Scott Amyx

Scott Amyx is the Chair & Managing Partner at Astor Perkins. Astor Perkins is a deep tech and sustainability VC that backs mavericks solving some of the hardest problems facing humanity on Earth and in space. From climate change mitigation and adaptation, longevity, and human survival on Earth and in deep space, to the space economy itself, Astor Perkins is tackling some of the most difficult scientific, engineering, and technical problems that have global market potential.

As a deep tech venture capitalist, Amyx 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.

Amyx is also a Forbes New York Business Council Member, Singularity University and Smart City Accelerator mentor and startup board member, and SXSW Pitch judge. He's is a Tribeca Disruptor Foundation Fellow, a national Sloan Fellow, and Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He has spoken at TEDx on exponential technologies, Fourth Industrial Revolution, and success. Amyx is a global thought leader on breakthrough innovation, voted top global innovation keynote speaker and author on smart cities and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, winner of the Cloud & DevOps World Award for Most Innovative, and was voted Top Global Exponential Technologies Expert by Inc. Magazine, HP Enterprise, and Postscapes, and Top 10 Global Innovation Keynote Speaker by Speaking.com. Amyx has been nominated to the World Economic Forum as a committee member for the Future of the Internet. The Republic of Korea nominated Amyx to present at the ITU Telecom World, United Nations. Sovereignties, governments, multinationals, and international consulting, and research firms look to Amyx for unrivaled insights and pulse on the changing landscape.

Amyx has been featured on New York Times, TIME, Forbes, The Washington Post, WIRED, TechCrunch, Inc., Pew Research, Chicago Tribune, InformationWeek, Forrester, Gigaom, ReadWrite, Shots Magazine, Business News Daily, IBM Big Data & Analytics, Intel, Geektime, Examiner, TechBeacon, EE Times, IEEE, El País, Costco Magazine, and television and radio programs. He has spoken at TED, European Commission, World Economic Forum, ITU Telecom World (United Nations), International CES, SXSW, IBM Insight, IBM Amplify, IBM Watson IoT, IBM InterConnect, PTC LiveWorx, AMEX, SAP, CRM Evolution, THINK!, NED, Cloud Expo Europe, Cloud & DevOps World, KAIST, Samsung SDS, ArabNet Dubai & Riyadh, Internet Summit, JCK Las Vegas, Customer Service Experience, Razorfish Tech Summit, Location & Context World, Internet of Things World, K-Global Startup, and more.

Amyx 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, and Ethics (AISPE) Book Series: "Managing Security Issues and the Hidden Dangers of Wearable Technologies," an academic publication by IGI Global.