Isabelle Holmes
Engagement Manager
Isabelle joined RIG in 2024 as a member of the AgBio practice where she especially looks forward to accelerating the progress of technologies with positive impacts on human health on a global scale, such as reducing the burden on healthcare systems through facilitating better patient outcomes, or through using industrial biotechnology to produce nutritious food with a lower carbon footprint. Her professional interests include MedTech, novel applications of AI, and sustainable textile solutions. She recently graduated from the University of Oxford with a Master's degree in Engineering Science, where she most enjoyed topics in the fields of machine learning and biomedical engineering.
As a novice enthusiast in aerial sports, Isabelle spends her spare time attempting (and often failing) to suspend herself in the air - preferably upside down. She also enjoys cooking, checking off entries in her ever-growing bucket list of recipes.
Second order effects - First class opportunities
https://www.rapidinnovation.co.uk16 Aug 2022
The unconsidered secondary problems of decarbonisation are some of the greatest opportunities for companies with the knowhow.
Share buybacks: an attack on R&D
https://www.rapidinnovation.co.uk27 Oct 2022
Share buybacks are one of the reasons for the inflated valuations currently in the market, meanwhile R&D spending has stagnated.
Risk. Nothing to worry about
https://www.rapidinnovation.co.uk13 Feb 2023
Risk, or specifically risk tolerance, is one of the factors that has enabled innovators for centuries; it is risk or specifically risk tolerance that has progressed human development, not its avoidance.
The tranquilizing drug of incremental innovation
https://www.rapidinnovation.co.uk18 Oct 2023
How the comfort of the marginal gain can sleepwalk a company into the abyss
Increasing the barrier makes us jump higher
https://www.rapidinnovation.co.uk13 Dec 2023
How regulating to stymie innovation can end up accelerating it
Is AI the superhero or supervillain of the energy transition?
https://www.rapidinnovation.co.uk31 Jul 2024
AI is believed to be the greatest technological advance of this generation , and in the climate space we’re seeing the emergence of many AI -enabled solutions. However, there have been widespread reports over the last year regarding AI's high energy consumption resulting in AI becoming a leading contributor to the climate crisis