Executive Program – Singularity University
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DAY 1:
Intro to Exponentials with Aaron Frank
Learn to recognize exponential growth patterns and understand why traditional linear thinking causes leaders to miss both threats and opportunities until it’s too late.
Leveraging Exponential Technologies for Positive Impact with Alix Rübsaam
Discover how converging technologies are enabling leaders to address global challenges while creating new business opportunities.
The Past, Present + Future of AI with Simone Planté
Understand AI’s trajectory from generative tools to autonomous systems and learn how to position your organization to thrive amid continuous technological change.
Keynote with Adam Becker, Author of More Everything Forever
Examine why Silicon Valley’s most ambitious visions—digital immortality, superintelligent AI, space colonization—may be distracting us from the problems we actually need to solve.
Exploring Possible Futures, a Singularity Workshop
Collaborate with fellow participants to connect exponential technologies to the critical questions they raise—and decide which answers matter most.
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DAY 2:
The Silicon Valley Mindset with Jonathan Knowles
Explore the history, culture, and thinking patterns behind the world’s most prolific innovation ecosystem.
What’s Next in Biotech with Raymond McCauley
See how the digitization of biology is transforming medicine, agriculture, and materials—and what it means for your industry and your life.
The Rise of Physical AI: The Era of Autonomy, Robotics, + Intelligent Machines with Aaron Frank
Explore how AI is moving beyond screens into autonomous systems, robotics, and intelligent machines that operate in the physical world.
Tour of the Computer History Museum with Jonathan Knowles
The Race Toward Quantum Computing with Mark Jackson
Get clarity on quantum computing’s current status, major players, and near-term commercial applications so you can prepare your organization for its impact.
Ethics +Â Safety for an Exponential Age with Nell Watson
Learn practical frameworks for maintaining human oversight and implementing safety measures as AI systems grow more powerful and autonomous.
Ethics Negotiation, a Singularity Workshop
Navigate a stakeholder simulation where you’ll balance innovation, privacy, and social good using real-world ethical frameworks.
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DAY 3:
Blockchain – The New Trust Infrastructure with Karine Arama
Understand how blockchain is rewiring global finance—from programmable ownership to tokenized assets—and what it means for money, trust, and value.
Robotics Encapsulating Humanity with Adam Pantanowitz
Examine the philosophical and practical implications of human-robot integration and explore how robotics can augment human capabilities across industries.
Industrial Revolution 4.5: Augmented Humans +Â the Future of Work with Jody Medich
Explore the major shifts that are redefining how humans and technology collaborate in the workplace.
AI Workshop: Building Inclusive Automated Decision-Making Systems with Alix Rübsaam
Design and train an AI system in this hands-on simulation, learning how early design decisions create—or prevent—algorithmic bias.
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DAY 4:
Net Exponential – Leveraging Emerging Technologies + Innovation in Your Circumstance with Neil Desai
Learn strategies for bringing exponential technologies into risk-averse organizations—where innovation is embraced with clear eyes, not blind optimism.
Futures Wheel, a Singularity Workshop
Map cascading implications of emerging trends using a systematic foresight tool you can bring back to guide strategy at your organization.
How to Build an Industry with Darlene Damm
Learn a repeatable framework for launching new industries—from initial concept through regulatory navigation to market development.
Transforming the Food System with Kathleen Alexander
Examine how scalable alternatives to conventional agriculture stack up on cost, technology readiness, and consumer acceptance.
Future of Food Showcase
Meet founders and brands introducing breakthrough technologies and approaches that are reshaping how we produce, distribute, and consume food.
Beyond Numbers: Leveraging Big Data and Thick Data for Actionable Business Insights with Tricia Wang
Discover how the smartest organizations combine quantitative and qualitative data to drive decisions that AI alone can’t make.
Unconference
Participants set the agenda in this open-format session driven entirely by what participants want to explore, debate, or solve together.
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DAY 5:
Decoding the Future, a Singularity Workshop
Build your ability to analyze technology news, connect developments to your industry, and identify the milestones that matter.
Governing Online Communities from the Bottom-Up with Philip Rosedale
Learn from Second Life’s creator how self-governing digital communities can avoid the polarizing effects of surveillance-powered social media.
Prototyping with a Rocket Scientist with Mike Vergalla
Apply rapid iteration principles through a hands-on competition that demonstrates how early testing separates successful innovation from catastrophic failure.
Step Change with Adam Pantanowitz
Hear how one innovator transformed personal adversity into a career building technology for the disabled and learn to create your own breakthrough moments.
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BEYOND THE SESSIONS:
The conversations that happen between sessions are often as valuable as the sessions themselves. You’ll have ample time for connection over meals, drinks, and social gatherings throughout the week.
Mornings begin with optional wellness activities to help you show up energized and focused.
The week includes a guided tour of the Computer History Museum—walking through decades of innovation that led to this moment.
One full day will be hosted at the Stanford Faculty Club, and one evening we’ll gather for dinner in downtown Palo Alto.
This is where relationships form that outlast the program. The April 2026 cohort is now open for enrollment. Limited to 120 participants.
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