Darlene Damm is a Principal Faculty Member for Global Grand Challenges with Singularity University. Darlene works on leveraging exponential technologies to resolve the world’s thorniest societal issues like education, malnutrition, poverty, access to energy and the internet. Darlene discusses exponential technology, it's scope and how it is being used to solve the social problems around the world impacting more than a billion people. She refers to some of the start-ups Singularity University's' faculty have mentored successfully who are solving the problems in the healthcare field (ex: diagnosing the disease through artificial intelligence, and one start-up using AI to predict water supply and availability. Another startup is working to produce meat for consumption from stem cells preventing animals from being slaughtered. Listen.Subscribe.Review.Donate bitcoin to fuel more podcasts? Yes.