An experienced and enthusiastic innovator myself, I specialise in unlocking the creative potential of those around me. I helped create Thales' new Autonomy Technology Centre (ATC) and am now it's Chief Technologist. We are growing a small team in the ATC to be the 'hub' that connects various 'spokes' of autonomy and autonomous systems capabilities around Thales, with the intent that we can accelerate market impact and transfer capabilities efficiently and effectively. We deliberately address use cases across all of Thales' market sectors and actively pursue an open innovation model, building strategic partnerships with academic institutions and other suppliers.I am passionate about building these strategic partnerships and ensure my own role is very 'open', so I've collected various non-Thales roles to support this. Including visiting staff status at both The Universities of Southampton and Bristol, an Industrial Fellowship from the RAEng and a member of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team for ICT.Currently:* I'm working on a series of thought leadership articles on the significance of Trust in Autonomous Systems, with the TAS Hub.* I'm co-authoring an Autonomy Strategy Paper for Thales and steering our portfolio of self-funded research projects.* Developing and bidding for customer-funded R&D opportunities for various autonomy-related capabilities* Preparing for a summer-school STEM engagement event based on Robotics at the University of Southampton.