Pioneering the future of innovation in business and technology

Big Innovation Centre is an award-winning London think tank and innovation hub uniting leaders to shape AI policy and digital transformation while delivering world-class innovation services. 

We develop innovative brands, enhance their market potential for the adoption of emerging technologies, and foster a new era of progress.

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Our Featured Services

Big Innovation Centre provides various top-notch services that make the best of the latest trends in the industry.

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Pavilion Platform – The Members’ Hub

WHERE INNOVATION MEETS INFLUENCE

Join a secure members-only space to connect with top leaders, join live policy and business forums, and share big ideas. Access premium resources and high-level events, collaborate on cutting-edge projects, or launch your own Pavilion to build your members-community and drive impact. Start with the Who’sWho Pavilion – build your profile and network among the experts and leaders redefining what’s next.

APPG AI

ALL -PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Join the official APPG AI Community! APPG AI connects Parliamentarians with experts from industry, academia, and think tanks to shape evidence-based AI policy, regulation, and responsible innovation. Organised by Big Innovation Centre, APPG AI hosts deep-dive events and thought leadership forums. Click here to join.

Emerging Technology Legal Services

FUTURE-PROOF YOUR FREEDOM TO OPERATE

Take advantage of our expert legal strategy and regulatory compliance services, specialising in areas related to digital transformation and the adoption of emerging technologies, including Cybercrime & Digital Security, AI, Blockchain & Crypto Compliance, DeFi & Web3 Legal Strategy, Digital Assets, NFTs & the Metaverse, Data Privacy, and other Emerging Technology legal Advisory.

Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy Services

IP REPORTING AND IP VALUE CREATION

Expert support is available to identify and audit your intellectual property, uncovering the intangible assets that differentiate your organisation in the market and contribute to its overall valuation. Whether you’re scaling a start-up, leading corporate innovation in a multinational, or shaping national IP policy, our services equip you with the tools to identify and manage your intangible assets to drive growth.

Learning Lab

Upskill for the Future

Big Innovation Centre is dual-accredited by the UK CPD body—recognised as both a provider of excellence and for its accredited courses. We offer tailored professional development programmes—ideal for individual learning or team capacity building. Explore timely courses in Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property, and legal compliance to stay future-ready.

Events

PURPOSEFUL NETWORKING

Big Innovation Centre regularly organises events to promote innovation and collaboration across a range of sectors. These include business and policy forums, evening receptions, breakfast briefings, and other formats that bring together key stakeholders to address emerging challenges. We also welcome opportunities to partner on events. For more information, please see our events schedule or join our Pavilion Platform, where all events are listed.

The Innovators Magazine

A magazine showcasing innovative companies the key to their business success.

Introducing The Innovators: Edition I

Be the disruptor – not the disrupted!
If there’s one word that epitomises the spirit of our modern era, it’s “disruption.” Throughout history, visionary individuals and companies have reshaped industries and transformed the world through ground-breaking innovations. From the likes of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Jack Ma to the rise of Silicon Valley …
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The Innovators’ Newest

Introducing The Innovators: Edition II

Navigating the Frontiers of Innovation
Can Google face obsolescence within a short span of time if a superior search engine algorithm emerges? Should it take cues from Facebook, which strategically responded to the rise of WhatsApp by making substantial investments as a countermeasure? Could the widespread use of Apple’…
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The Innovators’ Newest
  • Gwaan
  • - is that yardie coach who high-fives you on every little win.

Like many of us stranded at home during the COVID lockdowns, data scientist and machine learning engineer Pearce Jarrett turned to online exercise regimes as a way of staying fit. But also, like most of us, he found it hard to stay motivated on his living room floor while watching someone else doing sit-...

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The Innovators’ Newest
  • Introducing The Innovators: Edition II
  • Navigating the Frontiers of Innovation
Can Google face obsolescence within a short span of time if a superior search engine algorithm emerges? Should it take cues from Facebook, which strategically responded to the rise of WhatsApp by making substantial investments as a countermeasure? Could the widespread use of Apple's iPhone and iPad, employed ...
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The Innovators’ Newest
  • Pimloc
  • – Taking privacy seriously

A few days before the conversation took place with Simon Randall, founder of Pimloc, an item appeared in a UK newspaper which perfectly illustrated the issue that the company is seeking to address.

Former film-maker Jenny Kleeman was at the tail-end of family holi...

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The Innovators’ Newest
  • The Tribe Project
  • – Harnessing AI and Smart Cities technology to tackle care inequality

Many of the challenges we face as a society require the same spirit of enterprise and creativity seen in the commercial sector to be brought to bear in the public and voluntary sector. A great example is what Richard Howells and his team are doing with the Tribe Project, which is about applying big d...

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The Innovators’ Newest
  • Filmily
  • – Using AI to drive fan engagement

Over the past few years, fan engagement has become a huge area of focus for the sports and entertainment industry. Yet, despite this massive potential market, it was not immediately obvious to Andy Doyle, founder of Filmily, that this was the direction he should have been looking in w...

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The Innovators’ Newest
  • InoCardia
  • - Making drugs safer

Some of the best ideas are the simple ones. But having a simple idea is no guarantee that translating it into a working commercial product is going to be easy. Ask Helen Maddock. 

Helen is founder and Chief Scientific Officer of InoCardia and Profes...

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The Innovators’ Newest
  • Securium
  • - Combatting sexual predation, radicalisation and online abuse

Online grooming and radicalisation are major problems for our societies. Successfully prosecuting sexual assault cases is particularly challenging: with the rise of live streaming and mobile phone use, law enforcement agencies are faced with an almost infinite amount of social media data to trawl through i...

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The Innovators’ Newest
  • A-dapt
  • - Just scratching the surface so far

There are some technologies for which there is an obvious application staring you in the face. There are others which have so many potential applications, that it is hard to know where to start. Such was the predicament that Matthew Mayes and his business partner Claudio Piovesana, an Italian based in Pa...

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The Innovators’ Newest

Our Intellectual Properties

Experience Zone & Events

Experience future innovation - Showcase your innovative capabilities or launch your vision and projects in our Westminster hub. Experience market intelligence and innovative brands in emerging technologies. Get a chance to be featured in ‘The Innovators’, our innovative showcase magazine.

Consultancy

We offer progressive businesses, public bodies, and organisations expert legal and business strategy consultancy services in emerging technologies and their adoption. We also provide cutting-edge development solutions to help clients succeed in a changing business environment, making us the partner of excellence.

Learning Lab

The Learning Lab offers accredited courses for professionals and organisations. Our courses grant expert knowledge from top academics, scientists, innovators, and entrepreneurs. Learners benefit vastly from dynamic online learning resources.

Think Tank

Big Innovation Centre’s award-winning Think Tank pioneers the future with breakthroughs in business and technological innovation. Unlike traditional think tanks, our Think Tank fully implements its innovative ideas as a ‘do-tank’ to co-create a positive impact for the UK and beyond.

Upcoming Events

Discover the endless possibilities of the digital age at our upcoming events. Join us as we explore the latest trends and emerging technologies, connect with industry experts, and discover new opportunities.

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  • AI Without Borders: Securing UKs Leadership in AI
  • 2026-11-16
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  • The Hardware of AI: Decoding the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
  • 2026-10-19
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  • AI and Economic Inequalities: Leveraging AI for Social Mobility
  • 2026-09-07
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News and blogs

Blogs

The world, as you know it, is incredibly fast-paced. Remain up-to-date with our latest articles that are published regularly.
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Our proven track record endures the test of time
“BAE Systems has found membership of the Big Innovation Centre stimulating and useful, offering important insights about how to approach open innovation […] while giving opportunities to strengthen our own network.”
2015
Andy Wright
Andy WrightDirector Technology Acquisition, BAE Systems
“I have only been part of the Advisory Board for 12 months and it is really great to see the agenda being driven by the Big Innovation Centre. The conversations that we have seen with all the experts have really been insightful, and it’s great to have the willingness of sharing within the industry".
2022
Gita Shivarattan
Gita ShivarattanHead of Data Protection, Ernst & Young – EY
“We at EDF Energy significantly value our association with The Big Innovation Centre. Membership has demonstrated the value of open innovation in the energy sector.”
2013
Vincent de Rivaz
Vincent de RivazCEO, EDF Energy
‘The Innovator’ column, established with the Big Innovation Centre to reveal what good innovators look like, will raise the profile of innovation to where it needs to be.”
2014
Alan Rusbridger
Alan RusbridgerEditor-in-Chief, The Guardian
“I chose to launch the Government’s IP strategy at the Big Innovation Centre as the business friendly, innovation committed network it represents is what will help make UK into a global innovation hub.”
2013
Honorable Dr Vince Cable
Honorable Dr Vince CableSecretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
“We are in 100% agreement with Birgitte [CEO Big Innovation Centre] on the need to put science and innovation at the heart of our plans for the economy. We want to make Britain the best place in Europe to innovate, to patent new ideas and to start a new business.”
2016
Jo Johnson
Jo JohnsonMinister of State for Universities and Science, Innovation and Skills
"As I said when Barclays first joined Big Innovation Centre, I want to put innovation right back at the heart of our business for the benefits of our customers.
2013
Antony Jenkins
Antony JenkinsCEO Barclays
“Google values the Big Innovation Centre network enormously and the opportunities it creates to meet other businesses and innovators. “It’s a great space to learn about new ideas and to collaborate on some of the biggest challenges we face together.”
2013
Theo Bertram
Theo BertramPublic Policy Manager, Google
“Participating in the Big Innovation Centre has given the University of Oxford direct access to a range of business leaders and the opportunity to help shape the research agenda on university-business interactions…”
2013
Professor Ian Walmsley
Professor Ian WalmsleyPro-Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Oxford
“We need a financial system that is capable of delivering patient capital – capital that isn’t seeking short-term returns, the sort of thing that the Big Innovation Centre’s Entrepreneurial Finance Hub is seeking to create.”
2015
Andy Haldane
Andy HaldaneChief Economist, Bank of England
“The work of the Centre has clearly influenced government thinking on innovation and several of the member partners have formed innovation partnerships that otherwise would not have occurred”.
2013
Jon Hague
Jon HagueUnilever Research and Development
“GSK welcomes the open innovation approach developed by the Big Innovation Centre, which has opened doors and released enormous energy and potential.”
2013
Andrew Witty
Andrew WittyChief Executive Officer, GlaxoSmithKline
“At EDF Energy and EDF Group more generally we have a long and enduring commitment to research and innovation .. I am convinced that the work of Big Innovation Centre will provide a great boost to innovation in the UK”.
2016
Xavier Mamo
Xavier MamoDirector for EDF Energy R&D UK Centre
"The Big Innovation Centre as ever is tackling a big issue in an innovative and engaging way. The debate over the use and regulation of Face and Emotion Recognition and its implications and consequences is crucial.”
2020
Lord Clement-Jones CBE
Lord Clement-Jones CBECo-Chair All Party Parliamentary Group on AI
“I want to congratulate the APPG team for doing such fantastic work not just this year where we translated everything online (Covid) but also in the last four years. We are very proud to have been with the APPG since the beginning since its birth and we've witnessed so many achievements”.
2020
Maria Axente
Maria AxenteResponsible AI & AI for Good Lead, PWC
“We are notorious as an APPG for getting fantastic attendance at our meetings”.
2020
Stephen Metcalfe MP
Stephen Metcalfe MPCo-Chair All Party Parliamentary Group on AI
“I’m confident that with the help of APPG Blockchain, the UK government can develop a strong foundation upon which blockchain and DLT innovation is supported and not hindered by long-established laws, many of which were established long before electricity was even a concept, let alone blockchain!”
2022
Richard Ells
Richard EllsFounder of Electroneum
The speakers at APPG AI events have been of the highest quality – the developers, businesses and policymakers creating the innovation that hits the news months later. Big Innovation Centre’s network has provided early education to parliamentarians and all those attending public hearings.
2023
Charles Kerrigan
Charles KerriganPartner, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro
"You can access online courses on cutting-edge subjects that influence both your professional and personal lives. You may stay current, recognised, and certified for your talents by using our Learning Lab."
2023
Professor Birgitte Anderse
Professor Birgitte AnderseCEO of Big Innovation Centre
"We are building the ecosystem for growth. Understanding the intersection of innovation, market adoption, and regulatory compliance begins with sharing experiences".
2023
Barrister Flavia Kenyon
Barrister Flavia KenyonHead of Legal and Business Consultancy, Big Innovation Centre
“Today the UK energy sector is facing huge changes in customer expectations. We’re also facing changes in how that energy is generated, transported, stored and managed. That makes it an exciting time and one that means that we need innovation.".
2015
Paul Spence
Paul SpenceDirector of Strategy and Corporate Affairs, EDF Energy
“GSK is eager to take the opportunity to help UK break through innovation barriers as a part of the Big Innovation Centre’s vibrant research and evidence-driven approach.”
2011
Dr Jackie Parkin
Dr Jackie ParkinVP Medicine Development Leader, Type 1 Diabetes
“There could not have been a better place for me to launch the Government’s Innovation and Growth Strategy than the Big Innovation Centre.”
2013
The Right Honourable Willetts
The Right Honourable WillettsMinister of State for Universities and Science, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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Big Inovation Centre is Certified Trainer of Excellence, Top Expertise in Digital Transformation, Twice Winner of Public Relations Communications Awards (Think Tank of The Year), and London Enterprise Award for Inspiring Innovation

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Headquartered in London

INNOVATION

Driving transformative ideas and solutions.

COLLABORATION

Bridging networks of businesses, policymakers, and academics.

TECHNOLOGY

Harnessing the power of AI and emerging technologies.

LEADERSHIP

Leading discussions on future trends and strategies.

IMPACT

Delivering meaningful change in society and the economy.

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