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Chief Impact Officer, Entrokey Labs
Ex. Chief Impact Officer, XPRIZE
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Zenia Tata builds the future by designing bold, scalable solutions to humanity’s biggest challenges — from quantum cybersecurity to reversing climate change.
Zenia is an innovation strategist, futurist, and humanitarian dedicated to unlocking the vast potential of humanity to tackle the planet’s greatest challenges.
As a founding team member of Entrokey Labs, Zenia is helping pioneer breakthrough quantum-resistant cybersecurity solutions built to future-proof global digital infrastructure.
Previously, Zenia led Zenia Tata Inc, a venture studio that incubated high-impact startups including Breakthrough Victoria (a $2B Australian government impact fund), EXO Mesh (on sustainable housing for Emaar Properties), and Boston Consulting Group (sustainability strategy projects), InLife (AI life coach in your pocket).
Zenia is also an advisor to One Planet Ventures and MAKR VC.
During her tenure as Chief Impact Officer at XPRIZE, Zenia designed over 25 global innovation challenges to incentivize moonshot technologies in areas like energy abundance, carbon removal, and water security. She also founded the XPRIZE Future Foresight practice, delivering deeply researched “Impact Roadmaps” to accelerate humanity toward preferred future outcomes.
As the ultimate chaos pilot, Zenia thrives on navigating uncertainty, orchestrating multidisciplinary communities of scientists, engineers, policymakers, and investors to achieve scalable, measurable outcomes. Her work culminated in designing the $100 million Carbon Removal XPRIZE, funded by Elon Musk, to incentivize technologies capable of reversing atmospheric CO₂ levels.
A sought-after keynote speaker, Zenia inspires audiences by demystifying complex systems and sharing her unique methodology for creating audacious impact—blending moonshot thinking, design principles, biomimicry, and science fiction foresight.
Earlier in her career, as Executive Director of iDE USA, Zenia applied market-driven strategies to lift 24 million farming families out of poverty, working in some of the world’s most challenging environments.
Bold, optimistic, and relentlessly impact-driven, Zenia continues to catalyze transformative change across industries and around the world.
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