National Express Innovation & Science

Are you a tech start-up or scale-up with a product or service that could transform the public transport industry? Join the National Express Innovation & Science programme and accelerate your business. Application closing date is 30th September 2020. National Express Innovation & Science - NXIS - is a digital innovation accelerator powered by one of the biggest public transit companies in the world, National Express Group. The programme is designed to develop innovative solutions, products and services that can be implemented across National Express UK, through partnering with start-up and scale-up companies. It’s all about rapidly testing the feasibility of your minimum viable product (MVP). We are interested in innovation that will drive revenue, efficiency, safety, people engagement or customer satisfaction. You might help us with customer experience, operations and engineering or anything in between. The 10 week accelerator will be entirely remote - applicants from anywhere around the world will be considered. The programme consists of onboarding workshops, stakeholder 121s, mentoring, networking opportunities with executives and access to a wide range of resources and knowledge from across the transport sector. Most importantly we will collaborate with you to test the feasibility of your innovation within National Express, with a dedicated business sponsor helping you and your team create an MVP. At the end of the 10 weeks you will show your MVP on demo day to the executive team, with the goal of securing a contract of work so you can scale inside National Express. Scaling your innovation across National Express Group is the ambition - a global business carrying over one billion passengers annually through our bus, coach and train services based in North America, Ireland, United Kingdom, Spain, Morocco and Bahrain.