Dr Roeland P-J E Decorte is a Belgian-born founder and entrepreneur based in the UK. His work, comments and op-eds have been featured in The Times, WIRED, The Guardian, The Financial Times’ Sifted, The Daily Express, Business Weekly, Startups Magazine, startups.co.uk, on the BBC and in other national and international media. See here for a full list of recent media appearances.
Dr Decorte has been a keynote speaker at CogX, London Tech Week, the Google Emerging AI community, the Mayor of London’s GROW summit, the London Global AI Summit, as well as at various international gatherings, including as the inaugural speaker at the Belgian Financial Times’ (De Tijd / L’echo) first-ever nation-wide entrepreneurs’ conference.
Dr Decorte’s work has been represented in the UK House of Lords on multiple occasions. Decorte’s latest policy paper, co-authored with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, former Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House William Hague, Benedict Macon-Cooney, Dr Jakob Mokander and Luke Stanley, on Embodied AI and Robotics was published end of 2024.
He is currently the Founder & CEO of Decorte Future Industries,
the co-founder and President of the Artificial Intelligence Founders Association,
and advises the boards of Eola and BeatPulseLabs, as well as The Tony Blair Institute and Raspberry Pi on AI and startup matters.
Early life
Dr Decorte holds a BA/MA, MPhil, and PhD from the University of Cambridge.
His PhD was on creating new methods to decipher undeciphered ancient writing systems, or “ancient codebreaking”.
Decorte was born in Belgium and first attended lectures at Cambridge in the UK at age 15, received an honorary scholarship at 16, and matriculated / started living and studying full time at Christ’s College, Cambridge at 17. He started building the exoskeletons underlying Decorte Future Industries (DFI), ultimately endorsed by the UK Ministry of Defence, at age 25, and incorporated DFI formally in 2019. DFI won young company of the year in 2023, and Decorte started the Artificial Intelligence Founders Association (AIFA) that same year.
