Patrick Corsi

Patrick Corsi was born in mythical Camargue from Tuscan ascendency - two mighty lands where still waters and moving soils gracefully meet the sky’s azure shades.

Innovation Rocks! he says. For over 35 years, he sustained a deep focus on breakthrough innovations in multiple settings within business and institutions. His first appointment was with IBM Research in Silicon Valley advancing automatic speech recognition systems from 1979, then with IBM France developing telecommunication systems. He went through a highly successful startup experience and managed a leading advanced studies department within SYSECA SA/THOMSON, both in artificial intelligence in Paris. A senior officer within the European Commission in Brussels for ten years, he coordinated a portfolio of AI projects for industry and academia at large and contributed to linking-up with the European venture capital industry. Since 1999, he founded three international innovation houses, while consulting organizations spanning over 14 countries, and is a partner of CayaK InnoV SAS as an Associate practitioner from Mines ParisTech.

A serial business books writer on innovation, complexity sciences, and strategic marketing and a professional speaker, he is a member of the World Futures Studies Federation and the Global Speakers Federation. He won several former distinctive assignments, including a member of the global THOMSON-CSF Group’s Scientific & Technical College, a core member of the European Innovation Relay Centres, a board member of a European startup, as well as several distinctions such as Marquis 1991 Who’s Who in the World and 1992 in Science and Engineering. He trained and coached many new executives through national entrepreneurship programmes, was as Associate professor in innovation for 12 years, and lectured at over a dozen of engineering, business and design institutions since even he was a student. Patrick was heavily implicated in socio-animation programs for the youth over the years 1967-1975, then also directing numerous instructorship curricula for future animators.

A SOLVAY Brussels School of Economics & Management alumnus, he holds a Ph.D. from Institut National Polytechnique, following his engineering graduation in computer science from ENSIMAG in Grenoble and a Master in applied mathematics from Marseilles in France.

Oh! One more thing. He believes he could reasonably understand how could a Leonardo Da Vinci perform so much and so well five centuries ago…