Stakeholder partners

Colectiv

Colectiv run behavioural science and innovation projects led by researchers but powered and scaled by digital technology and AI.

They support innovators to investigate, design and test with qualitative data from the frontline. Every project is bespoke, combining new tools with traditional research methods.

Deep Blue

Deep Blue was founded in Rome in 2001 by Alberto Pasquini and Patrizia Marti, at the time researchers respectively at ENEA and at the University of Siena.

Their desire to create a place for excellence, a research hub free of bureaucratic and administrative ties, combined with the idea of setting up a multidisciplinary team that would cooperate to express its full potential, has led to the company’s steady growth and constant expansion in new areas of research and application domains.

Flowminder

Flowminder is a Swedish non-profit foundation with two branch offices, in the UK and Switzerland respectively.

Using mobile operator, geospatial and survey data, their focus is on improving the wellbeing of vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries, at scale.

Using big data innovation, they provide information and capacity strengthening to governments, mobile network operators, national and international agencies and researchers in those countries for humanitarian and development purposes.

Methods Analytics

Founded in 2013, Methods Analytics have grown into a dedicated team of data consultants, committed to helping both public and private sector clients navigate and solve complex data challenges.

Their mission is to transform data into actionable intelligence, guiding its clients through every stage of the data lifecycle.

From problem identification and data management to data science, visualisation and interpretation, they are there to turn your data into meaningful insights and solutions.

Nesta

Nesta is the UK’s innovation agency for social good.

They design, test and scale new solutions to society’s biggest problems, changing millions of lives for the better.

There ambitious 10-year strategy aligns its efforts behind three innovation missions working to promote a fairer start, a healthy life, and a sustainable future.

Nesta has a strong track record of incubating and growing new organisations that go on to form a crucial part of the innovation ecosystem.

ISD Institute for Strategic Dialogue

Since 2006, ISD has been at the forefront of analysing and responding to extremism in all its forms. Their global team of researchers, digital analysts, policy experts, frontline practitioners, technologists and activists have kept ISD’s work systematically ahead of the curve on this fast-evolving set of threats.

They have innovated and scaled sector-leading policy and operational programmes, on- and offline, to push back the forces threatening democracy and cohesion around the world today.

ISD partners with governments, cities, businesses and communities, working to deliver solutions at all levels of society, to empower those that can really impact change.

Natural Resources Wales

Natural Resources Wales is the largest Welsh Government Sponsored Body, focused on tackling the climate, nature, and pollution emergencies.

It is responsible for environmental protection, regulation, and the maintenance of natural resources throughout Wales.

Their roles include managing air quality, green spaces, climate change, energy, water, forestry, waste, agriculture, and health and well-being.

When cared for properly, these natural resources can help reduce flooding, improve air quality, and supply materials for construction.

MET Office

Right across the world, every single day, people make decisions based on the weather and our changing climate.

The MET Office combine weather and climate science and data with expert insights to help with those decisions so people can be safe, well and prosperous.

Based on world-leading science and enhanced by the close working relationships with partners around the globe. They collect and make sense of massive amounts of data every day, using cutting-edge technology to deliver it into the hands of the people that need it, when it matters.

Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)

A world leader in the field of marine research, Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) is committed to the delivery of impactful, cutting-edge environmental and social science in support of a healthy and sustainable ocean.

Their research is globally recognised.

PML work with a broad range of partners internationally through research projects and wider initiatives, combining observational, experimental and modelling activity to provide a greater understanding of the dynamic and complex marine environment to inform knowledge-based solutions.

Wikimedia UK

Wikimedia UK believes that open access to knowledge is a fundamental right, and a driver for social and economic development. Open knowledge and free access mean no barriers and no paywalls.

Their projects share the vision of freely creating, distributing and consuming knowledge which represents human diversity.

Cabinet Office

JUNIPER

JUNIPER is a partnership that connects epidemic modellers across the country with the aims of building capacity and capability for the UK’s epidemiological modelling.

A key long-term aim is to ensure that we are better prepared and more resilient to future infectious disease threats, so our research covers a range of infectious diseases that are important regionally, nationally and internationally, as well as supporting underpinning research for strengthening infectious disease modelling.

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

NHS Somerset’s mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in Somerset and to deliver outstanding integrated care by supporting our colleagues and nurturing an inclusive culture of kindness, respect and teamwork.

The trust’s strategic objectives are to:

• Improve the health and wellbeing of the population
• Provide the best care and support to people
• Strengthen care and support in local communities
• Reduce inequalities
• Respond well to complex needs
• Support our colleagues to deliver the best care and support through a compassionate, inclusive and learning culture
• Live within our means and use our resources wisely
• Develop a high performing organisation delivering the vision of our trust.

UK Health Security Agency

UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) prevents, prepares for and responds to infectious diseases, and environmental hazards, to keep all our communities safe, save lives and protect livelihoods.

They provide scientific and operational leadership, working with local, national and international partners to protect the public’s health and build the nation’s health security capability.

UKHSA is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care.

Mayden

Mayden design, build and support insightful and interoperable systems for healthcare services in the UK and abroad.

For over 20 years, Mayden has specialised in technology that supports healthcare services deliver data driven, outcome focussed and patient centred care.

Their flagship product, iaptus, is a patient management system used in over 100 NHS organisations across the UK. Over the last 10 years they have focused heavily on creating flexible and customisable health tech solutions, developing tools that help services run with efficiency and improve the patient experience.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Trust’s ambition is to provide consistently high quality, safe and effective mental health, learning disability and community services to all people across Hampshire and Isle of Wight.

They aim to deliver this ambition is by working in partnership with people who use their services, with the communities, with their staff and with the NHS, local government and third sector partners.

NHS University Hospital Southampton

Southampton General Hospital is the Trust’s largest location, with a great number of specialist services based there, ranging from neurosciences and oncology to pathology and cardiology.

Emergency and critical care is provided in the hospital’s special intensive care units, operating theatres, acute medicine unit and emergency department (A&E), as well as the dedicated eye casualty.

The hospital also hosts outpatient clinics, diagnostic and treatment work, surgery, research, education and training, as well as providing day beds and longer stay wards for patients.

Arup

Contributing to sustainable development lies at the heart of Arup’s approach to business.

Arup’s efforts to ensure that their business is environmentally responsible and as sustainable as possible began many years ago, and these efforts continue and intensify. Their strategic corporate commitments include their global decarbonisation strategy, designed to ensure they achieve net zero by 2030.

Their experts, plan, design and engineer solutions that deliver multiple benefits. Arup look for opportunities to strengthen communities, build resilience and advance climate action through their work for clients.

City of Westminster

Westminster City Council is the local authority for the City of Westminster in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in London.

Glasgow City Council

Glasgow City Council is the local government authority for Glasgow City council area, Scotland.

It has been under no overall control since 2017, being led by a Scottish National Party minority administration.

The Scottish Government

The Scottish Government is the devolved government for Scotland and has responsibilities that include the economy, education, health, justice, and environment.

It is accountable to the Scottish Parliament, with the first minister appointed by the monarch following a proposal by the Parliament

RTPI Northern Ireland

Royal Town Planning Institute Northern Ireland (RTPI Northern Ireland) promote planning and build links with other built environment professions and organisations throughout the province.

They offer members affordable seminars and events to assist with their continuing professional development, publish a newsletter, organise social events for networking and represent members views on emerging policy and legislation.

Admiral

Founded in 1993, Admiral is an international financial services group with customers in France, Italy, Spain, the UK and the USA. Their headquarters is in Wales in the UK, and they are proud to be Wales’ only FTSE 100 company.

Admiral have over 11,000 colleagues who all strive to serve their 10 million customers in line with its purpose to help more people look after their future.

Their strategy remains highly focused on building customer-centric, sustainable businesses for the long term.

AdviceRobo

AdviceRobo is an international credit scoring company applying psychometrics and artificial intelligence (AI) to support lending to millennials and small, medium enterprises (SMEs).

They provide a scalable psychometric credit score solution powered by a machine learning platform, which combines deep scientific knowledge and experience with psychographics applied in scoring models.

The AdviceRobo technology has been implemented by a wide partnership base that includes Microsoft, KPMG, Mambu and Endava, to support credit scoring and predictions of financial risks.

Cardiff Capital Region

Cardiff Capital Region is a regional body made up of the 10 councils across South East Wales.

They invest in things that improve their residents’ quality of life – jobs, transport, homes and communities – and have recently adopted new responsibilities for transport and planning mean we will have the opportunity to do more.

There is robust and transparent decision making made in public by democratically elected members.

They also work collaboratively with their partners in the Welsh and UK Governments to improve the lives of its region’s 1.5m residents.

CRAFT

The rise of fintech exposes a critical gap between the world of traditional finance and the emerging fields of advanced technology that are now coming online, somewhat piecemeal, inside many parts of the financial system. CRAFT’s mission is to assist the industry in achieving a great coherence in fintech research and policy to bridge this gap.

The Industry/University Cooperative Research Center model brings industry and academic representatives together to define a research agenda to support this overarching goal.

CRAFT is also intended to serve as a common forum for companies that might normally view themselves as competitors and find it difficult to achieve a collaborative mode.

DeepSearch Labs

DeepSearch Labs is a deeptech company that was started in 2020. They offer a cutting-edge intelligence platform that combines ML-enhanced search and multimodal analysis and synthesis.

By seamlessly integrating internal data, whether uploaded, pushed through the cloud, or connected via API access points, with their corpus of online data sources such as media, social media, company reports, podcasts, and videos, they provide users with a comprehensive and unbiased map of information on any topic.

This map that is based on structured and unstructured data, is contextualized using generative algorithms in various formats, including but not limited to research reports, presentations, videos and podcasts, enabling users to make informed, data-driven decisions with greater confidence.

Digital Poverty Alliance

Digital Poverty Alliance’s focus is policy and advocacy, gaining the evidence needed, and bringing the community together to create the social change needed to end digital poverty by 2030.

Their aim is to convene, compel and inspire collaboration for the UK community to lead sustainable action against digital poverty. They will do this through four key pillars of work:

• Unifying the community of organisations working in this space to build solutions
• Being evidence-based and using behavioural science and research to create impact
• Advocating for action to tackle digital poverty at all levels – government to public
• Running proof of concept projects to innovate where there are gaps

FinTech North

FinTech North’s mission is to facilitate the growth of the Northern FinTech ecosystem. As the first ever regional UK FinTech hub bring together a vibrant community of over 6,000 people from across the North of England who either have an interest, or work in FinTech and its adjacent sectors.

FinTech North is uniquely positioned as a highly collaborative, pan-Northern ecosystem facilitator with innovation, accessibility and inclusivity at its core. They are not a membership body; most FinTech North events are free to attend and there is no cost to being part of their community.

FinTech Scotland

FinTech Scotland develop and enable collaborative innovation across the fintech ecosystem by facilitating and encouraging connections.

They encourage relationships between large established financial services institutions and fintech firms, as well as facilitating the connections with the universities, technology and services providers, public body agencies and regulators such as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

FinTech Wales

The idea behind FinTech Wales is to provide an independent voice for the FinTech industry, both within Wales and beyond, which will help to champion and maximise the potential for all businesses in this sector.

As well as nurturing and supporting those businesses already in Wales, they aim to develop an ecosystem that will help new FinTech companies’ start-up or scale-up. Ultimately, the goal is to make Wales a leading pillar in the global FinTech community.

Since 2019 FinTech Wales’ mission and members have grown significantly. From startups to scaling and enterprise organisations, with several potential unicorns, Wales has so much to offer anyone looking to start or scale their business.

FinTech West

FinTech West is the representative body for Fintech in the South West and part of the FinTech National Network.

They operate an open, non-membership community with core objectives to:

• Connect and inform the FinTech community in the South West
• Promote the South West as a FinTech centre of excellence and help develop the sector
• Add value to and help generate regional economic benefit
• Align to the development of the national FinTech sector

NayaOne

NayaOne help Financial Institutions grow by leveraging the financial technology ecosystem.

In a world where financial services are evolving rapidly and legacy technology is maintaining its hold, institutions face the dual challenge of meeting customer demand and navigating complexity.

At NayaOne, they understand these challenges because they have lived them.

Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics‘ main responsibilities are collecting, analysing and disseminating statistics about the UK’s economy, society and population.

They run major programmes designed to deliver new statistics, improve our IT infrastructure, improve access to their data and develop our staff. These form part of our priorities for the next 5 years.

Propellant Digital

Propellant Digital is an award-winning technology company specialising in Fixed Income data analytics. Their founders are trusted specialists in transparency and trading data, passionate about making bond, swap, and ETF markets more transparent.

Financial institutions face challenges in extracting value from growing volumes of European and US transparency data. Propellant delivers practical, responsive technology that transforms this data into actionable insights.

Propellant Digital help global and regional banks, asset managers, quant hedge funds, trading venues, regulators, and industry associations to analyse transparency and trading data in near real-time. Their unique analytics cloud platform leverages the most extensive Fixed Income dataset, providing users with the insights they need to improve trading strategies, streamline workflows, and make informed trading decisions.

Royal Statistical Society

The Royal Statistical Society’s vision is a world with data at the heart of understanding and decision-making

Founded in 1834, they are one of the world’s leading organisations advocating for the importance of statistics and data. They’re a professional body for statisticians and other data professionals – wherever they may live.

They have more than 11,000 members in the UK and across the world. As a charity, they champion the key role of statistics and data in society, and work to ensure that policy formulation and decision making are informed by evidence for the public good.

SIMBA

SIMBA redefines data trust and integrity through secure decentralized data control.

They ensure secure, trustworthy, and effortless data interactions for governments and businesses. By prioritizing data security and simplicity, we convert data into trusted, portable, private, and verifiable assets, making interactions smart, reliable, and accessible.

For SIMBA, it’s not about blockchain; it’s about trust, security, verifiability, and simplicity.

Stratiphy

Stratiphy believe it is important to conduct thorough analysis before making investment decisions. Stratiphy gives you the tools to perform this analysis systematically on the market, according to your own investment requirements.

Timecentres UK

Timecentres UK draws on over 30 years’ experience of working with people and communities. Recognised nationally and internationally as an innovative organisation working in the areas of sustainable development and regeneration, delivering projects that help to tackle societies main challenges of poverty, disadvantage and climate change.

They largely work collaboratively with other like-minded organisations and they support people in communities and organisations that support them to create positive change and social impact.

Timecentres UK is a social enterprise and a community development project rolled into one successful and creative organisation.

Whitecap

Whitecap focuses on this mid-market and works with leaders, boards and investors in organisations across multiple market sectors helping clients analyse, develop and implement growth strategies. This can include long-term business strategy and planning, market entry and market development, driving business performance, customer marketing strategy, digital transformation, innovation strategies and commercial due diligence.

In addition to focusing on the strategic challenge and potential options, underpinned with evidence and analysis, we also facilitate executive and board engagement across a range of perspectives within the client organisation and help achieve alignment for the strategy decision being made and the critical next steps to successful implementation.