Global Visioneering Summit

OCTOBER 15-17, 2026 | MALIBU, CALIFORNIA

Registration is now closed.

What's included with your registration:

  • Access to all 3 days of Summit
  • Breakout sessions with experts
  • Brain Trust pitches, Q&A
  • Celebration Dinner & Awards
  • Networking Brunch
  • Tax deductible, less $1K for goods & services

Gather with the boldest thinkers, builders, and backers of our time to turn humanity’s grand challenges into tomorrow’s abundant breakthroughs.

For over 30 years, XPRIZE has turned audacious ideas into real-world breakthroughs, proving that bold philanthropy can reshape the future. As the world’s leading engine for incentive-driven innovation, XPRIZE transforms moonshots into real-world impact.

Alongside world-renowned leaders at the Global Visioneering Summit, you will learn about better futures, identify the barriers standing in the way, and help critique and transform moonshot ideas into the next generation of XPRIZE competitions.

This is your opportunity to help architect a future of equity and abundance for all.

 

Three domains. One future.

Food + Water + Waste

Unlocking frontier science and biotechnology to extend human health, community resilience, and societal wellbeing.

Food + Water + Waste

Advancing circular systems that strengthen food security, protect water resources, and reframe waste as a valuable input.

Food + Water + Waste

Accelerating breakthroughs for a clean, carbon-negative future powered by abundant energy and thriving natural ecosystems.

Why attend?

Be where the future Is decided

Engage directly with XPRIZE’s Brain Trust of scientists, philanthropists, founders, and global thought leaders as prize concepts are debated, refined, and advanced. The experience culminates in live voting, where you help determine which ideas move forward into funded XPRIZE competitions.

Connect with fellow leaders building what’s next

Join a curated community of philanthropists, founders, scientists, entrepreneurs, and global leaders and advance your own mission through meaningful connections and collaboration.

Participate in the engine behind the breakthroughs

The Global Visioneering process identifies the next breakthrough opportunities. The Summit is where those ideas are challenged, championed, and funded. This is where XPRIZE’s breakthrough engine comes to life, and where you help drive it forward.

Think bigger than what seems possible

The Global Visioneering Summit takes on the challenges that are big, complex, and world-changing, the moonshots too important to ignore. Being in the room means helping catalyze the ambition required to shape a better future.

Agenda highlights

Day 01—Thursday, October 15

8:00a

Breakfast

9:00a

Welcome to Global Visioneering Summit Meet this Year's Domains:
Energy + Climate + Nature
Food + Water + Waste
Health

The Prize is Just the Beginning
David Hughes, PlanetVillage

Meet the Alumni Exhibitors

Networking Break

The Future of Space  Apollo Astronaut, Rusty Schweickart and SpaceX Board Member, Steve Jurvetson, Apex CEO and Co-Founder Ian Cinnomin, John Davie, XPRIZE CEO Anousheh Ansari

12:00p

Lunch

1:30p

Wildfire | Every Minute Counts WatchDuty CEO, John Mills

Wildfire | Why I Backed the Wildfire Prize Kelly Vlahakis-Hanks

Wildfire | Inside the Wildfire Prize: From Alaska Field Tests to Real-World Impact XPRIZE Wildfire Winners

Soil Is the New Frontier: Rewiring How We Grow, Buy and Value Food
Matthew Wallenstein, Chief Soil Scientist, Syngenta Group, Jack Gilbert, Professor, University of California San Diego, Sarah Mock, Agriculture Journalist & Author, Michael Doane, Global Managing Director, The Nature Conservancy

Partnering for Planetary Impact: Why Mars Invests in XPRIZE
Allision Lin

Networking Break

The Next Frontier of Health

The Race to End Suicide
Jamie Justice, Sam Dorison, Reflex AI, Rob Cooley

The Future of Sleep is the Mind | An Immersive Presentation
Dr. Adam Haar Horowitz, Philip Sheppard

5:00p

Cocktails & Dinner
Live Music; Food Stations & Open Bar
Powered by ECOS, Moonshot Sponsor

9:00p

Day 01 Concludes

Day 02—Friday, October 16

8:00a

Breakfast
Coffee with the Senator John Curtis

9:00a

Welcome to Day 02
Van Jones

Moonshots Live: The Singularity in Conversation
Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Emad Mostaque and Anousheh Ansari

North Star Sponsor Story: CollectivIQ: with CEO John Davie

Salome’s “Hope” | Live Poetry Performance

Sponsor Story: Gigahealth: by Sanjiv Lal, CEO & Co-Founder

The Next Generation of Visioneers

Networking Break

Closer Than We Think: Rethinking Communication with Animals
Irene Pepperberg

Built for Impact: Inside Global Visioneering

Live Prize Pitches: Six Ideas, Three Domains

Sponsor Story: Avanci

1:00-2:10p

Lunch
Powered by Gigahealth, Moonshot Sponsor 

2:10-4:00p

Brain Trust Workshops on Lawn

Battle Royale: Round One

4:00-5:15p

Break + Cocktails
Powered by Avanci

Battle Royale: The Final Three

5:30p

Celebration Dinner + Winners Announcement

9:00p

After Party

11:00p

Day 02 Concludes

Day 03—Saturday, October 17

10:00a

XPRIZE Alumni Brunch

12:00p

Global Visioneering Summit 2026 Concludes

Travel + Accommodations

We have four recommended hotels—including Calamigos, where the Global Visioneering Summit is hosted. 

For details on lodging, as well as nearby airports and transportations, we encourage you to explore these options.

CONFIRMED 2026 SPEAKERS

Van Jones

MC
Host + Founder
CNN, Magic Labs Media, DreamMachine.org, Rapport

John Clarke Mills

Cofounder & CEO
Watch Duty

John R. Curtis

United States Senator

Sarah Mock

Food and Farm Writer

Philip Sheppard

XPRIZE Artist in Residence

Jack Gilbert

Professor, Pediatrics & Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UC San Diego

Matthew Wallenstein

Chief Soil Scientist
Syngenta Group

Adam Haar Horowitz

CEO
DUST

Allison Lin

Global VP Healthy Planet
Mars, Inc

Carsten Brinkschulte

CEO
Dryad Networks GmbH

Chris Teixeira

Senior Manager, Test & Evaluation
Anduril Industries

Daniel Fredrich

Pinepeak

David Hughes

Professor
Penn State/PlantVillage+
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Don Vaughn

Ian Cinnomin

CEO & Co-Founder
Apex

Irene M. Pepperberg

Professor
Boston University

Rob Cooley, Jr.

CEO
Nuream
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Rusty Schweickart

Samuel Dorison

Cofounder & CEO
ReflexAI
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Steve Jurvetson

Global Visioneering Summit 2026
SPONSORS

NORTH STAR SPONSOR

CollectivIQ

ALUMNI ADVANCEMENT SPONSOR

Avanci

BREAKTHROUGH SPONSOR

The Rodney Fund

MOONSHOT SPONSOR

ECOS

MOONSHOT SPONSOR

GigaHealth

HEALTH SPONSOR

The Pointe Malibu Recovery Center