Cooley Is Pleased to Announce Its Partnership in New Centre for Creative AI

London – 22 July 2025 – Cooley is proud to announce today that it is a founding partner of the brand-new Centre for Creative AI (CCAI). World-renowned researchers from University College London (UCL) and the Royal College of Art (RCA) will launch CCAI this fall, bringing together academia and industry to pioneer creative artificial intelligence (AI) applications across entertainment, media, fashion, music and art.

CCAI has been created in partnership with The Brandtech Group, the leading generative AI marketing group, and will be chaired by Alex Mahon, the outgoing Channel 4 CEO.

London partner Leo Spicer-Phelps will lead Cooley’s involvement in CCAI through his role on the centre’s advisory counsel, composed of business and university leaders and research funders as a platform for key decision-makers to set the agenda for AI in creativity. Cooley will also participate in forums and innovation challenges bringing together AI and computer science students from UCL, Imperial College London, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge and creative students from Central Saint Martins, RCA and Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Additional CCAI founding partners include leading brands and technology companies Diageo, Unilever, Runway, Snap and the Design Museum.

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