Singularity University hosts an annual Graduate Summer Program that brings together top innovators and thinkers from academia and industry to address humanity's grand challenges through exponential technologies. The program assembles 80 forward-thinking participants for over 400 hours of workshops, projects and lectures led by faculty from Google, NASA, academia and startups to design technologies that can positively impact 1 billion people within 10 years. The document provides contact information for a participant in the 2012 program who has a background in energy and international experience and wants to help leverage accelerating technologies to improve lives at a large scale.

1. Singularity University
Graduate Summer Program 2012
Fundraising campaign

2. About
About
“ “Take top thinkers from Silicon Valley
If I was a student,
this is where and science, mix them with scientists,
I would want to be.
” innovators and philanthro-capitalists,
Larry Page, and you've got the Singularity
Co-Founder and CEO,
Google
University – on a mission to seek
technological solutions to the world's
great challenges”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/29/singularity-university-technology-future-thinkers

3. NASA + Silicon Valley + exponential technologies
How? 80 forward-thinkers x 400+ hours of work
“
assemble, educate
and inspire a cadre of
leaders (…)
to address humanity’s
grand challenges.
”
10 +
design a sustainable company / product / service…
9 that will positively impact the lives of 1 billion people
within 10 years
Projects by leveraging accelerating technologies

4. World leaders in entrepreneurship, innovation and science
How? brought together to make a difference to the world
Faculty
Advisors
Speakers
Partners Vint Cerf, PhD Dan Barry, PhD George Smoot, PhD Sebastian Thrun Tim Ferriss Matt Mullenweg
VP and Chief Three-time 2006 Nobel Winner of DARPA “The 4-Hour Founding
Supporters Evangelist, NASA Astronaut Prize in Physics Grand Challenge, Workweek”, developer
Google,“father Udacity – founder, Author Worpress
Network of the internet” Google X – founder
Knowledge Above, few of the 104 people you may have heard about: http://singularityu.org/faculty-list/
Creativity Below, Singularity University’s partners and supporters: http://singularityu.org/faculty-list/
Innovation
Passion
Goal
Hard work

5. Multi-skilled idea popcorn machine
Me with background in energy and
broad international experience
2012 United States  Singularity University | GSP ‘12
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2011 Portugal  MIT Portugal | Ph.D. Candidate
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2010
– Japan  Vulcanus in Japan | JGC Corp.
2009
– Poland  AGH | Energy Engineering M.Sc.
2008
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Iceland  RES | Renewable Energy Science M.Sc .
2007
Specialties: energy, engineering, problem-finding, guesstimations, playful thinking, improvised solutions

6. Goal
Help to
positively impact the lives of
1 billion people
within 10 years by leveraging
accelerating technologies

7. Contact
E-mail
michal.monit@singularityu.org
Fundraising website:
https://rally.org/SingularityUniversity/7C1yH1Tjgq4/michamonit
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