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Supercharging Investment in Space

1pm – 3pm 30 October 2023 techUK, 10 St Bride Street, London, EC4A 4AD

Rory Daniels

Programme Manager, Emerging Technologies

Rory joined techUK in June 2023 after three years in the 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 whilst 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, he is techUK's Programme Manager for Emerging Technologies, covering dozens of technologies including metaverse, drones, future materials, robotics, blockchain, space technologies, nanotechnology, gaming tech and Web3.0.

Email:: [email protected]
LinkedIn:: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rorydaniels28/

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Ed Bevan

Head of SME Engagement, techUK

Ed is Head of SME Engagement and is responsible for shaping techUK’s proposition to our SMEs across the country, ensuring our policy work, market access activity and services benefit the SME community.

Prior to working at techUK, Ed worked in the at the Department for International Trade, engaging with a variety of businesses, particularly SMEs, to understand the benefits of Free Trade Agreements and act as case studies in press and social media. Ed has also worked in policy and public affairs within the voluntary sector, namely the Alzheimer’s Society and the Men’s Health Forum.

Ed holds a MA in International Relations from Leiden University, and in his spare time enjoys spending time with his son, travelling, and visiting historical sites.

Email:: [email protected]

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Laura Foster

Head of Technology and Innovation, techUK

Laura is techUK’s Head of Programme for Technology and Innovation.

She supports the application and expansion of emerging technologies, including Quantum Computing, High-Performance Computing, AR/VR/XR and Edge technologies, across the UK. As part of this, she works alongside techUK members and UK Government to champion long-term and sustainable innovation policy that will ensure the UK is a pioneer in science and technology

Before joining techUK, Laura worked internationally as a conference researcher and producer covering enterprise adoption of emerging technologies. This included being part of the strategic team at London Tech Week.

Laura has a degree in History (BA Hons) from Durham University, focussing on regional social history. Outside of work she loves reading, travelling and supporting rugby team St. Helens, where she is from.

Email:: [email protected]
LinkedIn:: www.linkedin.com/in/lauraalicefoster

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This event took place on 30 October 2023. Click here to read the event round-up and view the recording.

This series, developed exclusively by techUK, brings together the UK Venture Capital and investment community with UK innovators and UK Government to address the challenges holding back sustainable investment around specific emerging technologies.

The first iteration of this series explored Quantum technologies and the formidable opportunity these technologies may unlock.

Whilst companies across a range of sectors struggle to secure sufficient levels of growth capital, the long time horizons between space tech development and commercialisation, coupled with the nasceant space finance ecosystem, mean that this challenge is particularly acute in the UK's space sector.

With the global space economy projected to grow from an estimated £270 billion in 2019 to £490 billion by 2030, it's more important than ever that UK SMEs are empowered to seize the initiative, achieve the necessary escape velocity, and ultimately secure a large share of the global New Space market.

This panel and networking session explored how the UK can improve access to growth capital for space SMEs looking to scale.

After hearing from an expert panel consisting of the UK Space Agency, world-leading space SMEs, and prominent VCs, attendeeshad the opportunity to participate in a networking session in which they could mix with our speakers and other finance industry stakeholders over pizza in the techUK offices.

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What is the Supercharging Investment series?

Underpinning the UK’s ambition to become a science and technology superpower is a thriving start-up and investment community that can turn the latest innovations into blossoming businesses and services.

The UK has a strong emerging tech start-up scene and has more tech unicorns than Europe, coupled with leading emerging tech industries in AI, fintech and Quantum. However, there are still bottlenecks to overcome if the UK is to become a world leading investment hub, competing internationally as the place for emerging technologies to thrive.

From building awareness around the opportunities of different emerging technologies, their timelines towards development, and how short-term to long-term return on investment may differ; to exploring the larger questions facing the UK investment ecosystem such as dealing with uncertain macroeconomic environments and how to signal to businesses that they can scale long term and internationally from the UK.

These sessions will facilitate the opportunity for these groups to identify and address these challenges together, and navigate how UK Government can bolster this investment ecosystem and enable it to thrive.

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Are you a space company looking to make the most of the UK's Space Cluster ecosystem?

Join this free webinar, taking place on 5 December and run in collaboration with Space Hub Yorkshire, to hear from a range of regional and national stakeholders at the forefront of Space Hub-industry engagement.

Attendees will have the opportunity to put questions to our expert panel. Sign up here.

techUK – Unleashing UK Tech and Innovation

The UK is home to emerging technologies that have the power to revolutionise entire industries. From quantum to semiconductors; from gaming to the New Space Economy, they all have the unique opportunity to help prepare for what comes next.

techUK members lead the development of these technologies. Together we are working with Government and other stakeholders to address tech innovation priorities and build an innovation ecosystem that will benefit people, society, economy and the planet - and unleash the UK as a global leader in tech and innovation.

For more information, or to get in touch, please visit our Innovation Hub and click ‘contact us’.