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The Disruptive Innovators Network is a membership organisation, designed to be the active hub for social housing organisations actively engaged in disruptive innovation.
Our mission
Our objective is to help leaders to work collaboratively, learn from each other and out-of-sector disruptors and share the cost and risk of innovation.
UK social housing sector is a huge business with a current turnover of £28bn per annum. The sector defines itself by its social objectives and is a key part of the social fabric of the UK.
However, it is not innovating as fast as other business sectors or at the pace its customers are experiencing in the rest of their lives. It is ripe for external disruption.
Our role is to:
Identify the risks and opportunities that disruption will bring to our member organisations
Help our members navigate the new technologies and business models that may disrupt the sector
Create new opportunities for our members to work collaboratively to define problems better and identify new solutions to these problems.
We want our members to be able to control the tide of innovation and the opportunities this brings to improve their businesses and social impact.
We have a vast network of out of sector organisations and businesses that ensures the team have access to the latest thinking around innovation and disruption in the UK, Europe and North America. These networks feed the DIN team updates, news, insights and pitches for joint working.
No other innovation service provider in the UK social housing space has access to this level of cutting-edge leadership and knowledge. Members benefit from these networks when seeking to learn from others.
The Disruptive Innovators Network team work alongside well established bodies in the social housing sector – built up and refreshed over the years through our work and collaboration with organisations including, The National Housing Federation, Chartered Institute of Housing, the Northern Housing Consortium and HouseMark.
Such as Simon Devonshire OBE (ex-UK Government entrepreneur in residence)
In the UK, Europe and Silicon Valley – such as Amazon, Microsoft and Rackspace
Such as Dr Nicola Millard at BT, Professor Mark Brown at the Dolphin Index and Professor Koen Kas at Healthskouts
We provide a platform to showcase fresh ideas and talent from the start up community through showcase days and platform pitches
We are aligned with the Dutch Housing Innovation Forum and its 175 members and its subsidiary Corponet - the equivalent Dutch social housing innovators network
Of technology and cloud networks, AI, robotic process engineering, data analytics – such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, Apple, Rackspace, Amido, Human+
In the UK including as John Lewis, AO Retail, Amazon, Sainsburys, Ocado, Premier Inn, Microsoft, Brompton Bicycles, Social Enterprise UK, Change Please, The Clink, Cancer Central UK, LMarks, BUPA, and Wefifo,
Such as future-of-work specialist David Biden of Human+, Futurologist and Founder of Futuremade, Tracey Follows, disruptive innovation expert Rob Prevett, Sir Richard Branson's entrepreneur of the year, Cemal Ezel, Founder, Change Please, CEO, Cancer Central, Avril Chester, COO, Bought by Many, Oke Eleazu and global AI authority Andrew Burgess
Please click here to complete the contact us form and we’ll get you signed up. If you would like more details and a chat please ring Ian on 07946 509322 or email ian.wright@disruptiveinnovatorsnetwork.co.uk
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