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Nick
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Nick Ayton
Nick studied computer science in the 1970’s during the age of mainframes and for the next 45 years has seen every technology evolution and revolution come and go. He calls himself a closet geek, a generalist although when you speak to him he is very knowledgeable across a vast array of tech subjects blurring into material science, physcis, medtech and synthetic biology.
He is a fan of Deep Tech – the things he believes will help humanity defend itself from humanity. A veteran of 10+ start ups he’s designed and built some significant tech platforms in Fintech and for the Airline sector still used today. Early into Bitcoin in 2012 he was part of a team that build a regulated derivatives platform during the crazy days of crypto.
He worked for the big tech firms for 20 years in outsourcing and business transformation holding senior roles in CapGemini, Siemens, Getronics and CSC and was an early proponent of Business Process Re-engineering, working on large turnarounds where he has a particular approach that delivers fast results.
Nick believes technology evolution has been dissappointing to this point, the last decent invention he claims is the transistor. A fan of Quantum Computing he remains unimpressed by Generative AI he describes as not intelligent or dangerous. In his words “Humanity needs quantum computation to be able to solve the hard problems we face, and to understand how life itsef works”…
As a futurist he sees certain trend lines that will reshape commerce, redefine industrry sectors and change democracy. One such shift relates to Longevity – “simply adding a handful of years to extend life busts everything. All systems are rendered useless”…
Nick is one of the few people that can bring everything together – tech, biology, chemistry, physics, quantum mechanics into a melting pot of evolution, geopolitics and the things that will advance humanity, as well as the existential threat.
Nick lives between the UK and UAE and works with his family cross a range of businesses. He’s been married for 35 years and used to play pro-tennis in the 1970’s, and now his passion is writing TV shows/stories and chairing the big ones he calls them – the LIVE events where anything and everything can go wrong…
