Digital Planning is now a strategic partner of East Midlands Chamber – formalising a relationship built through joint innovation projects and regional skills initiatives.
The partnership positions Digital Planning’s commercial R&D expertise at the heart of Chamber activity on productivity, cyber resilience and digital transformation across the East Midlands.
Co-founder Mark Underwood said the partnership reflects a shared focus on “transforming productivity through original digital technologies”, with joint work already generating new intellectual property for use in complex and regulated industries.
Through the relationship, Digital Planning will help Chamber members identify where advanced automation, secure data platforms and robust infrastructure can remove bottlenecks and free people to focus on higher‑value work.
The announcement builds on Digital Planning’s ongoing commitment with the East Midlands Chamber on regional innovation, skills and digital transformation.
Mark added: “Digital Planning is really pleased to be partnering with East Midlands Midlands Chamber as we work together on the commercial R&D needed to transform productivity through original digital technologies.
“Digital Planning researches, develops, and delivers secure, next generation digital solutions that lift productivity, slash waste, and free people up to focus on higher‑value work.
“Our partnership with the Chamber is already producing a really interesting bit of IP, and it’s deepening our role as a technology partner in complex and regulated industries aiming to confidently deploy next generation tech platforms.”
Based at Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park, Digital Planning acts as a commercial R&D partner for organisations in sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing and financial services.
The team designs and delivers end-to-end automation, software, data and cyber-secure platform solutions. These include award-winning projects in real-time scheduling, decision support and AI-driven resource management.
Digital Planning is currently developing Metis, its proprietary platform for contextual resource allocation, designed to help organisations make faster, better decisions about how to deploy people, assets and time.
Through the strategic partnership, Digital Planning will share evidence from live programmes and pilots, contribute to Chamber events and policy work, and co-develop practical guidance to help East Midlands businesses adopt next generation technologies with confidence.
