Prof. Nic Palmieri

Professor Nic Palmarini is

• the Director of UK's National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA)*

• the co-founder of the Edelman Longevity Lab;

• the CEO of Voice® Italia (the not-for-profit citizens’ community dedicated to harness and repurpose the intelligence of older adults);

• affiliate to the Harvard Meta Lab.

Before, he was a research manager at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, a $250 million academic-industry partnership for the responsible advancement of artificial intelligence and since 2015 Head of AI for Healthy Aging at IBM Research in Cambridge, USA. Previously he has been Director of the Human Centric Innovation Centre in Paris and Smart City Subject Matter Expert.

Trained in social and political studies, he developed deep expertise in leading heterogeneous teams and connecting dots across disciplines to bridge academic and industrial research with real-world applications to deliver return-on-community and return-on-business with a specific focus on longevity and the future effects and opportunities of the demographic revolution.

He holds a decade of experience in applied research on ageing and healthy longevity. Along his career he created and led several “first-of-a-kind” programs like “Living Safer” empowering carers with data, the Internet of Caring Things shifting the paradigm of connected objects, and the City of Longevity, a revolutionary toolkit designed to leverage cities to become the proactive actors of healthy longevity of the population. The work of his teams has been awarded the United Nation for Ageing Initiative, the London Design Biennale, the ComputerWorld Honors Award, the Disability Matters - Market Place Award, the Silver Eco Award, the Best Collaboration in MedTech Award.

He co-founded Talent Garden’s Innovation School, today's most extensive European innovation hub, with 23 campuses in 8 Countries.

He is a professor of practice in Ageing, policy and planning at Newcastle University.

He is the author of five books and several publications, a TEDx, and a keynote executive speaker. His talks and lectures have been delivered to global audiences, in private and public venues, in more than 30 countries worldwide.

He is a member of several boards, including the Scientific Advisory Committee at McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA), GIMI (Global Management Innovation Institute), the Humane Technology Lab and the Scientific Board of Political Sciences and International Relations at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan.