Peter Diamandis
- Pioneer in innovation, incentive competitions, and commercial space
- Expert in the creation of abundance and bold thinking
- Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation
- New York Times bestselling author
Dr. Peter Diamandis is considered an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions, and commercial space. In 2014, Fortune Magazine named him one of “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders”. He is also the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, which is known for is $10 million Ansari XPRIZE for private spaceflight.
Besides his interests in the XPRIZE Foundation, Peter Diamandis is also the Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Human Longevity Inc., a company that focusses on genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostics and therapeutics with the aim of extending the healthy human lifespan. He is also the Executive Founder of Singularity University. This graduate-level Silicon Valley institution studies exponentially growing technologies and their ability to transform industries and solve certain of humanity’s challenges.
Peter also firmly occupies a position in the commercial space. He is the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of a company that designs spacecraft to enable the detection and prospecting of asteroids for precious metals, i.e. Planetary Resources, as well as the Co-Founder of Space Adventures and Zero-Gravity Corporation.
If that is not enough, Peter Diamandis is a New York Times Bestselling author, having penned two books. These are ‘Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think’ and ‘BOLD – How to go Big, Create Wealth & Impact the World’.
Peter Diamandis, who earned an undergraduate degree in Molecular Genetics and a graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from MIT, and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, has a mission – to open the space frontier for humanity. His personal motto: “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself.”
The Greek Government honoured Peter Diamandis in 2015 by the issue of a 1.2 Euro stamp into circulation, with the same year seeing his biography and the story of XPRIZE come to light. Written by Julian Guthrie, the Forward is written by Richard Branson and the Afterword penned by Prof. Stephen Hawking.
Peter Diamandis – Speaker
Peter Diamandis works in a realm most of us only get to see glimpses of in science fiction movies. An international pioneer in his field, Peter’s talks are energetic, motivational, inspirational, and above all, insightful. Many consider him THE master in his genre.
Speaking Topics
- Exponential tech: Innovation & Disruption on the Road Ahead
- Transforming Scarcity to Abundance
- Bold Thinking for an Exponential Organisation