working at Darwin

Happy New Year from Darwin!

Ever since Darwin’s founding in 2019, we’ve had collaboration at our heart. The goal of Darwin Innovation Group wasn’t to strike out alone, but to benefit from the wisdom of experts from other organisations, and to offer support in return. By working together to create an innovation ecosystem, diverse organisations can achieve far more than a single specialised company could achieve alone.

2023 has been a great year for collaboration, full of industry events and opportunities to make connections.

Artificial intelligence is an exciting and rapidly developing field, and Darwin’s work with autonomous vehicles means we have a particular interest in AI developments. We also make use of AI for image and text analysis at Darwin.

Earlier this month, Darwin’s co-founder Daniela Petrovic and VP of sales Adnan Salkic attended the AI Summit London. The summit was held on 14 and 15 June at Wapping’s Tobacco Dock.

MWC Barcelona ran from 27 February to 2 March this year at the Fira Gran Via. Adnan Salkic, Darwin’s VP of Sales and Business Development, went along in order to catch up with Darwin’s partners and connect with potential new clients.

Both the UK and Canada have an interest in the potential of autonomous vehicles, and the countries can achieve greater heights in the connected and automated mobility (CAM) sector by working together. From 4 to 10 March 2023, the UK’s national innovation agency Innovate UK brought a delegation from the UK to Ontario in order to develop connections with potential partners, as part of its Global Business Innovation Programme.

The attendees were organisations developing CAM solutions, and Darwin was pleased to be part of the UK delegation. Our co-founder and delivery director, Daniela Petrovic, went to Ontario to discuss Darwin’s work with autonomous vehicles, such as the Darwin Autonomous Shuttle, and how our vehicle communications technology can support automated mobility.

Education is essential for innovation to take place, and Darwin is proud to have strong links to academia in its partnerships with the University of Oxford and the University of Glasgow.

In February 2023, Darwin’s co-founder Daniela Petrovic was invited to the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School as a guest lecturer. Daniela was pleased to present Darwin to participants in the business school’s 2023 MBA programme as an example of technological and business innovation.