| Hi, I was a speaker at the first Google "Solve for <X>" conference (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qcDQaY8Mw). In general it's an invite only conference. They invite about 15 speakers and overall ~60 people to the event. Very high level people - from the google co-founders, many google[x] employees, google svp's, investors (Steve Jurveston, Mark Andreessen and other) and google friends. I got there for two reasons:
1) My company (http://genomecompiler.com) is a Singularity University company and Peter Diamandis referred us
2) We fit the bill for a moonshot (huge problem, breakthrough technology, radical solution) It's in a very pleasant cordevalle resort and they treat you to great housing, food and discussions. Like late night slide show from the international space station with astronauts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Garan and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Coleman Like sitting in dinner table with Sergei and hear Peter talking space flights and astroids just to have him launch a astroids mining company after a few month. Or listening to Google Glass head talk about electronics in contact lenses (!) a few months before google glass was released :-) Anyhow - I love what they are trying to achieve, both in this effort and in supporting Singularity University - to get people to solve humanity grand challenges with the fast moving technologies that are coming online. Be a support group and cheerleader for you while you're in the ups and downs of extremely "out-there" startup. Amazing opportunity and the time of my life. |