summit europe - Singularity University

SINGUL ARIT Y
UNIV ERSIT Y
SUMMIT EUROPE
BUDAPEST • NOVEMBER 15 –16 • 2013
Singularity University’s mission is to educate, inspire and empower a new
generation of leaders to apply exponentially accelerating technologies to
solve humanity’s grand challenges.
For five years, SU has been educating and inspiring global leaders and
entrepreneurs with a broad range of conferences, events and graduate
education programs. We have:
»» Prepared global organizations for the disruption and
opportunities created by accelerating technologies.
»» Sparked a public discourse on the role of technology
in the future.
Bloomberg TV, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, WIRED UK
»» Inspired entrepreneurs to use powerful new technologies to create new products, businesses and markets.
Click here to see our portfolio of SU Labs companies
Now, we are bringing our expertise and our vision for a better
future to Europe.
Our Corporate Founders
“The biggest problems on the planet
are the biggest opportunities.”
—Dr. Peter H. Diamandis
Co-Founder + Executive Chairman
Singularity University
SINGULARITY UNIVERSITY SUMMIT EUROPE 2013
Singularity University will expand its presence in Europe with a major first
of its kind program aimed at educating executives on understanding and
using exponential technologies—arguably, the most powerful set of tools
we have to create positive change and economic growth.
“‘Silicon Valley’ has become a
metaphor for the mindset of
innovation: the power of ideas and
the acceptance of failure. Failure is
just success deferred.”
On November 15–16, in Budapest, Hungary, SU will host SUMMIT EUROPE,
bringing together thought leaders, experts and breakthrough companies —Ray Kurzweil
to explore exponential technologies and their impact on generating
Co-Founder & Chancellor
further advances.
Singularity University
The Singularity University SUMMIT EUROPE will bring the best of the SU
classroom: showcasing what has changed in the world of exponential
technology and what companies have emerged from SU Labs over the
last 12 months.
SUMMIT EUROPE will introduce leaders and policy makers to Singularity
University, our world-class faculty and the theme of accelerating change.
Join us to understand how emerging technologies will impact your
industry, organization, career, and the future. In our work with executives
and entrepreneurs, we have identified several key takeaways provided by
our programs:
»» Understand the critical concepts that will enable you to keep pace with
the biggest ideas in transformative technologies. You will understand both
sides of disruptive technologies: how to be a disruptor and how to
avoid disruption.
»» Learn where emerging technologies are converging to create exciting
new opportunities and apply a multi-disciplinary framework for
understanding these developments. Where will economic growth create
new jobs and opportunities in the 21st century?
»» Explore the key breakthroughs in each technology sector. Learn what
you should watch for in the next decade.
»» Investigate the implications of disruptive technologies and their impact
on your industry.
REGISTER HERE
Previous Program Participants
City of Buenos Aires
Government of Uruguay
FACULTY
Dr. Ray Kurzweil
SU Co-founder and Chancellor
Now Director of Engineering at Google, Ray was described as “the restless
genius” by the Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by
Forbes. His latest NYT bestseller is How to Create a Mind: The Secret of
Human Thought Revealed.
Dr. Peter H. Diamandis
SU Co-founder and Executive Chairman
Founder & Chairman 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. Co-Author of NYT Bestseller
Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think.
Rob Nail
SU CEO and Associate Founder
Co-Founder of Velocity11, building automation equipment and robotics for
cancer research and drug discovery, acquired by Agilent Technologies in
2007. Rob was also founder of Alite Designs and is an active angel investor.
FACULTY
Salim Ismail
SU Global Ambassador & Founding Executive Director
Former Vice President of Yahoo and the Head of Brickhouse, Yahoo’s
internal “ideas factory.” Strategist and entrepreneur, whose last company,
Angstro, was acquired by Google in August 2010.
Marc Goodman
SU Track Chair, Policy, Law & Ethics
With more than 25 years of global experience in cyber crime, cyber
terrorism and information warfare, Marc has consulted for INTERPOL,
the United Nations, NATO, the U.S. Government and the Los Angeles
Police Department. He is an expert on the unanticipated influences of
technology.
Neil Jacobstein
SU Co-Track Chair, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Media X Program. With
research focusing on augmented decision systems, Neil has served as a
technical consultant on AI projects for DARPA, NSF, NASA, NIH, EPA, DOE,
the U.S. Army, GM, Boeing, Applied Materials, and others.
Dr. Dan Barry
SU Track Chair, Robotics
President & Founder of Denbar Robotics and veteran NASA astronaut:
three space flights, four spacewalks and two trips to the International
Space Station. Denbar Robotics creates robotic assistants for home
and commercial use, concentrating on assistive devices for people with
disabilities.
FACULTY
Dr. Daniel Kraft
SU Track Chair, Medicine and Neuroscience
Stanford trained and Harvard certified in Internal Medicine and
Pediatrics , with Stanford fellowships in hematology/oncology & bone
marrow transplantation, and extensive research in stem cell biology and
regenerative medicine.
Raymond McCauley
SU Track Chair, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics
Scientist, engineer and entrepreneur working at the forefront of
biotechnology, Raymond explores how applying technology to life —
biology, genetics, medicine, agriculture — is affecting every one of us.
Co-founder of BioCurious, his work and story have been featured in Wired,
Forbes, Time, and Nature.
Sandy Miller
Co-Chair Entrepreneurship / Managing Director, New Venture Development
Sandy is an expert in entrepreneurship education and led Kauffman Labs
for Enterprise Creation and the Stanford Biodesign Program. She has
advised more than 100 early-stage, technology-based companies.
SESSIONS
Each of the scheduled sessions will provide a fascinating look into the
major technology shifts that are going to happen in the next 2–10 years.
More importantly, we’ll discuss the business and policy implications of
these changes. In addition to getting a thorough view of exponential
technologies, participants will have free time to meet and talk with SU
faculty, SU companies and local technology startups. Session overviews:
Revolution in Robotics
Technology
Explore how robotics technology is
combining with artificial intelligence
as smart machines become mobile
and far more intelligent. This
section will discuss the major
developments in robotics, from
robotic surgery to autonomous
vehicles and revolutionary biotech
automation. It will include the major
opportunities and implications that
robotics have for industries and
how breakthroughs are expected to
transform the economy.
Organizing Society for
Accelerating Change
Global institutions were created
at a time when change was linear.
Today, the massive changes being
driven by accelerating technology,
make many of these institutions
ineffective, or even obsolete. This
session will look at the challenges
and opportunities society faces how will we deal with the changes
being driven by exponentially
accelerating technology?
The Future of Health
and Medicine
This session will concentrate on
breakthrough developments that
are in the lab today and what is
coming to market in the next 2 to
10 years, ranging from 3D printing
to organ regeneration, from point
of care “lab on a chip” diagnostics
to large-scale bioinformatics; from
synthetic biology to new gene based
therapies. All of these and more
are discussed in the context of the
explosion of digital information and
potential for distributed healthcare.
21st Century Biotechnology
Since the completion of the human
genome project in 2001, genetics
has been transformed into a digital
information technology: faster,
easier, and cheaper to do year over
year. These advances are expected
to accelerate for decades to come,
and to deliver a sustained wave of
bio based innovations to medicine,
agriculture, energy, and more,
with potentially world-changing
ramifications. This session will
review the advances and shifting
dynamics in biotechnology: genomic
technologies, synthetic biology,
systems biology, and personalized
medicine.
“If I were a student, this is where I
would like to be.”
—Larry Page
CEO
Google
SESSIONS
Company Sessions with SU
Companies and Local Startups
Meet cutting edge innovators
who are embracing exponential
technologies to create exciting
new business opportunities. These
sessions will include briefings
by companies and networking
sessions where you will be able to
meet company team members and
discuss their plans, products
and businesses.
Accelerating Societal and
Economic Disruption
It used to take 20 years to create
a billion dollar market or product.
Today that is happening in months.
Internet, mobile and ecommerce
technologies are combining to
radically disrupt the very future of
commerce. In a world of shortened
product cycles, how do legacy
enterprises and governance
structures cope when technology
is accelerating away from us?
This presentation will cover some
of these issues and suggest
organizational mechanisms to
cope with these disruptions.
Entrepreneurship and the
Business Structure of the Future
How do organizations rethink
innovation and manage change
in the face of exponentially
accelerating technology? Some
have been enormously successful
in these endeavors while others
have failed. What makes the
difference? In this session we will
look at approaches to effectively
managing change.
“A different kind of incubator…SU Labs
breaks the mold.”
—Fortune Magazine, June 2013
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Interested in helping support the SU SUMMIT EUROPE? Singularity
University wants to work with partners to organize and sponsor
SUMMIT EUROPE. If your organization would like to be a sponsor of this
event or host a track session in your area of business; please contact
us about sponsorship levels and the benefits that Singularity provides
to our partners.
Click here for more information
(www.singularityu.org/eu-summit/sponsorship)