Industry Partners

ASOS

ASOS is an online retailer for fashion-loving 20-somethings around the world. Pioneering fashion e-commerce in the early 2000s ASOS continues to assert itself as an industry flagship, seeing a record £3.9b in annual revenue last year, solidifying its attractiveness to a post-pandemic customer base.

European Space Agency (ESA)

The European Space Agency (ESA) is dedicated to the peaceful exploration and use of space for the benefit of everyone. Established in 1975, it now has 22 Member States and, for more than 45 years, has promoted European scientific and industrial interests in space.

KageNova

KageNova is a small startup specialising in building novel geometric AI methods from the ground up to power the metaverse of the future. Its first step towards this vision is to deliver photorealism and interactivity in virtual reality.

NHS

Whilst the NHS generates vast amounts of data; the current use of data analysis to support decision making in the NHS is variable, and often poor. The challenge with health data is not the lack of data but the ability to effectively collate, statistically analyse and extract actionable insight. To translate the investment into data collection and analytics into better outcomes and experience for patients, populations, and staff it requires a collaborative approach between front-line clinical/operation staff, data scientists, and research; to develop evidence-based, sustainable, and impactful health interventions which improve healthcare outcomes.

Patently/EIP

Patently is designed by attorneys, for attorneys and other patent professionals.

Sports & Wellbeing Analytics (SWA)

Sports & Wellbeing Analytics is combining the latest technologies with research to deliver innovative solutions in sports welfare. SWA was founded in 2016 with the objective of applying the latest developments in science and technology to real-world wellbeing problems using real-time analytics for predictive intervention.

The Alan Turing Institute

The Alan Turing Institute is the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence in the UK. Its mission is to make great leaps in data science and artificial intelligence research in order to change the world for the better.

UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)

As the UK’s national fusion lab, the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s mission is to lead the commercial development of fusion power and related technology and position the UK as a leader in sustainable fusion energy. We are meeting the scientific and engineering challenges that come with such a grand ambition.

UK Health Security Agency

The UKHSA is responsible for planning, preventing, and responding to external health threats, and providing intellectual, scientific, and operational leadership at national and local levels, as well as on the global stage, ensuring the nation can respond quickly and at a greater scale to deal with pandemics and future threats.

Autonomy

Autonomy is an independent think tank focusing primarily on the future of work and economic planning. Examples of some of our work include the Jobs at Risk Index, which examines the relative vulnerability of occupations to health and safety risks associated with Covid-19, The New Normal: A Blueprint for Remote Working. Autonomy also specialises in intervening in economic and social policy debates and has strong links to media, policy and parliamentary worlds.

Faculty.ai

Faculty.ai’s mission is to empower businesses to unlock the potential of AI to gain a competitive advantage. They do this in three ways. First, they have built the intelligence layer for enterprises looking to run critical business processes safely across business silos. Second, they offer bespoke data science to serve organisations that do not have the requisite capabilities in-house. And finally, they run Fellowship that trains STEM PhDs to become data scientists and helps to place them at organisations looking to build their in-house teams.

MediaTEK

MediaTek is the world’s 4th largest global fabless semiconductor company. It is the market leader in developing innovative systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile devices, home entertainment, connectivity and IoT products. MedTek empowers and inspires people to expand their horizons and achieve their goals through smarter technologies.

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

The Office for National Statistics(ONS) is the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and its recognised national statistical institute. ONS is responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population, and society at national, regional, and local levels. The Data Science Campus at the ONS has been created to build a new generation of tools and technologies to exploit the growth and availability of innovative data sources and to provide rich informed measurement and analyses on the economy, the global environment, and wider society.

Privitar

Spotify

Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers across 178 markets. Its mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it.

The Guardian

The Guardian Media Group is a global news organisation that delivers independent journalism. The publishing industry is undergoing a rapid shift towards digital content delivery and employing advanced data analytics and machine learning techniques across different platforms. The Guardian is no exception to this trend. It is working proactively on building its data science capabilities to innovate and invest in its independent journalism but also help them be financially strong and sustainable.

Vortexa

Vortexa tracks more than $1.8 trillion of waterborne energy trades per year in real-time, providing energy and shipping companies with the most complete picture of global energy flows available in the world today. Vortexa’s highly intuitive web-based app and programmatic API/SDK interfaces help traders, analysts and charterers make high-value trading decisions with confidence when it matters the most.

DiRAC 

The DiRAC HPC facility is the primary provider of HPC resources for the STFC theory communities in particle physics, astroparticle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, solar system & planetary science and nuclear physics. DiRAC serves a community of more than 1200 registered users and DiRAC resources underpin the international scientific leadership of these communities and support world-class computational projects across the full breadth of the STFC science programme.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

HPE is a global technology company advancing the way people live and work. The company has led on society’s digital transformation since the very beginning as one of the founders of Silicon Valley in 1939.

NCC Group

NCC Group is a global cyber security and risk management specialist, providing organisations worldwide with expert software resilience, verification, and security consulting services.

Oracle

Oracle is a cloud technology company that provides organisations around the world with computing infrastructure and software to help them innovate, unlock efficiencies and become more effective. Oracle also created the world’s first – and only – autonomous database to help organise and secure its customers’ data.

Peak.ai

Peak is an AI company that provides the platform, applications and services to help businesses harness the potential of AI to grow revenues, increase profits and increase efficiency. Peak’s cloud AI platform provides a broad feature set that enables technical and commercial teams to build, deploy and manage AI applications at scale across an entire business.

Spaceflux

Spaceflux operates a network of robotic telescopes in both hemispheres and a commercial platform called Telescope Live, giving control to the telescopes and access to raw data and relevant data products via a web platform and APIs. It operates in the astronomy domain selling data and relevant data products to research institutions and private customers through the Telescope Live platform.

STFC Hartree

The Hartree Centre is a department of STFC’s National Laboratories and has a specific mission to transform the competitiveness of the UK industry by accelerating the adoption of HPC, Data Analytics, and AI technologies.

The London Data Company

The London Data Company strives to humanise its data findings for the betterment of its clients' businesses or organisations. For their work to be trusted, they embody trust. This trust is gained through experience working projects for the betterment of society; in both public and private sectors - delivering data and technical solutions that enhance and transform its clients' portfolios.

Advertising Standard Authority (ASA)

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the UK regulator of advertising across all media, including online. The ASA makes sure ads across UK media stick to the advertising rules (the Advertising Codes). ASA recognises that automation and machine learning is crucial to its ability to regulate advertising effectively in this environment. As a result, it has made a strategic commitment to developing a high-quality in-house data science capability over the next 3 years.

Resonate

Resonate, is an SME of circa 170 employees, and is a long-time supplier to the UK rail industry of signaling control systems, rail traffic management systems, and other digital solutions with the aim of building a truly consumer-centric transportation network through the deployment of innovative technologies.

CERN openlab

CERN openlab has been created 20 years ago to support the computing and data management goals set by the LHC. It collaborates with leading ICT companies and research institutes to solve key technical challenges facing the LHC upgrade programs in Run3 and Run4. Our research areas include investigations of HPC and Cloud infrastructures towards exascale, development of AI and HPC algorithms for new architectures and quantum technologies and communications, in close collaboration with other sciences.

Intel

Intel’s mission is to shape the future of technology to help create a better future for the entire world. By pushing forward in fields like AI, analytics and cloud-to-edge technology, Intel’s work is at the heart of countless innovations. From major breakthroughs like self-driving cars and rebuilding the coral reefs, to things that make everyday life better like blockbuster effects and improved shopping experiences — they’re all powered by Intel technology.