Nicolas has 24 years’ experience in Innovation and R&D, half in big corporations and half founding, funding and developing start-ups, in Europe and Silicon Valley. Nicolas lead multinational engineering teams, from upcoming trends and technologies to Business-applied Revenue-generating services. For the past few years, Nicolas has driven the Global R&D and Innovation at Worldline, leading teams to find, evaluate, prioritize and drive to market reality all the disruptive technologies/ usages, instilling innovation, igniting new services and increasing performances and efficiency in our portfolio. Nicolas joined Atos group in 2009 and holds a SW/HW engineering degree from EFREI backed up by a Start-up-specialized MBA course at HEC. Nicolas teaches Blockchain in prestigious schools like Columbia Edu, Polytechnique, TelecomParisTech, IMT or HEC. Current studied big trends made a reality are Stable Coins, Quantum-Resistant Cryptography and Artificial Intelligence.