Curtis Carson (Past Speaker)

Curtis sits within the Defence & Space division of Airbus and has a team c50 globally. His biggest career success to date is taking innovative, challenging topics and finding the mechanism to bridge and bring them to life in the ‘real’ operational world. Curtis has implemented augmented reality within Airbus, was at the forefront of 3D printing at Airbus Commercial and has been involved in bringing IoT, Automation and Connectivity to the forefront of the business, developing them from cutting edge, complex topics in the R&D phase to being used in the business operationally. He sees the biggest opportunity in manufacturing as how to capitalize and capture the knowledge and information that companies have don’t exploit.