Partnerships — Index
Partnerships — Index
Strategic intent
Partnerships are the commercial engine. Funding files (02-Funding/) describe sources of cash; partnership files describe sources of customers, advocates, and consortium partners.
🥇 Big-4 audit firms (highest commercial value)
- KPMG-UK — Trusted AI services; named contacts Richard Knight, Chris Jambor
- Deloitte-UK — AI Institute UK; State of AI in the Enterprise 2026 report
- PwC-UK — Responsible AI practice; named contact Maria Luciana Axente
- EY-UK — Trusted AI / Confidence; agentic-AI-in-assurance launch April 2026
🥈 Mid-tier audit + AI assurance specialists
- Mid-Tier-Audit-Firms — BDO, Mazars, RSM, Grant Thornton, Crowe
- Specialist-AI-Auditors — Holistic AI, Eticas, Trilateral Research
🥉 AI assurance vendors (integration partners)
- AI-Assurance-Vendors — Holistic AI, Credo AI, Fiddler, Arthur, Faculty AI/Accenture
- Hyperscaler-Partnerships — IBM watsonx.governance, Microsoft Purview AI, AWS Bedrock Guardrails
🎓 UK academic AI centres
- UK-Academic-AI-Centres — Turing, Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, Edinburgh BRAID, Bristol, Manchester, KCL, Queen Mary, EPSRC AI Hubs
📐 Standards bodies & regulators
- Standards-Bodies — BSI ART/1, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42, IEEE P2863/P3119, NIST AI RMF
- UK-Regulators — ICO, FCA, MHRA, SRA, EU AI Office, OECD
- AISI — UK AI Security Institute (cross-cutting: standards + funder)
- NPL-Centre-AI-Measurement — NPL Centre for AI Measurement (cross-cutting: standards + funder)
🌐 Networks & communities
- AI-Networks-Communities — techUK, RAi UK, Ada Lovelace, AI Standards Hub, BCS, Open Data Institute, IET, Tech London Advocates AI
🏥 Sector networks (KTP / pilot anchor partners)
- Sector-Networks — NHS Transformation, HDR UK, UK Finance, Dstl, DfE, ABI, Law Society, SRA, IA RegTech
🚀 Spin-out / accelerator routes
- See
02-Funding/Accelerators/— Conception X, EF, CDL, etc.
Engagement priority for Phase 1–2
Week 1–2 — Outreach
- PwC UK (Maria Axente) — highest reply probability
- KPMG UK (Trusted AI lead)
- Deloitte UK (AI Institute)
- Holistic AI (UK vendor, UCL alumni)
- NHS Trust CMIO (1 named)
- Mid-tier bank Head of AI Risk (1 named)
Week 3–4 — Standards + academic
- BSI ART/1 (chair / secretariat)
- AISI external research team
- BRAID / Edinburgh (Profs Luger, Vallor)
- UCL Generative Models hub (Prof Barber)
Week 5+ — Network + sector
- techUK AI Hub
- Ada Lovelace Institute
- NHS Transformation Directorate
- AI Standards Hub registration
Notes
- Each partner file follows the Partnership-Template format
- Track engagement stage in Outreach-Tracker
- Use Meeting-Notes-Template for any external meeting