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Strive: How Doing The Things Most Uncomfortable Leads to Success

Speaker Lists Featuring Scott Amyx

Leading Sustainability Speakers on Agriculture & Food Security

Whether they're investing in clean and sustainable technology, advocating for farmworker wellbeing and environmentally friendly growing methods, or addressing food inequity, these environmental speakers are knowledgeable...

Venture Capitalists & Angel Investors

The venture capitalists and angel investors in this list are leaders and experts in a wide variety of industries. Whether they're giving back to their communities and centering diversity, equity, and inclusion through their...

Expert Speakers on Ethical AI, Bias & Machine Learning

Ethics is an increasingly talked-about issue in the study and application of artificial intelligence and machine learning. AI continues to impact our lives in a multitude of new ways and is paving the future for industries...

Leading Futurist Speakers

Futurists may have their sights set on the future, but they know better than anyone that you have to know where you've been to know where you're going. The popular futurist speakers in this list study past and current trends...

Industry 4.0: The Fourth Industrial Revolution

With technology relied upon more heavily than ever, it’s no surprise that manufacturing is turning digital, too. Industry 4.0 is a new phase in the Industrial Revolution focused on interconnectivity, automation, machine...

Leading Business Speakers & Experts on Climate Change Investing

In the coming decade, climate change investing is expected to become a more extensive and critical strategy for businesses around the globe, driven by a new generation of investors. Whether it’s committing to net-zero...

Futurist Business Speakers To Explain The Process Of Digital Transformation

Businesses today face the daunting challenge of having to modernize and become more digitally integrated in order to continue to please consumers. Companies that wish to succeed in our increasingly digital age must embrace...

Quantum Computing & Technology Speakers

Quantum computing is an emerging technology that harnesses quantum mechanics to solve problems that are too complex for classical computers. With potential applications in healthcare, engineering, cybersecurity, artificial...

Leading Business Speakers Discussing eCommerce & Internet Sales

More and more often, people are opting to shop online rather than visit physical stores. This means the world of eCommerce is booming. These men and women are expert digital strategists who coach businesses on how to make...

Future of Work: Top Speakers on Futurism and Innovation in the Workplace

As experts in technology, human resources, and leadership, the business speakers in this list know how trends and current events affect labor demands, business models, and more. After the pandemic greatly impacted businesses...

Internet of Things Concept Speakers

The Internet of Things is the concept of connecting devices to the internet or to each other. This will greatly impact our lives as we gain opportunities; yet many question our future security and the risks involved. By...

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Scott Amyx Speaking Topics

• VC Due Diligence

  Trust is in short supply. At Astor Perkins, they go beyond the due diligence of most VCs. They get into forensics. Most startup founders don’t start out to defraud investors. It happens over time. It’s looking for small clues and nascent behavior that could indicate a potential problem or a legal matter down the road. It’s not simply a matter of financial auditing. It’s trying to piece together the flow of money between different legal entities. What are they hiding? It’s interviewing executives and employees for behaviors of secrecy, obfuscation, ethical lapses, lack of governance and controls and a potential toxic culture. Scott and the team at Astor Perkins see it as their duty to LPs to not only deliver solid fund performance and long-term results but to invest in sound, well-governed startups that have the best chance of becoming the next trillion-dollar company.

• The Future of Innovation & Jobs

  The new marketplace for industries like manufacturing, energy, gas and oil, and construction is a far cry from that in decades past. The perfect storm of problems has been brewing, as novel challenges cut into revenue and force corporations to scramble to find fresh opportunities. Obstacles to growth come in many forms. For example, the Bureau of Labor Statistics noted that there has been a gradual slide in worker productivity, not over just the last few quarters, but over the last decade. However, just as some industries are struggling, there is little doubt that the tech sector is going strong—and that it is shaking up other verticals to create value and opportunities for expansion and growth. While it is not likely that a single solution can bring about significant change in the industrial sector, the appropriate application of advanced technologies, data analytics, machine learning and robotics can result in a greater optimization of business workflows and processes, enhanced safety, improved research and development, and the creation of new revenue streams. The silver lining is that innovation also ushers in new types of jobs that didn't exist before. Innovation coupled with continuous lifetime learning and retraining creates a flexible and adaptable labor force.

• Exponential Disruption: Is Your Organization Ready for the Era of Human-Machine Innovation?

  Disruption is a great term, as long as it’s being applied to your competitors and not your firm. Exponential technologies are creating disruption. The convergence of exponential technologies is expected to disrupt almost every sector and business. Changing trends are forcing leaders to take a hard look at their business models and core competencies. New entrants are threatening to displace “cash cows” and prominent brands. How is your company positioned to take advantage of the multi-billion dollar opportunity that beckons? Or is your business at risk from the advances in technology? If your company is not embracing technological and business model changes, it may be in danger of becoming obsolete.

• Are You Ready for Disruption?

  How do you turn disruption Into innovation? In PwC’s Annual Global CEO Survey, 62% expressed concern about the impact of disruption in their industry. Disruption is coming from all directions — from the Internet of Things, blockchain cryptography, AI/ machine learning, data analytics, decentralized computing to changes in consumer behavior.

  According to an Accenture study of 1,000 large enterprises, big companies struggle with innovation. The biggest barrier is not a lack of vision but because, by definition, big companies are mature. Organizational structures and processes are in place to guide the company towards efficiency. Seasoned managers steer their employees from pursuing the art of discovery and towards engaging in the science of delivery. Employees are taught to seek efficiencies, leverage existing assets, and listen to their best customers. Such practices and policies ensure that executives can consistently deliver positive earnings to Wall Street, but they also minimize the types and scale of innovation that can be pursued successfully within an organization. No company ever created transformational growth by doing what they do a tiny bit better and a tiny bit cheaper.

  The biggest barrier is not a lack of vision but because, by definition, big companies are mature. Organizational structures and processes are in place to guide the company towards efficiency. Seasoned managers steer their employees from pursuing the art of discovery and towards engaging in the science of delivery. Employees are taught to seek efficiencies, leverage existing assets, and listen to their best customers. Such practices and policies ensure that executives can consistently deliver positive earnings to Wall Street, but they also minimize the types and scale of innovation that can be pursued successfully within an organization. No company ever created transformational growth by doing what they do a tiny bit better and a tiny bit cheaper.

• (BOOK) The Human Race: How Humans Can Survive in the Robotic Age

  Scott explores the imminent net job loss from artificial intelligence, robotics and the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its impact on income inequality and rise in populism and nationalism that are sweeping across the globe.

  AI-driven cyber-physical automation is expected to displace 50% to 80% of the human workforce by 2030. As the pace of convergence of exponential technologies reach near vertical slope, the trend of human displacement is unstoppable. What will be the role of humans?

  For the structurally unemployed and underemployed, it will be bleak future with limited options. Only those with highly specialized PhDs in fields that create, train and maintain AI, robotic and advanced scientific and technical systems may have a place in the world of hyper-automation. Contrary to popular belief that only predictable physical work is automatable, as narrow AI continues to master new niches, it will amass a superset of capabilities that will not only replace tasks but holistic job functions. There is no senior executive, policymaker or subject matter expert that will be safe.

  Scott explores the limitations of universal basic income and taxing robots. Instead, he proposes a vastly different, out-of-the-box solution called the Human Currency. It’s a global economy and a cryptocurrency based on human-to-human empathy services. Moreover, it has the resiliency and sustainability built into the system to ensure the viability of the human race for centuries to come.

  Scott emphasizes the need to pursue job training and labor force development in human-to-human services that leverage our ability to empathize with the human condition. The empathy business models and services will become the bedrock of post Fourth Industrial Revolution.

• (BOOK) Strive: How Doing the Things Most Uncomfortable Leads to Success

  Find out how doing the things most uncomfortable leads to success. Pioneering thought leader Scott Amyx shows anyone striving to succeed, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are, that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but doing the things uncomfortable he calls “strive”. Drawing on his own powerful story of an impoverished immigrant frequently told that he would amount to nothing, Amyx, now a celebrated venture capitalist and futurist, describes his meteoric rise from obscurity to prominence, which led to the hypothesis that what really drives success is not intellect, opportunities or even network but pursuing personal change that’s uncomfortable. In this book, Scott takes readers into his defining life moments and stories from some of the most unlikely individuals who persevered through change to become outrageously successful. He also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in high performance. Finally, he shares what he’s learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers—from corporate CEOs, unicorn startup entrepreneurs to global policy leaders. Strive shows how you can shape your life and your career, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of delightful surprise.

Scott Amyx Speaker Videos

• Scott Amyx Innovation Keynote Speaker Sizzle Reel

  

  Energize, inspire & engage your audience. Book Scott Amyx today for valuable insights into the future of work, productivity & society. As a deep tech venture capitalist, Scott invests in some of...
  Astor Perkins Opening Keynote Oct 27th 2021

  

  We at Astor Perkins are tackling some of the hardest problems facing humanity on Earth and in space. We believe that in order to solve the greatest challenges facing humankind, these challenges...

Scott Amyx News

• The deep tech revolution creating a new class of wealth

  Deep space expert Scott Amyx is heading to Australia next month to talk space tech and the $US1 trillion market opportunity.

• Scott Amyx at evokeAG 2023

  Amyx – managing partner at US-based VC fund Astor Perkins – says deep space is a trillion-dollar global market opportunity. He will travel to Australia next month to talk about all things space tech and how it might impact Australia’s $80 billion agriculture at AgriFuture’s national agriculture conference.