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How will rapidly developing technologies such as low-cost genomic sequencing and proteomics,  artificial intelligence, telemedicine, robotics, quantified self, stem cells, synthetic biology, gene therapy, and crowd sourced health data affect the future of health  and medicine? Click here to see a short video about FutureMed.

FutureMed is the first program of its kind; a multidisciplinary, immersive and hands-on experience uniquely designed for healthcare professionals and is part of Singularity University, whose mission is to educate, inspire and enable current and future leaders to leverage fast moving technologies to address global challenges.

FutureMed educates and prepares physicians, senior healthcare executives, innovators, entrepreneurs and investors to understand and recognize the opportunities and disruptive influences of rapidly developing and convergent technologies. These game-changing technologies and innovations will have profound implications for medicine, healthcare, and the biomedical industry in the decade ahead.

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Mountain View, CA (May 28, 2013) – With the prize of attending Singularity University’s (SU) Graduate Studies Program, entrepreneurs around the world competed in the 2013 Global Impact Competitions. The winners, announced today, will come to SU’s Silicon Valley campus for 10 weeks this summer to study the impact and opportunities of accelerating technologies with the top thinkers in the world. The goal: create innovations and organizations that will impact a billion people in a decade and identify solutions to humanity’s grand challenges.

“The competitions serve as a platform to identify promising innovators and then connect them – and their ideas – to a larger circle of mentorship within their city, country and region,” explained Salim Ismail, Global Ambassador for Singularity University, who started these competitions four years ago. “They create and foster local networks of mentors and participants who can then work together on new and innovative projects.”

In 2013, 13 countries hosted competitions that represented finalists from more than 20 countries, including regions across South America, Europe, Israel, Russia and Australia. Eighteen participants were selected from the hundreds that participated in the competitions. SU now has 40 global ambassadors, with nearly half conducting competitions worldwide with the support of local partners.

“We’re looking for makers and doers who can not only propose a radical idea, but also go forward with implementing it to some degree,” continued Ann Rogan, Director of Global Development. “The Global Impact Competitions are based on the power of the SU community – countless Ambassadors, alumni, and volunteers who set up, run and raise money for the Competitions that enable others to share in the experience of SU’s 10-week Graduate Studies Program.”

Winners’ projects ranged from an online translation platform for use by the hearing impaired, to a next-generation ceramic material for water purification and a smart composting bin technology. And, among the participants arriving this year, one has studied with Stephen Hawking, another is a private pilot from Argentina, while another young student entrepreneur patented his idea for biomimetic prosthetics at the age of 16.

SU explained that the accomplishments of these next-generation global leaders are not solely technical. One winner founded a software company to provide services to the growing Arab market. In doing so, he brought together Palestinian developers and Israeli technology companies — fostering cross-conflict communication and cooperation.

“Our goal at Singularity University – with the Global Impact Competitions and our Graduate Studies Program – is to prepare the best-informed and connected leaders to return to their home regions to implement new solutions and train others in social entrepreneurship,” stated SU CEO Rob Nail. “The GSP core curriculum is structured to provide a broad, cross-disciplinary understanding of the biggest ideas and issues in disruptive technologies.”

“We want to positively change the lives of a billion or more people each decade,” explained SU Co-Founder Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, Executive Chairman of Singularity University and Chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation. “The participants who attend our Graduate Studies Program are at the forefront of realizing this challenge as each participant is explicitly tasked with positively impacting our planet. During the last five years of SU’s growth, we have fostered more than 26 student enterprises.”

A full listing of Singularity University Global impact Challenges winners, can be found at: http://singularityu.org/global/global-impact-competition-winners/

Opening Ceremonies for the Graduate Studies Program are scheduled for June 17th. Tickets can be purchased at singularityu.org/GSPOC13. Early bird tickets are available until June 1st, and the event is expected to sell out.

About SU Graduate Studies Program

Now in its fifth year, Singularity University’s GSP alumni now number 280 from 70 countries, creating a powerful global network of newly emerging innovators and entrepreneurs. SU is also viewed as an important springboard for its participants to create their own companies in the areas of medicine and neuroscience, biotech and bioinformatics, artificial intelligence and robotics, energy and environment, and networks and computing. Through SU Labs, initiated in 2012, SU is serving as an important accelerator in startups aligned with SU’s mission. To date, 26 companies have been formed by SU alumni. Many of these companies have been successful in crowdfunding campaigns, acquiring funding from angel and venture capital investors, and have received grants and awards from governments and foundations.

In the past, many GSP participants have received partial scholarships. For the 2013 GSP, SU has initiated eight new full scholarship offerings: two for outstanding women, and three each for exceptional applicants from Africa and Asia. These new offerings are in addition to the 18 full scholarships provided by local sponsors, to the winners of SU’s Global Impact Competitions.

About Singularity University

Singularity University’s mission is to inspire, educate, and enable a new generation of leaders in business, science, finance, technology and government who strive to understand and use exponentially advancing technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges. Corporate Partners include Autodesk, Cisco, ePlanet Ventures, GE, Genentech, Google, Kauffman Foundation, and Nokia.

Media contact: Diane Murphy: diane@singularityu.org

New York, May 14, 2013 – Three recognized leaders advancing innovation in industry, education and business have announced a new alliance to spur global economic development and business commerce, while supporting a mission to help humanity solve its greatest challenges.  The Innovation Partnership Program (IPP) is a three-year alliance of XPRIZE, the leader in solving grand challenges through large-scale, global incentivized competitions;Singularity University, a unique Silicon Valley educational institute and business incubator which explores the disruptive influences and global growth opportunities of exponentially advancing technologies and Deloitte, a leader in strategy & operations, human capital and technology consulting services.  XPRIZE, Singularity University and Deloitte will leverage their respective strengths to drive innovation across multiple industries and business sectors.

The announcement was made jointly by Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, chairman and chief executive officer of XPRIZE and executive chairman of Singularity University; Rob Nail, associate founder  and chief executive officer of Singularity University; and Marcus Shingles, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP and a leader in Deloitte’s Innovation Group.

The inaugural IPP event took place in March at the NASA Ames Research Park in the heart of Silicon Valley, California.  More than 60 senior business leaders from 30 iconic companies, including Google, Shell, Qualcomm, The Hershey Company and Sprint, met for a four-day executive summit.  The selective membership-based program consisted of a wide array of workshops on crowdsourcing, the rapid advancement of exponential technologies and how to innovate through incentivized competitions. The March IPP event was the first in a multi-year series of events where Fortune 500 leaders will meet innovative start-ups and entrepreneurs to expand their partnership ecosystem across Silicon Valley and reach across global markets to connect the most knowledgeable industry leaders and innovators in a highly curated and unprecedented summit.

“IPP brings an unparalleled value proposition to the market,” said Diamandis.  “The goal is to bring together the critical elements required by businesses seeking to become ‘exponential’ organizations — awareness, education, relationships and know-how. Deloitte adds a crucial element with the ability to assist companies in customizing and implementing their innovation strategies resulting from IPP.”

“IPP not only provides unique access to relevant thought leaders and entrepreneurs, but also introduces an important vantage point and exposure to the key drivers and pace in which various emerging innovations – technological and organizational – will transform the business landscape in the near-term and longer-term,” said Bert Alfonso, executive vice president, chief financial officer and chief administrative officer, The Hershey Company.

Highlights of the inaugural IPP event included seven CEO case studies by crowdfunding and crowdsourcing pioneers, including Quirky. The impact and business relevance of exponential trending technologies were also main topics covered, including digital medicine, biotechnology, sensor technologies, big data, artificial intelligence, 3D printing and advanced robotics.  Also, a signature element of IPP, “The Path Forward,” was a discussion led by Deloitte on their 10 Steps of Innovation and Scaling Edges approach for organizational  characteristics and adoption of innovation.

“IPP provides corporate leadership teams with access to an expanded ecosystem of some of the world’s top entrepreneurs, inventors, scientists, technologists, innovation strategists and business thought leaders, thus providing participating companies with a broader lens as to the potential non-traditional threats and opportunities their industries and businesses are — or will be — facing,” said Shingles.  “IPP is a process versus just an event, giving members continuous exposure to the latest thinking and relationships required to capitalize on innovation-driven business transformation.”

About Deloitte Consulting LLP
Deloitte Consulting LLP helps organizations grow their businesses and enhance value by identifying actionable insights. More than 23,000 professionals provide a broad range of capabilities across human capital, strategy & operations and technology that are aligned to the particular needs of specific sectors, businesses and organizations. Deloitte Consulting LLP provides clients with leading business insights that can help generate a tangible and measurable impact. As part of the alliance, Singularity University and XPRIZE will refer their clients to Deloitte for consulting services around innovation, from strategy to execution.

The innovation capabilities of Deloitte Consulting LLP that will assist IPP member companies include DC Innovation, Deloitte’s Center for the Edge, Monitor Doblin and GBN groups and Deloitte Digital.

About XPRIZE
Founded in 1995, XPRIZE is a leading organization solving the world’s Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, high-profile, incentivized prize competitions that stimulate investment in research and development worth far more than the prize itself. The organization motivates and inspires brilliant innovators from all disciplines to leverage their intellectual and financial capital for the benefit of humanity. XPRIZE conducts competitions in five Prize Groups: Education; Exploration; Energy & Environment; Global Development; and Life Sciences. Active prizes include the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE, the $10 million Archon Genomics XPRIZE presented by Express Scripts, the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE and the $2.25 million Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE. For more information, go to www.xprize.org, “like” us atwww.facebook.com/xprize and follow us on twitter @xprize.

About Singularity University
Singularity University (SU) is a unique interdisciplinary and international organization whose mission is to educate, inspire and enable a new generation of leaders who strive to understand and use exponentially advancing technologies to transform their organizations and to address humanity’s grand challenges. Since 2009, SU has hosted leaders in finance, science, business and government at Executive Programs and Global Summits and brings together each summer many of the world’s most talented young entrepreneurs to attend SU’s 10-week Graduate Studies Program. SU programs have received international acclaim and represent the cutting edge of education, impact, entrepreneurship, inspirational ideas and science. Singularity University is based at NASA Research Park in Mountain View, CA, in the heart of the Silicon Valley. For more information, go to http://singularityu.org/ and follow us on twitter @singularityu and participate in our dialogue on Facebook:www.facebook.com/singularityu

As used in this document, “Deloitte” means Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Certain services may not be available to attest clients under the rules and regulations of public accounting.

Please join Singularity University in welcoming the new 2013 Graduate Studies Program students!

The class of 2013 are some of the best and brightest from around the world and this summer will forever alter the course of their lives. View the current roster of students here, and meet the new class in person June 17th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California!

Tickets will be available at the door.

Schedule

4:30pm Registration
5:30pm Presentations and Keynote

- Ray Kurzweil, Co-founder, Singularity University
- Peter Diamandis, Co-founder, Singularity University
- Regina Dugan, VP, Motorola

7:30pm Reception & Dinner

Now in its fifth year, Singularity University’s GSP alum now number 280 from 70 countries. View the class here, and help us celebrate the launch of the 2013 Graduate Studies Program!

Read the full listing of our Global Impact Competition winners here:
http://singularityu.org/global/global-impact-competition-winners/

More info about the program:

For 10 weeks this summer, 80 graduate and post-graduate level innovators, researchers, NGO leaders, and entrepreneurs from 36 countries will come to Singularity University (SU) in Silicon Valley to change our world. As participants in the 2013 Graduate Studies Program (GSP13), they will be immersed in an unparalleled learning environment focused on identifying and using rapidly accelerating technologies to find solutions focused on humanity’s Grand Challenges: Energy, Food, Water, Environment, Security, Poverty, Global Health, and Education. At the end of the 10-week program, SU student teams will develop 10⁹+ Team Projects with the mission of positively impacting the lives of a billion people in the next 10 years.

Singularity University’s GSP program brings together a diverse group of the most accomplished experts in academics, science, technology, business, and government with the top graduate and post-graduate level innovators, researchers, NGO and entrepreneurial leaders from around the globe. GSP13 begins June 16 and runs through August 26, at Singularity University’s campus at NASA Research Park, Moffett Field, Calif.

“In the next decade, the biomedical industry is going to be massively disrupted and transformed in ways that we cannot entirely predict right now,” said Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, Chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation, Author and Co-Founder of Singularity University with Ray Kurzweil (Author, Inventor and Director of Engineering at Google). “FutureMed is brilliantly designed to provide the roadmap to understanding this exponential growth, and San Diego – as a designated iHub Innovation Center for collaboration between technology and the life sciences – is the optimal venue for FutureMed discussions.”

FutureMed’s Executive Director Daniel Kraft, MD, a Stanford and Harvard University-trained physician, scientist and Faculty Chair of the SU Medicine and Neuroscience Track notes that: “The practice of healthcare has been traditionally operating in silos, based on old definitions and infrastructures, but in the new genomic and connected age, we can leverage new cross-disciplinary technologies with potential for dramatic re-invention. At FutureMed, we explore the convergence of technologies ranging from cloud-based healthcare data, regenerative medicine, 3D printing, wearable devices to the merging of mobile health with artificial intelligence.”

Kraft is well known in the international health community for his knowledge of the impact of integrating rapidly advancing technologies, such as low-cost gene analysis, bio-informatics, telemedicine and social networking, to make health care exponentially faster, smaller, cheaper and better.

Robin Farmanfarmaian, SU VP of Strategic Relations, is the Founding Executive Producer of FutureMed. “The FutureMed experience has been described by its Alumni as a “mind-opening voyage into the future with the people who are creating it.”  We provide a unique environment where participants can engage directly with faculty, speakers, and each other to crowd-source intelligence and information that will create the valuable networks for future innovation.”

About FutureMed

FutureMed explores cutting edge and potential applications of low cost genomic sequencing and ‘Omics, ever-faster, high-resolution imaging, artificial intelligence, telemedicine, robotics, 24/7 wearable body sensors, stem cells, synthetic biology, gene therapy, and participatory, crowd-sourced health data, and examines how these technologies are radically changing our beliefs and approach to wellness, prevention and the delivery of medical care.  Prior FutureMed Faculty include Dean Ornish, Farzad Mostashari, Leslie Saxon, Tim O’Reilly, Larry Smarr, Atul Butte, John Abele, Linda Stone, Vinod Khosla, Peter Fitzgerald, Esther Dyson, Atul Butte, Astro Teller, Don Jones, David Ewing Duncan, Catherine Mohr, Steve Quake, John Mattison, Bob Hariri, Randy Scott, and Paul Yock. FutureMed Corporate partners include Genentech, GE, California Healthcare Foundation, and Biogen-Idec.

About Singularity University

Singularity University’s mission is to educate, inspire and enable a new generation of leaders across the globe to harness the power of exponential technologies to help solve humanity’s grand challenges. Since 2009, SU has hosted students and industry leaders from more than 70 countries at its Graduate Studies Program, Executive Programs, and specialized Executive Programs, including FutureMed.

To Apply, visit: FutureMed2020.com/apply

Follow FutureMed on Twitter @FutureMedTech and on FaceBook.com/FutureMed

Contacts:

Singularity Univ. Communications: Diane Murphy (diane@singularityu.org)

FutureMed Executive Team: futuremed@singularityu.org

FutureMed Executive Producer:  Will Weisman (wweisman@singularityu.org)