Bringing Academic Excellence and Business Needs Together
CebAI is funded by Research England and City, University of London
Creativity on demand for business, integrating AI technology with the know-how of Bayes Business School
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Business Sparks combines human-curated expertise and business information with AI. It guides users to explore ideas, develop different approaches, and discover larger numbers of more innovative business insights sparks. Visit our website to find out more.
Design Sparks combines AI with creative thinking techniques to support service designers to explore new perspectives.
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Sport Sparks is an app which uses AI algorithms to inspire brilliant sports coaching. Visit the Sport Sparks website to find out more.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to build technology that supports and inspires people to be their most creative self when it comes to problem solving, collaboration and everyday interaction. Creativity for everybody, everyday.
Our Values
Creative - All humans are creative and come up with stuff that is new and useful all the time. We encourage more curiosity, more exploration and more critical thinking.
Equitable - We are fair and honest in how we treat ourselves, each other and the wider world, with processes that support competition and diversity.
Friendly - We try to be kind, humble and respectful in our personal and professional relationships.
Bold - We take risks, reach beyond boundaries and experiment, with courage, independence and a collective spirit of adventure
Impactful - We will use our expertise to deliver services that make our partners more creative, innovative and productive.
Mastery - We practice our crafts, learn from each other, listen to feedback, and analyse our performance.
Our History
CebAI was established in the Spring of 2020 with an award of £3.6m from UKRI's Research England Development Fund.
We are building on over a decade of research into new digital technologies to augment human creativity undertaken in the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice at City, University of London.
This research has resulted on a set of increasingly effective digital tools and practices that support human creativity spanning manufacturing and journalism to elite sports coaching and social care.
CebAI also builds on research results across the different disciplines in City's diverse schools. We are indebted to the AI algorithms developed in the that have contributed to our systems; the business models developed in City's School of Science and Technology, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School) and the IP status of new machine-generated ideas researched in the
We maintain strong links with partner institutes and centres at City. These partners include the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice, the Data Science Institute and CitAI Artificial Intelligence Research Centre.
News & Events
Newsletter
Every month we round up our activities and update on relevant news
World Creativity and Innovation Day event 2024 - sign up!
C2P2 (Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice), along with the Centre for Charity Effectiveness and ETHOS (the Centre for Responsible Enterprise) will be hosting a free afternoon of workshops and panels on 18 April for this year’s World Creativity and Innovation Week. Learn world class creative problem skills and techniques to boost innovation for your business.
Sign up here
UN World Creativity and Innovation Day
Navigate the C2P2 World Map of Collaboration powered by CebAI, created for World Creativity and Innovation Day. The map unites projects across the globe from the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice (C2P2), CebAI, Innovation for African Universities (IAU), and more.
This map is live and regularly updated. If you have a project or belong to a group or organisation who collaborates with CebAI or the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice, please add yourself to the map here.
CebAI Podcast
CebAI director Professor Neil Maiden hosts a series of conversations with internationally renowned academics and business leaders.
Launched in October 2021, interviewees include – Ben Shniederman, Scott Isaksen, Richard Chataway and Margaret Heffernan.
You can hear the podcast and subscribe at iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, and Amazon. Alternatively you can listen online here
CebAI Conference
CebAI's CreAtIve Comm 22 conference took place on 16 November 2022 at Bayes Business School in London, exploring creative problem solving, how to turn academic theory into commercial can-do, CebAI's latest AI products and creativity in sports.
CebAI's previous Knowledge Exchange conference took place on 13 September 2021.
Our online conference brought business and academia together to discuss creativity, AI and innovation.
Visit our YouTube Channel to see all the presentations.
21/4/2021 UN World Creativity and Innovation Day
CebAI convened a panel to discuss creativity, Art AI, IP, resilience and occupational psychology. With academics from across the university, the conversation was pretty feisty.
Prof. Neil Maiden Professor of Digital Creativity in the Faculty of Management at the Business School (formerly Cass) and Director of the national centre for Creativity enabled by AI (CebAI pr: see-bay) hosted the panel which included:
Dr Sara Jones Senior Lecturer in Creative Interactive System Design and Director of the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass)
Dr Eduardo Alonso of the School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, CitAI
Dr Enrico Bonadio Reader and senior lecturer at The City Law School
Dr Máire Kerrin Chartered Occupational Psychologist and founding Director of the Work Psychology Group, a research led consultancy specialising in Assessment, Development and Innovation.
Running order
| Speaker | Duration | Presentation notes |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. Neil Maiden | 00:10:00 | How AI can be used to exploit business information for creative purposes |
| Dr. Sara Jones | 00:10:00 | How can creative thinking boost our resilience, as innovators and entrepreneurs? |
| Dr. Eduardo Alonso | 00:10:00 | |
| Dr. Enrico Bonadio | 00:10:00 | IP AI & Art. Should artworks created by artificial intelligence be protected by copyright? |
| Dr. Maire Kerrin | 00:10:00 | |
| Round Table discussion & audience questions | 00:30:00 | Audience questions and roundtable discussion is in the last 30mins of the video below |