Nick Lansley (Past Speaker)

Nick worked at Tesco for 25 years bringing home shopping to the UK customers in the mid-1990s, launching Tesco’s first mobile app in 2002 before running Tesco Labs & Open Innovation Programme for the UK’s largest retailer.

He left in 2015 to set up Nick Lansley’s Innovation Lab where he works as an “Innovation Insider” with a passion for bringing pragmatic innovation techniques and ways-of-working to areas of business that want to start their own innovation teams, or who are struggling to get traction with innovation projects. He’s a geek who is passionate about open data and APIs, giving companies courage to unlock data for use by colleagues on behalf of customers, and even publish for everyone’s use if appropriate.