HeroX today launched The XPRIZE Visioneers — a month-long Challenge to find Visioneers -- brilliant, innovative thinkers who will identify and design the next XPRIZE competition to address national or global crises, market failures, and opportunities where solutions are thought to be either out of reach or impossible.
HeroX and XPRIZE are launching The XPRIZE Visioneers Challenge to find the best and the brightest people who have a drive to make the world a better place, with the track record (and the network) to show for it. Visioneers are defined as audacious and forever in hot pursuit of the most cutting-edge information and technology to help bring about the solutions to issues they are passionate about.
“The XPRIZE Visioneers program is an exciting addition to the HeroX lineup of Challenges that are making such a profound impact on communities worldwide,” said HeroX CEO, Christian Cotichini. “Our approach to innovation attracts thousands of thinkers and visionaries with great ideas who are eager to debate, learn, analyze, create, and work closely with others to come up with breakthrough solutions to the most difficult issues facing humanity.”
“Our XPRIZE competitions have launched the new space industry, made it possible to clean up devastating oil spills more quickly, and resulted in the development of super fuel-efficient vehicles,” said Marcus Shingles, CEO of XPRIZE. “We celebrate bold thinkers who are willing to take risks for the sake of innovation. If you understand how to set audacious goals and you see a breakthrough for an impossible problem, The XPRIZE Visioneers program is for you, and your idea may be a contender for the next XPRIZE competition.”
During the initial XPRIZE Visioneers competition phase, which is open until April 15, 2016, competitors will be judged on their qualifications and the efficacy of their XPRIZE idea. Winning teams will receive sponsorship support valued at up to $100,000 USD, and attend a Visioneers Bootcamp from May 2-4, 2016 to learn the fundamentals of incentivized prize design. Over the next 5 months, the teams will collaborate with sponsors and expert advisors to develop incentivized prize designs that will focus the world’s top innovators on solving the Grand Challenge the team has chosen. The XPRIZE Foundation has a track record of identifying and focusing exponential innovation on the world’s Grand Challenge areas not being addressed by government or business. The teams will then pitch their XPRIZE competition prize designs to some of the foremost thought leaders, inventors, and scientists in the world at The Visioneers event, presented by The Roddenberry Foundation, in September 2016. XPRIZE commits to launching the winning prize design coming out of The Visioneers event.
Visit herox.com/xprizevisioneers to submit your application -- be audacious, brag about yourself, and tell us why YOU should be a Visioneer.
