Singularity University aims to educate leaders about exponentially advancing technologies. Its 10-week Graduate Studies Program covers topics like artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. Students work in multidisciplinary teams on projects to address global challenges. The Executive Program provides a shorter introduction to emerging technologies for business and government leaders. Both programs take place at NASA Research Park, and bring together innovators and advisors from academia and industry.
Singularity University Spime Design WorkshopDavid Orban
What happens when we move from billions of mobile phones around us, to networks made of ten, one hundred or one thousand times more nodes? What are going to be the necessary features of these networks, which will constitute the Internet of Things? How can we think about, and must start planning for the nature of this new fundamental entity quickly emerging?
Singularity University Spime Design WorkshopDavid Orban
What happens when we move from billions of mobile phones around us, to networks made of ten, one hundred or one thousand times more nodes? What are going to be the necessary features of these networks, which will constitute the Internet of Things? How can we think about, and must start planning for the nature of this new fundamental entity quickly emerging?
Exponentials and Networks - The Existential Challenge Of Radical Innovation For The Enterprise
Exponential technologies tend to take even the experts by surprise. The centralized and hierarchical organizations are under threat by nimbler and more resilient decentralized networks.
How can modern enterprises survive the combined challenges of technological and organizational innovation, internalizing the processes that make companies great and thrive?
Summary of the Book Exponential organizationsGMR Group
Happy Morning
I have made a small attempt to summarize this book after reading this number of times.
In this book Salim Ismail gives a deep dive – Exponential Organizations where he shows how any company, from Startup to a multi-national , can become exponential.
The author unveils years of research learning how organizations can accelerate growth through use of Technology. The goal of the book is to provide you with the knowledge to leverage assets such as big data, communities, algorithms, and new technology to achieve performance ten times better than your competition.
It is good book for entrepreneurs who need a guide for harnessing and strategizing the hyper growth of a company that feeds off of modern technology in the 21st century and beyond.
Because we focus on accelerating technologies and the future we identified an infection point in how we build businesses that has never noticed before.
Most CEOs see innovation as product or service innovation. But there is also process innovation, social innovation, organizational innovation, management innovation, business model innovation etc.
Those business that do not evolve , will not survive
Happy Reading
We are just at the start exploring the opportunities of the Internet, with 90% or more of the possibilities still unexplored! Over three billion new minds are soon going to connect to the global network. The challenges of decentralization and distribution of previously hierarchical and centralized functions are revolutionizing the design of services. The exponential technologies, with their characteristic unpredictability, are disrupting industries that previously thought themselves immune to the digital revolution. What are the strategies to be able to leverage the new waves of technology? How can we quickly revise experiments creating virtuous circles of evolution? In today's hyper-connected world there are no barriers to entry and the distance between idea and action is reduced to zero!
What is Intelligent Content
How has content on the internet evolved
Some examples of intelligent content, both online and offline
What do we see on the internet going forward?
On Tuesday, February 8, Health | Tech | Food create a space and time to openly innovate around the core health issues of New York, through the lens of social technology.
Sara Holoubek, CEO of Luminary Labs, offered this welcome presentation.
How do we communicate with trillions of machines? We don’t. It is up to them to find ways to aggregate the information they collect and present it in ways that humans can use. It is the duty of the localization industry to lead the development of guidelines for these interfaces that implement best practices for clarity, cross-cultural understanding, accessibility and usefulness worldwide. In this session we will present examples of how this can be achieved while preserving and enhancing the value of the localization industry and its participants.
Talk delivered at Localization World on April 15, 2015 in Shanghai, China.
Adapting to Thrive in a World of Relentless ChangeSteve Rader
This was the opening keynote for the Fintech Solutions Summit on June 16, 2020. This presentation was provided by Crowd Resources Consulting LLC, Steve Rader - CEO/Founder. You can book Steve to speak at your event at: https://creative.lifehappenspro.org/speaker-steve-rader/
or
https://sites.google.com/crowdresources-consulting.com/home/
There is a phase change approaching is the way human society is organized, flipping from centralized hierarchical organizations chiefly represented by the nation states, towards more efficient, flexible, and resilient forms of decentralized, peer-to-peer structures, the Network Society. What traditionally we thought were functions that could only be organized centrally, from energy production and distribution, manufacturing and food production, finance, education, health are now being radically rethought as the guiding principles behind the technological evolution of innovations such as the Internet are now pervading everything.
Not only a novel interpretation of ongoing changes, but also a guiding set of principles to evaluate the degree at which new ideas are well aligned with the these unstoppable developments, the lessons of the Network Society can inform the decisions of individuals, corporations and policymakers to design future-aware action plans navigating times of turbulent change.
An overview of the rise of the maker movement, by Sam Wurzel, CEO and co-founder of Octopart, the vertical search engine for electronic components and industrial products.
Exponential Organizations - Why new organizations are 10x better, faster and ...Yuri van Geest
Exponential Organizations (ExOs, #ExponentialOrgs) - authored by Yuri van Geest, Salim Ismail, Peter Diamandis and Mike Malone and published by Singularity University Press - how to build exponential organizations with exponential technologies and new organizational techniques for an exponential era.
This is first book integrating all key organizational and technology trends into a new and holistic 11 attribute framework applicable for startups, mid markets and corporates. To create exponential organizations instead of classic, linear ones which were developed more than 100 years ago.
We already received the Best Business Book of the Year 2014 Award by Frost & Sullivan and are accepted in the prestigeous C-Suite Book Club.
The book has been thoroughly researched in the last 30 months and we looked for patterns in the most important exponentials companies in the world in the last 6 years like Waze, Tesla, Airbnb, Uber, Xiaomi, Netflix, Valve, Google (Ventures), GitHub, Quirky and 60 other companies including successful corporates like GE, Haier, Coca Cola, Amazon, Citibank and ING Bank. We interviewed 70 global leaders and thinkers like Marc Andreessen, Arianna Huffington, Steve Forbes, Philip Rosedale, Tim O'Reilly, Chris Anderson and many others.
The book is already an Amazon bestseller in the pre-order phase since June, 2014 in the categories Startups, Business Management and Innovation.
Exponentials and Networks - The Existential Challenge Of Radical Innovation For The Enterprise
Exponential technologies tend to take even the experts by surprise. The centralized and hierarchical organizations are under threat by nimbler and more resilient decentralized networks.
How can modern enterprises survive the combined challenges of technological and organizational innovation, internalizing the processes that make companies great and thrive?
Summary of the Book Exponential organizationsGMR Group
Happy Morning
I have made a small attempt to summarize this book after reading this number of times.
In this book Salim Ismail gives a deep dive – Exponential Organizations where he shows how any company, from Startup to a multi-national , can become exponential.
The author unveils years of research learning how organizations can accelerate growth through use of Technology. The goal of the book is to provide you with the knowledge to leverage assets such as big data, communities, algorithms, and new technology to achieve performance ten times better than your competition.
It is good book for entrepreneurs who need a guide for harnessing and strategizing the hyper growth of a company that feeds off of modern technology in the 21st century and beyond.
Because we focus on accelerating technologies and the future we identified an infection point in how we build businesses that has never noticed before.
Most CEOs see innovation as product or service innovation. But there is also process innovation, social innovation, organizational innovation, management innovation, business model innovation etc.
Those business that do not evolve , will not survive
Happy Reading
We are just at the start exploring the opportunities of the Internet, with 90% or more of the possibilities still unexplored! Over three billion new minds are soon going to connect to the global network. The challenges of decentralization and distribution of previously hierarchical and centralized functions are revolutionizing the design of services. The exponential technologies, with their characteristic unpredictability, are disrupting industries that previously thought themselves immune to the digital revolution. What are the strategies to be able to leverage the new waves of technology? How can we quickly revise experiments creating virtuous circles of evolution? In today's hyper-connected world there are no barriers to entry and the distance between idea and action is reduced to zero!
What is Intelligent Content
How has content on the internet evolved
Some examples of intelligent content, both online and offline
What do we see on the internet going forward?
On Tuesday, February 8, Health | Tech | Food create a space and time to openly innovate around the core health issues of New York, through the lens of social technology.
Sara Holoubek, CEO of Luminary Labs, offered this welcome presentation.
How do we communicate with trillions of machines? We don’t. It is up to them to find ways to aggregate the information they collect and present it in ways that humans can use. It is the duty of the localization industry to lead the development of guidelines for these interfaces that implement best practices for clarity, cross-cultural understanding, accessibility and usefulness worldwide. In this session we will present examples of how this can be achieved while preserving and enhancing the value of the localization industry and its participants.
Talk delivered at Localization World on April 15, 2015 in Shanghai, China.
Adapting to Thrive in a World of Relentless ChangeSteve Rader
This was the opening keynote for the Fintech Solutions Summit on June 16, 2020. This presentation was provided by Crowd Resources Consulting LLC, Steve Rader - CEO/Founder. You can book Steve to speak at your event at: https://creative.lifehappenspro.org/speaker-steve-rader/
or
https://sites.google.com/crowdresources-consulting.com/home/
There is a phase change approaching is the way human society is organized, flipping from centralized hierarchical organizations chiefly represented by the nation states, towards more efficient, flexible, and resilient forms of decentralized, peer-to-peer structures, the Network Society. What traditionally we thought were functions that could only be organized centrally, from energy production and distribution, manufacturing and food production, finance, education, health are now being radically rethought as the guiding principles behind the technological evolution of innovations such as the Internet are now pervading everything.
Not only a novel interpretation of ongoing changes, but also a guiding set of principles to evaluate the degree at which new ideas are well aligned with the these unstoppable developments, the lessons of the Network Society can inform the decisions of individuals, corporations and policymakers to design future-aware action plans navigating times of turbulent change.
An overview of the rise of the maker movement, by Sam Wurzel, CEO and co-founder of Octopart, the vertical search engine for electronic components and industrial products.
Exponential Organizations - Why new organizations are 10x better, faster and ...Yuri van Geest
Exponential Organizations (ExOs, #ExponentialOrgs) - authored by Yuri van Geest, Salim Ismail, Peter Diamandis and Mike Malone and published by Singularity University Press - how to build exponential organizations with exponential technologies and new organizational techniques for an exponential era.
This is first book integrating all key organizational and technology trends into a new and holistic 11 attribute framework applicable for startups, mid markets and corporates. To create exponential organizations instead of classic, linear ones which were developed more than 100 years ago.
We already received the Best Business Book of the Year 2014 Award by Frost & Sullivan and are accepted in the prestigeous C-Suite Book Club.
The book has been thoroughly researched in the last 30 months and we looked for patterns in the most important exponentials companies in the world in the last 6 years like Waze, Tesla, Airbnb, Uber, Xiaomi, Netflix, Valve, Google (Ventures), GitHub, Quirky and 60 other companies including successful corporates like GE, Haier, Coca Cola, Amazon, Citibank and ING Bank. We interviewed 70 global leaders and thinkers like Marc Andreessen, Arianna Huffington, Steve Forbes, Philip Rosedale, Tim O'Reilly, Chris Anderson and many others.
The book is already an Amazon bestseller in the pre-order phase since June, 2014 in the categories Startups, Business Management and Innovation.
Yuri van Geest: Exponential Organizations - The New Normalsinnerschrader
The world is changing exponentially due to technology, Singularity and globalization. We see the emergence of a new kind of organization: the exponential organization. This is complete reinvention of all building blocks of a classic, linear organization. Why is it here today? Why is it so successful? What is it? How does it organize to scale? How will exponential organizations evolve into blockchain startups (DAOs)? Learn practical insights from not only startups like Slack, Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Waze, Local Motors, Quirky, Github and Tesla but also large organizations like Google, Amazon, Haier and General Electric.
If your organization was built in the 20th century it is doomed to fail in the 21st century. Why? Nobody uses s a mobile phone of 15 years old to survive in todays' business world but we do use organizational models which are 100 years old in todays' exponential era. This does not make sense and explains disruption in each and every vertical market.
*talk at NEXT15*
60 Second Book Brief: Exponential Organizations by Salim Ismail Steve Cunningham
What is an exponential organization? How do they think? And how do you become one? Check out today's book brief to learn more.
Get a full 12-minute Book Brief in your inbox every single weekday by signing up for a Free Readitfor.me account today @ www.readitfor.me
Face New Challenges of the Globalized World with Singularity UniversityJIC
Participate in the Global Impact Competition and win a full scholarship worth 25K$ to attend Singularity University Graduate program.
Learn more about Singularity University and its values from the TED talks of its founders, Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil:
http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_diamandis_abundance_is_our_future.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/ray_kurzweil_announces_singularity_university.html
How open data contribute to improving the world. The life science use case. The technical, social, ethical issues.
This was a talk given within the iGEM 2020 programme by the London Imperial College students group (https://2020.igem.org/Team:Imperial_College), in a webinar organised by the SOAPLab group on the topic of Ethics of Automation. Excellent Dr Brandon Sepulvado was the other speaker of the day.
Women's Engineering Society, UK; 11 September 2009Wendy Schultz
Keynote on women and innovation and long-term change delivered to the Women's Engineering Society of the UK at their annual conference on 11 September 2009.
NERCOMP: Web Governance - Planning for DisruptionJay Collier
Only some emerging technologies will become disruptive. Can we identify which ones? If so, how? We'll survey some current methods for: analyzing present conditions, examining trends on the horizon, spotting which might become disruptive, and preparing for the unexpected.
Considerations and challenges in building an end to-end microbiome workflowEagle Genomics
Many of the data management and analysis challenges in microbiome research are shared with genomics and other life-science big-data disciplines. However there are aspects that are specific: some are intrinsic to microbiome data, some are related to the maturity of the field, with others related to extracting business value from the data.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
6. Technological Improvements
Extraordinary Century of Progress
• Human life-expectancy more than doubled
• Infant mortality reduced by 90%
• Maternal mortality reduced by 99%
• Cost of electricity reduced by 20-fold
• Cost of transportation reduced 100-fold
• Telecom, information reduced by 1000-fold
7. Technological Improvements
Effect of technology on our lives…
1900 2000
Transport Boston à Chicago 1 months wage ½ day’s wage
A 3 min phone call (NY - LA) 19 hours of work <1 min work
A kilowatt-hour of electricity 1 hour wage <1 min work
5,000 lumen-hours (light) 1 hour wage <1 seconds
11. September 2008 Founding Conference
SU Founding Meeting @ NASA Ames - Sept 2008; 50 leaders from the Bay Area
12. Larry Page – Go Big
Observation - many of our grand
challenges are rooted in
accelerating factors
“Are you working on something that can change the world? Yes or no? The
answer for 99.99999% of people in the world is ‘no.’ I think we need to be
training people on how to change the world. Obviously technologies are the
way to do that. That’s what we’ve seen in the past, that’s what driven all the
change.”
- Larry Page, Google Co-Founder at SU founding conference
13. Mission
Our mission is to assemble, educate
and inspire a new generation of
leaders who strive to understand
and facilitate the development of
exponentially advancing
technologies to address humanity’s Disruptive
Stress/
Opportunity
grand challenges
14. Educational Programs
Graduate Studies Program
10 Weeks
•1x per year, 80 Rising Leaders, Focus on Team Projects
Executive Programs •Multiplex per year, 60-80 Participants
7 Days •For established Business, policy leaders, entrepreneurs
FutureMed •1x per year, 60-80 Participants
5 Days •Focus on Future of Medicine and Biotech
Future Security •1x per year, 60-80 Participants
3-5 Days •Focus on Future of Info and Personal Security
Custom •Multiplex per year, XXX Participants
Programs •Tailored for specific organization (corporate, government, etc.)
1 -3 Days
16. GSP Academic Tracks
Technology Tracks Application Tracks
• Artificial Intelligence & Robotics • Energy &
• Nanotechnology & Digital Fabrication Environmental Systems
• Networks & Computing Systems • Space & Physical
Sciences
• Biotechnology & Bioinformatics
• Medicine & Neuroscience
Resource/Mgmt Tracks
• Futures Studies & Forecasting
• Policy, Law & Ethics
• Design
• Finance & Economics
• Entrepreneurship
17. Examples of Advisory Faculty & Speakers
Other Notable:
•Sebastian Thrun, Stanford AI, GoogleX;
Founder – Udacity
•Saul Griffith, PhD, Eyeglasses, Squid Labs,
Instructables.com, Makani Power
•Dan Kammen, PhD – Lead Author, 2007
Nobel Peace Prize-winning IPCC report;
Faculty, UC Berkeley
•Bob Metcalfe, PhD, Founder, 3Com; co-
inventor of Ethernet
•Chris DiBona, Open Source Program
Vint Cerf Will Wright George Smoot, PhD Dean Kamen Manager, Google Inc.
Chief Internet Creator – SimCity, UC Berkeley; 2006 Inventor, •Larry Smarr, PhD, California Inst. for
Evangelist, Google Spore; Founder, Nobel Prize in Founder DEKA Telecom & IT
Maxis (EA) Physics •Chris deCharms, PhD, Founder Omneruon
•Tim Ferriss, Author- 4-hour Workweek
Sonia Arrison Aubrey de Grey, PhD Tina Seelig Justin Rattner Yvonne Cagel, M.D. Craig Venter
Senior Fellow, Pacific Chairman & CSO, Exec Dir Stanford CTO, Intel Labs Astronaut, Colonel- Founder, CEO
Research Institute SENS Foundation Tech Ventures USAF Synthetic Genomics
18. Track Chairs
Dan Barry, MD Neil Jacobstein Daniel Kraft, MD Ralph Merkle, PhD Brad Templeton Raymond McCauley
(Space; AI, Robotics) (AI, Robotics) (Medicine) (Nanotechnology) (Computer & (Biotechnology)
NASA astronaut; AI CEO, Visiting Stem cell Biology, Inst. for Molecular Networks) CSO-Genomera;
Head of Faculty Scholar Stanford Stanford Manufacturing Chairman EFF Founder -BioCurious
Andrew Hessel Robert Freitas Marc Goodman David S. Rose Gregg Maryniak Jonathan Knowles
(Biotechnology) (Nanotechnology) (Policy Law & (Finance) (Energy) (Design)
Co-Founder Pink Inst for Molecular Ethics) CEO Gust, Chair NY Founding Exec. Dir Senior Advisor
Army Cooperative Manufacturing Futurist for FBI Angels XPrize Found. Autodesk; Apple
19. Who are the students?
GSP Admissions Criteria:
• Extraordinary Brilliance
• Proven entrepreneurs with
GSP’11 Class Photo
proven successes
• Proven interest in the
world’s “grand challenges”
• Graduate/post-Grad level
• Average age: 30
GSP-2010: 80 Students / 35 countries
20. Student Selection Criteria
Three primary Selection Criteria for students:
Top in their field Demonstrated Passionate about
academically Entrepreneurs/Leaders Grand Challenges
GSP Applicants
4100
2600
1600
1200
2009 2010 2011 2012 GSP-2010: 80 Students / 35 countries
24. ACASA - Technology
• Build a 2-bedroom house in 1 ½ days
with 30w of power using local materials
• It is projected to cost less than half of
conventional masonry.
• The approach is already building 8’ walls
• Proof of concept exists, the next step is
to commercialize it
25. SU EPO11 Participant Feedback
Grand Challenge
1.4 billion in extreme poverty
1 billion with no access to all-season roads
28. • Peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace
• Average car costs $8,200/year and sits idle 92%
of the time
• Car sharing projected to be $6.5B industry by
2016 (Frost & Sullivan)
• Patent-pending in-car technology
• Seamless smartphone-driven user experience
• Comprehensive nationwide insurance
GETAROUND WINS
2011 TECHCRUNCH
DISRUPT CUP
Not for Duplication/Distribution | Copyright Salim Ismail | 2009-2011
29. Results
2009 - 4 startups from the Team Projects
2010 – 10 startups
2011 – 11 startups
2010 Team Project Themes:
• Food for Cities – Opportunities in Controlled Environment
Agriculture and Vertical Farming
• Home Energy Usage – Off-the-Grid, Stand-alone, Carbon-Neutral,
Residential Energy System
• Upcycle – Waste Reduction and Reprocessing Waste Into Useful
Products
• Water – Sustainable Water Assets: Holistic Alternatives to Capital-
intensive Infrastructures
• Space – To Boldly Stay: Extending Humanity into the Solar System
30. Larry Page – Google
“If I were a student, this
is where I’d want to be”
- Larry Page
24
24
33. Executive Program Overview
Executive Program Participants: Entrepreneurs, CEOs, CTOs, investors, inventors,
government leaders, and policy experts from around the world
34. Executive Program Overview
The program concentrates on six exponential growing
technologies:
1. Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Discussions
2. Nanotechnology Exercises
3. Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Workshops
4. Medicine & Neuroscience Site Visits
5. Networks & Computing Systems Industry Implications
6. Energy & Environmental Systems
The EP provides an understanding of how these accelerating technologies
will transform your business and your industry by showing you what is in the
lab today and where the technologies will be within the next 3 to 10 years.
44. Change the World
Piloted student contest with Brazilian Univ
– “Conceive and implement an idea to impact 1
million people around Sao Paulo”
45. Change the World
Extraordinary results:
• Time: two months
• Projects created: 230
• Potential impact: PRICELESS
Fabio Teixeira - Winner
46. SU Impact Contests
“To win the chance to attend SU and work on projects to impact a billion people, come up
with an idea that would impact a million people in your area.. and start implementing
it”
• 2011 – 12 students/500 projects
(Brazil, Israel, Russia, Israel, Palestine, Guatemala, Spain, U.S.)
• 2012 - 23 students/17 countries/1000 projects
47. SU Global Impact Competition
“To win the chance to attend SU and work on projects to
impact a billion people, come up with an idea that
would impact one million people within five years...
and start implementing it”.
• Winner – receives full scholarship to
attend SU ~ $30k
• All winners also get $10k of software
from Autodesk
• Looking for additional award funding:
• 2nd Place - $15k to implement project
• 3rd Place - $10k to implement project
49. Where will Exponential
Technology
Create the next $100B+ industry?
Nanotech
AI / Robotics +
Biotech + Networks
Internet, Social Media,
Computers, Mobile phones
1990
2000
2010
2020
2030
2040
51. Structural Issues in the U.S
Democracy? Really?
Political polarization & regulatory failure
Long term planning? Where?
Infrastructure
- energy
- health
- education
- finance
- physical
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