On-demand · Biotech Essentials for Business Leaders

While everyone is staring at AI, biotech is quietly rewriting your industry.

Biotech Essentials gives business leaders the strategic fluency to evaluate gene editing, AI in healthcare, synthetic biology, and longevity science—before the decisions land on your desk.

Enroll for $199

FormatOn-demand video

LevelBeginner → Intermediate

Lessons50+ videos

Modules8 modules · 8 quizzes

Access1 year

CredentialCertificate + Credly badge

Why this course

AI is accelerating everything. Nothing it touches will matter more than biotech.

For leaders in any industry who want to understand how biotech will transform their business in the next few years.

A quieter transformation is underway—one that won't just change how you work, but what you eat, how you heal, what products are made of, and how long you live.

The convergence of AI and biotechnology is already reshaping materials, manufacturing, supply chains, food, finance, and health. But most leaders aren't paying attention. The ones who are don't have the language to evaluate what they're seeing.

This course gives you the strategic fluency to recognize where biotech matters, filter the hype from the signal, and make better decisions before your industry shifts beneath you.

The risk isn't ignorance. It's misjudgment—overhyping what doesn't matter and overlooking what did.

What you'll walk away with

Four shifts. One new way of evaluating biotech.

01 / Mindset

Develop a new mental model.

Move beyond linear thinking. Understand the exponential forces driving biotech—and why traditional planning frameworks miss what's coming.

02 / Fluency

Build strategic fluency in biotech.

Working knowledge of synthetic biology, gene editing, biomimicry, neurotechnology, and AI-powered drug discovery. No science degree required.

03 / Sight

Spot what others miss.

Identify where biotech is already reshaping industries—from food systems and materials to healthcare and workforce strategy—before it becomes obvious.

04 / Action

Make better calls, faster.

Build the pattern recognition to evaluate bio-driven opportunities, assess risk, and ask sharper questions earlier than your competitors.

The strategic fluency you need

Six conversations every leader needs to be ready for.

By the end of the course, you'll have the working vocabulary, frameworks, and pattern recognition to hold your own on any of these—and to spot the moves your competitors are missing.

→ Fluency 01

Understand why biotech is infrastructure, not a vertical.

Biology is becoming a platform underneath food, materials, medicine, and manufacturing. What that means for your strategy, regardless of industry.

→ Fluency 02

Distinguish real opportunity from hype across food, health, longevity, and materials.

The specific markers that separate a 5-year shift from a 30-year promise—so you stop reacting to headlines and start reading the underlying curves.

→ Fluency 03

Evaluate where converging technologies create new market openings.

AI + biology + materials science—the intersections where the next decade of value lives, and how to spot them earlier than the analyst consensus.

→ Fluency 04

Apply frameworks like the 6Ds to recognize disruption patterns.

The lifecycle every exponential technology runs through. Use it to forecast when biotech moves from deceptive to disruptive in your category.

→ Fluency 05

Navigate the ethical and societal trade-offs that will define the next decade.

Gene editing, BCIs, longevity, and synthetic food all carry trade-offs your board will need to take a position on. Get there before you're asked.

→ Fluency 06

Engage in biotech conversations at the board level and beyond.

The confidence and shared language to brief a CEO, challenge a research budget, or pressure-test a venture pitch without bluffing.

Meet your experts

Seven practitioners. The whole biotech stack.

This course is taught by Singularity Experts and leading researchers working at the frontier—synthetic biology, AI-powered drug discovery, longevity science, AgTech, biomimicry, neurotechnology, and the materials science of food.

Kathleen Alexander

Material Scientist · Founder of Savor

Pioneering thermosynthesis to create food ingredients without traditional agriculture. Represents the frontier of decoupling food from land.

Misha Byrne

Neuroscientist & Behavioral Strategist

Transforms cutting-edge brain science into practical tools. Covers neurotechnology, BCIs, and the ethics of cognitive enhancement.

Aaron Frank

Fellow, Mixed Reality · Singularity

Specializes in helping leaders understand exponential technologies. Guides the foundational modules on exponential thinking and the biological future.

David Hunt

AgTech Entrepreneur & Policy Advisor

Uses AI and biotechnology to transform agricultural systems. Grounded perspective on food systems, land use, and the sustainability trade-offs leaders must navigate.

John-Clark Levin

Research Lead · Kurzweil Technologies

Expert on AI timelines and longevity science. Covers AI-powered drug discovery, the future of clinical trials, and the science of aging.

Robert Suarez

Biomimicry Innovator

Bridges nature-inspired design with industrial application. Hosts the conversations on adhesives, phytomining, and industrial biotech.

Dr. Tiffany J. Vora

Fellow, Biotechnology · Singularity

Molecular biologist and leading voice on synthetic biology's business implications. Anchors the core modules on programming life, the bioeconomy, and strategic readiness.

Program rundown

Eight modules. 50+ lessons. The whole biotech stack.

Move at your own pace. Each module pairs short video lessons from a domain expert with knowledge checks and a reflection exercise you can apply to your business, portfolio, or career—that same week.

01 The Exponential Biological Future Aaron FrankFoundations

Why biology is on its own exponential curve—and what convergence with AI, sensors, and materials science means for the next decade of strategy. The mental model the rest of the course is built on.

Linear vs. exponential cognition for biotech
The 6Ds applied to biology
Knowledge check + reflection

02 Programming Life: Synthetic Biology Dr. Tiffany J. VoraCore module

Cells as programmable systems. What synthetic biology actually does, where it's already in production, and the business categories it's quietly reshaping—from materials to fragrance to industrial chemistry.

03 Gene Editing & Strategic Readiness Dr. Tiffany J. VoraCore module

CRISPR and the gene editing toolkit. Where the technology is real, where it's still slow, and the strategic readiness questions every leader should be asking about it in their industry.

04 AI-Powered Drug Discovery John-Clark LevinHealth

How AI is collapsing the cost and timeline of drug discovery—and what that means for pharma economics, clinical trials, and the insurance and employer-benefit markets downstream of it.

05 The Science of Longevity John-Clark LevinHealth

Aging as an engineering problem. The interventions that are working, the ones that aren't, and what shifting human healthspan means for workforce planning, insurance, and consumer markets.

06 Food, Land & AgTech David Hunt + Kathleen AlexanderBioeconomy

Decoupling food production from land. Precision agriculture, thermosynthesis, and what happens to supply chains, real estate, and consumer brands when ingredients can be made without farms.

07 Biomimicry & Industrial Biotech Robert SuarezMaterials

Nature-inspired design at industrial scale. Adhesives, phytomining, and the materials category where biology is already cheaper, cleaner, and stronger than the incumbent chemistry.

08 Neurotechnology, BCIs & The Cognitive Future Misha ByrneFrontier

Brain-computer interfaces, neuromodulation, and the ethics of cognitive enhancement. What's clinical, what's consumer, and the trade-offs your board will eventually need a position on.

Singularity Digital app

Take Biotech Essentials with you.

The Singularity Digital app gives you full access to every enrolled course, offline downloads, and a continuous-play queue so a commute, flight, or workout turns into a working session.

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From program participants

What leaders take away from Singularity's biotech program.

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Singularity opened my eyes up to the many growing fields inside biotech. The program prompted me to ask questions about topics that are totally new to me, and I'm thinking about solutions to problems I didn't even know existed three days ago.

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This is a functional workout for the forward-thinking parts of my mind and my ability to engage in constructive dialogue with a diversity of brilliant experts.

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The program is amazing in design, content, and flow. Great work.

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The risk isn't ignorance. It's misjudgment.

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Biotech Essentials for Business Leaders

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The strategic fluency course for executives who don't want to be caught reacting to biotech after it reshapes their industry.

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What's inside

8 expert-led modules across biotech's most critical domains

50+ video lessons from leading researchers and innovators

Knowledge checks and reflection exercises in every module

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Mobile + offline access via Singularity Digital app

1 year of access to all 8 course modules

For teams

Bring Biotech Essentials to your whole leadership team.

Group discounts, course customizations, and collaborative learning management. For executives and talent leaders who want to future-proof their organization.

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