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Innovation Partnership Program in ASSOCIATION with UNIVERSITY Leveraging Exponentially Growing Technologies to Drive Powerful Innovation SINGULARITY Innovation Partnership Program IN ASSOCIATION WITH UNIVERSITY Leveraging exponentially growing technologies to drive powerful innovation. Technological change is accelerating at serial failure at a time when companies are an exponential rate putting extremely becoming more and more risk averse. powerful technology in the hands of Many large companies are finding it small and nimble teams. While this poses increasing difficult to innovate internally HARNESSING significant threats to some industries, it because of bureaucracy and cultural also creates extraordinary opportunities. At issues. the same time that billion dollar companies The Innovation Partnership Program are going out of business overnight, new (IPP) was created to address these EXTRAORDINARY start-up companies are reaching billion issues, educate senior executives on best dollar market-caps in record time. innovation practices, allow them to share Pursuing breakthroughs requires experiences and create a forum for new OPPORTUNITIES significant risk taking and a tolerance for partnerships and continual learning. Collaborating with the brightest minds to learn, share THIRTY SELECT and solve global corporate and Grand Challenges. The Innovation Partnership Program is limited to This audacious effort is produced by the 90 senior executives from 30 select companies X PRIZE Foundation in association with Singularity COMPANIES who come together to learn, share and solve University. Participating companies are united global corporate challenges as well as the Grand by their desire to understand the impact of Challenges of the world. exponential technologies on their company As Innovation Partners, we gather together and industry, their need to increase the rate twice a year for four-day intensive workshops of innovation inside their product lines and that include innovation education, hands- organization, and thirst to learn best practices on experiences, expert lectures, networking, for using crowdsourcing and incentivized entertainment and Visioneering the future. competitions. JOIN US By invitation only. You’re invited to join the Innovation Partnership X PRIZE Foundation has a proven track record Program. We all share a common goal in solving of achieving such breakthroughs with world- the Grand Challenges of our time. Today, the class partners such as Cisco, Google, Medco, world’s largest problems, including energy, NASA, Progressive, Qualcomm and Shell, as well water, food, health and education, also represent as the White House, FDA, DOE and dozens of the world’s largest multi-hundred billion-dollar philanthropists. business opportunities. Singularity University (SU) is a graduate-level The Innovation Partnership Program is central university specializing in leveraging exponential to the missions of both the X PRIZE Foundation technologies to solve humanity’s Grand and Singularity University, which are focused Challenges. A world-class, core faculty of experts on developing and teaching best practices for lead the studies and workshops, complemented creating powerful, incentivized and innovative by cutting-edge practitioners and thinkers – teams. experts in their field – who serve as guest lecturers, mentors and advisors. “The rapid acceleration of technology is enabling small teams to conduct exploration that was only possible by Revolution through competition. national governments. The X PRIZE X PRIZE Foundation helps to set and incentivize audacious and worthy targets.” James Cameron, Filmmaker The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit organization prize philanthropy including James Cameron, Arianna Huffington, PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE AUTOMOTIVE X PRIZE WENDY SCHMIDT OIL CLEANUP X CHALLENGE whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for Naveen Jain, Ray Kurzweil, Elon Musk, Larry Page and The Progressive Insurance Automotive The Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup “I think the [Ansari] X PRIZE should the benefit of humanity and inspire the formation of entirely Dr. J. Craig Venter. X PRIZE was a global competition that X CHALLENGE raised the bar of oil spill be viewed as the beginning of one giant leap...” new industries. The Foundation addresses the world’s Grand awarded $10 million to three teams that cleanup to inspire breakthrough innovation. ANSARI X PRIZE Dr. Buzz Aldrin, Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, high-profile, built cars that achieved at least 100 MPGe The teams were required to more than The very first X PRIZE was awarded on October 4, 2004, when NASA Apollo 11 Astronaut incentivized prize competitions that stimulate investment in in real world driving. The cars were safe, double the industry’s best oil recovery rate famed aerospace designer Burt Rutan and financier Paul Allen led research and development worth far more than the prize itself. affordable and desirable with the ultimate by exceeding 2500 gallons per minute. “The Automotive X PRIZE competition X PRIZE has a longstanding heritage of partnering with global the first private team to build and launch a spacecraft capable of goal of offering more efficient vehicle The first place team nearly doubled that will help us take a much needed step leaders such as Cisco, Northrup Grumman, Progressive and carrying three people to 100 kilometers above the earth’s surface, choices to consumers. Ultimately, the requirement and subsequently created forward in the fight to reduce CO2 twice within two weeks. This audacious achievement ushered in Shell. Current competitions include the Archon Genomics competition has paved the way toward new cleanup technology that will put an emissions worldwide.” a new multi-billion dollar industry of private spaceflight, which will X PRIZE presented by Medco, the Google Lunar X PRIZE and greatly reduced emissions and exponential end to the level of destruction caused by Al Gore, Former Vice President likely yield the way to a multi-billion dollar space tourism industry. the Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE. Our illustrious Board of gains in energy efficiency. the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. of the United States Trustees consists of visionaries who recognize the power of “I am personally funding this X CHALLENGE to inspire innovators around the world—and all those who want to help address what has happened in the Gulf—to focus on solutions to an ongoing, systemic problem.” Wendy Schmidt, President of The Schmidt Family Foundation Harnessing the power of exponential technologies SINGULARITY to solve the global Grand Challenges. Singularity University is a unique interdisciplinary, exponential technologies to positively impact the lives UNIVERSITY international and intercultural experience that of a billion people within a decade. The Singularity concentrates on the impact and opportunities presented University Executive Program is for entrepreneurs, by the deployment of transformative exponential senior corporate executives, financial and government technologies that can solve our world’s greatest leaders, inventors, and innovators. Through lectures and challenges. interactive workshops, Singularity University teaches Located on the campus of NASA Research Park where these technologies are today and where they in Silicon Valley, one of the world’s great epicenters will be in the next 2-10 years in the areas of medicine & of innovation, Singularity University offers a 10-week neuroscience, biotechnology & bioinformatics, artificial summer Graduate Studies Program (GSP). Our Executive intelligence & robotics, nanotechnology, networks Programs are held multiple times each year, including & computing systems, and energy & environmental highly-specialized ones such as FutureMed which allow systems. executives to focus on one particular field of study. The team includes professors and researchers from Singularity University also creates Executive Programs Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard and other major which bring the unique and stimulating environment of educational institutions, and seasoned executives from Singularity University to organizations and institutions business, including Autodesk, Genentech, Google, Cisco, around the world. Nokia, and the Kauffman Foundation, ePlanet Ventures, The mission of Singularity University’s GSP is to and others. Notable SU faculty and advisors include Ray “If I were a student, this is where I would want to be.” assemble, support, educate and inspire future leaders Kurzweil, Vint Cerf and Dean Kamen. Larry Page, Co-Founder and CEO, Google across the globe who can harness the power of ADDRESSING YOUR KEY CHALLENGES A rigorous program designed to result in meaningful impact and CSR. HARNESSING RAPIDLY CHANGING LEVERAGING CROWDSOURCING & ENGAGING THE PUBLIC EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES How to leverage the wisdom of crowds to crowdsource How to stay ahead of the exponential technology curve solutions for your company in record time with and leverage the power of infinite computing, artificial comparatively low cost and little risk. intelligence, robotics, synthetic biology, 3D printing and more to benefit your company and industry. CREATING GLOBAL IMPACT & MEANINGFUL CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) INITIATIVES BRIDGING THE INNOVATION GAP How to create and execute an authentic, meaningful and How to foster a culture of innovation at all levels of your measurable corporate CSR initiative that will tackle some company and with your partners and customers through of the Grand Challenges of our time while also creating our unique “Visioneering” process. shareholder, employee and consumer value
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