Winning: Competitions and Challenges

Competitions can drive innovation and eke out groundbreaking inventions across boundaries and disciplines. But in an era of crowdsourcing, how do you stand out in a crowd? How do funders design incentives to drive innovative breakthroughs? What are the judges truly looking for in a winning idea? And what happens after you win? How are competitions being used to further ideas and inventions that truly make a difference in the world? Come find out with a senior scientist at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Global Development Lab and a former head of prize development for the X PRIZE Foundation and current CEO of Common Pool, working to solve some of society’s biggest problems.