Darlene Damm
Singularity University
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WORK HISTORY
@Singularity University
Mountain View, CA, US
Singularity University, founded in 2008 by Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis at NASA Ames Research Center, exists to educate, empower and inspire leaders to leverage exponential technologies to solve humanity\'s grand challenges.• Educate business leaders, government leaders, and entrepreneurs on how they can use technology to solve social problems while also building new companies and industries. Offerings include speaking engagements, workshop facilitation, thought leadership pieces, and educational courses. Technologies include AI, robotics, drones, quantum tech, synthetic biology, advanced manufacturing, biological manufacturing, digital twins, and simulations. • Delivered hundreds of talks on technology and social impact to the world’s leading businesses, governments, and humanitarian organizations including the United Nations, the World Food Programme, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the Mandela Washington Fellowship, Social Good Brazil, the Stockholm Resilience Center, the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the Ethiopian Jobs Creation Commission, NASA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science the H100 Space Conference (China), Salesforce, Dreamforce, Intuit, Google, WalMart, Sony, Aramco, SXSW, Women in Product and two TedX talks in Budapest and Vilnius.• Authored articles on impact technology solutions across Ag Tech, Food Tech, Water Tech, Health Tech, Climate Tech, Gov Tech, Ed Tech, and related topics such as the Future of Work, Future Economies, and Ethics. Published work in Singularity outlets, the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Spiceworks, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Qatar Foundation, and GRIT Daily.
EDUCATION
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
MA, International Affairs
Singularity University
Graduate Studies Program, Exponential Technologies and Grand Challenges
Stanford University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cultural and Intellectual History
SKILLS
ABOUT DARLENE DAMM
Darlene Damm is an impact-driven visionary who pioneered the impact technology industry. She co-founded two of the world’s first impact technology companies in aerospace and drone transport, and as Faculty Chair and Vice President of Community and Impact at Singularity University, taught and mentored thousands of founders and executives who went on to build impact technology companies in every industry including Ag Tech, Food Tech, Ed Tech, Climate Tech, Gov Tech, Health Tech, and more. Darlene served in leadership, strategy, operational, and expert roles with Singularity, Ashoka, the World Bank, nonprofits in Vietnam and Myanmar, and has spoken about impact technology at the United Nations, the World Food Programme, SXSW, Google, Salesforce, Intuit, WalMart, Sony, Aramco and delivered TedX talks in Vilnius and Budapest. She has written articles for Harvard Business Review, Forbes, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Spiceworks, the OECD Forum, the Qatar Foundation and GRIT Daily. A number of news outlets including TechCrunch, Fast Company, Venture Beat, Wired, Popular Science, Aviation Week, NPR, Gigacom, Forbes, MoonandBack, engadget, The Denver Post, Le Monde and 60 Minutes have covered her work in drones, rocketry and Singularity University impact technology projects. Darlene received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, her master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University\'s Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), was a fellow with Japan-US Community Education and Exchange, is an advisor to the UN World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator, was a mentor with Google’s impact accelerator, a judge for Stanford BASES, and served on the Biden Administration’s Working Group on Cross Border Trade. She holds patents in drone technology and Authority Magazine featured her as a social impact hero.
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