Deep Tech + Exploration

Exploration accelerates nascent technologies to real-world applications from AI, robotics, nanotechnologies, new materials, computing architectures, and more -to expand human capability, accelerate scientific discovery, and enable sustainable exploration on Earth, in orbit, and beyond.

Competitions

The Vision

We’re accelerating a future where AI, robotics, and advanced materials restore ecosystems, enhance human ability, and construct the autonomous systems needed to explore, settle, and thrive in the most extreme environments, on Earth and beyond.

In this future, universally accessible technologies empower humanity to steward Earth’s resources and venture further into space. Intelligent machines take on dangerous tasks, quantum security safeguards data, and breakthroughs serve all—driving a more just, abundant world.

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Help push the boundaries of what humanity can achieve. Your support powers breakthroughs that take us from the nanoscale to the ocean depths, from Earth to the cosmos, expanding human potential and opening new frontiers.

Brain Trust

XPRIZE unites visionary innovators, pioneers, and global experts to turn breakthrough ideas into high-impact competitions—accelerating solutions, learning, technology, and sustainability to create an abundant future for all.

Anousheh Ansari
Anousheh Ansari CEO
Dr. Jeremy Barton
Dr. Jeremy Barton CEO, Nano Dynamics Institute
Dr. Jonathan Bean
Dr. Jonathan Bean Co-Founder & CEO, Materials Nexus
Dr. Marianna Bonanome
Dr. Marianna Bonanome Head of AI Strategy & Partnerships, SandboxAQ
Dr. Gerbrand Ceder
Dr. Gerbrand Ceder Professor, UC Berkeley
Dr. Chi Chen
Dr. Chi Chen Principal Quantum Engineering Manager, Microsoft
Dr. Heather Domin
Dr. Heather Domin Vice President and Head of Office of Responsible AI and Governance, HCLTech
Dr. Rana el Kaliouby
Dr. Rana el Kaliouby Co-founder and Managing Partner, Blue Tulip Ventures
Jan Helbing
Jan Helbing Vice President, Marketing, SpinLaunch
Dr. Zaki Hussein
Dr. Zaki Hussein Founder & CEO, Touchlab
Dr. Christian Jacob
Dr. Christian Jacob Professor
Dr. Jihyun Lee
Dr. Jihyun Lee Associate Professor
Betsabeh Madani Hermann
Betsabeh Madani Hermann Global Head of Research
Dr. Brad Nelson
Dr. Brad Nelson Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Dr. Ali Shafti
Dr. Ali Shafti Head of Human-Machine Understanding
Matthias Troyer
Matthias Troyer Co-chair Quantum Task Force, GESDA
Irene Yang
Irene Yang Investment Director & Principal
Dr. Nasr A. Al-Sahhaf
Dr. Nasr A. Al-Sahhaf Chair, International Moon Day
Chris Beauregard
Chris Beauregard Planning and Analysis, United States Space Force
Dr. Daniela Bezdan
Dr. Daniela Bezdan Space Biotech Entrepreneur, University Tuebingen, dxOmics, GmbH, NASA Genelab Microbe AWG
Dr. Mariel Borowitz
Dr. Mariel Borowitz Associate Professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech
Rebecca Boyle
Rebecca Boyle Author & Science Journalist
A.C. Charania
A.C. Charania Former Chief Technologist, NASA
Dr. Tim Crain
Dr. Tim Crain Chief Growth Officer/Chief Technology Officer, Intuitive Machines
Dr. Dorit Donoviel
Dr. Dorit Donoviel Executive Director, Translational Research Institute for Space Health
Dr. Bethany Ehlmann
Dr. Bethany Ehlmann Professor of Planetary Science, Caltech
Dr. Ezra Feilden
Dr. Ezra Feilden CTO, Starcloud, Inc.
Edward Ge
Edward Ge Co-founder & CEO
Dr. Peter Hague
Dr. Peter Hague Space Industry Analyst
Claire Haidar
Claire Haidar Founder, Board Member
Dr. Casey Handmer
Dr. Casey Handmer Founder and CEO
Molly McCormick
Molly McCormick Head of Human Systems
Dr. Ryan McLinko
Dr. Ryan McLinko CTO
Dr. Shawna Pandya
Dr. Shawna Pandya Research Astronaut & Physician
Daniel Suarez
Daniel Suarez Author
Danica Vallone
Danica Vallone President
Joanne Wheeler MBE
Joanne Wheeler MBE Director

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