
Scott Amyx is Founder & CEO at Uplifty AI, Managing Partner at Astor Perkins, Harvard Business Review Advisory Council Member, Forbes New York Business Council Member, Singularity University/ Smart City Accelerator mentor and startup 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. 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. He is a highly sought after, celebrated innovation keynote speaker who has spoken worldwide, including, but not limited to, the International CES, SXSW, European Commission, United Nations, ITU, Tribeca Film Festival and Skoll World Forum at the University of Oxford, MIT, Princeton University, KAIST, South Korea, University of Helsinki, Finland, University of Wisconsin, University of Connecticut, and Effat University, Saudi Arabia to name a few. He is represented by The Harry Walker Agency, London Speakers Bureau, BigSpeak, Thinking Heads, The Sweeney Agency and other major global speaking bureaus. 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.
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New York, New York, United States
Founder & CEO
Uplifty AI
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May 2025 - Present
New York, New York, United States
Managing Partner
Astor Perkins
• www.linkedin.com/company/astorperkins
Jan 2020 - Present
New York City Metropolitan Area
Harvard Business Review Advisory Council Member
Harvard Business Review
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Aug 2024 - Present
New York City Metropolitan Area
Investor
D-Orbit
• www.linkedin.com/company/d-orbit
Sep 2021 - Present
Italy
Investor
Brightseed
• www.linkedin.com/company/brightseedinc
Apr 2022 - Present
San Francisco, California, United States
Investor
Bloom Diagnostics
• www.linkedin.com/company/bloomdiagnostics
Sep 2021 - Present
Zurich, Switzerland
Investor
Omnitron Sensors
• www.linkedin.com/company/omnitron-sensors
Feb 2021 - Present
San Francisco Bay Area
Co-Founder & CEO
Clariity
May 2010 - Dec 2011
San Francisco Bay Area
Co-Founder & CEO
Socius
Mar 2008 - Dec 2008
San Francisco Bay Area
Co-Founder & CEO
Jobulee
Jan 2007 - Feb 2008
San Francisco Bay Area
Co-Founder & CEO
Tapi, Inc.
Dec 1999 - Jul 2003
San Francisco Bay Area
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