XPRIZE

XPRIZE Insights is a video series that showcases thought leaders discussing some of the most vexing issues facing humanity.

The Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE promises to improve our understanding of how CO2 emissions are affecting ocean acidification, with breakthrough sensors that can help us begin the process of healing our oceans.

Envision a future where everyone has access to affordable, personalized healthcare through sophisticated sensing technologies that put you in charge of your own health. Where sensors and devices recognize and measure your personal health information, provide insights and recommendations relevant to you and communicate that information to your physician. That's the aim of this competition: a whole new level of personalized, digital health information.

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XPRIZE is an educational 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, thereby inspiring the formation of new industries and the revitalization of markets that are currently stuck due to existing failures or a commonly held belief that a solution is not possible. XPRIZE addresses the world's Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, high-profile, incentivized prize competitions that stimulate investment in research and development worth far more than the prize itself. It motivates and inspires brilliant innovators from all disciplines to leverage their intellectual and financial capital.

XPRIZE conducts competitions in five Prize Groups: Education; Global Development; Energy & Environment; Life Sciences; and Exploration. It is a U.S.-based organization led by Chairman and CEO Dr. Peter H. Diamandis and Vice Chairman and President Robert K. Weiss, as well as governed by a group of visionary leaders including the Board of Trustees, Vision Circle members, Spirit of Innovation members, corporate partners and sponsors. Today, XPRIZE is widely recognized as the leader in fostering innovation through incentivized competition.

Each year, corporate leaders, philanthropists, heads of innovation and XPRIZE Trustees ("visioneers") gather for a multi-day Visioneering meetup to brainstorm, debate, and prioritize which of the world's Grand Challenges might be solved through incentivized competition.

http://xprize.org/visioneering

It is a $1.4 Million competition designed to inspire a new generation of innovative solutions that will speed the pace of cleaning up seawater surface oil resulting from spillage from ocean platforms, tankers, and other sources.

The Google Lunar X PRIZE is igniting a new era of lunar exploration by offering the largest international incentive prize of all time. A total of $30 million in prizes are available to the first privately funded teams to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon, have that robot travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send video, images and data back to the Earth. Teams must be at least 90% privately funded, though commercially reasonable sales to government customers are allowed without limit.

Team registration for the competition closed on December 31, 2010. There are currently 25 teams located around the world who are fundraising, mission planning, and building robots in a new race to the Moon. The teams have until the end of 2015 to get to the Moon, meet the prize objectives, and win the prize purses.

Imagine a portable, wireless device in the palm of your hand that monitors and diagnoses your health conditions. That's the technology envisioned by this competition, and it will allow unprecedented access to personal health metrics. The end result: Radical innovation in healthcare that will give individuals far greater choices in when, where, and how they receive care.

The Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE is intended to inspire a new generation of viable, super efficient vehicles that help break our addiction to oil and stem the effects of climate change. The competition aims to produce vehicles that can deliver at least 100mpg equivalent.