Marcus is currently working on the “next big thing” and helping small, medium and large companies and institutes formulate their technical and innovation strategies for the next industrial revolution.
Until March 2021, Marcus Weldon was the Corporate Chief Technology Officer for Nokia and was responsible for coordinating the technical strategy and driving technological and architectural innovations into Nokia’s end-to-end networking systems and software portfolio. In addition, as President of Bell Labs, Marcus was responsible for defining and creating the next disruptive innovations and the pioneering research that will form the foundation of the future ICT industry.
Marcus is considered one of the luminaries in the ICT industry in terms of the clarity, depth and breadth of his vision and methodologies on how to ‘invent the future’. He combines this with a unique understanding of science and technology market dynamics to create innovative teams that produce disruptive solutions that can transform industries.
Marcus holds a Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry) degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science and Chemistry) joint degree from King’s College in London, UK. But more than these formal academic credentials, Marcus has a relentless curiosity that, coupled with a very analytical mind, drives him to continuously learn and to understand any problem from a wide array of different angles, and in remarkable depth, across a diverse array of disciplines, including:
(1) Wireless and wired networking technologies, protocols and systems
(2) Artificial Intelligence systems and methodologies
(3) Novel computing systems (including quantum computing)=
(4) Cloud infrastructure and web systems and platforms
(5) ‘Silicon’ device technologies and materials
(6) Chemical and biochemical systems
(7) New materials and sensing technologies and systems
(8) Advanced machine and robotics technologies
(10) Next generation internet networks and systems
(11) Emerging industrial and enterprise systems
(12) Cybersecurity technologies and end-to-end systems and networks
(13) Advanced communications and AR/VR technologies and systems
Marcus has won numerous technical, scientific and engineering society awards for his work and technical vision and leadership throughout his career, but is arguably best known for his ability to distill complex, multi-dimensional problems into the essential ‘simple’ answer or solution that should be pursued. For this reason, he is highly sought after as an advisor to governmental agencies and departments in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and around the world, as well as to industrial and enterprise CxOs, to venture capitalists and private equity funds, and the larger investment community. He is the author of more than a hundred technical publications, white papers and on-line articles, as well as ‘The Future X Network’ book that outlines his view of the future of digital networks and associated key technologies.
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