Scott Amyx

Scott Amyx is the Chair & Managing Partner at Astor Perkins; here, he works with deep tech and sustainability VC that backs mavericks solving some of the hardest problems facing humanity on Earth and in space.

As a deep tech venture capitalist, Scott invests in some of the most cutting-edge technologies -- quantum computers, space, climate tech, longevity, and autonomy. As an expert in innovation, he intimately understands the benefits of exponential technologies but also recognizes the need for human change management within organizations. His keynotes address people's greatest fears about disruptive technologies and how they and their organizations can harness the potential while mitigating concerns of human displacement.

From climate change mitigation and adaptation, longevity and human survival on Earth and in deep space, to the space economy itself, Scott is tackling some of the biggest and most pressing scientific, technical and engineering problems that have global market potential.

Scott is also a Forbes New Yorke Business Council Member, Singularity University/ Smart City Accelerator mentor and start up board member and SXSW Pitch judge.

Scott is a Tribeca Disruptor Foundation Fellow, a disruptive innovation awards program of Tribeca Film Festival. Scott is a national Sloan Fellow/ Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He has spoken at TEDx on exponential technologies, Fourth Industrial Revolution & success. He is also the Co-Organizer of TEDxWallStreet. Scott is a global thought leader on breakthrough innovation, voted top 10 international innovation keynote speaker, & author on smart cities, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and winner of the Cloud & DevOps World Award for Most Innovative and was voted Top Global Smart Cities by Inc. Magazine, HP Enterprise, and Postscapes. Scott has been nominated to the World Economic Forum as a committee member for the Future of the Internet. The Republic of Korea nominated Scott to present at the ITU Telecom World, United Nations. Sovereignties, governments, multinationals, and international consulting & research firms look to Scott for unrivaled insights and pulse on the changing landscape.

Scott has been featured on New York Times, TIME, Forbes, The Washington Post, WIRED, TechCrunch, Inc., Pew Research, Chicago Tribune, InformationWeek, Forrester, & television & radio programs. He has spoken or scheduled to speak at TED, European Commission, World Economic Forum, ITU Telecom World/United Nations, International CES, Internet of Things World, IBM Insight, Amplify, Watson IoT, InterConnect, Cloud Expo Europe, & more. Scott is the co-author of Internet of Things and Data Analytics Handbook, an academic publication by John Wiley and Sons and The Advances in Information Security, Privacy, & Ethics Book Series: Managing Security Issues and the Hidden Dangers of Wearable Technologies, an academic publication by IGI Global.