Centres of Excellence

The Nextus Institute hosts a series of Centres dedicated to advancing human understanding, AI-assisted inquiry, innovation, and community wellbeing. Each Centre operates with its own mission, research focus, leadership team, and public-impact mandate.

Centres of Excellence Founding Directors
Centres of Excellence Founding Directors
John De Geer, Philip Tsang and Ron Barnes
Celebrating a shared vision for education, innovation and applied artificial intelligence.

Building a Community of Innovation

The Nextus Centres of Excellence bring together educators, researchers, technologists, healthcare practitioners, community leaders, storytellers and industry innovators who share a commitment to advancing knowledge and serving society.

Through interdisciplinary collaboration, the Centres explore practical applications of artificial intelligence, healthcare innovation, education, business transformation, community services, narrative inquiry, and emerging technologies.

Guided by the principles of Knowledge • Progress • Unity, our vision is to create an international network where academic excellence, innovation and public benefit meet.