Innovator Circles
ARIA’s mission is to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone. But breakthroughs don’t happen in isolation. They emerge from cultures that empower ambitious talent to conceive, debate, and pursue groundbreaking ideas – especially those that seem counterintuitive and challenge conventional thinking.
What are Innovator Circles?
The goal is simple: create environments where visionary thinkers can raise each other’s ambition and pursue ideas that could underpin the next world-changing breakthrough.
ARIA’s Innovator Circles initiative is designed to support individuals who want to convene their own informal, self-organised, technical peer groups, which we call Innovator Circles.
These are the settings in which transformative ideas are often born and where peers can push each other further and discuss incomplete ideas. We believe that the R&D ecosystem needs more of these spaces and that investing in the formation of technical communities is a direct investment in future talent and breakthroughs.
Innovator Circle applications are now closed.
The pilot
To test this hypothesis, we ran a focused experiment which supported a small cohort of individuals to convene their own Innovator Circles. The groups produced outcomes which we believe signal the potential for future impact, but also provided insights on how to make the initiative even better.
Learn more about the experiment and its outcomes in our Substack.
About ARIA
From climate change to AI, society faces challenges that can be uniquely addressed by science + technology.
How we work
We seek out exceptional scientists and engineers and empower them to turn their ideas into reality.