12 Dec 2023

UK Space Agency announces Investment Forum events

The UK Space Agency’s Space Investment Forum, which exists to connect investors with the increasingly exciting and innovative market, will soon be holding two events with the aim of accelerating growth and catalysing investment into the UK space sector.

The Space Investment Forum will bring innovators seeking investment face-to-face with investors looking to participate in this sector. The forum will provide the perfect opportunity for participants to learn from, and network with, each other.

Space technologies are helping us solve some of our biggest societal challenges, and are bringing more returns to the economy than ever before. The UK is now home to over 1,700 space businesses, and represents an enormous commercial opportunity for the investment sector in the UK and beyond.


The Space Investment Forum - Edinburgh

Date: 30th January 2024

Time: 9.15am – 5.30pm

Synopsis: The event will bring innovators seeking investment face-to-face with investors looking to participate in this sector. The forum will provide the perfect opportunity for participants to learn from, and network with, each other.

techUK is a supporter of this event.

Cost: Free to attend – but spaces are limited, so attendees must register in advance

Venue: Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Rd, Edinburgh EH8 8AS

Telephone: Customer Service +44 (0)20 7593 5669

Click here to register for your free ticket.


The Space Investment Forum - Leeds

Date: 26th March 2024

Time: 9.15am – 5.30pm

Synopsis: The event will bring innovators seeking investment face-to-face with investors looking to participate in this sector. The forum will provide the perfect opportunity for participants to learn from, and network with, each other.

techUK is a supporter of this event.

Cost: Free to attend – but spaces are limited, so attendees must register in advance

Venue: Nexus, University of Leeds, Discovery Way, Leeds LS2 3AA

Click here to register for your free ticket.


Related techUK events 

techUK recently held it's first Supercharging Investment in Space panel discussion and networking session, which took place on 30 October from 1-3pm at the techUK offices.

Attendees heard from a panel consisting of Government, space SMEs and VCs discussing how the UK can improve access to growth capital for space SMEs looking to scale. A networking session followed. 

Click here to view the event recording and read the summary.


Rory Daniels

Rory Daniels

Head of Emerging Technology and Innovation, techUK

Rory joined techUK in June 2023 after three years in the UK Civil Service on its Fast Stream leadership development programme.

During this time, Rory worked on the Government's response to Covid-19 (NHS Test & Trace), school funding strategy (Department for Education) and international climate and nature policy (Cabinet Office). He also tackled the social care crisis on secondment to techUK's Health and Social Care programme in 2022.

Before this, Rory worked in the House of Commons and House of Lords alongside completing degrees in Political Economy and Global Politics.

Today, Rory leads techUK's five-strong Emerging Technology and Innovation team, working with many of the UK's most innovative tech companies to convene experts and decision-makers, showcase best practice, shape government's thinking, and ensure the UK leads on developing and deploying transformative technologies.

The team's main areas of focus are AI Innovation, Quantum, Semiconductors, Robotics, Photonics, Neuromorphic, Innovation Policy, and Technology Convergence.

Rory sits on DSIT's expert Robotics Advisory Group, hosts techUK's Meet the Innovators video interview series, and chairs techUK's Emerging Tech Leadership Committee, comprising 36 senior leaders from the UK's most exciting tech companies. He has also judged the Global Space Awards, hosted London Tech Week's Deep Tech Stage, completed Stanford University's Tech & Entrepreneurship residency, and given oral evidence in a House of Lords Select Committee.

In his spare time, Rory enjoys photography, reading non-fiction (tech, architecture, design & geopolitics), and searching for London's best burger.

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