Rakhi Rajani, CPsychol
Space. Life Sciences. Collective Intelligence.
Rakhi is currently Chief Digital & Strategy Officer at Genomics England. She is the co-founder of Lostin, Model Mars and in-the-bag (a charity focussed on delivering warm clothes to the homeless), a Chief Behavioural Science Officer, and a trustee of Motionhouse. Previously board advisor to R2 Factory (a Rolls Royce Venture).
Rakhi works at the intersection of psychology, emerging technology and design. She creates interdisciplinary R&D, Innovation and Skunkworks teams and labs for organisations that want to experiment, think forward and invent the future. She has extensive experience observing how people behave, monitoring the world for weak signals, patterns and drivers of change, subsequently creating normative or exploratory futures that lead to innovation in new products, services and business models. Rakhi has created award winning experiences and identified new commercial opportunities for industries spanning health, aerospace, urban planning, hospitality and mobility. She has tackled questions such as how we personalise healthcare, how we transform cities to encourage different social behaviours and how we create new civilisations (not colonisations) across planetary boundaries, with diversity at the core. Recent projects include:
Defining the components of the New Space Economy - Creating an ecosystem for the moon and mars, including how industries such as mining, construction, healthcare, telematics etc could adapt and collaborate to create interplanetary economies.
Planning a greenfield city - Creating a city from scratch, navigating everything from the physical (urban planning) to the technical (data layers and infrastructure) and the social (designing for an emerging society).
Creating a futures centre for a country - Building a foresight/futures team for a country, to push them to think forward and create the foundations for constant transformation and innovation.
Re-imagining cities of the future in Asia - Working with an automotive company to define how cities will evolve and what mobility will need to accomplish in 2050, including what they might need to start doing now to expand their portfolio (eg 3D mobility) or diversify into new sectors (eg Health).