Simon Hill

Simon Hill is the founder of Wazoku, a hybrid collective intelligence company building the ecosystems that help the world innovate better. Wazoku owns Innocentive, the world's open innovation marketplace, with a global network of millions of problem-solvers and solution providers.

Simon is a Visiting Professor at the University of East London, focusing on frontier research, IP and innovation. He is the author of the award-winning Expected Value (2025) and Mapping Value (2026). He is a UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence (APPG AI) Advisory Board member, a founding partner of the Institute of Innovation Management, and a Fellow of the RSA and of MIT's Innovation Lab.