Advancing our clients’ innovation agenda
At CGI, innovation begins as part of our work on client projects. One of the ways we advance our clients’ goals is through our global network of CGI Innovation Centers.
These centers host innovation workshops and provide access to global, cross-industry capabilities, sparking innovation from ideation to rapid prototypes to test business performance. For our experts, these facilities provide a collaborative environment to test and evolve innovations and a space to share advances with the local community.
Whether using video analytics and artificial intelligence to interpret consumer sentiment, testing brain-computer interfaces, or experimenting with quantum computing, we focus on identifying future trends and related technologies, understanding their impact on our clients’ business and applying them to solve client challenges.
Learn more about our approach to effective innovation management.
Canada
- Innovation Center (Montréal)
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Our Montréal center is a hub for our best cross-industry innovations from around the world. It’s dedicated to accelerating our clients’ digital transformation through unique co-creation capabilities to fuel applied and tangible innovation. Clients and business leaders are invited to an immersive experience by exploring CGI’s intellectual property-based solutions and the latest emerging technologies like artificial intelligence. Our center is also equipped with a state-of-the-art, design-thinking space where clients, guided by our experts in a workshop setting, can build their digital transformation roadmap and develop new opportunities for co-innovation.
France
- Digital Innovation Center
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France is home to a CGI Digital Innovation Center that aims to positively impact client businesses by accelerating growth, promoting collective enterprise, and exploring innovative solutions. This center brings together our best practices in big data, digital experience, mobility, and consumer experience, among others. It offers an experience based on customized journeys and a dedicated showroom in Paris where CGI clients and experts co-create pragmatic and relevant innovations. The Digital Innovation Center locations are Avignon, Montpellier, Paris, Rennes, Toulouse and Tours.
- Supply chain Innovation Center (Lyon)
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The Lyon Center is dedicated to helping clients worldwide transform their supply chains and ecosystems through advanced digital technologies. The center’s experts work closely with clients to identify and develop new digital supply chain solutions and partnership models that improve collaboration and drive innovation. A supply chain showroom features separate innovation stations for each step of the process.
- Centre d'innovation mondial Industrie 5.0
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Located in the Occitanie region in Toulouse, this innovation center is dedicated to helping clients around the world realize the benefits of Industry 5.0 and enabling technologies including the Internet of Things (IoT), augmented reality and digital twins. The focus is on co-building, with manufacturing clients, the factory of the future, developing new manufacturing solutions and improving existing ones through innovation, and applying Industry 5.0 best practices to accelerate transformation. Another unique aspect is an immersive game designed to interactively teach a course structured around seven key Industry 5.0 issues, including real-time monitoring, data continuity, digital twins, process automation, manufacturing execution systems, process mining, and cybersecurity.
Germany
- Innovation Lab (Karlsruhe)
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The Innovation Lab in Karlsruhe welcomes both clients and students to discover and build new business model ideas. Visitors are encouraged to experiment with exciting upcoming technology ranging from single-board computers to professional robots and robot arms, and 3D depth cameras to virtual and augmented reality. The lab then brings proofs of concept to life with the help of such innovations as artificial intelligence and more. All of this can be done through our workshops or onsite testing.
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Portugal
- Laboratoire d’innovation (Lisbonne)
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The CGI Lusófona Innovation Lab is a dynamic hub located on the Lusófona University campus, where researchers, students, partners, clients, startups, and CGI experts converge to stimulate experimentation and co-innovation for the benefit of these stakeholders. More than just a physical location, the Lab is integrated into a larger innovation ecosystem that also includes the CGI Unicorn Academy, which enables the creation of a community dedicated to unlocking new possibilities and transformative ideas through technology.