Christopher Frangione

The Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE presented by Dollar General Literacy Foundation is a global competition challenging teams to develop mobile applications for existing smart devices that result in the greatest increase in literacy skills among participating adult learners in just 12 months. The solutions will overcome key barriers to literacy learning by improving access, while increasing retention, and scaling to meet demand. Our vision is to empower nearly 1 in 10 low-literate… Show more

The Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE presented by Dollar General Literacy Foundation is a global competition challenging teams to develop mobile applications for existing smart devices that result in the greatest increase in literacy skills among participating adult learners in just 12 months. The solutions will overcome key barriers to literacy learning by improving access, while increasing retention, and scaling to meet demand. Our vision is to empower nearly 1 in 10 low-literate adults living in the U.S. with the skills they need to improve their lives and realize their dreams. Show less

The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, a Cognitive Computing Competition, was announced on the TED Stage on Feb 17, 2016. It is a $5 million competition challenging teams from around the world to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful cognitive technologies to tackle some of the world’s grand challenges.

We are living in an age of innovation, an unprecedented era of technological progress and prosperity driven by energy. However, most of this energy comes from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas that account for a majority of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. We know that CO2 emissions are a leading contributor to climate change, and the world will need a portfolio of solutions to address this Grand Challenge.

The $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE will challenge the world to… Show more

We are living in an age of innovation, an unprecedented era of technological progress and prosperity driven by energy. However, most of this energy comes from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas that account for a majority of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. We know that CO2 emissions are a leading contributor to climate change, and the world will need a portfolio of solutions to address this Grand Challenge.

The $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE will challenge the world to reimagine what we can do with CO2 emissions by incentivizing and accelerating the development of technologies that convert CO2 into valuable products. These technologies have the potential to transform how the world approaches CO2 mitigation, and reduce the cost of managing CO2. Show less

The Global Learning XPRIZE challenges teams from around the world to develop open source and scalable software that will enable children in developing countries to teach themselves basic reading, writing and arithmetic within 18 months. Once the 18-month field-testing phase concludes, the prize purse will be objectively awarded to the team that generates the best international standardized test scores within the group of participating children. Our goal is an empowered generation that will… Show more

The Global Learning XPRIZE challenges teams from around the world to develop open source and scalable software that will enable children in developing countries to teach themselves basic reading, writing and arithmetic within 18 months. Once the 18-month field-testing phase concludes, the prize purse will be objectively awarded to the team that generates the best international standardized test scores within the group of participating children. Our goal is an empowered generation that will positively impact their communities, countries and the world. Show less

Seven-module webinar series in conjunction with the GSA and DigitalGov to educate on how to design successful prizes. Lead content creator/curriculum developer and speaker.

Module 1: Prize history, prize theory, and what makes a good prize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0_CgUfHL04

Module 2: It’s all about the teams – The importance of operational incentives in prizes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_-UKCfyjUQ

IPP is a unique innovation ecosystem bringing together the Fortune 500 to meet and learn from Silicon Valley's brightest technologists, entrepreneurs, innovators and business strategists to create breakthrough business models harnessing the power of disruptive technologies and the wisdom of the crowds.

The $7 Million Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE is a global competition challenging teams to advance deep-sea technologies for autonomous, fast and high-resolution ocean exploration.

The success of this prize will allow us to fully explore and map the ocean floor, and uncover our planet’s greatest wonder and resource for the benefit of humanity. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) $1 million bonus prize will incentivize teams to develop technologies to detect… Show more

The $7 Million Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE is a global competition challenging teams to advance deep-sea technologies for autonomous, fast and high-resolution ocean exploration.

The success of this prize will allow us to fully explore and map the ocean floor, and uncover our planet’s greatest wonder and resource for the benefit of humanity. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) $1 million bonus prize will incentivize teams to develop technologies to detect the source of chemical and biological signals underwater. Show less

The Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE promises to improve our understanding of how CO2 emissions are affecting ocean acidification, with breakthrough sensors that can help us begin the process of healing our oceans.

The $1.75 million Water Abundance XPRIZE challenges teams from around the world to revolutionize access to fresh water by creating a device that extracts a minimum of 2,000 liters of water per day from the atmosphere using 100% renewable energy, at a cost of no more than 2 cents per liter.

The Water Abundance XPRIZE will create decentralized access to water, giving people the power to access fresh water, whenever and wherever they need it.

The $1 million Anu & Naveen Jain Women’s Safety XPRIZE challenges teams to leverage technology to keep women and communities safe.

The winning team’s solution will autonomously and inconspicuously trigger an emergency alert and transmit information to a network of community responders, all within 90 seconds. The winning technology will cost no more than US $40, to help ensure it is affordable.

Each year, corporate leaders, philanthropists, heads of innovation and XPRIZE Trustees gather for a multi-day Visioneering workshop to brainstorm, debate, and prioritize which of the world's Grand Challenges might be solved through incentivized prize competition.

The XPRIZE Visioneers 2016 Summit, presented by the Roddenberry Foundation in honor of the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek, was held in late September in southern California.

The Visioneers Summit is a gathering of the XPRIZE ecosystem. It is not just an event but a process that is part of the XPRIZE strategic approach to evolve and advance its prize designs.

This year, the process featured nine hand-selected teams of Visioneers who spent nearly six months designing the next… Show more

The XPRIZE Visioneers 2016 Summit, presented by the Roddenberry Foundation in honor of the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek, was held in late September in southern California.

The Visioneers Summit is a gathering of the XPRIZE ecosystem. It is not just an event but a process that is part of the XPRIZE strategic approach to evolve and advance its prize designs.

This year, the process featured nine hand-selected teams of Visioneers who spent nearly six months designing the next generation of XPRIZEs, aspiring to create disruptive impact across a portfolio of the world's grandest challenges in the following domains: cancer, ALS, empathy, water, housing, nutrition, and avatars.

At the Summit, a group of 250 mentors composed of prominent corporate and political leaders, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, artists, technologists and scientists evaluated and critiqued each of the nine XPRIZE proposals. Collectively, this community ultimately determined which concepts were certified as “ready for launch.” Show less