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Jess Wilson is a real example of small-town girl turned globally recognised and awarded tech entrepreneur.

Jess started her first business at 16 and her second at 22, which she scaled into 130 countries and was a finalist contestant on China’s version of Shark Tank x The Apprentice ‘The Next Unicorn’ which aired to 15M p/episode.

Jess has taken on industries ripe for disruption utilizing technology with millennial and Gen-Z markets at the forefront, establishing her as a leading voice in women leadership, innovation and emerging technologies.

More recently Jess co-founded Waves Tech Ventures, a company that leverages emerging technologies to create impact. The first portfolio company, Women Making Waves, is a tech company funding and scaling women’s rights law reform in Australia and the United States, introducing a new demographic to philanthropy, working with law reform experts who have changed an accumulative 45+ laws and counting. WMW has collaborated with the likes of Google, Airbnb and TikTok and partnered with the likes of Deepak Chopra’s The Chopra Foundation and Caren Yanis, who built Oprah’s philanthropy portfolio since its launch in December of 2022.

Jess has been pinned by Forbes as one of 1,000 entrepreneurs under 30 to change the world in the next 50 years, appeared on Smart Company’s 30 under 30 three times and toured as the opening keynote speaker for Tony Robbins and Tom Bilyue throughout their national tours.

Jess is most known for her keynotes on leadership, AI and emerging technologies and her fast-paced journey as a female founder over the last decade.

Jess has been featured in media publications such as Forbes, The Huffpost, Virgin, the front page of The Australian national newspaper, Vogue, Harper Bazaar, ABC, The AFR, Studio10 and CNN, to name a few.

Expertise

Talking Points

Women Leadership

An empowering and insightful look at the current statistics of women in leadership, what the future holds, real-world case studies from Jess's career and how we can start to level the playing field.

The Entrepreneur's Journey

Jess has been a repeat entrepreneur since 16, her first tech startup Stashd scaled to 130 countries and she is now working on Women Making Waves which utilizes Web3 technology to fund and scale women's rights law reform across Australia and the United States. Jess has always been able to predict trends and act on them to become a market leader in technology and scale. The process from the opportunity to validating an idea to creating a business Jess has done time and time again - the way Jess tends to do it though, is by challenging the status quo, being audacious enough to ask for what she wants and going after it!

- The founding story, the real and raw startup stories directly from a repeat entrepreneur
- How to move from idea to business
- Jess structured her keynotes with a mix of storytelling and direct learning ensuring the audience is entertained and learns something new!

From a small town as one of 6 in her year at school to being pinned by Forbes as one of 1,000 entrepreneurs under 30 to change the world in the next 50 years. This keynote shares the story and key learnings from a mindset and tactical skill perspective.

Innovation: Understanding emerging technology and how to stay relevant in a fast moving world

A look into what new waves of technology look like and how we have experienced throughout history, understand experiential curves and discussions around Web3 and/or AI pending the client's preference. Jess speaks on technology with the firm belief that we don't need to get caught up in jargon, it's possible and more enjoyable to learn about these new technologies in plain english so anyone can understand - simplifying and portraying the latest in an easy to understand format.

Gender Equality: A deep dive into the history of women's rights law reform and disrupting the legal system

Many women's rights laws were created 120 years ago when the TV was non-existent, women couldn't vote or open a business - there have been monumental women throughout history who have changed this via law reform. This keynote looks at history giving the audience an insightful look at the history of gender equality and also how Jess and Women Making Waves is using technology to fund and scale women's rights law reform working with experts who have changed an accumulative 45+ laws and counting across Australia and the United States.

Resilience: Turning your 'why' into impact

Jess speaks with first hand experience of naviagting a sexual assault lawsuit and coming out the other side successful. Lessons learnt from a mindset and resilience perspective. This is a very empowering keynote providing actionable resilience tools to the audience whilst leaving feeling inspired and ready to back themselves when they come across adversity.

Tech for Good, Leveraging Technology for Impact

The founding story and why' behind starting a movement leveraging technology to fund and scale women's rights law reform across Australia and the United States working with law reform experts who have changed an accumulative 40+ laws and counting and global leaders such as Deepak Chopra's The Chopra Foundation on co-created wellbeing content for women.

Key Points:
- The founding story, how Jess created partnerships with world leaders
- How to leverage tech for good and direct insights into technology impact trends
- Jess structured her keynotes with a mix of storytelling and direct learnings ensuring the audience is entertained and learns something new!

Turning Adversity into Global Change

At 25, entrepreneur Jess Wilson was on the fast track to success. She was a regular guest on global television shows, often featured in Forbes and had a list of business leaders wanting to partner with her. She was then sexually assaulted by a prospect investor and her life changed. She turned to a mentor for guidance, yet was told to turn the other cheek. Shaken, but determined she went against her mentor's advice, educated herself on the legal system, started a lawsuit which took 18 months and ultimately - won.
Now Jess has turned her adversity into a new tech business which uses technology to fund and scale women's rights and sexual assault law reform across Australia and the United States, working with law reform experts who have changed an accumulative 40+ laws and counting and partnerships with global leaders such as Deepak Chopra's The Chopra Foundation.

- The founding story, how Jess has turned her adversity into benefiting others
- The opportunity in adversity and how develop a resilient mindset
- Jess structured her keynotes with a mix of storytelling and direct learnings ensuring the audience is entertained and learns something new!

Emerging Technology, AI & Innovation

This Keynote, takes audiences on a journey with touch points of existing technologies they know and use every day, to understand AI, sometimes for the first time, and how these technologies will impact our world into the future.

Jess is unique in how she presents the topic of emerging technologies, as a female entrepreneur since 16, starting her first tech company at 22 she scaled into 130 countries Jess is able to breakdown the patterns and predict what’s ahead in an engaging and easy to comprehend fashion.

Key Takeaways:
- Experiential curves: A look back at history, waves of disruptive innovations such as the introduction of mobile, Netflix, Spotify and how this is comparable to AI.
- The concept of 'Zero to one' (inspired by Peter Thiel the co-founder of Paypal's book), explains how technologies create new categories that are adopted globally.
- The current wave: AI, artificial intelligence, what does it actually mean/do?
- What does the future of using AI’s like ChatGTP and Google’s Bard mean for businesses and team members?