Eric Anderson

Entrepreneur, Pioneer, Visionary

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  • Languages Spoken

    English

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    Washington, USA

  • Eric Anderson Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    Please Inquire

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    Washington, USA

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The Resources of Space: Expanding our economy into the Solar System

The resources of space hold the answer to the survival of our species. Earth’s population is ever growing and the planet’s resources are undisputedly finite and declining. We need to bring the Solar System into our economic sphere of influence to continue humanity’s ...

The resources of space hold the answer to the survival of our species. Earth’s population is ever growing and the planet’s resources are undisputedly finite and declining. We need to bring the Solar System into our economic sphere of influence to continue humanity’s prosperity here on Earth and further our exploration of space.

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Innovation, creativity and “thinking outside the planet”

Mr. Anderson built the private space travel industry from the ground up with a combination of innovation, determination, entrepreneurial spirit.  The lessons learned along the way are applicable to other bold endeavors and can help entrepreneurs learn how to approach ...

Mr. Anderson built the private space travel industry from the ground up with a combination of innovation, determination, entrepreneurial spirit.  The lessons learned along the way are applicable to other bold endeavors and can help entrepreneurs learn how to approach seemingly insurmountable problems.

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The Future of Programming

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There are big changes in store for how software is created that enables anyone to encode their knowledge and expertise in computer programs without ever writing a line of code. Imagine if it didn’t take an army of computer programmers to create, change or customize software? What if you could not only write your OWN software but also make everything in your life, at work and at home, programmable? Thanks to exciting new developments in knowledge processing and meta-programming, this future is closer than you think.

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About Keynote Speaker Eric Anderson

About Speaker Eric Anderson…

Mr. Anderson is a lifelong entrepreneur with a history of successfully introducing innovative products and services into new markets.  He is most well-known for pioneering the development of the space tourism industry as the Co-founder and Chairman of Space Adventures, Ltd.  At Space Adventures, Mr. Anderson has been responsible for all of the spaceflights by self-funded commercial space explorers, launching more astronauts into space than 99 percent of the nations on Earth, and he has sold nearly $1 billion in spaceflight mission contracts.

Currently, Mr. Anderson serves as the CEO of Intentional Software Corporation. The company’s mission is to help organizations collaborate in creating and sharing ideas. With Microsoft’s former chief architect Charles Simonyi as lead investor, Mr. Anderson is leading the team to develop a software platform for a new generation of team productivity applications.

He is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Planetary Resources, Inc., the asteroid mining company. Planetary Resources will revolutionize space exploration by bringing the natural resources of space within humanity’s economic sphere of influence. Resources extracted from near-Earth asteroids will play a key role in the development of a space economy and will be the main driver in allowing humanity to become a flourishing multi-planetary species.

Mr. Anderson is Co-Founder and Chairman of Planetary Power Inc., a renewable energy company with a vision to make efficient and reliable energy accessible anywhere on the planet. Initially focused on the telecom industry, Planetary Power’s hybrid power generation technology uses the best of renewable and conventional technology to reduce the cost and environmental impact of off-grid power generation with increased reliability.

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He is a Founding Partner of the Space Angels Network, a global network for angel investors that offers unique investment opportunities in the commercial space sector.

He is also Chairman of Personal.com, the first cloud-based collaboration platform for people and teams to securely co-manage structured information (i.e. computable data) that is critical at both the office and home, and Booster Fuels, a mobile refueling service.

Mr. Anderson’s philanthropic efforts are focused on the Planetary Security Foundation, an organization dedicated to informing and educating the public about nuclear weapons, the greatest risk facing humanity’s future, and developing strategies for how that risk can be eliminated.

Mr. Anderson graduated magna cum laude from the University of Virginia where he studied aerospace and software engineering.

He is a Board Member of the X PRIZE Foundation and the Koshka Foundation. He is also a Member of the World Economic Forum and Young Presidents Organization. In 2010, Mr. Anderson was selected as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” award winner.

Mr. Anderson lives in Seattle with his wife and their children.

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