9. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation for a Sustainable Future Simon Sinek tells us “why” we do things motivates us in different ways. Making money is different motivation than creating change. The Wright Brothers were successful because they were driven by a cause. They wanted to change the course of the world. And they did! TED presentation Simon Sinek: “How Great Leaders Inspire Action.” Beth Beck Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011
- 10. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation for a Sustainable Future Law of Diffusion of Innovations Innovators and Early Adaptors are comfortable making gut decisions driven by what they believe about the world vs. what product is available for their use. Example: long lines for Apple products. The Early Majority won’t try anything until someone else tries it first. TED presentation Simon Sinek: “How Great Leaders Inspire Action.” Beth Beck Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011
- 11. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation for a Sustainable Future Why LAUNCH? Convene a conversation about innovative solutions to sustaining human life on and off this planet. 1. Relevance! Create personal Space-Earth connection, anchored in what each individual believes about the world. 2. Leverage NASA’s problem-solving expertise to propel solution to Earth’s most pressing problems. 3. Cultivate a culture of innovative thinking. Beth Beck Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011
- 12. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation for a Sustainable Future Why Sustainability? Why should NASA care? It’s what we do each and every day! We sustain human life in the extremely remote and hostile environment of space. We create and store our own energy. We conserve our consumables. We recycle waste water. We monitor and cleanse the air. Challenges we address in space mirror what humans face here on Earth – only magnified. Beth Beck Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011
- 13. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation for a Sustainable Future We started with Why. We knew What. Real work in the How. Why Relevance Problem solving What Innovation Hiw What TED+ Innovation Mashup How 10 Innovators 35 Council Focused Discussions Follow up Partnerships Beth Beck Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011
- 14. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation for a Sustainable Future So what? What’s unique? We convened a conversation, based on our leadership in innovation and technology with no expectation of organizational gain – other than the “whys” listed earlier. We stayed away from traditional partners, show & tell, or technology requirements. We intentionally kept LAUNCH small. “An extraordinarily productive event where innovators have an intense interaction with a diverse, high level mix of companies, entrepreneurs, agencies, marketers to produce high impact feedback at no cost to the innovators.” Beth Beck Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011
- 15. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation for a Sustainable Future LAUNCH experience: harnessing the collective genius to accelerate individual innovation for a better world. Beth Beck Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011
- 16. National Aeronautics and Space Administration LAUNCH: Accelerating Innovation for a Sustainable Future Here’s a toast to LAUNCH with NASA’s recycled water! Contact me: @bethbeck http://bethbeck.wordpress.com www.linkedin.com/in/bethbeck http://www.facebook.com/beth.beck Beth Beck Space Operations Public Outreach Manager February 8, 2011