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Peter Diamandis

Founder and Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation

Event Date: September 28, 2026, 11:30am – 1:30pm
Event Location: International Ballroom, JW Marriott

Peter Diamandis is the founder of over 28 companies in the areas of Longevity, AI, synthetic biology, space and education. He is cofounder of Singularity University and the Abundance Community. He serves as co-founder of two $700 million+ venture funds: BOLD which focused on Health and LINK-Exponential Ventures focusing on AI.

He is the Founder and Chairman of XPRIZE which has launched $600 million of incentive prizes driving $30 billion in R&D. Notably he is the host of Moonshots, the #1 podcast in AI and Exponential tech.

Diamandis has been named by Fortune magazine as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” and by Forbes as “One of America’s 250 greatest innovators”. He has degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering from MIT and an MD from Harvard Medical School.

Diamandis is a New York Times Bestselling author of 6 books: Abundance, BOLD, The Future is Faster Than You Think, LIFE FORCE, LONGEVITY GUIDEBOOK, and We Are As Gods. His favorite saying is, “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!”