July 27-29, 2012 • Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

Preconference Courses: July 26-27, 2012 • Professional Members’ Forum: July 30, 2012

Singularity University: Team Projects to Positively Change the World

José Luis Cordeiro is founder of World Future Society Venezuela Chapter; chair, Millennium Project Venezuela Node; and faculty member, Singularity University, NASA, Ames, California, USA

Nikola Danaylov is a graduate student at Singularity University, NASA Ames, California, USA

Antony Evans is a graduate student at Singularity University, NASA Ames, California, USA

Singularity University is a new interdisciplinary university whose mission is to “assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies in order to address humanity’s grand challenges.” With the support of a broad range of leaders in academia, business, and government, Singularity University hopes to stimulate groundbreaking, disruptive thinking and solutions aimed at solving some of the planet’s most pressing challenges. Singularity University is located at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley, California, and it is based on the ideas of futurist Raymond Kurzweil, thanks to the financial sponsorship of companies like Cisco, Google, Nokia, AutoDesk, and ePlanet Ventures.

The team projects prepared by the third class of graduate students include the following areas: education, energy, health, poverty, security, and space. Each project is expected to take advantage of exponential technologies in order to positively improve the lives of one billion people during the next 10 years. A big challenge, but urgently needed as we move closer to the “technological singularity.”