Jess Wilson Travels from Sydney, NSW
Topics
- Business
- Business Success
- Digital Technology
- Disruption
- Entrepreneur
- Female Speaker
Jess Wilson is a real example of small town girl turned globally recognised and awarded tech entrepreneur. Starting her first business at 16 and 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 utilising 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, co-founding Waves Tech Ventures a company which 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 a proven track record in law reform in the area of women’s rights. MW has collaborated with the likes of Google, Airbnb, Tiktok and Speedo and has partnered with the likes of Deepak Chopra’s The Chopra Foundation.
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, Tom Bilyue and Richard Branson throughout their national Australian tours.
Previous speaking engagements clients include Google, Airbnb, Tiktok, Quest Apartments, Forbes Australia, YPO, EO, The Futures Conference, EY, KPMG, Commonwealth Bank, ANZ Bank, Coffs Harbour City Council, UNSW, PWC, Accenture, Newscorp to name a few.
Jess has 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.
