Join us at the next IQ event

Join us at the next IQ event ✩

Welcome to the IQ Series

What are the implications of data, AI, crypto algorithms, and other exponential technologies?

A next-generation course that supports the Open Science trend. The key is to ask the right questions!  IQ Questions are from the Think Tank Lab.

For Whom is it for?

Global Students, Entrepreneurs, Research Agencies, Ph.D. students, Investors, Professionals, and Corporate Strategists

What Can You Get?

  • Entrepreneurial ideas

  • Concepts for high-value projects and PhD research topics

  • Collaboration opportunities and team building

  • Tech trends - to know what’s next

  • Skill development in areas of your interest

  • Strategy technology and investment insight

  • Policy/Law Implications

  • Connections to the speakers/guests for advising, collaboration, or venture opportunities.

What is the Cost?

Zero - Nothing - Only your time and interest.

How Do Your Register

You don’t. Attend whenever it makes sense for you. Join in person or by video. Turn in the homework if it’s actually helpful for your goals.

FAQ

This Really is Different!

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible,” Richard Feynman

What happens:

  • Each IQ event/lecture is 60 to 80 minutes long.

  • Watch a master class - fireside (30-45 min)

  • Optional assignment - individual or group - gets turned in to the instructor/guest.

  • Do it and show your interest and capabilities. to connect with them.

  • Connect with the speaker for advising, collaboration, or venture.


Where is it hosted:

Can I get reminder emails:

  • Yes, add your name to this list, and we will send reminders

  • Use this link

The IQ Course Format (60 to 80 min per session):

  • Speaker Introduction: 3-5 min

  • Background: 5-10 min

  • Masterclass or Fireside: 30 to 45 min

    • Specific additional background

    • How does the speaker do what they do?

    • Where is the opportunity today?

  • Assignment 5-10 min

  • Q/A: 15 min or remaining time - whichever is less

In support of Open Science with affiliations and collaborations from IE Sci-Tech, UC Berkeley, RISE Europe, Applied Innovation, Elysium, AOE, and all Catalyst Faculty and Ventures.

The 12 IQ Question Principles:

Fundamentals

What problem are we actually solving? Who has the need specifically? What is the story narrative of the problem and solution: Need, Approach, Benefit, Competition

How does it work —> Does it work?

What are the first principals of the underlying problem and solution?

Drivers

How will the key trendlines project five years from now? And what future can you envision from that projection?

In that 5-year trendline view, what are the new problems and opportunities we can’t see yet?

What areas of knowledge must be merged to solve this?

Ecosystem

Who are the stakeholders in the solution?
Why is this not obvious to everyone now?

What will be the reaction of these stakeholders to the solution? Is it disruptive or sustaining, and to whom? What are the incentives for everyone in the system?

What team would be needed to make this happen? Where are the centers of activity in the world on this topic?

Decisions

How can you make the biggest contribution from where you are and with what you have?

Is the solution powerful enough to change the expected future?

Are you capable and brave enough to directly contact and bring the right people together to make this happen