Courtesy of Peter H. Diamandis
Curiosity Expert: Peter H. Diamandis
Chairman/CEO, X PRIZE Foundation
Dr. Peter Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and launching large incentive prizes to drive radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. Best known for the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight and the $10 million Progressive Automotive X PRIZE for 100 mile-per-gallon equivalent cars, the Foundation is now launching prizes in Exploration, Life Sciences, Energy, and Education.
Diamandis is also an international leader in the commercial space arena, having founded and run many of the leading entrepreneurial companies in this sector including Zero Gravity Corporation, the Rocket Racing League and Space Adventures.
As co-Founder & Chairman of the Singularity University, a Silicon Valley based institution partnered with NASA, Google, Autodesk and Nokia, Diamandis counsels the world's top enterprises on how to utilize exponential technologies and incentivized innovation to dramatically accelerate their business objectives.
Dr. Diamandis attended MIT where he received his degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering, as well as Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D. Diamandis' personal motto is: "The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!"
Diamandis is the co-author of Abundance: Why the Future Will Be Much Better Than You Think (Simon & Schuster, February 2012). He and co-author award-winning Science writer Steven Kotler lay out a vision of abundance for humanity by exploring how four emerging forces — exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Techno-philanthropist and the Rising Billion — are conspiring to solve our biggest problems.
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