LAS VEGAS – Peter Diamandis, a leading authority on commercial space travel, will give the opening keynote at IPC Apex Expo here next March.

In the March 25 keynote, Diamandis will share how artificial intelligence, nanomaterials, 3-D printing, robotics and digital medicine will transform life and business over the next 20 years. He will explain how human society has evolved from “local and linear” to “global and exponential,” and how this change has not only spawned the creation of new billion-dollar startups, but also led to the demise of 50-year-old billion-dollar companies overnight.

Diamandis is chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation, which designs and launches large incentive prizes to drive breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. He is also cofounder and executive chairman of Singularity University, an institution partnered with NASA, Google, Autodesk and Nokia that focuses on growing technologies. He has headed several organizations aimed at studying space and commercializing space travel.

Diamandis has a bachelor's in molecular genetics and a master's in aerospace engineering from MIT, and an MD from Harvard Medical School.

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