X-PRIZE IPP Brochure v1r4 x1a

Innovation Partnership ProgramS I N G U LA R I T YU N I V E R S I T Y

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Leveraging exponentially growing technologies to drive powerful innovation.

Technological change is accelerating at an

exponential rate putting extremely powerful

technology in the hands of small and

nimble teams. While this poses signifi cant

threats to some industries, it also creates

extraordinary opportunities. At the same

time that billion dollar companies are going

out of business overnight, new start-up

companies are reaching billion dollar

market-caps in record time.

Pursuing breakthroughs requires

signifi cant risk taking and a tolerance for

serial failure at a time when companies are

becoming more and more risk averse.

Many large companies are fi nding it

increasing diffi cult to innovate internally

because of bureaucracy and cultural issues.

The Innovation Partnership Program

(IPP) was created to address these

issues, educate senior executives on best

innovation practices, allow them to share

experiences and create a forum for new

partnerships and continual learning.

ThIrTY seleCT CoMPAnIes

Collaborating with the brightest minds to learn, share and solve global corporate and grand challenges.

The Innovation Partnership Program is

limited to 90 senior executives from 30 select

companies who come together to learn, share

and solve global corporate challenges as well

as the grand challenges of the world.

As Innovation Partners, we gather together

twice a year for four-day intensive workshops

that include innovation education, hands-

on experiences, expert lectures, networking,

entertainment and Visioneering the future.

This audacious effort is produced by the

X PRIZE Foundation in association with

Singularity University. Participating companies

are united by their desire to understand the

impact of exponential technologies on their

company and industry, their need to increase

the rate of innovation inside their product

lines and organization, and thirst to learn

best practices for using crowdsourcing and

incentivized competitions.

JoIn us By Invitation Only.

You’re invited to join the Innovation Partnership

Program. We all share a common goal in solving

the grand challenges of our time. Today, the

world’s largest problems, including energy,

water, food, health and education, also represent

the world’s largest multi-hundred billion-dollar

business opportunities.

The Innovation Partnership Program is

central to the missions of both the X PRIZE

Foundation and Singularity University, which

are focused on developing and teaching best

practices for creating a powerful, incentivized

and innovative team.

X PRIZE Foundation has a proven track

record of achieving such breakthroughs with

world-class partners such as Cisco, Google,

Medco, NASA, Progressive, Qualcomm and Shell,

as well as the White House, FDA, DOE and dozens

of philanthropists.

Singularity University (SU) is a graduate-level

university specializing in leveraging exponential

technologies to solve humanity’s grand challenges.

The mission of Singularity University’s Graduate

Studies Program (GSP) is to assemble, support,

educate and inspire future leaders across the

globe who can harness the power of exponential

technologies to positively impact the lives of a

billion people within a decade.

A world-class, core faculty of experts lead the

studies and workshops, complemented by cutting-

edge practitioners and thinkers – experts in their

fi eld – who serve as guest lecturers, mentors

and advisors.

The team includes professors and researchers

from Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard

and other major educational institutions, and

seasoned executives from business, including

Autodesk, Genentech, Google, Cisco, Nokia, and

the Kauffman Foundation, ePlanet Ventures, and

others. Notable SU faculty and advisors include

Ray Kurzweil, Vint Cerf and Dean Kamen.

The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational

nonprofi t organization whose mission is

to bring about radical breakthroughs for

the benefi t of humanity and inspire the

formation of entirely new industries. The

Foundation addresses the world’s Grand

Challenges by creating and managing

large-scale, high-profi le, incentivized prize

competitions that stimulate investment in

research and development worth far more

than the prize itself.

X PRIZE has a longstanding heritage

of partnering with global leaders such

as Cisco, Google, Medco, Progressive

Insurance, Qualcomm Foundation and

Shell Oil Company as well as the best and

brightest minds in the world. Our illustrious

Board of Trustees consists of visionaries

and luminaries who recognize the power of

prize philanthropy to create fundamental

change in the world, including James

Cameron, Arianna Huffi ngton, Naveen Jain,

Ray Kurzweil, Elon Musk, Larry Page and Dr.

J. Craig Venter.

ANSARI x pRIZEThe very fi rst X PRIZE was awarded on

October 4, 2004, when famed aerospace

designer Burt Rutan and fi nancier Paul

Allen led the fi rst private team to build and

launch a spacecraft capable of carrying

three people to 100 kilometers above the

earth’s surface, twice within two weeks.

This audacious achievement ushered in a

new multi-billion dollar industry of private

spacefl ight, which will likely yield the way to

a multi-billion dollar space tourism industry.

pRoGRESSIvE INSuRANCE AutomotIvE x pRIZEThe Progressive Insurance Automotive

X PRIZE was a global competition that

awarded $10 million to three teams that

built cars that achieved at least 100 MPGe

in real world driving. The cars were safe,

affordable and desirable with the ultimate

goal of offering more effi cient vehicle

choices to consumers. Ultimately, the

competition has paved the way toward

greatly reduced emissions and exponential

gains in energy effi ciency.

wENdy SCHmIdt oIl ClEANup x CHAllENGEThe Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup

X CHALLENGE raised the bar of oil spill

cleanup to inspire breakthrough innovation.

The teams were required to more than

double the industry’s best oil recovery rate

by exceeding 2500 gallons per minute.

The fi rst place team nearly doubled that

requirement and subsequently created new

cleanup technology that will put an end

to the level of destruction caused by the

Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010.

Revolution through competition.

X PrIZe“The rapid acceleration of technology

is enabling small teams to conduct

exploration that was only possible by

national governments. The X PRIZE

Foundation helps to set and incentivize

audacious and worthy targets.”

James Cameron, Filmmaker

“I think the [Ansari] X PRIZE should

be viewed as the beginning of one

giant leap...”

Dr. Buzz Aldrin,

NASA Apollo 11 Astronaut

“The Automotive X PRIZE competition

will help us take a much needed step

forward in the fi ght to reduce CO2

emissions worldwide.”

Al Gore, Former Vice President

of the United States

“I am personally funding this X

CHALLENGE to inspire innovators

around the world—and all those who

want to help address what has happened

in the Gulf—to focus on solutions to an

ongoing, systemic problem.”

Wendy Schmidt, President of

The Schmidt Family Foundation

AddressIng Your KeY ChAllenges

HARNESSING RApIdly CHANGING ExpoNENtIAl tECHNoloGIESHow to stay ahead of the exponential technology curve

and leverage the power of infinite computing, artificial

intelligence, robotics, synthetic biology, 3D printing and

more to benefit your company and industry.

BRIdGING tHE INNovAtIoN GApHow to foster a culture of innovation at all levels of your

company and with your partners and customers through

our unique “Visioneering” process.

lEvERAGING CRowdSouRCING & ENGAGING tHE puBlICHow to leverage the wisdom of crowds to crowdsource

solutions for your company in record time with

comparatively low cost and little risk.

CREAtING GloBAl ImpACt & mEANINGful CoRpoRAtE SoCIAl RESpoNSIBIlIty (CSR) INItIAtIvESHow to create and execute an authentic, meaningful and

measurable corporate CSR initiative that will tackle some

of the grand challenges of our time while also creating

shareholder, employee and consumer value and goodwill.

A rigorous program designed to result in meaningful impact and CSR.

A unIQue eXPerIenCe

Innovation Partners will come together twice a

year in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley to engage

in a four-day intensive workshop that includes

innovation education, hands-on workshops,

expert lectures, networking, entertainment and

Visioneering the future.

EACH fouR-dAy INtENSIvE woRkSHop INCludES

• 2-days focused on the impact of exponential

technologies

• 2-days focused on innovation and how to

design and launch breakthrough incentivized

competitions

To ensure successful engagements, the

program is structured to be as experiential as

possible. Each four-day intensive workshop

and session breakouts is carefully planned and

curated in coordination with other teams to

ensure that you, your leadership team and your

invited guests get the most out of the program

from our faculty, the content and from your

fellow members.

tHREE kEy tAkEAwAyS

ONE: You will be given the knowledge, tools and

materials to communicate what you have learned

back to your company

TWO: You will be provided with updates

throughout the year so you can continue

evaluating the impact of key exponential

technologies on your products, company

and industry

THREE: It is our goal to give you immediate

takeaway benefi ts to your company in the

form of strategic roadmaps, new partnerships

and implementable action plans. This will

be facilitated if participants come to these

Visioneering sessions with specifi c key challenges

in mind that need solving

Visioneering the future with world-class partners.

hoW IT WorKs

Days 1 & 2

ExpoNENtIAl tECHNoloGIES woRkSHopA number of exponentially growing

technologies will massively increase the

human capability and fundamentally

reshape our collective futures.

We employ a world-class faculty

who specialize in a cross-disciplinary

understanding of how transformative

technologies impact industries and

humanity’s grand challenges. During this

part of the workshop, Innovation Partners

receive an integrated overview of seven

key ‘exponentially advancing’ areas as

well as their potential implication and

opportunities. The curriculum educates

participants on what is in labs today, and

what is coming to market in two, fi ve

and 10 years and how these various

technologies work synergistically to drive

change for each member’s company

and industry.

Leading researchers, business leaders,

and thinkers share the stage and engage

in thought-provoking debates that

help members understand the

convergence among various disciplines

and technologies.

Following each session, executives will

participate in a Discussion and Refl ection

workshop, which will ask the following

company-centric questions:

• How will this technology affect our key

products and growth?

• How will this technology allow us

to solve specifi c key problems in

our company?

• How will this technology allow to us

to solve the grand challenges that our

company, employees and customers

care about?

During the workshop, three Innovation

Partners from your company will be paired

with three Innovation Partners from two

other companies to form a group of nine.

This curated pairing will allow you to gain

insights from executives outside of your

industry, who will offer a unique point

of view.

SECURITYFUTURE CRIME

MEDICINENEUROSCIENCE

ENERGYENVIRONMENT

3D PRINTINGNANOMATERIALS

COMPUTING & SENSORS NETWORK SYSTEMS

ROBOTICSARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY & BIOINFORMATICS

hoW IT WorKs

Days 3 & 4 Visioneering Workshop

Having blown your mind in our fi rst two

days, as to what is technologically possible,

the following two days will focus on

how to identify market failures, mitigate

potential threats and explore extraordinary

opportunities. We will provide effective

ways in which you can effectively leverage

crowdsourced solutions and how to design

incentivized competitions that will align

and benefi t your company, your industry

and your customers.

A well-designed competition is

the key to attracting and motivating

multidisciplinary and maverick players

to solve the many corporate and grand

challenges facing us today. The X PRIZE

Foundation utilizes a core process we call

Visioneering to evaluate the opportunities

for incentivized innovation that address

such challenges. The Visioneering is

process has been, and continues to

be, an effective way to drive radical

breakthroughs with clients ranging from

corporate fi rms and private donors to

governmental agencies.

tHE vISIoNEERING pRoCESS INCludES• Identifi cation of the market failure to

be solved

• Identifi cation of the root causes of that

market failure

• Clarity around the metrics being

measured

• Defi nition of a clear, measurable and

objective goal

• Design of an audacious, but achievable

competition

• Identifi cation of the potential

crowdsourcing community to be tapped

• Tools for launch, implementation and

operations of a crowdsourced incentive

competition

Interdisciplinary collaboration and

creative engagement are cornerstones of

this process, which X PRIZE Foundation

has deployed in dozens of fi elds with

a wide range of audiences and clients

including BT, Cisco, Google, Nokia,

Qualcomm, Shell, NASA, the White House,

FDA, DOE, USAID and dozens of world-

class philanthropists.

This strategic Visioneering process

will help members creatively explore the

challenges facing their companies and

identify key opportunity areas for growth

and change.

oBJECtIvES INCludE• Identifying areas that are ripe for

innovation in your company and

your industry

• Identifying audacious but achievable

goals in each of these of these areas

• Designing creative opportunities to crowd

source solutions to these objectives

• Providing you with the relevant tools to

implement this, and next steps

IndusTrIes &eXPonenTIAlTeChnologYIMPACTs

ARtIfICIAl INtEllIGENCE RoBotICS 3d pRINtING

INFINITE COMPUTING / UBIQUITOUS SENSORS / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE / ROBOTICS / SYNTHETIC BIO / 3D PRINTING / DIGITAL MEDICINEENERGY

TELECOMFINANCE

AUTOMOTIVEAEROSPACEINTERNET

AGRICULTURE & FARMINGHOSPITALITY

CONSTRUCTIONTEXTILE & APPAREL

MEDICINE & HEALTHCAREMINING

PHARMACEUTICALSTRANSPORTATION

SOFTWARECONSUMER PACKAGED GOODS

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• Tricorder-like devices perform medical diagnostics. Usable by patents themselves.

• Tutoring and decision support systems in medicine, for patients, nurses, paramedics, physicians, and insurance companies.

• Tools to convert natural language specifi cations into working software.

• Self-driving robot cars to save lives, save energy, reduce tra� c, and increase productivity.

• AI powered virtual reality environments.

• Business advisors analyze functioning of enterprise and recommend best practices for personnel and operations management.

• Central nervous system for buildings which provide optimal heating and cooling, reliable and robust AV services, smart and fl exible security, automatic building maintenance, testing, and repair, energy generation systems management, and robotic reconfi guration of partitions for di� erent uses of major fl oor space.

• Data mining and predictive analytics on massive data bases on innovation and startup companies, identifying patterns, success factors, and non obvious correlations with sustainable and scalable operations.

• Robotic construction and 3D printing combine to automate much of the building and manufacturing process.

• e-Restaurants, with robotic delivery vehicles providing just in time delivery of fi nished dishes. No storefront needed. Dishes created based on what ingredients are best today and ordered online. For DIYers, fresh ingredient delivered to home.

• Robot pets that can recognize you, respond to your emotional state, provide companionship, and social interaction.

• Robotic assistants that aid the elderly who can’t function independently.

• Robotic ⁄bionic limbs that enable paraplegics to perform normal human functions and provide super-human strength.

• Telepresence robots improve to the point where people only rarely need to travel for business.

• Autonomous micro-scale robots perform medical activities inside the body

• Hospital Has Autonomous Robotic Surgeon

• 3D printing allowing for the home production of personalized clothing, on demand in a fully distributed, on demand basis.

• Entire buildings and houses printed with 3D printers

• Human organs printed on demand

• Print-on-Demand Vaccines Fight Disease: ID, Design, & Distribute a vaccine (or anti-virus) in weeks

• Designs for goods move at the speed of the internet, allowing a worldwide community of designers to “make” goods at all scales

• 3D printing combined with AI allows non-local designs for critical infrastructure to be tested for safety.

• 3D printing of medical equipment drops the prices down

• 3D printing combined with biotechnology-sourced industrial feedstocks allows small, distributed suppliers of once-complex industrial-scale sourced materials.

2012 ProgrAMsChedule

yEAR oNE / SESSIoN 1: fAll 2012yEAR oNE / SESSIoN 2: SpRING 2013

The schedule consists of four back-to-back working sessions.

eXPonenTIAl TeChnologIes InnoVATIon & CoMPeTITIonday 0

Wednesdayday 1

Thursdayday 2Friday

day 3Saturday

day 4Sunday

Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast

Al & roboticsGroup Discussion

energy BreakthroughsGroup Discussion

session 1Group Discussion

session 3

VIP speakerGroup Discussion


session 2Group Discussion


networks & Computing systemsGroup Discussion

security & Future Crime

Group Discussion


Team Breakout




Competition lunch

registration open

Medicine & neuroscienceGroup Discussion Break-out

ABreak-out

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TeamWorkshop

next steps &Wrap-up



Biotech & BioinfoGroup Discussion

Break-outC

Break-outd

Team Pitchesand Feedback

Team Pitchesand Feedback

Welcome reception

Intros & Ice Breaker

dinner VIP speaker

networking &entertainment

VIP guest PanelGroup Discussion

VIP guest PanelGroup Discussion

optional dinner

Intro to Visioneering and Prize direction Presentations

Featured entertainment

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ExpoNENtIAl tECHNoloGIES & INNovAtIoN EduCAtIoNReceive a fundamental understanding of

the key exponentially-growing technologies

and their trajectory. What is in the lab today

and what is coming to market in two, five

and 10 years? Learn how to effectively

monitor trends in advanced technology

fields, identify opportunities for innovation

and areas that are ripe for breakthroughs

that are of benefit to your company and

your industry.

vISIoNEERING EduCAtIoN Learn the X PRIZE Foundation’s strategic

Visioneering process, which will help you

creatively think about the challenges

facing your company and enable you to

identify key opportunity areas for growth

and change. Through interdisciplinary

collaboration, creative engagement,

and experiential sessions, you will learn

about and explore “stretch goals” for your

organization and potential structures for

innovation.

ClIENt / pARtNER ENGAGEmENt & ENtERtAINmENtLeverage this unique opportunity by inviting

your most important current and future

clients and partners. Foster innovation and

create greater bonds between companies,

CEOs and their respective teams.

mAStERmINd NEtwoRkGrow your network and build strong

innovation-relationships with your fellow

Innovation Partners and their companies.

As a matchmaker, IPP will actively curate

meaningful match-ups, conversations

to foster relevant, key partnerships with

companies important to you by tailoring

working group composition, lunch and

dinner partners as well as the composition

of breakout sessions to create the space

for connection among members, our

Masterminds. The feedback you give to,

and get from peer Mastermind members,

is a key feature of the program. These

relationships, founded on a shared

innovation experience, will carry on well

beyond the Innovation Partnership Program.

CompEtItIoN & CRowdSouRCINGLearn how to leverage competitions and

how to use crowdsourcing to incentivize

audiences from around the world to solve

your company’s challenges. Engage your

employees, customers, university students

and startups to help find those solutions

with you. We will also show you how to

utilize the X PRIZE online design platform

to design incentive competitions of greatest

interest to your company.

oNGoING oNlINE ENGAGEmENt & CommuNIty Utilize the IPP online community platform

and gain access to your fellow Innovation

Partners and faculty on an ongoing basis

to facilitate ongoing conversations and

connections. This living resource will offer

everything from downloadable information

and webcasts to a quarterly update on new

developments that you can share with your

entire organization.

ExECutIvE BRIEfING dECk & vISuAl pRoCESS mApS Receive and share an Executive Briefing

Deck, which will include a summary of the

exponential technologies explored and

a matrix of the potential opportunities

and threats facing your company. Each

summary will includ e the detailed feedback

from your Mastermind peers. The deck

and the visual maps will be captured

and created by business visualization

professionals, experts in the emerging

practice of using images, sketches and

data-driven infographics to help teams

solve complex problems. The essence of,

and feedback from, each workshop and

breakout session will be captured to provide

you with powerful tools that you can share

with your board, senior management and

employees to describe your experience and

to spark a broader conversation within your

organization.

seVen BeneFITs 7 Benefits That Will Transform Your Approach to Business Development.

MeMBershIPoPTIons

lEvEl 1• 3-year commitment

• 2 workshops per year + invitations to

special events

• Seats for 18 senior executives

(3 seats per session, per company)

• 3 additional guests may be invited for an

additional $25,000 per person, per program*

$250,000 annual fee

INdIvIduAl mEmBERSHIpA limited number of individual memberships are

available on a case-by-case basis

$125,000 annual fee

lEvEl 2Level 2 includes all the benefi ts of Level 1

as well as:

• Seats for 30 senior executives

(5 seats per session, per company)

Custom Visioneering program: X PRIZE

Foundation will provide one custom Visioneering

program per year at the Innovation Partner’s

corporate headquarters (or location of choosing

within the U.S.). This will include 30 days of

preparatory work and a full-day session on

location. The result will be a Prize Design/

Visioneering report on the Innovation Partner’s

subject of interest

$350,000 annual fee

*Guest space is limited to a total of 15 additional guests per workshop. Guest participation is reserved primarily for members who

would like to invite a corporate partner or client. Guests are welcome by invitation only on a limited basis, while space is available.

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