With a 20-year career delivering real innovation results, Maurice is a sought-after collaborator and advisor. He has developed and launched innovation labs, products, and practices, and has inspired audiences around the world to rethink their approach to innovation.
As the Chief Innovation Officer and head of New Moonshots for Telefonica Alpha he assembled a diverse, world-class team, and built a ground-up process to ideate, scale, manage and launch new Moonshots: projects designed to affect 100’s of millions of people, grow into $1B+ businesses, and be a positive impact on the planet and society.
As Head of Applied Research and Innovation at Autodesk, Maurice built a strategy, team, and facility from the ground up to explore, understand, and develop the emerging echnologies and products that would matter most to Autodesk’s future. There he developed prototypes in advanced robotics, AI, early metaverse, digital twins, digital media production, VR-controlled robots, and additive manufacturing systems.
Today he advises leadership teams at some of the world’s biggest brands to help them get the most impact from their innovation and technology investments.
In his labs at Alpha and Autodesk, Maurice has not only imagined future technologies, but actually built them. He holds multiple technology and design patents in AI, Virtual Reality, and Advanced Robotics.
Maurice and his teams designed and built the world’s first AI-controlled large-scale 3D printer; one of the first realtime VR digital twins of a robotic work cell; the first biophysically accurate digital twin of a human athlete; the first collaborative voice-controlled construction robot; and one of the first AIs that could measure human performance of soft-skills. He is particularly good at helping organizations understand where and how to deploy emerging tech to have a massive business impact.
"Because he’s an artist, he’s pushing the envelope further than an industry would," says Autodesk director Maurice Conti, who first grew interested in Laarman's work a few year's back when the designer was using a large scale resin printer...
For Maurice Conti and his colleagues, the light-bulb moment came when they saw the technology behind the Oscar-winning special effects in "Gravity"...
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