Hollywood, Health & Society director Sandra de Castro Buffington was an invited guest speaker at Singularity University's annual Women’s Forum "Women @ the Frontier" at the Tech Museum in San Jose on Aug. 16. The panel featured top women entrepreneurs, humanitarians, innovators, scientists and techies addressing issues relevant to our future. In particular, Buffington addressed 10^9+ (”Ten to the Ninth Plus”), impacting 1 billion people in a positive way in 10 years leveraging exponential trends, innovation and the power of entrepreneurship. Founded by Dr. Ray Kurzwei and Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, Singularity University is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies in order to address humanity’s grand challenges. With the support of a broad range of leaders in academia, business and government, Singularity University hopes to stimulate groundbreaking, disruptive thinking and solutions aimed at solving some of the planet’s most pressing challenges. Singularity University is based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley.