Jess Wilson

About Jess

Jess Wilson started her first business at 16 and her second at 22 — a venture she scaled into 130 countries and took onto China's version of Shark Tank and The Apprentice, 'The Next Unicorn', which aired to 15 million viewers per episode. Forbes has named her one of 1,000 entrepreneurs under 30 to change the world in the next 50 years, and Smart Company placed her on its 30 Under 30 list three times. She has appeared in publications including Forbes, the Huffington Post, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, the front page of The Australian, and the Australian Financial Review, and has been interviewed by the ABC, Studio 10, and CNN.

What sets Wilson apart is that she has consistently targeted industries ripe for disruption — with millennial and Gen Z markets at the forefront — and has built her work around a point of view, not just a business model. As co-founder of Waves Tech Ventures, she is building a portfolio of companies that use emerging technologies to create impact. The first portfolio company, Women Making Waves, is a technology business funding and scaling women's rights law reform in Australia and the United States — working with law reform experts who have collectively changed more than 45 laws — and has partnered with organisations including Google, Airbnb, and Deepak Chopra's The Chopra Foundation. She has also toured as the opening keynote speaker for Tony Robbins and Tom Bilyeu on their national tours.

Wilson speaks to auditoriums of 3,000 and leadership retreats of 30 with equal ease. Her topics — emerging technology and innovation, women in leadership, and gender equality through disruption — suit conferences focused on entrepreneurship, women in business, and technology. For event organisers looking for a speaker who combines a genuinely extraordinary story with practical insight on innovation and leadership, Wilson delivers both.