As an AI researcher and specialist on digital assets, Jennifer Zhu Scott has her finger on the pulse of technologies that are poised to change our economies and our lives.

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Jennifer Zhu Scott is the founding principal of Radian Partners, specializing in high-tech investments. Born and raised in extreme poverty, Scott worked her way up from a prefecture-level municipal in Ya’an, China to become one of Forbes World’s Top 50 Women in Tech in 2018. In 2020, she's planning to launch her new platform focused on inclusive AI economy, empowering traditional industries to join the AI transformation and enabling individuals to generate income from their own data.

Scott is a frequent public speaker and opinion writer on AI, blockchain, digital currencies and data ownership. She debated Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller on the crypto-asset bubble at Davos in 2018. In her spare time, Scott cooks, skis, reads and is a senior technical advisor to the HBO series Silicon Valley.

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Pattern Makers: Notes from Session 2 of TEDWomen 2019

December 5, 2019

In Session 2 of TEDWomen 2019, we met some extraordinary pattern makers: people helping us predict the future, improve our relationship to technology and unearth powerful discoveries. The event: TEDWomen 2019, Session 2: Pattern Makers, hosted by Pat Mitchell and Cloe Shasha When and where: Thursday, December 5, 2019, 8:30AM PT, at La Quinta Resort […]

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