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In Conversation with Prof. Nick Colosimo

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  • Duration: 7 mins
  • Publication date: 28 Oct 2021
  • Part of series In Conversation

Abstract

Prof. Nick Colosimo has over 27 years of experience in research, development, innovation, and business development, taking ideas from the back of an envelope to their successful demonstration and the acquisition of revenues in excess of $100 million. He has successfully delivered some of the World’s most ground-breaking programmes from Surrogate Unmanned Aircraft to the World’s most advanced ‘mixed reality’ system first demonstrated in 2013. He is the inventor of over 40 published patents including a novel form of cyber resilient system architecture using a form of ‘voting cryptography’ which he devised before the existence of blockchain technology. Nick is now a business strategist and futurist providing direction and consultancy. He is a Visiting Professor at Cranfield University and holds graduate and post graduate qualifications in computing, applied physics and electronics, mechatronics and other subjects.


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  • Professor Nick  Colosimo

    Professor Nick Colosimo

    Technomancer, Futurist and Engineer

    A futurist with a difference. I examine trends turning them into a 'so what?'. I create science fiction. I turn the science fiction into science fact. Then I turn it into deployable technology.Polymath with over 70 published, granted, and classified patents. Inventor of deflector shields, virtual cockpits and command centres, cyber resilient architectures, hypersonic stores release, holographic systems, novel sensors and algorithms, novel electronic warfare, nuclear tech, new classes of air vehicles, graphene mass production, on-orbit manufacturing, and much more.Significant focus on AI and autonomy at the moment.* All views are personal.
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