AI for Services 2025 Podcast Series 2 Episode 3: Innovation, actually

How do firms overcome the barriers to innovation? Hear from academic leaders on how training and peer support help financial and professional firms embrace new technology. Facing challenges in innovation? This episode is for you.

In this episode, we hear from these participants:  

- Astrid Ayel, AI for Services Lead at Innovate UK Business Connect 

- Dr. Tzameret Rubin, Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Management at Oxford Brookes Business School and lead of the TiPS Innovation Adoption Accelerator 

- Jack Stanbury, Senior Project Manager, University of Bristol   

- Jonathan Beaverstock, Principal Investigator Future Finance, Deputy Dean University of Bristol Business School  

- Ketch Adeeko, Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, University of Bristol   

- Martin Spring, Principal Investigator TiPS, Professor of Operations Management, Lancaster University Management School   

Innovate UK and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have invested £26.5 million in the Next Generation Professional and Financial Services programme to help professional service sectors (accounting and law) and the financial service sectors (insurance, lending, advisory and payment services) to develop and use digital technologies.  

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