SingularityU Goes International
Announcing Our First Innovation Hub Outside of the US
In 1965, Gordon Moore, well known as co-founder of Intel, was a director of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductor when he was asked by a reporter to predict the future of the semiconductor industry over the next decade. He responded by forecasting that the number of components in an integrated circuit would double every year for the foreseeable future.
Today, we know this as Moore’s Law, and it is the basis for exponential growth in computing, which is leading toward a cultural shift in exponential thinking. Technology has become the driver to exponentially improve the lives of billions of people around the world, especially those still living in dire poverty.
In June, Singularity University celebrated the launch of its first Exponential Regional Partnership and opening of its first Innovation Hub outside of Silicon Valley together with SingularityU The Netherlands. Located in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the facility will be locally run by participants of past SU programs, build a local faculty, and invite entrepreneurs to join this new Innovation Hub.
Queen Maxima of The Netherlands attended the ceremonial ribbon-cutting —the ribbon was held in place by two hovering drones — and met with the organizers, SU Alumni, and startup companies onsite. At Singularity University, we welcome the startup community we can mentor into our exponential community around the world to affect tomorrow’s radical breakthroughs, which will improve the lives of billions of people worldwide.
Singularity University is founded on the mission of inspiring, educating and empowering leaders to leverage exponential technologies to solve humanity’s greatest challenges. We call these the “Global Grand Challenges,” and many are the basis for life, such as food, water, energy, security, health, and education. We see the future through an exponential lens and core to that vision is the expansion of exponential communities. The leveraging of exponential technologies for social impact will not only increase innovation, but also create new jobs and open markets, driving the vision for benefitting billions of people around the world and the rise of exponential communities.
Individuals in any one market, no matter how clever or connected they are have limited resources to effect solutions to the Global Grand Challenges in a scalable and sustainable way. But, by building a coalition of stakeholders made up of corporations, governments, NGOs and entrepreneurs in multiple countries around the world and then linking them together, we can exponentially expand our capabilities and impact, leveraging technology and innovation to solve our Grand Challenges together.
The opening of the SingularityU The Netherlands Innovation Hub is just the beginning for SU internationally. We will spend the next year training local faculty, developing programs and setting up structures to connect Eindhoven, and the Netherlands, to our campus in Silicon Valley and to our global network of alumni, now in 111 countries around the world.
Innovative thinking is the nexus of Invention. Having the technology for innovators to instantly link, communicate and share ideas in exponential communities is essential — not only across borders, but as a means to eliminate borders to facilitate the design and building of sustainable projects for people in need.
This is the future we envision and the mission we embrace.
Learn more about SingularityU The Netherlands at their chapter website. For information on partnerships with Singularity University visit singularityu.org.
