Professor Haydn Thompson

Professor Haydn Thompson, BSc, PhD. CEng has 40 years’ experience working in a mixture of senior industrial research and development roles in flight control systems, space programmes and signal processing applications for leading companies. For nearly 20 years he was the Programme Manager of the Rolls-Royce Control and Systems University Technology Centre addressing research and innovation. Currently he is Managing Director and Owner of the THHINK group of companies, as well as being Managing Director and Owner of Haydn Consulting Ltd. He is recognised and used by the European Commission as an expert in many fields and is a consultant to a range of companies and government bodies. He defines Strategic Technology Roadmaps across Europe and for companies such as Rolls-Royce. In recent years he wrote the European Chips Act SWD, Recommendations and Roadmap for a Design Platform to support the European Chips Act and Recommendations and Roadmap for European Sovereignty in Open Source Hardware, Software, and RISC-V Technologies. He is also engaged by the EC as an Expert covering a number of areas including Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Edge Computing, Advanced Computing, Internet of Things, Digitalisation of Industry, 5 and 6G, Standardisation and Green digital policy.