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Accenture to Acquire UK AI Firm Faculty, Adding 400+ Specialists

The pending deal installs Faculty’s Marc Warner as Accenture CTO to drive safer, deployable AI across clients.

Overview

  • Accenture announced an agreement to buy London-based Faculty, with closing subject to regulatory approval and financial terms undisclosed.
  • More than 400 AI specialists will join Accenture, bolstering decision intelligence, applied AI and safety capabilities for enterprise and public-sector clients.
  • Faculty’s Frontier decision intelligence platform will be integrated into Accenture’s technology suite and is already used with Novartis for clinical-trial planning.
  • Accenture plans to expand Faculty’s Fellowship Program globally to widen its pipeline of advanced AI talent.
  • Faculty, founded in 2014, is known for mission-critical deployments such as the NHS pandemic early warning system and has drawn attention for politically sensitive data work linked to the 2016 Brexit Vote Leave campaign.