Akil Benjamin

Akil Benjamin

Head of Research at ComuziLondon, United Kingdom
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Akil Benjamin

Akil Benjamin

Head of Research at ComuziLondon, United Kingdom
About me
Head of Research at Comuzi Vice President - Operations at The Grae Matta Foundation I love to be surrounded with great ideas as I have a passion for making them a reality. From consulting startups to International Governmental bodies and working in collaboration with the NHS Innovation team, I love my work!
Projects
  • FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE WITH NHS INNOVATION
    FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE WITH NHS INNOVATIONClient — NHS Innovation Team Date — September 2016 Type — Workshops, Concept Design & Prototyping The Clinical Entrepreneur Training programme has been co-designed by NHS England and Health Education England to offer opportunities for junior doctors and wider health professionals to develop their entrepreneurial aspirations during their clinical training period. We partnered with the NHS Innovation team to deliver design research and rapid prototyping workshops to these clinical entrepreneurs, m
  • Why we built an interactive tool to help you ace AI basics
    Why we built an interactive tool to help you ace AI basicsI am speaking tomorrow at CogX on the Ethics Stage about The Urgency For More Human Education in an AI Future, Hosted by Big Change. Come down! Over the last 12 months, I have been writing a 15,000 words postgraduate thesis on AI, racial bias and gender bias which has played a big role in shaping the research focus at Comuzi.
  • Prototyping Future Digital Story Formats with the BBC
    Prototyping Future Digital Story Formats with the BBCOver a couple of weeks in May, we worked with one of the teams at BBC R&D led by Tristan Ferne on exploring future digital story formats for the news. The team at the Beeb have been working on this area of interest for a while through the use of design sprints. We came aboard to assist the team in the third phase of the project which focused on understanding the news better & facilitating better participation with the news. Our goal were to help adapt the sprint process to better meet the requir
Projects credited in
  • Championing Diversity: This Black History Month 2018, meet 100 creatives inspiring change
    Championing Diversity: This Black History Month 2018, meet 100 creatives inspiring changeThis Black History Month 2018, we’ve brought together a group of outstanding industry heroes to each nominate 10 black changemakers and creators that are shaping culture, arts, design, business, tech and beyond. We still have a way to go when it comes to conquering the lack of diversity in the creative industry - which is why it so important for us, as a platform, to use our force for good. To do so, throughout the year we spotlight incredible people, the projects that they are involved with
Work history
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    Head of ResearchComuzi
    London, United KingdomFull Time
    Co-founder at an experimental research firm. We help global organisation and startups answer questions about emerging technologies and its future impacts. My role at Comuzi: Setting overall strategic direction Managing company wide operations Organisational resource planning Leading research teams
Skills
  • Research
  • Technology