Peter Diamandis, Author of "Abundance: The Future Is Better than You Think"

Peter Diamandis, Author of Abundance: The Future Is Better than You Think

Oshman Family JCC (3921 Fabian Way Palo Alto, CA 94303)

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Peter Diamandis, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of X Prize Foundation and co-author of Abundance: The Future Is Better than You Think, has played a vital role in the research and development of industrial innovation for more than 30 years. Within the realms of commercial space exploration, molecular genetics, entrepreneurship and philanthropy, Diamandis works to leverage recent and current advances in technology toward effective, dramatic and exhaustive improvements. In 1996 he founded the X Prize Foundation, which stages incentivized prize competitions to facilitate collaboration across national and corporate boundaries. A self-avowed optimist, Diamandis seeks to convince the readers of his new book of the ever-increasing opportunities available to global societies. The Commonwealth Club welcomes him as he speaks about his life's work and discusses the work of other groundbreakers currently at the helm of innovations in water, food, energy, health, education and communication.

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About the Ticket Supplier: Commonwealth Club

The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, presenting over 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy.

Founded in 1903, the Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Erin Brockovich in 2001. Along the way, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates have all given landmark speeches at the Club.