Jen Zhu
Technology founder, investor and board member across agentic AI software and hardware infrastructure, addressing local intelligence, sustainable compute and individual data ownership.
During the programme, Senior Accelerator Fellow Jen Zhu will develop a material philosophy of intelligence through research and publication, alongside an annual Oxford convening bringing together global leaders to explore the relationship between intelligence, technology, power and humanity.
Jen Zhu is the co-founder and CEO of Power Dynamics, a hardware solutions provider that integrates battery energy storage systems, advanced immersion cooling for GPUs and thermal reutilisation to enable high-efficiency AI data centres and edge compute for local inference.
She invests in robotics, agentic finance and agentic health applications through her direct investment platforms. She is an investment committee member of the InvestCorp eLydian Fund and chairs the board of the SUI Foundation, the full stack infrastructure layer for the global agentic AI economy adapted by Google, AliCloud and Samsung, founded and built by the former Facebook LIbra leadership team.
Previously, she was executive chairman of The Commons Project, a non-profit trust established to build health data interoperability, funded by Morningside and Temasek.
Jen was named one of Forbes' World's Top 50 Women in Tech in 2018 and co-chair of the Fortune Global Tech Forum in 2019.
She is a Fellow, moderator and founder of the Technology Leaders Initiative at the Aspen Institute, and holds a dual fellowship at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House).
Her TED Talk on individual data ownership has been viewed more than three million times.
She is a published author and frequent public speaker on AI, data ownership, central bank digital currency and digital assets, and served as senior technical consultant on seasons five and six of the HBO series Silicon Valley.
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- Email address: aiethicsafp@philosophy.ox.ac.uk