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Keynote presentation (August 23, 2014, 9:00 am)
/"Creating a culture of innovation and breakthroughs/"
Presenter: Peter Diamandis, Co-Founder and Vice Chairman, Human Longevity, Inc., Founder and CEO, X PRIZE Foundation.
Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in innovation, incentive competitions, and commercial space. In innovation, Diamandis is Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, best known for its $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight. Today, the X PRIZE is a global leader in designing and executing large-scale global competitions to solve market failures.
Diamandis is also the co-founder and vice chairman of Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company focused on extending the healthy human lifespan. He is also the co-founder and executive chairman of Singularity University, a Silicon Valley university-level institution that studies exponentially growing technologies, their ability to transform industries and solve humanity’s grand challenges. In the commercial space arena, Diamandis is the co-founder/co-chairman of Planetary Resources, a company designing spacecraft to enable the discovery and mining of asteroids for precious materials.
Diamandis is the New York Times bestselling author of Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think. Abundance was #1 on Amazon and #2 on the New York Times. He was also named one of “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” by Fortune Magazine. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Molecular Genetics and a master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his MD from Harvard Medical School.
Diamandis' mission is to open the frontier of space for humanity. His personal motto is: "The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself."
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