UK-India Tech Forum | London Tech Week

Join us on the 14th June for our UK-India Tech Forum. This Forum will go into the political and trading relationship between the UK and India and how it may change throughout 2024 with two elections and a potential FTA on the horizons as well as some of the areas that the UK and India can work together on when it comes to emerging technologies such as AI.

Opening Speech | 10:00 - 10:10

• Antony Walker, Deputy CEO, techUK

Panel 1 | 10.10am - 11am - A Year of Elections: What 2024 has in store for the UK-India Relationship?

Chair: Daniel Clarke, Policy Manager, International Policy and Trade, techUK

• Mohammed Hussein, President, Edelman Global Advisory

• Dr Shruti Kapila, Professor of History and Politics, the University of Cambridge, 

Panel 2 | 11am-12pm - The UK-India Emerging Tech Relationship: What can we work together on?

Chair: Tess Buckley, Programme Manager, Digital Ethics and AI Safety, Tech and Innovation Programme

• Ashank Desai, Co-Founder and Chairman of Mastek. Founder of NASSCOM

• Priya Guha MBE, Venture Partner, Merian Ventures; Chair of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce UK; Former General Manager of Rocketspace

• Manish Garg, Managing Director, Ve3 Global

• Rama Vedashree, Former CEO, Data Security Council of India 

• Ed Thomas, Research Director, Thematic Intelligence, GlobalData