Session Information
2013 Summer Meeting
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Opening Keynote: Exponential Technologies Causing Disruptive Innovation
Track: Education Sessions (CE)
Program Code: 135-L04
Date: Monday, June 3, 2013
Time: 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM EST
Location: Exhibit Hall A, Lower Level
PROGRAM CHAIR:
Brian Esuchanko, Senior Manager, Educational Programs, ASHP
Description
Diamandis is the co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Singularity University (SU), the leading institution for the study of exponentially growing technologies. SU was founded with the support of Google, Autodesk, Genetech, Nokia, Cisco and NASA and is located in Silicon Valley.

From his perspective of Executive Chairman, Diamandis provides passion and insight on the impact of exponentially growing technologies:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computational Systems
• Digital Manufacturing/3D printing
• Synthetic Biology/Bioinformatics
• Digital Medicine
• Robotics
• Network Systems
• Nanomaterials

Diamandis discusses how breakthroughs in these areas will transform products, organizations, companies, industries and even society over the next 20 years. He provides key insights on how human society has transformed from “Local & Linear” to one that is now “Global & Exponential,” and how this change is accelerating disruptive stress or disruptive opportunity depending on the organization’s point of view. These technologies are also leading to the greatest epoch of wealth creation ever, where new billion-dollar startups are coming out of seemingly nowhere at the same time that 50- and 100-year-old, billion-dollar companies are going out of business.

Diamandis also discusses the explosion of data that is transforming how organizations operate and how to tap into big data with a brand new set of exponential “organization tools” that allow organizations to make 100-fold improvements.

  • Describe the potential outcomes such technologies may have on how pharmacists practice in your institution.
  • Name two exponentially advancing technologies that will transform or disrupt health-system pharmacy over the next two to ten years.


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