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We explore emerging technologies and groundbreaking ideas to tackle the challenges we will face in the future.

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Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

The Centre for Collective Intelligence Design will explore how human and machine intelligence can be combined to make the most of our collective knowledge and develop innovative and effective solutions to social challenges.
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Team

Geoff Mulgan

Geoff Mulgan

Chief Executive Officer

Geoff Mulgan has been Chief Executive of Nesta since 2011. Nesta is the UK's innovation foundation and runs a wide range of activities in investment, practical innovation and research.

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Peter Baeck

Peter Baeck

Head of Collaborative Economy Research

Peter focuses on the collaborative economy, crowdfunding, P2P lending and the role of digital technolgies in public and social innovation. Peter lead much of Nesta's research into crowdfunding and P2P lending as an innovative way of financing products and services in the UK, and has co-authored the industry reports Understanding Alternative Finance, Pushing Boundaries and Crowdfunding Good Causes. Alongside this peter has also worked a number of practical tools programmes for those interested in crowdfunding such as Working the Crowd, the online crowdfunding directory, Crowdingin.com and the arts and heritage matched crowdfunding pilot.     Alongside this he has been involved in Nesta research projects on public sector innovation labs and leads Nesta's research on digital social innovation. Peter has also delivered research and project management for People Powered Health (PPH) - a one year Nesta programme that, through a partnership with six UK health localities, explored how coproduction for people living with long term health conditions, can be taken to scale within health services. A particular focus of PPH is capturing evidence on the impact on patient outcomes and cost of health services by coproduced solutions.

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Kathy Peach

Kathy Peach

Interim Head of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

The Centre for Collective Intelligence Design will be exploring how human and machine intelligence can be combined to develop innovative solutions to social challenges

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Aleks Berditchevskaia

Aleks Berditchevskaia

Senior Researcher, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Aleks is a Senior Researcher and Project Manager for the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design.

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Eva Grobbink

Eva Grobbink

Researcher, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Eva is a Researcher working in the Explorations team on the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design.

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FutureFest

FutureFest is our weekend festival of ideas, talks, and interactive performances to inspire people to change the future.
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Next Generation Internet - Engineroom

Engineroom is part of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative - an ambitious new European Commission programme focused on creating a more inclusive, human-centric and resilient internet by 2025
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Team

Christopher Haley

Christopher Haley

Head of New Technology & Startup Research

Chris leads Nesta's research interests into how startups and new technologies can drive economic growth, and what this means for businesses, intermediaries and for the government.

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Katja Bego

Katja Bego

Data Scientist

Katja is a data scientist in the technology futures and explorations teams at Nesta. Her work focuses on using novel data sources and techniques to identify and analyse emerging technological trends. She is interested in issues around internet governance, innovation in media and the ethical and economic implications of disruptive new technologies. She currently leads research on EU Engineroom, part of the European Commission's Next Generation Internet initiative (www.ngi.eu).  You can find Katja on Twitter

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Harry Armstrong

Harry Armstrong

Head of Technology Futures

Harry currently leads Nesta’s futures work, exploring the potential impacts of emerging technology and innovations, like Artificial Intelligence, on industry, society and the economy with a goal to supporting responsible innovation in a wide range of sectors. His research has covered everything from machine learning, cybersecurity and the internet of things to nanosatellites and the emergence of local energy systems. He leads Nesta’s thinking on the ethical and responsible development of AI and machine learning tools, helping to develop and shape policy in and outside of government. He organises the Hot topics event series exploring these emerging technologies and is part of the team organising FutureFest, Nesta's flagship festival of immersive experiences, compelling performances and radical speakers about the future.

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Felix Szabo

Felix Szabo

Researcher

Felix researches new visions for a better internet which is more inclusive, diverse and sustainable for the Next Generation Internet project.

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