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Scott Amyx

Deep Tech & Sustainability Venture Capitalist; Disruptive Techology Expert; Managing Partner at Astor Perkins

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Scott Amyx Biography

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.

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.

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Strive: How Doing The Things Most Uncomfortable Leads to Success

Strive: How Doing The Things Most Uncomfortable Leads to Success

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.

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  • HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO BOOK Scott Amyx?

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Scott Amyx Biography

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.

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 Videos

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    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...

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  • How to book Scott Amyx?

    Our booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure talent like Scott Amyx for both live and virtual events for over 20 years. The team at All American Entertainment represents and listens to the needs of organizations and corporations seeking to hire keynote speakers, celebrities or entertainers for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment. Fill out a booking request form for Scott Amyx, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get pricing information and check availability for Scott Amyx or any other celebrity of your choice.
  • How much does it cost to book Scott Amyx?

    Speaking fees for Scott Amyx, or any other keynote speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The amount that Scott Amyx charges to speak often varies according to the circumstances, including their schedule, market conditions, length of presentation, and the location of the event. The speaker fees listed on this website are intended to serve as a guideline only. In some cases, the actual quote may be above or below the stated range. For the most current fee to hire Scott Amyx, please fill out the booking request form or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak with an experienced booking agent.
  • Who is the agent for Scott Amyx?

    All American Entertainment has successfully secured celebrity talent like Scott Amyx for clients worldwide for more than 20 years. As a full-service talent booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Fill out the booking request form or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Scott Amyx for your next private or corporate function.
  • What is a full-service talent booking agency?

    All American Speakers is a "buyers agent" and exclusively represents talent buyers, meeting planners and event professionals, who are looking to secure celebrities and speakers for personal appearances, speaking engagements, corporate entertainment, public relations campaigns, commercials, or endorsements. We do not exclusively represent Scott Amyx or claim ourselves as the exclusive booking agency, business manager, publicist, speakers bureau or management for Scott Amyx or any other speaker or celebrity on this website. For more information on how we work and what makes us unique, please read the AAE Advantage.

Scott Amyx is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as VC Due Diligence, The Future of Innovation & Jobs, Exponential Disruption: Is Your Organization Ready for the Era of Human-Machine Innovation?, Are You Ready for Disruption?, (BOOK) The Human Race: How Humans Can Survive in the Robotic Age and (BOOK) Strive: How Doing the Things Most Uncomfortable Leads to Success. The estimated speaking fee range to book Scott Amyx for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Scott Amyx generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Zack Kass, Ian Beacraft, Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, Mike Walsh and Andrew Busch. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Scott Amyx for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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.

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