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Peter  Diamandis

Peter Diamandis

Former CEO of X Prize Foundation

Peter Diamandis

Former CEO of X Prize Foundation

Biography

Dr. Peter Diamandis is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions, and commercial space. In 2014, he was named one of “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” by Fortune magazine. He was the chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation until 2018, 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.

In the field of commercial space, Diamandis is the co-founder and co-chairman of Planetary Resources, a company designing spacecraft to enable the detection and prospecting of asteroids for precious materials. He has also co-founded and run many leading entrepreneurial companies, including Zero Gravity Corporation, the Rocket Racing League, and Space Adventures.

His is the co-author of the new book, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World (2015), the highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. This is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions.

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-based institution partnered with NASA, Google, Autodesk, and Nokia—Diamandis counsels the world’s top enterprises on how to utilize exponential technologies and their ability to transform industries and solve humanity’s grand challenges.

Diamandis inspires and moves audiences to action. His message is clear: there is no challenge that cannot be overcome as long as you have a clear objective goal, know what you are measuring, and incentivize the right community to solve your challenge. Using personal and inspirational stories, Diamandis has been called, “one of the best speakers ever” by numerous CEO-level audiences. He has received accolades from an impressively diverse list of listeners, including Google, Microsoft, the United Nations, Facebook, TED, Autodesk, and Activision-Blizzard. He is a frequent contributor to CNN, CNBC, and MSNBC.

Peter Diamandis attended MIT where he received his degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering, as well as Harvard Medical School where he received his MD. His personal motto is “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!”

Speaker Videos

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Longevity Breakthroughs

Bold & Abundant Thinking (Full Presentation) | Peter Diamandis

Power & Implications of Exponential Change - The Richmond Forum

Peter H. Diamandis on “Abundance”

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Longevity Breakthroughs: How Exponential Technologies are Extending the Healthy Human Lifespan – or – Making 100 Years Old, the New 60!

Dr. Diamandis is the co-Author of the NYTimes #1 best-seller LIFE FORCE, and his most recent book LONGEVITY: Your Practical Playbook.  In late 2023, he also launched the largest prize in history, the $101 million XPRIZE Healthspan to restore muscle, immune and cognitive function by up to 20 years.

In this talk, Diamandis discusses how exponential advances in biotech, imaging, sensors, and artificial intelligence are enabling us to add decades onto our healthspan, making 100 years old the new 60.

Diamandis provides an understandable and inspiring overview of technologies like genome sequencing, epigenetics, RNA transcriptomics, vaccines, CRISPR/Gene Therapy, cellular therapies, stem cells and BCI are enabling a healthcare revolution.

Diamandis delivers a compelling vision of the future of healthcare, one in which we achieve personalized, preventive medicine, and predictive treatments using advanced diagnostics and therapeutics. And one in which society moves healthcare out of the hospitals and doctor's offices into the home.

The Longevity Keynote Will Cover topics such as:

  • Lifespan vs. Healthspan; How long might humans live in health?
  • AI and healthcare
  • Advanced biotech (CRISPR & Gene Therapy) in curing disease
  • The rapid growth of health and longevity investments
  • Epigenetic Reprogramming and Age-Reversal’
  • Organ and Tissue Regeneration
  • Advanced diagnostics/Uploads for early detection of disease
  • Advanced therapeutics available today (Stem Cells & Cellular Therapies)
  • Senolytic Medicines
  • The Ethical, Economic and Societal Implications of Longevity

AI & the Healthspan Revolution

Join Dr. Peter Diamandis for a visionary and invigorating journey through the synergistic landscapes of AI and human longevity. These two areas represented the largest wealth creation opportunities, and major drivers for societal transformation in the decade ahead.

In the first half of this talk, Dr. Diamandis illuminates how explosive AI breakthroughs are reshaping our world. The second half delves into the most exciting health and longevity advancements, predicting a future where living to 100 is the new norm.

While some may fear this future, Diamandis delivers a hopeful and compelling vision for an abundant future.

In this keynote, Dr. Diamandis will cover:

AI Innovations:

  • The history and near-term future for AI, outlining the latest breakthroughs and their transformative potential across industries.
  • Ensuring AI alignment with human values for a cooperative, optimized future.
  • Navigating the complexities of AI safety and the roadmap to secure, beneficial AI.
  • How AI is driving a new era of abundance, solving scarcity challenges with unprecedented speed and scale.

Longevity Breakthroughs:

  • Genome sequencing and AI in precision medicine: personalizing healthcare for radical prevention and treatment.
  • The revolution in diagnostics: AI-enhanced imaging and liquid biopsies catching disease at inception.
  • CRISPR, Gene Therapy, and Epigenetics: rewriting the code of life for age-reversal and chronic disease treatment.
  • Regenerative medicine: stem cell therapies and tissue regeneration pushing the boundaries of the human healthspan.
  • The societal ripple effects: ethical, economic, and societal impacts of a world where 100 is the new 60.

Dr. Diamandis' keynote is more than a presentation; it's a portal to the future. Attendees will leave with a profound understanding of the role AI and longevity play in our lives, equipped with the knowledge to embrace and lead this new era of human evolution.

Meta-Trends for the Decade Ahead: The Future is Faster Than You Think

Exponential Technologies are accelerating faster than anyone could has ever imagined.

What happens as AI, robotics, and virtual reality crash into 3D printing, blockchain, and global gigabit networks? How will these convergences transform today’s biggest industries? How will this change the way we raise our kids, govern our nations, and care for our planet?

We will see more change and create greater wealth in the next 10 years than we have in the past century.

During this gripping and insightful keynote, Diamandis outlines a road map to our near future, describing how wave after wave of exponentially accelerating technologies will impact both our daily lives and every company.

Diamandis describes the current status and future direction of key Metatrends, driven by exponential technologies, that are re-inventing our future. Following are 10 Meta-Trends he is able to cover as desired:

  1. Increasing global abundance (Proof of Abundance)
  2. The power and growth of Artificial Intelligence
  3. Global networks connecting everyone, everywhere at gigabit speeds
  4. Connecting everything, everywhere is connected (IoT/IoE)
  5. The rise of humanoid robots
  6. Autonomous personalized transport (Autonomous Cars & eVTOL)
  7. Increasing Human Intelligence (AI Support + BCI)
  8. Increasing Human Longevity “Healthspan”
  9. Globally Abundant Cheap Renewable Energy
  10. Reinventing how we feed the world with Cellular Agriculture & Vertical Farms

Bold Thinking for Exponential Organizations (ExO)

Today a company’s success depends on mindset, its use of exponential technologies and the power of crowdsourcing. This keynote, based on Diamandis’ bestselling book BOLD and Exponential Organizations 2.0, Diamandis examines the approaches required to succeed during this exponential age.

Where should a company be looking to grow 10x bigger, rather than 10-percent bigger? What does it take for a company to become an Exponential Organization? How do you become Uber rather than Kodak?

Diamandis explains how a Massively Transformative Purpose (MTP) can drive your organization’s culture and help you attract the best employees. He examines the innovation principles used by GoogleX’, and the power of bold, “moonshot” thinking, and details how entrepreneurial billionaires like Larry Page, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson think -- and their strategies for scale and impact.

Diamandis adds personal stories from his own moonshot companies: XPRIZE, Singularity and Fountain Life.

This keynote will audiences to:

  • Create a culture of innovation, Moonshot thinking, and continuous learning within your organization, driven by a Massively Transformative Purpose (MTP) to inspire and attract the best talent.
  • Identify areas in your company where you can shift from seeking 10% improvements to aiming for 10X growth.
  • Understand the key attributes of an Exponential Organization and evaluate the most important changes required to accelerate your growth.
  • Shift your organization’s mindset from 'linear to exponential' and 'scarcity-minded to abundance-focused,' leveraging digital transformation to meet rapidly changing markets and customer needs.
  • Identify and overcome common barriers to innovation, such as risk aversion and legacy thinking, by implementing strategies for sustained innovation and adaptability.
  • Harness the collective intelligence and skills of a diverse crowd for open innovation and solutions, while ensuring responsible and ethical growth in the face of rapid technological advancement.
  • Emphasize the importance of individual leadership and resilience in driving bold initiatives and navigating the challenges of exponential change.

Transforming Scarcity to Abundance

Diamandis is the New York Times bestselling author of ABUNDANCE – The Future Is Better Than You Think (#1 on Amazon, #2 on NYTimes). In Abundance, and his newest book AGE OF ABUNDANCE (out in mid-2024), Diamandis shows us how technology is turning areas of scarcity into abundance. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future, where exponentially growing technologies (AI, Robotics, Sensors, Networks, 3D Printing, Synthetic Biology, etc.) and the power of the crowd are converging to better the lives of billions.

This keynote is an antidote to pessimism. Diamandis examines human need by category — water, food, energy, healthcare, education, communication and freedom — and shows the audience detailed evidence on the revolutionary improvements in these areas over the past century. He addresses how a range of exponential technologies are transforming what was once scarce into abundance. Humanity’s grandest challenge is providing abundance, and this keynote addresses how we rise to meet it.

Diamandis brings to light a refreshing narrative: the world's alarming headlines are outpaced by positive trend lines. Extreme poverty is down. The health care is improving dramatically around the world. There are developments now which make me believe we might be able to do what we did in the 1990s, which is to use technological developments to create more jobs than we lose.”

In this era of rapid change and uncertainty, Dr. Diamandis offers a beacon of hope, a blueprint for a bountiful future, and a strategic guide for those ready to lead the charge. Embrace the opportunity to inspire your organization with a vision that transcends the status quo, turning the tide from scarcity to abundance.

This presentation will help you:

  • Navigate the "exponential road ahead," grasping the trajectory of transformative technologies and the immense potential they hold.
  • Champion a shift from scarcity to abundance, embodying leadership that radiates confidence and optimism for the future.
  • Transform the world's most daunting challenges into unparalleled business opportunities, leading the charge in the era of abundance.
  • Harness exponential technologies like AI, Robotics, and Synthetic Biology to catalyze positive change on a global scale.
  • Embrace crowdsourcing as a powerful tool to innovate, solve pressing problems, and democratize access to solutions.
  • Recognize and seize the potential for exponential growth in sectors critical to human progress.
  • Cultivate a mindset of abundance that transcends traditional business models and enables groundbreaking strategic thinking.

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