There are fundamental changes happening right now - access to new technology and the internet has a huge potential for mankind. If you believe that technology can solve all of our social problems, you are right, but at the same time technology can also greatly harm our society. Is it for good or bad? You decide.

As the Vice Chair of Global Grand Challenges at Singularity University, Darlene Damm works to create a global community with the mindset, skills and network necessary for building an abundant future. She is determined to solve the planet’s most urgent problems through leveraging exponential technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and digital biology. In 2012, she founded DIYROCKETS, the first company to crowdsource the development of space technology and in 2011 she co-founded Matternet, a commercial drone company transporting medical goods in the developing world. Previously, Darlene served with Ashoka, the world's largest association of social entrepreneurs for nearly 9 years.

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