Global Goals Project

Key Links

• www.globalgoalsproject.io

Listen in for a preview of season 3 on the Global Goals project.

We're talking to impact investors and private equity organizations, as well as some of the stars of the impact space with B Lab and the UN Global Compact.

Key Links

• Singularity University

In this podcast, our goal is to uncover some of the most innovative companies leveraging leading-edge technology, like Singularity University. Companies like SU are taking on the global goals with social-impact driven business models.

We want this podcast to be a resource for you to learn about the innovative tech of our time and integrate it into your business model.

I've learned a ton in this recent singularity university series and I hope that you learned as much as I did.

With that said, I wanted to share with you a quick recap of my top five lessons learned that I learned in this series.

• Take Away 1: When you're building out an exponential technology business, one of the best ways to start is just to focus on building a regular company and focusing on solving a problem that you think that you're uniquely good at that you will be able to specialize in in the marketplace and watch how that company develops organically.
• Take Away 2: One of the best ways to bring technology into your business is to hire someone that specializes in the technology that you want to leverage.
• Take Away 3: Once you get into the technology game, it's advantageous to actually study all the different kinds of exponential technologies so you can stay on top of the marketplace.
• Take Away 4: You don't have to be a technologist to get into the business of exponential technology. The best way to start is just to become more data centric.
• Take Away 5: Maybe I'm a little bit biased on this, but I really enjoyed getting the insider scoop of the latest and greatest of what singularity is up to in the world and their game plan over the next 10 years.

In the SU series, we heard from some of the top minds at SU on how to leverage exponential technology and incorporate it into your own business, the implications that exponential technology will have on your future and on the impact this technology will have in solving the Global Goals.

We will be taking a short break and when we come back we will start a series Impact Venture Capital, Private Equity Firms and how to measure impact with your portfolio companies at scale. Stay tuned!

Listen in to hear more about my 5 biggest takeaways from the SU series.

Key Links:

• https://hyperloop-one.com/

The mission of Hyperloop One is to create effortless journeys and expanding possibilities. With fast-moving pods magnetically propelled through tubes, people will be able to get to work in places hundreds of miles from where they live… and save time and costs in transportation.

• 1:30 How the Hyperloop works
• 7:15 How the project started
• 14:30 The business model - a tech IP provider
• 22:00 Is it safe?
• 37:00 Less stress more opportunity
• 40:00 Global Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
• 45:00 The vision: making cities a wonderful place to live

Listen in to hear how transportation innovation will transform cities as soon as 2020.

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Produced by Simpler Media

Key Links

• https://xlabs.ai/
• https://www.seldn.ai/

"Moonshots" are the kind of goals and projects that invent a new era... the kind of projects that will usher in the intelligence age.

• 3:00 What is a "Moonshot Factory?"

• 9:00 Inventing the AI mothership, Seldn
• 15:00 Radhika's story
• 21:00 How does AI work?
• 28:00 Tech that can amplify humans
• 36:00 How can we understand the exponential?
• 50:00 The 2 steps to begin designing your moonshot.

Find out what kinds of projects they are working on - and how you can start designing your own Moonshot - in this episode.

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Produced by Simpler Media

Key links:

• www.su.org
• www.kurzweilai.net
• www.singularity.com

By 2030, AI and robots will most likely take care of all of our day jobs. In this episode, Rob Nail shares some of the most innovative technologies coming to market, as well as the mindset shift we will all need to approach those changes positively. We cover:

1. 4:45 How Rob became CEO
2. 6:45 The 10-year Tech forecast
3. 18:45 We don't have to fear the future
4. 31: How to visualize the future
5. 38:00 The new occupations for humans: Creating empathy, entertainment, and new exploration.
6. 47:00 Choosing our careers and adapting our businesses

Listen in to find out why "humanity has a bright star trek future to explore bigger questions," and how you can prepare your own business - and mindset- for the new opportunities.

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Produced by Simpler Media

Key Links:

• https://unreasonablegroup.com/companies/hala-systems/
• https://bit.ly/2OAuc2g
• https://www.wired.com/story/syria-civil-war-hala-sentry/

The Syrian Civil War has claimed the lives of over 500,000 innocent civilians since 2011. Now, AI company Hala Systems has developed technology to sound air raid sirens and alert civil defense ahead of a bombing or conflict to protect the innocent in a warzone.

• 00:30 What is Hala Systems? What are you solving?
• 10:00 The conflict and civilian protection industry
• 15:00 The politics of protecting innocent people
• 20:00 Saving lives success metrics
• 24:00 How it works
• 32:00 Adding magic to AI to protect a lot of people
• 43:00 Global Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

In this episode, hear how Hala Systems founder John Jaeger became an "accidental diplomat" to grow funding and interest in this technology, and learn more about using AI to address Global Goal 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions.

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In this episode, we talk with Dr. Tiffany Vora, Head of Faculty at Singularity University, about Digital Biology and treating DNA like computer code.

• 5:00 The global SU faculty
• 11:00 Digital Biology
• 17:00 Building DNA like Legos
• 24:00 Radical transparency and programming the future of life
• 30:00 Bio Brokers... who owns your body's data?
• 35:00 Moving from sick-care to healthcare
• 54:00 Developing your Spidey Sense

Tiffany's mission is to boil down the education from the past 1000 years and only keep the good stuff. "And, to burn down the rest! That's the moon shot, the meta-vision."

Listen in for news about the science-fiction realities now happening in biology and tech, and see how you can use uncanny partnerships (makeup and yogurt?) to stay at the cutting edge.

Key Links

• The SU Global Grand Challenges App
• Su.org
• The Global Grand Challenges

Singularity University Impact Director Brett Schilke shares how SU addresses the Global Goals in two main ways: solving resource needs and solving societal development needs. With the Global Grand Challenges and the SU App, anyone can help solve global problems.

• 2:00 How SU addresses the Global Goals
• 7:00 SU's Global Grand Challenges
• 12:00 The brain-computer and casting a vision
• 22:00 The Global Grand Challenges App
• 33:00 Challenge: Go have a conversation with someone about… the future.

Listen in to hear the inner workings of SU staff and community and to learn about the Global Grand Challenges. Also, hear why you should watch Black Mirror… and talk about the future with your friends and family.

The mission of Key2Enable is to help kids with movement disabilities to stay in school and get great jobs with access to technology that they can use easily.

• 1:30 The mission and founding story
• 4:00 How it works and who can use it
• 9:00 Global Goal 10: Reduce Inequalities
• 16:00 Tech Specs
• 20:00 Going to market and the Indiegogo launch
• 32:00 How to support

Listen in to hear how digital accessibility forwards Global Goals 4, 8 and 10… and how one tool can open a whole world to a person with cerebral palsy or Parkinsons.

• Full Blog Post: http://www.globalgoalsproject.io/william-de-oliveira
• See the Key X Indiegogo Campaign at https://bit.ly/2RSOjPy
• Check out Singularity University: www.su.org

Singularity University is on a mission to make the world a more abundant place. In this episode, we'll hear from Molly Pyle, the Senior Program Manager of Singularity University Programs and the Co-Chair of the Women's Impact Network.

• 2:00 How Singularity Started: Niching in Exponential Technology
• 4:00 What is An Exponential Mindset?
• 8:00 The SU Ecosystem and the Global Goals
• 15:00 About Molly
• 25:00 The Global Startup Program
• 27:00 Where do I start?
• 31:00 What do the next decades look like for SU?

After hearing Molly's positive mindset about the abundant future that technology can create for us, she poses a challenge… Listen in to hear more!