 The XPRIZE right now we've we've awarded about 25 million dollars in prize money Which is just the beginning right relatively small amount of money the teams as you know it really don't do it for the money the money You know incentivizes it tells the public it's important They're doing it because it's their purpose and mission in life The money is an excuse to a great degree. It's a proxy for something that's important we have about 50 million dollars of prizes on the table right now and What we believe is about 200 million dollars of prizes in development at different stages in the pipeline So to tell you about the active prizes and the prizes that are actually funded for development It's my pleasure to bring my team up on stage So I want you guys come on up and I'll introduce you as you as you come on So First and foremost we have Alex Hall who is running the Google Lunar XPRIZE an amazing woman getting us back to the moon Introduce Mark Winter who is running both the Qualcomm tri-quarter XPRIZE and the Nokia sensing X challenge Paul Bungie who's running our ocean health Soon to be Wendy Schmidt ocean health XPRIZE and our in our ocean activities in general and you all met the amazing Eileen Bartholomew who is spends her morning talking about deep space or afternoons the oceans and in between every other part of the world But has one of the funnest jobs around so You know back when I was running the on sorry XPRIZE I Basically with with my buddy Greg Maronak. I had each of I had your jobs I had one prize I was focusing on and and the future of the institution lived and Died based on what was going on and What I'd like to do is ask each of the team members here to tell you about what the status of the prize is and we're going to be very Bluntly honest where things are working where things are not working and just share with you so that as you're designing your prizes You can learn from the experiences here and also How you know we have amazing captains of industry in the room here how you might want to be involved in what they're up to So let's begin with with Alex and the Google Lunar XPRIZE You know it was the natural follow-on to the Ansari XPRIZE and we learned a lot in the process Why don't you start Alex by telling us what the prize is what the rules are and where the status is sure? Thanks, Peter. So the Google Lunar XPRIZE Sounds very simple. You have to be a privately funded team to land a robot on the surface of the moon You have to send back some high-definition images some data move 500 meters and send back more images and data But although that is the goal of the Google Lunar XPRIZE a physical thing that teams have to accomplish There's a lot more that backs up the Google Lunar XPRIZE about what impact doing that What sounds like a very simple thing will actually have and as Peter said this felt like the natural progression from Ansari XPRIZE This was considered a good way to incentivize humanity to move our our sphere of commercial influence if you like beyond low earth orbit out towards the moon out beyond earth and Setting a goal of the moon was a mechanism for doing this and also there's another component to the Google Lunar XPRIZE Which is that by landing something on the moon. This is an incredibly audacious task What we can also do is create as it's been described an Apollo moment for this generation a Mechanism to capture and inspire Maybe the young engineers of tomorrow and a mechanism to connect everybody together So although when you look at the prize it sounds deceptively simple it actually if we're successful will have a considerable impact not only on the future space economy, but also on how Kids view what is possible what becomes part of their lexicon of things that they can do Because if a privately funded team has landed on the moon well now I can start to dream about what opportunities what businesses what things I might be able to do that are not just confined to the earth So Alex how many teams do we have what are their biggest challenges talk about that a little bit sure? We currently have 23 teams that are active in the competition. That's down from 30 We've been more than five years into the prize. We have less than three to go So this is kind of what we would expect for a mature prize Reality is setting in with these teams and they're talking about collaborating We've had a number of mergers and acquisitions a lot of partnerships going on and a lot of people sharing ideas and sharing Technologies, but one of the things that has become apparent to us as a foundation and certainly within the Google Lunar XPRIZE Is that the the deceptively simple idea of the prize as put together back in? 2007 has one or two issues in terms of when you're thinking about prize design things perhaps You would seek maybe not to do nowadays The biggest one and the one I hear most of all is that of those 23 teams We have some wonderful technologies being developed to soft land on the moon creative mobility devices great command and control software But unfortunately the thing that is going to determine whether those teams get to actually use that incredible technology Is whether they can fundraise enough money to buy their ride to the moon? And and that is not necessarily what we wanted out of the Google Lunar XPRIZE And so Peter and I particularly have been working with our wonderful partners at Google To look at what can we do within the framework of the prize that will increase the likelihood of success and will hopefully make Some of these teams that have awesome technologies But as engineers maybe aren't great marketers or fundraisers still have an opportunity to compete Yeah, one of the things we've actually done with Google, which we're extraordinarily thankful To Larry and Sergey and to Lorraine to Hill the CMO there is we've they've allowed us to modify the rules mid-prize to really try and Frontload some of the capital give some of the team's potential Launch assists capital wise and they want the prize one, right? So we're always looking at making the prize audacious enough, but also achievable to put a prize up there that no one wins you know is Is a challenge it is and you know one of the things to remember here is as I was talking about this this Apollo moment And and this perhaps is one of the reasons why if you're sitting in the room thinking wow I'd love to meet some of these these people that are looking to go to the moon I want you to consider this for a minute When this the spacecraft lands on the lunar surface Aside from sending back the first message that has been sent from the moon in 40 years And and what are we going to say maybe you've got some ideas on that It's going to send back a little bit of data that data will be if you like the first text message from the moon About six months before launch will start collecting cell phone numbers Can you imagine if you could step back from the globe at that second Spacecraft lands and there are people you know in yoga poses and their phone starts buzzing and there are people in night clubs And there are people in villages in India all over the world suddenly they're getting this message Hey, we landed on the moon just think for a moment about what that does to What you think about is possible and then think about if you're one of the companies one of the foundations One of the folks involved with any of those teams not just the successful ones But the ones that are all rooting to it how that kind of is it a convening thing how that is going to be Just an incredible moment for mankind. Sorry. It gets me very excited and it should and by the way Alex has a long history as CEO of a number of companies in the space industry. We're extraordinarily lucky to have her running this prize Alex what do the teams need what could these people here potentially if they wanted to get involved to do What are your thoughts there? Well as I mentioned before we have teams developing really interesting technologies and one of the Areas that a lot of teams are struggling in is really finding the partners that will help them get to the moon Whether that's by working with a team to help them craft and market their story in a way that Will attract the necessary funding or whether it's people with with technology that can also help the teams Really, it's it's getting these guys to the moon is our is our Challenge right now. So if you want to put your corporate logo or your national flag on one of these teams Absolutely, I'm sure that they would want to and the fact of the matter is It will happen right the these teams One of these teams will pull it off and when they do They will do it orders of magnitude cheaper. I know if I know Laurie Garver arrived a lorry in the room here Not yet. She's probably checking in but the lorry is the deputy administrator of NASA You'll be hearing her tomorrow morning NASA put up what talk about that a little bit sure so for our American teams NASA actually put up an equivalent prize purse the Google Lunar X prizes $30 million and NASA put up a purse of $30 million which they could award in contracts to purchase Data and technology from our American teams as a competitive process for this and we had about half a dozen teams qualified And so as they are moving along in their different stages, they're able to access Cash from NASA That is buying what they have just developed what they've discovered what data they've generated at this particular phase of their development We've obviously been working very hard to try and and find similar Mechanisms for some of our global teams, but there are other opportunities available to some of the global teams For example that don't have in if they're in a country that doesn't have such a big track record in space Then they're able to play the the nationalistic card They're able to say we want to get something from XYZ country on the moon and that is their kind of fundraising token So, you know, it's it's very interesting how the different motivations of the teams lead lead to different ways in which they Can access funds last question this prize has a deadline What is that it is December 31st 2015 and I personally think we're gonna get two launches two launches You heard to hear today. All right. Thank you, Alex. Awesome. We'll come back to you and Q&A Mark winter you are in the middle of an amazing Set of two prizes that are gonna revolutionize global health. So let's start Let's talk. First of all, I want to mention we have two amazing people in the room here who made this possible I had a fateful lunch with Paul Jacobs. Paul, where are you? You're over there the chairman CEO of Qualcomm and also the Qualcomm Foundation over lunch we talked about, you know, the Tri-quarter and and Paul shook hands literally at lunch. Hey, let's do this and we were off to the races announcing it at CES and then The sister prize is we talking about in a moment is the Nokia sentencing challenge I called my good friend Henry Terry and on the phone with Eileen He said let's do this and we have two amazing prizes. Let's talk about this. Tell us about the Qualcomm Tri-quarter first Well, the the Tri-quarter prize is extraordinary. It's a real game-changer the concept is a handheld device We don't specify whether it's an Android device or an iOS device It could be a custom embedded device But under five pounds with an array of biosensors that can detect up to 15 different health states and conditions In a consumer device, this is an important concept to understand. It's focuses on consumer use not clinical use So the level of user interface design and user experience design is a critical part of it another critical facet of the Tri-quarter is its communications ability not only low-power communications to hopefully wireless sensors and other devices primarily but also be able to communicate through the cloud to Other kinds of systems that may inform the device So you may have analytical databases where basic data is captured about the user and then Communicated to a system that does analytics on the back end and returns Certain codes and information to the device to inform the consumer in a friendly way or the device itself may have the smarts Embedded in it to actually do a lot of that work or some combination We also require it to be able to record information to an electronic health record I think the real significance of this competition the real game-changing aspect of this is we're really talking about a Personal portal that not only can capture rich information about your ongoing health status But be able to communicate that effectively to your health care provider as well We've all heard about the crises in the health care system the inability to reach doctors the challenge of doctors to provide enough information to their patients or be able to even communicate with them on a regular basis and the promise of the Tri-quarter is to really facilitate and enable that and I think that's one of the most exciting aspects of this of this competition How many teams have pre-registered so far we have 287 teams from 35 countries that have currently pre-registered for the competition Pretty amazing, huh? Absolutely extraordinary response from around the world. Yeah, I mean it's I I get a monthly report from from Mark and his team and I'm like looking at the global distribution of teams It blows me away Mark I talk about what you have to do to win in this prize. Yes. Well, there's several key aspects to it It's not as simple as delivering for example the beauty and elegance of the Ansari X prize was being able to meet fairly definitive metrics This is a little more complex because first of all We're determining whether or not the device can actually properly identify 15 specific disease states actually 12 that are mandatory and three that are elective that the teams have to select It also needs to be able to monitor in real-time and report in real-time the key vital signs things like oxygenation and body temperature Pulse and so forth and be able to carry that information back to an electronic health record system So one of the you know those are challenging Requirements and I think one of the exciting aspects of this is all the materials technology In fact Jack Dandronka who is one of our teams spoke about this Extraordinary convergence of new materials technologies at the same time We're seeing a enormous amount of research and development and new medical science and evidence that are converging together with this Remarkable environment of wireless technology and that's really sort of the rich soil that this competition is built on top of and why We're going to see extraordinary results from this competition. So the sister competition is the Inokia sensing X challenge and I love this imagery in this this Campaign talk about Nokia sensing and what what the mission and vision is I'm also very excited about the the Nokia competition First of all in my view and the view of many people that follow the mobile health space a Precursor technology set to really evolving these handsets that can communicate to consumers and the physicians is the sensor array When we have this enormous range of clinical conditions that we would need to address ultimately with this devices And our vision is that we'd have plug-and-play communications capability between a biosensors area sensors Even in environmental sensors of various kinds that would be able to quickly communicate with this handheld device But very specific to the personalized care needs of individuals So the purpose of the Nokia competition is to really proliferate all the creative potential of biosensors Area sensors and also a unique category data sensors that actually use analytical tools to look at your own personal health record Along with public health data and predict possible disease. Those are the three kind of major conceptual categories So I think that this is a very important competition because it is a pre-course Really a precursor to the emergence of the larger mobile health marketplace as we view it Number of teams in the format of this competition if you could sure we actually pre-registered 127 teams in total for the competition and in this we broke it down into two challenges We have challenge one and challenge two. It's a little bit different than the Qualcomm prize The current one just closed We have registration that's fully closed now on the first challenge We have 33 teams that are competing for that one and that will be culminated roughly in around September of the end of this year That will result in another challenge starting up at that time We'll have an award ceremony at that point in time and we have registration starting up fairly shortly for the second challenge So in essence that mean a lot of the Nokia sensing Sensors coming out of that are gonna potentially flow into the Qualcomm teams as well, right? We're trying to create an ecosystem here a marketplace if you would yes Peter said it well is that they really are sister and companion Competitions in a way and we are going to do everything we can to facilitate communications and joint efforts between the teams that develop the sensors and The teams that are working actively on the tricorder And we're blessed with the fact that we have actually teams that are working on both which is terrific And we built a remarkable and this is something new for the foundation a rather remarkable platform We call marketplace that enables not only teams to find each other and communicate But we're also building an entire ecosystem of resources for those teams with technologies Telecommunications capabilities other features that they can use to help accelerate their development of their projects Last question if I could when the I'm sorry X-Prize got Actually got to the winning point it really drove the FAA to change the rules and regulations This must be driving the FDA as well talk about that We are really lucky to have tremendous support within the food and drug administration and that goes back to the very inception of the prize and we have Started and are coming close to completing a series of major discussions with the FDA that would provide Resources and support as well for teams that are going through the the competition for the tricorder It's notable that we ourselves do not require FDA approval We're trying to prove the concept of a 1.0 device But we fully expect that most teams will want to commercialize their devices And we're trying to create a easy entry into the marketplace in every respect that would include regulatory support It would include support by health care systems and also insurers who are aware of the project and also most importantly also Investors who are interested in supporting this initiative It was exciting to see and hear Mike Lazaridis who is one of the founders of rim Recently announced a $100 million fund to specifically fund a tricorder device a medical tricorder And I think it's that kind of excitement and energy in this market that is going to help all these teams Commercialize their solutions and bring them to consumers very soon perfect all right our next subject Oceans you may remember I mentioned Wendy Schmidt had funded the in response to the BP oil spill and oil cleanup competition which really drove Tremendous breakthrough literally six-fold increase on oil spill clean up She had an amazing experience on the heels of that. She said I've had you know, it's the best philanthropic experience I've had I'd like to do another prize and She said what do you have in oceans? We took to her what is now being called the Wendy Schmidt ocean health XPrize Paul take it away. Tell us. What is it? What's your vision? This is We're all excited right? We love this and this is actually I think probably the best place to talk about this because we've got a view of the Oceans out out the out the window here But the oceans are frankly in quite a bit of trouble and and there's a host of challenges He probably heard about but recall that when you look at the waves that are out there What's underneath the surface of the ocean is a delicate balance upon which? 90% 90% of all the habitable space on earth all the habitat for creatures is under the underwater And it requires the chemistry and the ecosystems to be to be just so for different organisms to survive Well, there's sort of a dark side to what the what humans have been doing in emitting greenhouse gases When carbon dioxide goes up into the air It also gets absorbed about a quarter of it gets absorbed directly by the oceans and anybody that knows the difference between a flat soda And a soda that's still sparkling knows that when carbon dioxide gets into water it forms carbonic acid and causes the pH to drop This is what scientists call ocean acidification That is a real problem because organisms that need things like calcium carbonate carbonate again to build their shells are In trouble and there are places on on the planet now where you're seeing things like oysters You're seeing things like like the phytoplankton at the base of the food chain You're seeing things like corals die off as a result of how hard it is for them to start making their their shells out of the Causing carbonate that that should be dissolved in the water or should be able to precipitate out of the water But because of these fossil fuel emissions because of the co2 it's changing Well, so we know that much scientists have been basically ringing an alarm bell for only about five years around ocean acidification Largely based on models saying if there's so much co2 in the air it's got to get into the water We know how this works and a few scientists went out with a few very expensive sensors measured a couple spots in the ocean and said Yep, it's happening. Gosh. This is gonna be a problem But we don't know anything more than that. We frankly don't have the tools to measure what's happening under the waves This is an area where there's we talked about market failures earlier today There's just basically no investment in measuring ocean chemistry So the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE is solving that problem Recognizing that we can't even begin to get a handle on something like ocean acidification until we can measure it How do you solve what you can't measure? We start with that we emphasize a breakthrough pH sensor quite straightforward quite simple Something that is an order of magnitude More accurate than possible than anything that exists today and several orders of magnitude cheaper and easier to use so that you don't need a PhD in 30 years in ocean chemistry and In a $40,000 a day research budget for a vessel to go out there and measure these things So that the manager of a protected area along the coast can stick in in Cameroon can stick this in the water and know if There's a problem so the commercial fisheries they the hatcheries in Oregon and Washington that are providing Over two-thirds of the oysters and and clams and scallops that we eat in the US So that they have the ability to know whether or not their larvae the little baby Baby mollusks are going to be able to develop once that happens We'll have the platform and the ability to start building awareness globally to start changing policies like like like Peter was talking about And to start shifting the marketplace and this is this is kind of a place where we're launching this later this year So we're we're right in the throes of prize development. So I know what you guys did all day today is hard work I I know trust me. This isn't easy. It's not supposed to be easy Solving the world's grand challenges is hard work But when you get that nut of a prize you get that fine point of the spear like a pH sensor that can affect our ability to Understand ocean acidification it can have all these other odds on impacts And this is a place where where hopefully some of you can start to engage because what we're talking about are things like Needing teams to get at this there right now There are only six companies on earth that make pH sensors for the oceans only six only two that do it commercially and They're terrible. They don't measure things accurately. They're incredibly expensive They take several weeks to calibrate They take several months to understand what the data that comes out of them means Useless from a perspective of trying to get a handle on a challenge That's going to destroy the oceans in the next couple of decades if we don't do something about it That fine point of the spear means we need teams that are coming from the medical field where we've got incredibly accurate pH Sensing for intravenous Measurements from other industries and from frankly from inventors You know like like we heard Jack this morning, you know people that can say I got a better way to measure pH The chemistry is not that crazy We need those teams to come out of the woodwork. The other thing we need is we need to build an ecosystem for change We need to build a market where none exists What we're talking about providing is data about ocean chemistry on an unprecedented scale But that's only one piece of data the week we can have associated with the oceans And in fact if you if you think about building an industry around the oceans We're starting to talk about tens of billions of dollars potential revenue Just on information and data that comes out of this think about it what we call ocean services think about weather services Think about what where we were 20 years ago when there was no acu weather or weather channel When the entire scope of weather services was a several hundred million dollar NOAA budget nothing else Today it's about a ten billion dollar a year annual annual industry globally in weather services Given the hundreds of billions of dollars that that that come out of extracting things from the oceans Fishing from the oceans tourism in the oceans trade across the seas There's a market for this kind of data and we intend to prove the point with the menu Schmidt ocean health X prize That when you start to build simple metrics You can drive the growth of markets the growth of public awareness You can start to get momentum for change that really never lets up You're not passionate about this. Oh, I'm sorry. I like This is why I love this spot. We picked a place through the view of the ocean. Yeah um So, uh, talk one second about what follows this which is your go deeper campaign Thanks, peter for doing that. This is the other thing that anybody that wants to help Please come up here. I'm going to come hat in hand for doing this. This is the second ocean prize Right. This is a place where we know we care about this and as you guys are seeing these wicked problems These really difficult grand challenges require you to build momentum for change and that means solving Pieces of the puzzle and continuing on doing that and we've realized the next prize What we need to do is is way more than build a network around a particular prize build all of these investments We need to do what's happening with google lunar for instance and really what we in this case We need to go deeper This is what we're calling our initiative around education and engagement so that we can engage a network of partners So that we can engage educators in aquariums around the world and schools around the world So that we can engage the public in a massive in massive outreach efforts To think about how they can start solving some of their individual problems and building momentum for change Using the fact that a prize tells people solutions really are possible. They really are possible They're difficult, but we're doing this for the long haul and what we see is 10 years from now We've done a series of oceans prizes. What we see is a world where the oceans are not no longer No longer dying and really, you know a blank canvas because we don't know what's going on out there What we see is a place where the oceans are healthy They're on they're valued. There's monetary value coming from them ocean services They're valued in a way personally that isn't isn't precedented today And number three they're understood because we start by measuring these kinds of things And you can really drive the rest of the change in all those and so if anybody out there's passionate like like I am Obviously about the oceans we're building now a small network a consortium of funding partners and others Around go deeper to really really change the world frankly with with respect to oceans come talk to me I'd love to I'd love to I'd love to have your help Thank you Paul. So our active prize ladies and gentlemen will have some time for q&a at the close But I would like to ask eileen and pass the torch here What's in design right now? What are we going to be launching over the next 12 months? Sure So as you all know designing prizes aren't easy You end up getting deeper and deeper and things become more complicated And each of these active prizes has done a tremendous job in taking a difficult challenge and identifying a clear measurable target And what we're trying to do in prize development is do the same but across a number of different places One that we're most excited about is a global literacy exprise We're hoping to launch this sometime in the end of this year You know, we all know about the literacy problem 800 million people across the globe don't know how to read and write And we think that's and we can't hire enough teachers train enough teachers and build enough schools to help address that So we need to come up with a different way to solve that problem And that may be something that is both scalable and doesn't rely on the kind of infrastructure and resources that we traditionally think of through schools and teachers So our goal in this competition is to bring a group of students up to some level of literacy perhaps Basic reading and writing and decoding Allowing us to showcase that this can be done quickly and without the kind of infrastructure requirements We think of in this space. I'm pretty excited about that I wanted to say The work we're doing global literacy right now came out of the support of a small group of individuals who Contributed part of our spirit of innovation If you're a member of the SOI for education learning Could I ask you guys to stand up one second if you're here, please? So I know Cheryl and frank. Thank you very much. You guys rock so It's a it's a group of eight individuals who gave us the seed money What I can tell you is that seed money is going to fund us to launch a series of two or three Tens of million dollar level campaigns that will then drive hopefully hundreds of millions and billions of dollars of Of team expenditures and investments. It's all about leverage right our goal If you're going to be spending money philanthropically Our goal is simply to help you do it more efficiently and more highly leveraged period Sorry We're also looking at battery technologies. We all know that the lot can be improved here We've seen a lot of government announcements about investing in this but not a lot has changed And we think it's time that we improve battery technology for for example for electric vehicles Not only the density of that battery, but the issues around how batteries take a charge How fast it how long it takes for them to do so and how many times it can be done We want to eventually create an industry where everybody can drive an electric vehicle and not worry about how far it can go And how long it takes to make it happen But we also know that we don't just want to stop there We're we're working with florida power and light and of course their parent company next era energy on that battery challenge But we're also working with larry page on a what we call a revolutionary battery challenge Where we bring up the performance of battery technology not just one or two fold but 500 or 600 improvement So we start seeing types of battery technologies that can enable applications like electric aviation and electric flight pretty exciting But we're also looking in the medical field With the success of the qualcomm tricorder x prize and the work for the nokia sensing x challenge We think there's a lot of work to be done Particularly in data and analytics around health and health information You know right now the the poets say that the eye is a window to the soul But the eye is also a window to a lot of other things including your health state and health conditions So we believe that by looking at images of the eye you can diagnose diseases like diabetic retinopathy heart disease potentially other vision and vision in loss of Vision diseases and we think that by impairing group empowering a group of small teams to actually go and develop the kinds of algorithms It takes to understand what those images mean We don't have to rely on just an ophthalmologist's office to make it happen and get that diagnosis and ultimately treat people And something that we're also really excited about and for those of you that were in the aging session today You know about the implications of the Alzheimer's wave that's going to hit us We think that a prize needs to happen in this field We're just at the early stages of launching a prize funded underwritten by a number of of Philanthropists including frank sullivan who's here in the room and ken dykewald. Thank you so much And we're trying to find a way to Make this problem go away Just to be clear what we've done is we've raised the seed capital to do the design work We haven't started any design yet. So if you're in the aging area and you call for some good ideas That will give us the foundations to start once we have a design We will then go out to find our sponsor or sponsors for it. Absolutely a lot of great ideas that emerge from that session And then lastly, but certainly not least We're partnering with the roddenberry foundation to launch something. We're calling the transporter x prize I don't know how many of you came down on the 405 or perhaps late at night when the 405 was closed But imagine a time where you don't have to worry about highways and byways to get places You have your own personal portation device that you can get into and go from point a to point b without a lot of Hassler fuss, and I just think also the the name of this prize is so cool. The roddenberry transporter x prize We got the we got the tricorder the transporter. You could probably guess what's next Absolutely, but I'd like to say all of these prizes in the early stages. They're a glimmer in our eye We're going through the kinds of of thoughts and conversations that you've been and will experience tomorrow And so if you're interested in getting involved in helping us think through the challenges of any of these categories We've got upcoming visionary meetings prize development activities phone conversations with folks like you that care and have passion And have knowledge around this topic. So we'd love to get you involved in the work that we do Thank you Eileen awesome a round of applause for our our prize