Media day
Welcome back to Cambridge Consultants! This page provides you with a convenient reference point to access information on everything you saw and heard at our media day, including a link to our Deep Tech Index and contact information if you want to learn more.
We hope you gained an insight into the radical innovation mindset and the drivers behind taking a deep tech strategy.
As a trusted partner for world-leading brands in developing the products and services of tomorrow, we are happy to offer our knowledge and insights to add depth to your reporting.
For all media enquiries please contact:
CC Media relations, Niall Hunt:
media@cambridgeconsultants.com
Media agency, Fleishman Hillard:
cambridgeconsultantsuk@fleishman.com
Media pack and resources
Visit the below link for a repository of images and presentations from the facilities and demos featured on the day.
XPRIZE – the biggest prize in tech
XPRIZE and CC formally announce their technology collaboration in this keynote looking at the role of XPRIZE in incentivising human technological endeavour.
Presented by Anousheh Ansari, CEO, XPRIZE
Labs of the future
Exploring the impact of AI on research and development using CC’s work with MS Discovery in our engineering biology lab as a case study.
Presented by David Carmona, Vice President, Microsoft Discovery and Quantum
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The future of medical robotic systems
An exploration of the future of surgical robotics, enabled by physical AI.
Presented by Patrick Thornycroft, CEO, Cambridge Medical Robotics
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The Deep Tech Mindset
Richard will open proceedings by describing the landscape CXOs find themselves in (ie tough competition, constant geopolitical and other constraints, tech disruption), and the urgent need to find a different approach. For us, that is helping ambitious clients capture the compound value of deep tech in a new era of outcomes-based innovation.
Presented by Richard Traherne, CEO, Cambridge Consultants
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AI and the new deep tech revolution
Joe will describe how AI is acting as a primary accelerant for deep tech, and is rapidly becoming the primary cognitive engine for physical and scientific breakthroughs. This is spurring a new era of deep tech innovation, placing world-first breakthroughs at the fingertips of business leaders willing to seize them.
Presented by Joe Corrigan, CTO, Cambridge Consultants
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The Deep Tech Index
Tim will officially launch the Deep Tech Index report. Building on the previous two sessions he will describe why the report is timely, and share some of the key findings that delve deep into the mindset of innovative business leaders.
Presented by Tim Fowler, CCO, Cambridge Consultants
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The Deep Tech Index – A benchmark for the corporate mavericks determined to shape tomorrow
The Deep Tech Index 2026 is first-of-a-kind report where global leaders dissect their innovation challenges to shine a light on what’s standing between ambition and breakthrough – and what it takes to prevail.
Recent collaborations
An Inside Look at LEGO’s New Tech-Packed Smart Brick
WIRED got exclusive access to the LEGO labs where the Smart Brick was born and interviews the brains who developed the SMART Brick.
Moving agentic AI from demo to R&D acceleration
Our collaboration with Microsoft on the Microsoft Discovery agentic platform for scientific R&D reveals that the real impact is acceleration not automation.
Applying AI assurance to support rainforest biodiversity for XPRIZE
Our experts in artificial intelligence teamed up with XPRIZE to help validate and assess the AI solutions for its XPRIZE Rainforest initiative.
Press releases
Nearly six in ten CXOs are excited by the opportunity of radical innovation as a growth strategy, but say structural barriers hinder progress
Radical innovation is becoming a clear strategic necessity leaders to address toughening customer demands, geopolitical instability and shareholder desire for continued double-digit growth
XPRIZE and Cambridge Consultants Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance Breakthrough Innovation
New collaboration embeds world-class deep-tech expertise across the XPRIZE lifecycle to accelerate breakthrough technologies from competition to real-world impact.
Contact us
If you have any questions regarding information provided on the day or from within the Media pack, please contact us.
Niall Hunt
CC Media relations
media@cambridgeconsultants.com
Fleishman Hillard
Media agency
cambridgeconsultantsuk@fleishman.com
Meet the experts
Richard Traherne
CEO
Joe Corrigan
Chief Technology Officer
Tim Fowler
Chief Commercial Officer
Niall Hunt
Media relations
Cambridge Consultants, the deep tech powerhouse of Capgemini
Cambridge Consultants (CC) is the deep tech powerhouse of Capgemini. Deep tech is a mindset, a bold strategy that harnesses radical science and engineering to achieve things no-one else can. It delivers transformative business value and growth for our clients, who gain defendable commercial and operational advantage from new-to-the-world products, services and processes that they own.
We overcome the ultimate business challenge: turning something that doesn’t yet exist into a reality. Our advice is built on practice, with over 750 scientists, engineers, designers and consultants working globally across more than 20,000 sq. m of state-of-the-art R&D facilities. As part of Capgemini Invent, CC is backed by 340,000+ Capgemini team members in more than 50 countries.