NVIDIA GTC
Scaling Enterprise Learning with 5G and NVIDIA Cloud XR
How to scale immersive learning and training experiences for the enterprise using 5G and NVIDIA Cloud XR.
Nick Rosa
Industry Technology Innovation Director · Accenture
Shaping the next era of emerging technologies driven innovation powered by AI for the Fortune 1000.
About
A career at the frontier of emerging technology.
Nick Rosa is a technology leader specialising in digital transformation, product innovation and go-to-market strategy, with more than twenty years of experience. He has held senior roles at IBM, Google, Spotify, Yahoo! and Atari, and at Accenture his full title is Industry Technology Innovation Director and Gen AI Studios Lead EMEA.
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Keynotes & Speaking
Keynotes that translate emerging tech into executive action.
Nick has delivered keynotes on stages across four continents, pairing rigorous market foresight with two decades of hands-on delivery inside Accenture, IBM, Spotify and Google.
AI Enterprise Adoption Strategies
What AI can genuinely do in production today, stripped of vendor hype, and why most organisations stall at pilot stage while others extract value at scale. Grounded in live enterprise deployments.
Frontier Technologies
AI is compressing the timeline of every other emerging technology, pulling advances once a decade away onto far shorter cycles. This talk maps the converging horizon and how organisations prepare to act early rather than react late.
Technology Innovation Strategy
How enterprises convert frontier capability into measurable value. Most corporate innovation fails through lack of discipline, not shortage of ideas. This talk sets out an operating model that connects exploration to the P&L and retires innovation theatre.
Spatial Computing
Where immersive technology creates real enterprise value, grounded in a decade of delivery rather than demo reels. AI has given spatial computing its missing intelligence layer; this talk separates the durable use cases from the decorative.
On Stage
Selected stages
On Stage
Selected talks.
Keynotes and panels from NVIDIA GTC, WIRED, CogX, AWE, Oculus Connect and beyond.
WIRED Briefings · with Accenture
The Change Makers: Using Tech for Good
A panel on the balance between humanity and technology, and how brands can meaningfully engage consumers in 3D worlds.
CogX · with the World Economic Forum
Scaling the greatest digital project known to mankind
Foundational challenges of the metaverse — scalability, interoperability, decentralisation, and an open, inclusive digital reality.
Augmented World Expo
Extended Reality, Machine Learning, and the Future of Humanity
How the convergence of XR, machine learning and deep analytics reshapes experiential learning, spatial data and the future of work.
Symbiotic Emergence · with Silviu Pirvu
Understanding the Metaverse
The true meaning of the metaverse: layered architecture, digital ownership, AI integration, and virtual worlds to 2050.
Oculus Connect 6
Transforming Corporate Training with VR
Design, experience, data tracking and scalability challenges of bringing virtual reality learning programmes to enterprise organisations.
Book · Wiley, October 2022
Understanding the Metaverse.
Nick’s first book, published worldwide by Wiley with a foreword by Prof. Tom Furness III, is the go-to executive primer on the immersive internet.
“A great primer and playbook for any executive seeking to explore the vast opportunities the Metaverse will unlock.”
“A thorough guide that makes the Metaverse understandable and, more importantly, actionable for a general business audience.”
Podcasts
Two shows. One thesis: technology only matters when it shapes society.
AI Shift
with Nick Rosa & Vlad Larichev
Exploring artificial intelligence and its transformative impact on society, with brilliant minds across science, art and education.
Field of View
with Nick Rosa & Daniel Colaianni
All things Metaverse, Extended Reality, Web3 and new trends in immersive technologies. Two seasons and counting.
Experience
Two decades building at the edge.
Jul 2023 – Present
Industry Technology Innovation Director & Gen AI Studios Lead, EMEA
Jan 2022 – Jul 2023
Metaverse Strategy Lead, Europe
Oct 2017 – Dec 2021
Extended Reality Lead, Europe & Global Head of Immersive Learning
May 2017 – Sep 2017
Global AR & VR Strategy Lead — Automotive, Aerospace & Defence
Aug 2016 – May 2017
EU Digital Transformation Lead — Media & Entertainment
Feb 2015 – Jul 2016
EU Mobile Strategy Lead — Media & Entertainment
Previously
20+ years
More info here ›Boards & affiliations
Oct 2023 – Present
Royal Society of Arts
Fellow ›
Systemic, regenerative solutions across education, environment and technology.
Dec 2019 – Present
AIXR — Academy of International XR
Board Member ›
Producers of the XR Awards — the most prestigious ceremony in the immersive-technology industry.
May 2025 – Present
Virtual World Society
Board Member ›
Founded by Prof. Tom Furness III (“the godfather of VR”) — immersive tech for societal good.
Aug 2019 – Mar 2023
BIMA
Chairman, Immersive Technologies Council ›
The UK’s leading trade body for the digital & tech industry.
University lectures · last 36 months
- HEC Montréal (Canada)Master of Economics · Prof. Decio Coviello
- UCL, London (UK)Master in Economic Sustainability · Prof. Paolo Taticchi
University of Manchester (UK)Master in Fintech · Prof. Massimo Preziuso- University of Trento (Italy)Master in Blockchain, Web3 and DeFi · Prof. Luigi Telesca
- Bocconi University, Milan (Italy)Master in Emerging Technologies · Prof. Massimo Ballerini
- University of West Scotland (UK)Master in Immersive Technologies · Prof. Theofilos Tzandis
- LIUC Cattaneo, Castellanza (Italy)Master in Enterprise Strategy and Innovation · Prof. Maria Mazzone
- LUISS Business School, Rome (Italy)Master in Applied AI · Prof. Giovanni Stilo
Selected Media
Featured & quoted.
Coverage across leading business, technology and financial press in Europe and Latin America.
Get in Touch
Speaking, advisory, board, media.
For keynote requests, advisory conversations, media enquiries or university lectures, send Nick a note below. He replies personally.