Peter Diamandis

Peter Diamandis is the founder and chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, co-author of Abundance and Bold, and one of the world’s leading voices on exponential technology, entrepreneurship, and the future of humanity. He has founded over 25 companies and is transforming industries from space to longevity, driven by his passion for solving humanity’s grand challenges through innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Man Behind the XPRIZE

Dr. Diamandis created the XPRIZE Foundation to incentivize breakthrough solutions to the world’s biggest problems, and the Ansari XPRIZE for private spaceflight launched the commercial space industry. He is the co-founder of Singularity University, the co-founder of Human Longevity Inc., and the executive chairman of the XPRIZE. His work has established him as one of the most ambitious and influential technologists and entrepreneurs on earth.

Abundance, Exponential Technology, and the Future

Diamandis’ presentations inspire audiences to think exponentially about the possibilities ahead. His keynotes deliver visionary insights on exponential technologies and their impact on business and humanity, the abundance mindset and why the future is better than we think, innovation and entrepreneurship for solving grand challenges, and the technologies and trends that will transform every industry in the coming decade.

Opening the Space Frontier  

Diamandis is the leading figure in the Space Commercialization industry, having founded and run many of the leading companies such as Zero Gravity Corporation, Space Adventures, the Rocket Racing League, and International Space University to name a few. He is the recipient of the Economist No Boundaries Award, the Heinlein Award, Armstrong, Lindbergh, Von Braun, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards for his work. In this engaging, fun and visionary presentation Diamandis outlines Humanity’s future in space — how we will travel there, build industries and launch future civilizations.

Creating an Age of Abundance

Diamandis has co-authored “Abundance” (Simon & Schuster, Feb’12), in which he lays out how we will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future, where exponentially growing technologies and three other powerful forces are conspiring to better the lives of billions. An antidote to pessimism by tech entrepreneur turned philanthropist, Peter H. Diamandis.

Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. But it is closing—fast. The authors document how four forces—exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion—are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. Abundance establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism.

In his keynote address, Diamandis examining human need by category—water, food, energy, healthcare, education, communication and freedom—Diamandis addresses how a range of powerful technologies such as synthetic biology, embedded networks and cloud computer, AI and robotics, biotechnology and medicine are transforming what was once scarce into something abundant.

Providing abundance is humanity’s grandest challenge — this is a Keynote about how we rise to meet it.

Achieving Innovation and Breakthroughs

Diamandis is a dynamic inspirational speaker who provides real value to his audience by showing them how to drive and incentivize breakthrough thinking within their company in order to achieve clear, measurable and objective results.

Based on the success of the Ansari X PRIZE (which stimulated the creation of billion-dollar private spaceflight industry) and the success of the $10M Progressive Automotive X PRIZE, Diamandis explains how to incentivize breakthroughs. Diamandis explains how traditional thinking, risk-aversion and incrementalism will cause the demise of companies unable to cope with the coming decades of disruptive innovation.

Through concrete examples and lessons, Diamandis addresses two options:

Internal: How to create a culture of innovation within your company;
External: How to incentivize the outside world to help you solve your biggest problems;

Diamandis explains how the rapid growth of key exponential technologies (Nano, Info, Bio) are empowering individuals and small companies to do what only governments were able to achieve only a few decades ago. Such technologies will drive a period of significant disruption and/or opportunity depending on the company’s mind-set. Diamandis’ ultimate message is that companies cannot remain stagnant. They must evolve or they will die. 

Exponential Technologies Causing Disruptive Innovation

Diamandis provides an overview of the key exponentially growing technologies, covering such topics as:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computational Systems
• 3D printing
• Medicine/NeuroSystems
• Bioinformatics

• Robotics
• Network Systems
• Nanomaterials
• Biotechnology

Diamandis discusses how breakthroughs in these areas will transform products, companies, industries and even society over the next twenty years. He provides key insights on how human society has transformed from “Local & Linear” to “Global & Exponential.” This change is causing the creation of new billion dollar start-ups out of nowhere, and the demise of 50-year-old billion dollar companies overnight.

Through Diamandis’ work as Chairman and Co-Founder of Singularity University and Chairman/CEO of X PRIZE, he addresses the impact that exponentially growing technology has on companies, governments, and humanity. He speaks to the potential of creating a world of abundance, and the empowerment of small groups of “do-it-yourself” technologists to do what only governments or large corporations could do before.