Dan'l Lewin Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business Development Microsoft
Peter Diamandis Chairman & CEO X PRIZE Foundation
Richard Hall Director, Global Strategic Alliances Intel Corporation
Moderator: Jean-Louis Robadey SVP Social Innovation Waggener Edstrom
The Social Innovation Summit brings together top executives and thought
leaders from around the globe to discuss opportunities for leveraging
technology & innovation to affect social change. Attendees will
discuss philanthropic trends, analyze innovative approaches for problem
solving and build lasting partnerships that enable them and their
organizations to discover new means of engaging with social challenges.
Bio
Peter Diamandis
Dr. Peter Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation (www.xprize.org), which leads the world in designing and launching large incentive prizes to drive radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. Best known for the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight and the $10 million Progressive Automotive X PRIZE for 100 mile-per-gallon equivalent cars, the Foundation is now launching prizes in Exploration, Life Sciences, Energy, and Education.Diamandis is also an international leader in the commercial space arena, having founded and run many of the leading entrepreneurial companies in this sector including Zero Gravity Corporation, the Rocket Racing League and Space Adventures.As co-Founder & Chairman of the Singularity University (www.singularityU.org), a Silicon Valley based institution partnered with NASA, Google, Autodesk and Nokia, Diamandis counsels the world’s top enterprises on how to utilize exponential technologies and incentivized innovation to dramatically accelerate their business objectives. Dr. Diamandis attended MIT where he received his degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering, as well as Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D. Diamandis’ personal motto is: “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!”
Richard Hall
Richard is Director-Global Strategic Alliances for Intel Corporation, the world leader in silicon innovation that develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Richard manages Intel’s global executive relationships with the United Nations, NetHope and several other development organizations with programs focused on providing technology to inspire and empower the world’s people. He also leads Intel’s new Social Innovation initiative to help channel Intel’s energies to create technology solutions to solve global social problems. Richard joined Intel in 1991, and previously managed Intel’s California state government affairs, its federal political action committee (iPAC) and coordination of several Intel government affairs programs among the company’s corporate, Washington D.C. and international offices. Previously, he worked in the news media and in public affairs roles in the utility and hi-tech industry in California, Illinois and Arizona.
Dan'l Lewin
Dan'l Lewin is responsible for leading Microsoft's global engagement with startups and venture capitalists and business relationships with strategic industry partners. Dan'l’s teams focus on supporting the startup and entrepreneur ecosystem developing on the Microsoft platform while helping foster local software economies worldwide. Through the Microsoft BizSpark and Microsoft Innovation Center programs, the groups help accelerate startup success in more than 100 countries. Dan'l also has executive and site responsibility for the company's operations in Mountain View, California, which currently employ more than 2,500 people. Dan'l has spent more than 30 years in Silicon Valley as an executive leading sales and marketing divisions for companies including Apple Computer Inc., NeXT Inc. and GO Corp. Before joining Microsoft, he was CEO of Aurigin Systems Inc., a startup that pioneered intellectual property asset management. He has also consulted for emerging companies, venture capital firms and corporate joint ventures. Dan'l serves on the boards of the Churchill Club; SVForum; and the Tech Museum of Innovation, where he served as past chairman of the Tech Museum Awards program. In addition, Dan'l is on the Corporate Advisory Board of the National Venture Capital Association. He holds an A.B. in politics from Princeton University.
Jean-Louis Robadey
Jean-Louis Robadey leads Waggener Edstrom’s Global Development group in the Social Innovation practice. Based in Washington, D.C., Jean-Louis is responsible for advising corporate, government and NGO clients on introducing innovative programs, products and services that support communities and drive economic growth, with a special focus on the developing world. Before joining Waggener Edstrom, Jean-Louis served as the CEO of Pact Institute, a capacity-building organization focused on incubating and bringing to market innovative social and economic development programs and models. In this capacity, he oversaw a multi-country portfolio of innovative projects focused on development issues such as community health, microfinance, good governance and women’s empowerment. Jean-Louis is passionate about the role social innovation plays in as a catalyst for social change, and how new types of connections and partnerships across sectors can accelerate these changes.
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