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Nesta is an innovation foundation. For us, innovation means turning bold ideas into reality and changing lives for the better. We use our expertise, skills and funding in areas where there are big challenges facing society.

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Futurescoping

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

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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Peter Baeck

Director of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Peter leads work that explores how combining human and machine intelligence can develop innovative solutions to social challenges.

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Kathy Peach

Director of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

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

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Aleks Berditchevskaia

Principal Researcher, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Aleks Berditchevskaia is the Principal Researcher at Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence Design.

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Joana Murta Rosa

Programme and Operations Manager, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Joana is the Programme and Operations Manager for CCID.

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Christopher Edgar

Senior Researcher, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

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Chris works as a senior researcher, helping to deliver Nesta's mission by supporting work in democratic innovation, climate-sustainable policy and artificial intelligence for good.

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Rita Marques

Collective Intelligence Designer, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Rita was a collective intelligence (CI) designer, helping to apply the CI design process to environmental and health projects.

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Alexandra Albert

Senior Researcher, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Alexandra is a Senior Researcher, leading work on citizen science and supporting wider research into other collective intelligence such as participatory AI.

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Lewis Westbury

Senior Developer, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Lewis joins Nesta as a senior developer with the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design (CCID).

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Esther Moss

Product Design Lead, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Esther is the product design lead for the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design at Nesta, harnessing the power of collective intelligence to design digital products & services.

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Alice Cordo Gallucci

Assistant Programme and Operations Manager, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Alice is an assistant programme and operation manager at Nesta's Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, providing support for projects such as the Strategy Room.

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Alex Holdsworth

Delivery and Product Manager, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Alex is a delivery and product manager for the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design.

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Joe Asher

Mid-level Developer, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

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Joe is a software developer at Nesta's Centre for Collective Intelligence Design.

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FutureFest

Our flagship event explored how the big challenges of our time could be tackled by empowering people to shape 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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Harry Armstrong

Head of Technology Futures

Harry led Nesta’s futures and emerging technology work.

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Felix Szabó

Researcher

Felix was a researcher in Nesta’s Explorations team.

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Futurescoping

About Nesta

Futurescoping

Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Team

Peter Baeck

Peter Baeck

Kathy Peach

Kathy Peach

Aleks Berditchevskaia

Aleks Berditchevskaia

Joana Murta Rosa

Joana Murta Rosa

Christopher Edgar

Christopher Edgar

Rita Marques

Rita Marques

Alexandra Albert

Alexandra Albert

Lewis Westbury

Lewis Westbury

Esther Moss

Esther Moss

Alice Cordo Gallucci

Alice Cordo Gallucci

Alex Holdsworth

Alex Holdsworth

Joe Asher

Joe Asher

FutureFest

Next Generation Internet - Engineroom

Team

Harry Armstrong

Harry Armstrong

Felix Szabó

Felix Szabó

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