Jennifer Zhu Scott Speaker Biography
Leading AI Entrepreneur and Investor, CEO, Forbes Top 50 Woman in Tech, and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader
Jennifer Zhu Scott is an internationally recognized technology entrepreneur, investor, and keynote speaker at the forefront of artificial intelligence, AI infrastructure, deep tech, data ownership, and the global digital economy. She is Co-Founder and CEO of Power Dynamics, a high-efficiency modular data center solutions company addressing the enormous computing and energy demands created by artificial intelligence, and Founding Partner of IN. Capital, where she invests in AI and other transformative technologies. Her experience as an entrepreneur, investor, policy thinker, and technology leader across China, Asia, Europe, and global markets gives her a distinctive perspective on how AI is reshaping business, competition, infrastructure, investment, and the world economy.
Keynote Speaker Jennifer Zhu Scott at a Glance
- Co-Founder and CEO of Power Dynamics, developing high-efficiency modular data center solutions for GPU-intensive AI computing.
- Founding Partner of IN. Capital, investing in artificial intelligence, deep tech, and emerging technologies.
- Named one of Forbes’ World’s Top 50 Women in Tech and Fortune’s Most Influential Business Women in China.
- World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and former member of WEF councils focused on China, blockchain, and data policy.
- China Fellow of the Aspen Institute and Associate Fellow in the Digital Society Programme at Chatham House.
- International keynote and TED speaker whose talk “Why You Should Get Paid for Your Data” has generated more than 3.4 million views.
CEO and Co-Founder of Power Dynamics
Scott is Co-Founder and CEO of Power Dynamics, bringing her directly into one of the most important challenges surrounding the growth of artificial intelligence: the physical infrastructure required to support increasingly powerful computing systems. Power Dynamics develops high-efficiency modular data center solutions integrating battery energy storage systems and advanced liquid cooling for GPUs. Her work gives Scott a firsthand perspective on the enormous computing, energy, infrastructure, and investment requirements behind the AI revolution and the opportunities being created as organizations race to build the next generation of AI capabilities.
AI and Deep Tech Investor
As Founding Partner of IN. Capital, Scott invests in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Her work places her at the intersection of technological innovation and capital, giving her insight into which technologies are attracting investment, how new business models are developing, and where emerging technologies could create lasting economic change. Rather than examining artificial intelligence solely as a technology trend, Scott approaches AI from the perspectives of an entrepreneur, investor, infrastructure builder, and global strategist.
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Business
Scott helps leaders look beyond the excitement surrounding generative AI to understand the broader transformation taking place throughout the technology economy. Her perspective encompasses AI infrastructure, computing, energy requirements, data, investment, deep technology, and the geopolitical forces influencing how artificial intelligence develops around the world. For corporate audiences, she connects these technological shifts to practical questions surrounding strategy, competition, investment, innovation, and long-term growth.
Global Authority on Data Ownership
Scott is internationally known for challenging conventional thinking about the economics of personal data. In her TED Talk, “Why You Should Get Paid for Your Data,” she argues that individuals should have greater ownership and economic control over the information they generate rather than simply surrendering that value to technology platforms. The talk has accumulated more than 3.4 million views. Her work on data ownership examines one of the fundamental questions of the AI economy: as data becomes increasingly valuable to companies and artificial intelligence systems, who should own it, control it, and benefit economically from it?
World Economic Forum Young Global Leader
The World Economic Forum named Scott a Young Global Leader in 2013. She subsequently served on WEF councils addressing China, the future of blockchain, and data policy and has contributed to research and discussions surrounding emerging technologies and the global digital economy. Her international work has placed her in conversations with leading economists, policymakers, investors, and technology executives. At the 2018 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, she debated crypto assets with Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller and Swedish central banker Cecilia Skingsley.
Forbes Top 50 Woman in Tech
Scott was named one of Forbes’ World’s Top 50 Women in Tech in 2018 and one of Fortune’s Most Influential Business Women in China in 2021. She also served as Co-Chair of the Fortune Global Tech Forum in 2019. These honors reflect a career spanning technology entrepreneurship, investing, international business, public policy, and emerging technologies.
China and the Global Technology Economy
Born and educated in China and based in Hong Kong, Scott brings audiences a perspective shaped by firsthand experience across both Eastern and Western business environments. She is a China Fellow of the Aspen Institute and an Associate Fellow in the Digital Society Programme at Chatham House, where her areas of expertise include China, data governance and security, the future of work, and technology governance. Her understanding of Greater China gives global organizations valuable context for interpreting developments in artificial intelligence, technology investment, regulation, digital innovation, and the increasingly complex relationship between geopolitics and technological competition.
Technology Executive and Entrepreneur
Before becoming an investor, Scott served as Head of Business Development and Strategy for Asia-Pacific at Thomson Reuters, where she led initiatives involving speech-to-text, deep search, and video-indexing technologies. Earlier, she co-founded one of China’s first education companies before relocating to the United Kingdom and working as a senior advisor to the education subsidiary of Daily Mail & General Trust. She later served as Executive Chairman of The Commons Project, a nonprofit public trust focused on building digital public goods and health data interoperability.
Deep Tech, Blockchain and Digital Assets
Scott’s expertise extends beyond artificial intelligence to blockchain, digital assets, decentralized technologies, and the broader deep-tech ecosystem. She has served on the World Economic Forum’s Future of Blockchain Council and Data Policy Council and has contributed to numerous reports and white papers examining blockchain and emerging digital economic models. She currently invests in AI and institutionally focused Web3 technologies through IN. Capital. Her ability to examine these technologies from both an investment and policy perspective helps audiences separate significant structural developments from short-term technology hype.
Advisor to HBO’s Silicon Valley
Scott served as a Senior Technical Consultant for Seasons 5 and 6 of HBO’s acclaimed technology comedy Silicon Valley, bringing her knowledge of emerging technologies and the global technology industry to the series. Her involvement reflects the breadth of her technology expertise and her ability to communicate complex technological ideas beyond traditional business and investment audiences.
Education and Global Leadership
Scott studied Applied Mathematics at Sichuan University and earned an MBA in Finance from Manchester Business School. She has also completed public policy and leadership programs at Yale University, Harvard Kennedy School, Oxford University, and Princeton University. She is a Board Trustee of the Web Science Trust and remains active in international networks connecting technology, investment, public policy, and global leadership.
Jennifer Zhu Scott AI Keynote Speaker
Jennifer Zhu Scott is a sought-after international keynote speaker on artificial intelligence, AI infrastructure, deep tech, data ownership, digital assets, the digital economy, and Greater China. Her presentations combine the perspective of an entrepreneur actively building AI infrastructure with the experience of an investor identifying emerging technologies and a global thinker examining the economic and geopolitical forces shaping their development. She has addressed audiences at major international forums and appeared at the Oxford Union, TEDWomen, and the World Economic Forum in Davos. Her ability to make complex technological and economic developments understandable gives executives a clearer picture of what is changing, why it matters, and how those changes may affect their organizations.
Understanding the Next Technology Paradigm
Artificial intelligence is no longer simply a software story. Its growth depends on data, computing power, energy, infrastructure, capital, and an increasingly complicated global technology ecosystem. As an AI entrepreneur, infrastructure builder, deep-tech investor, and international technology authority, Jennifer Zhu Scott offers audiences a rare perspective across all of these forces, helping business leaders understand the technological shifts transforming the global economy and prepare their organizations for what comes next.
Jennifer Zhu Scott Speaking Topics
Digital Economy’s New World Order
The global economy is being rapidly reshaped by artificial intelligence, AI infrastructure, digital currencies, and the growing influence of data as a strategic asset. Jennifer Zhu Scott explores how economic and technological power is shifting toward new platforms, ecosystems, and infrastructure, redefining global competition, governance, and wealth creation. She examines the emerging new world order of the digital economy—where technology, policy, capital, and geopolitics increasingly intersect—and gives leaders a framework for understanding how these forces may reshape industries, markets, and competitive advantage.
Individual Data Ownership
Data has become one of the most valuable assets of the digital age, yet individuals rarely control or benefit directly from the information they generate. Building on the ideas behind her widely viewed TED Talk, Jennifer challenges this paradigm by examining the future of personal data ownership and economic models that could enable individuals to reclaim more of their digital value. Drawing on technology, economics, policy, and ethics, she explores how changing approaches to data ownership could transform privacy, artificial intelligence, wealth creation, and the relationship between consumers and corporations.
Leveraging Deep Tech in a Balkanized World
As geopolitical tensions rise and global technology ecosystems fragment, innovation is becoming increasingly influenced by national borders, competing regulations, supply chains, and strategic interests. Jennifer examines how organizations can continue leveraging artificial intelligence, advanced computing, blockchain, and other deep technologies while navigating competing standards, digital sovereignty, and geopolitical uncertainty. Drawing on her experience investing and operating across international markets, she provides leaders with a global perspective on pursuing technological opportunity in a world where collaboration and competition increasingly coexist.
Understanding the Next Paradigm Shift Driven by Deep Tech
Artificial intelligence and other deep technologies are driving a fundamental transformation in business and society. Jennifer demystifies this next paradigm shift, examining how breakthroughs in AI, computing, biotechnology, energy, and other emerging technologies could redefine industries, labor markets, investment, and competitive advantage. As both an entrepreneur and deep-tech investor, she connects technological developments with their broader economic and business implications, helping leaders distinguish meaningful structural change from hype and better understand where disruption—and opportunity—may emerge next.
Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities in Greater China
Greater China remains one of the world’s most important—and complex—technology and business environments. Drawing on extensive experience across Mainland China, Hong Kong, and international markets, Jennifer provides a nuanced perspective on the region’s evolving technology, investment, business, and policy landscape. She examines developments in artificial intelligence, digital innovation, regulation, geopolitics, and global competition, helping organizations better understand both the challenges and opportunities of operating in and engaging with Greater China.
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Her presentation was impressive and highly appreciated, definitely one of the highlights of the Summit. Jen's sharp understanding of disruptive technologies, their impact on the world, as well as the ethical concerns, in particular toward ownership and affordability of new technologies, was an eye-opening and very inspiring experience.
- Mark Haefele, Global Chief Investment Officer | UBS Wealth Management
Thank you for joining us at SuperAI Singapore! Your presence and contribution helped make the week a series of remarkable and memorable moments. Your experience and insights are invaluable to us. We truly appreciate your participation and look forward to welcoming you at our future events.
- Alex Fiskum, Co-Founder | SuperAI
