XPRIZE

Take a step inside the high-stakes $10 million #XPRIZERainforest competition! 👀🌱 For the past five years, XPRIZE Rainforest finalist teams have been hard at work developing groundbreaking approaches including drones, AI-driven imaging, and novel biosensing technologies to help enhance our understanding of rainforest biodiversity. Finals testing is well under way, with more teams set to test their technologies in Amazonas, Brazil. Get an inside look at the competition in our short doc mini-series here. https://lnkd.in/gheJrHr2 XPRIZE Rainforest is sponsored by Alana. cc: Instituto Alana

Today was an incredible day on stage at ESRI’s ES3! #XPRIZE Wildfire had two major announcements: our partnership with #ESRI and the 29 Qualified Teams for the Autonomous Wildfire Track. Stay tuned to learn more about the teams tomorrow when the post goes live! www.xprize.org/wildfire Jay Stalnacker Ryan Lanclos Mark Quinlan Anthony Schultz Mike Cox

We officially announced the Qualified Teams for #XPRIZEWildfire’s Autonomous Wildfire Response track at the Esri Safety and Security Summit in San Diego! 🔥 Through this track, teams will transform how fires are managed and fought by rapidly and autonomously detecting and completely suppressing a destructive, high-risk fire in an environmentally challenging area with dramatically greater speed, accuracy, and precision than current best-in-class solutions, leaving any decoy fires untouched. We look forward to seeing these teams continue to develop their technology as they move forward to semifinals. Learn more about the Qualified Team cohort here. https://lnkd.in/ek9QUPwt XPRIZE Wildfire is supported by: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Pacific Gas and Electric Company Minderoo Foundation Lockheed Martin Conrad N. Hilton Foundation COSTA NAVARINO American Family Insurance Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited

In support of the XPRIZE Feed The Next Billion initiative, we’re exploring innovative solutions to global food challenges. Join our poll and share your opinion on cell-based proteins. Are you ready to embrace this sustainable food revolution? Comment down below! Yes or no? #AspireUAE #XPRIZE #FeedTheNextBillion #CellBasedProteins #SustainableFoods #FoodRevolution

Don’t miss out! We’re hosting an XPRIZE #QuantumApplications informational webinar tomorrow, July 15 at 2pm ET / 11am PT with the prize team. Learn more about the competition and get your burning prize questions answered. Send your questions for the team ahead of the webinar by filling out the form here. https://lnkd.in/gm37sdYi Will we see you there? The deadline to register a team for XPRIZE Quantum Applications is July 31. 

While we relish endless choices in food and beverage, many still wait for a meal to satisfy their hunger. Food security is a global imperative, and XPRIZE in collaboration with Aspire, is pioneering sustainable protein innovations. From lab-grown marvels to plant-based wonders, we're redefining our plates to nourish the world. Join us in Feeding the Next Billion in Abu Dhabi! #AspireUAE #Xprize #XprizeFeedTheNextBillion

Prior to taking part in the “What Makes a Great California Idea?” panel, Anousheh Ansari spoke with Zócalo Public Square about XPRIZE and so much more. Ansari talked about: 🚀 The most surprising thing about her visit to space 👩🚀 The hardest part of training to be an astronaut 💡 One of the greatest ideas she’s ever had …and more! Read the interview here. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g-cPf5-r cc: CalMatters

The #XPRIZERainforest Impact Day was jam-packed with solution showcases, idea discussions, and invaluable panels. Get a recap of the panels below! 🌱⬇️ Panel 1: Enabling Bioeconomies: This panel focused on how rapid biodiversity assessment tools, like those developed by XPRIZE Rainforest teams, can enable the creation of new bioeconomies that promote a sustainable economic development model in harmony with nature and which can ultimately empower local communities and show the true value of the standing forest. João Francisco Maria moderated the panel which featured panelists: ➡️ Nobel Laureate Carlos A. Nobre  ➡️ Reina Otsuka (Digital Lead for Nature and Climate, UNDP)  ➡️ Vanda Witoto (Executive Director, Instituto Witoto)  ➡️ Marcelo Furtado (Head of Sustainability, Itaúsa) Panel 2: Protected Areas: Better biodiversity data can support protected areas, more effectively map the biodiversity in existing protected areas, and support the restoration of large areas of degraded forest. This can aid nations in achieving their 30x30 goals, as well as other targets outlined in the Global Biodiversity Framework, by 2030. Pedro Hartung moderated the panel which featured panelists: ➡️ Eduardo Taveira (Secretary of Environment State of Amazonas)  ➡️ Julie Messias (Secretary of Environment State of Acre)  ➡️ Natalie Unterstell (President of Instituto Talanoa) ➡️ Oris Sanjur (XPRIZE Rainforest Advisory Board member and Deputy Director of STRI) Panel 3: Inspiring Action + Awareness The impact of improved biodiversity monitoring—like species recoveries and the creation of new protected areas—can be used to inspire, educate, and mobilize people to protect and preserve the planet’s tropical forests for all of humanity. Fernanda Flandoli moderated the panel which featured panelists: ➡️ Tasso Azevedo (Founder, Imaflora) ➡️ Phelippe Daou Junior (CEO, Grupo Rede Amazônica) ➡️ Vanessa Apurinã (COIAB) XPRIZE Rainforest is sponsored by Alana. cc: Instituto Alana, Peter Houlihan

Want to learn more about XPRIZE #QuantumApplications? Now is your chance to meet the prize team, get details on how to register, learn about the benefits of competing, and get your competition questions answered. Join us on July 15 at 2pm ET / 11am PT for our informational webinar. Register for the event here. https://lnkd.in/gJAig95k For registered individuals who cannot join, the webinar recording will be made available along with responses to the Q&A. To share your questions with the XPRIZE Quantum Applications team ahead of the webinar, fill out the form linked here. https://lnkd.in/gm37sdYi We hope to see you there! The deadline to register a team for XPRIZE Quantum Applications is July 31. 

It’s all about…IMPACT! 🌱 #XPRIZERainforest recently hosted an Impact Day in Manaus, Brazil to discuss the future of the prize and the impact these technologies can make. “All of the teams represented here will be testing the solutions that they’ve been developing. And then, it’s: where do we go from here? How do these solutions get adopted, implemented, and scaled so that they’re not just technologies developed for a competition, but technologies with actual real-world, meaningful applications that the world needs now?” - XPRIZE EVP, Biodiversity + Conservation Peter Houlihan   See more highlights from Impact Day below! 🌱 The finalist teams presented their solutions to attendees, giving more information about their groundbreaking technologies and their plans for the future. We also had several partnerships announced throughout the day. We are incredibly grateful for the support of our amazing partners. 🤝 UNDP: XPRIZE is joining forces with UNDP to get the technologies from the XPRIZE Rainforest competition into the hands of communities around the world who can use them to establish and manage protected areas, enable new bioeconomies, and accelerate other conservation efforts. 🤝 State of Acre and State of Amazonas: Secretary of Environment State of Acre Julie Messias and Secretary of Environment State of Amazonas Eduardo Taveira joined us at Impact Day to sign an LOI with XPRIZE. The partnership will focus on leveraging cutting-edge biodiversity assessment technologies to conduct comprehensive and rapid assessments of biodiversity in the State of Acre and State of Amazonas' rainforests. 🤝 MDIC (Ministry of Development, Industry, and Foreign Trade): MDIC has been a key partner supporting Finals Testing and XPRIZE was thrilled to have Secretary of Green Economy, Decarbonization, and Bioindustry Rodrigo Rollemberg sign an LOI on stage, extending MDIC’s commitment to support our finalist teams scaling their technologies in the Amazon Basin through the prize's Impact Phase. 🤝 One Tree Planted: One Tree Planted will collaborate with XPRIZE and competing teams to advance the use of innovations emerging from the XPRIZE Rainforest to better understand the impact of restoration projects on biodiversity. 🤝 Ponterra: Ponterra will collaborate with XPRIZE to incorporate innovations emerging from XPRIZE Rainforest to measure the biodiversity impacts of Ponterra restoration projects in Panama and Latin America to demonstrate new nature credit models. 🤝 Glocal / G20: Glocal announced that they are partnering with XPRIZE to promote the prize through the Impact Phase and help amplify awareness of the teams and their solutions. To learn more about XPRIZE Rainforest, visit https://lnkd.in/gqXmTdD3. XPRIZE Rainforest is sponsored by Alana. cc: Instituto Alana, Ana Lucia Villela, Marcos Nisti, Midori Paxton, Reina Otsuka, João Francisco Maria, Matthew Jeffery, Malcolm Porteus González, Laís Fleury