Innovative Entrepreneurs Execute Big Ideas

Special Event

Entrepreneurs play an unmatched role in our world, and they each share at least one distinguishing characteristic. Entrepreneurs don’t just recognize problems and come up with ideas to solve them—they execute those big ideas. It is a differentiating quality that merits recognition — and one that will be addressed.

Jain will discuss numerous endeavors as evidence that thinking differently is the only way to solve the world’s biggest challenges. He encourages entrepreneurs to push the boundaries of what common wisdom says is possible and will offer inspirational words about the need for entrepreneurs to capitalize on the same innovative spirit that ties our world together and leverage its best minds to innovate our way out of the massive challenges we face as a civilization.

This spirit is evidenced by Jain’s having proclaimed the Moon to be “just another continent” and unveiling a privately funded lunar lander to tap the long-term economic potential of the Moon for resources essential to Earth’s energy future. His Moon Express venture is a favorite for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE competition, which challenges privately funded teams to put a robot on the Moon to transmit high-definition video, images, and data back to Earth.

He will discuss why the world’s entrepreneurs need to deliver uncommon answers to the world’s largest problems. From hunger and disease diagnosis to environmental sustainability and educational breakthroughs, certainly, there is someone in Slovenia or Serbia, Memphis or Malaysia, who can create the next innovation to solve many of today’s most difficult problems.