Deploying Innovations to Create a Better Future for the World: Creating a System to Accelerate Use of Relevant Solutions

The world has many proven technologies but no unified mechanism to deploy them rapidly at scale.
The Global Solutions Institute (GSI) created a platform, the Global Deployment System (GDS), to address this gap. The GDS accelerates both the domestic and international rollout of solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges in food, water, healthcare, the environment, and energy.
Core GDS components are:

• Deployment Registries: catalog of ready-to-deploy technologies and other solutions from companies and NGOs
• Funding Sources: a matrix of public and private financing options
• Deployment Partners: networks of implementers worldwide including GDS’s flagship, the GSI Fulbright Initiative. That Initiative mobilizes over 200,000 alumni in 160+ countries where local committees assess national needs and connect proven technologies with the best deployment partners.

This panel ‘s representatives from those components will discuss how the GDS can scale solutions, in the U.S. and abroad, to create a better future for the world.

One example of how this works: Through GSI, onecompany discovered a huge potential new market abroad for its energy solution.

MODERATOR:

Mark W. Grobmyer
Chairman, Global Solutions Institute
Mark W. Grobmyer is an attorney with substantial investment banking and international law experience. He is Chairman of the Global Solutions Institute which matches global problems with technology and other solutions and then seeks to accelerate the deployment of the solutions at scale globally. He also serves on a Blue Ribbon Climate Panel related to the UN Foundation and as Managing Director of the P80 Group Foundation. Read full profile…

PANEL:

Tammy Hettinger
Executive Director, Fulbright Assn.

Mark Walsh
Managing Director, Ruxton Ventures, LLC
I was once introduced as “Someone who connects the Dots: dot.com, dot.edu, dot.org and dot.gov”. I thought that was pretty good. I have been so lucky to be part of amazing organizations that changed the marketplaces they were in: HBO to TV, AOL to consumer communications, VerticalNet for B2B interaction, the Democratic Party as we discovered the internet for voters, recently running the venture capital and growth equity fund for the U.S. Government…. then Seed and Early Stage Venture Capital with Ruxton Ventures and now some real “cold-crank” startup efforts. Read full profile…