9.30am – 5.30pm15 March 2023
SQUARE Brussels Meeting Centre, Belgium
The UK Innovation & Tech Show brings together innovators, companies and thought leaders from across the UK and Europe for a stunning exhibition and a series of policy discussions around cutting edge technologies.
Why exhibit at the UK Innovation and Tech Show?
The show is a unique opportunity to showcase this expertise, enabling you to gain significant brand exposure and to network with high-level European policymakers, industry representatives and EU agenda-setters in a dynamic city that is at the heart of EU decision-making and influence.
techUK members will join other British and European companies providing cutting-edge products and services, alongside special guests including Professor Brian Cox, with the event expected to attract hundreds of high-quality attendees, including the EU Institutions, national governments, the press, academia, innovative companies, and you!
Networking has never been easier. Come and interact with cutting edge hardware at our expo and the brilliant minds behind it, join the breakout discussions on the policy and ethics of emerging technology, follow a live hackathon demonstrating the potential of AI, and listen to an inspiring opening keynote speech from the Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science, Brian Cox.
Why Brussels?
Not only is the city second only to Washington DC in terms of the scope for industry to influence policy, but it is home to thousands of industry representatives, NGOs, thinktanks and future leaders, as well as a broad spectrum of policymakers setting policy for over 350 million EU citizens, and representatives from over 180 countries.
Innovation and tech are becoming increasingly integrated into European decisionmaking. With the conversation on new technology just getting started in Brussels, now is the time to show a receptive and influential audience how British tech can improve the lives of citizens, workers and consumers across Europe.
Further details of this event, including booking details can be found here.
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Sabina Ciofu is Associate Director – International, running the International Policy and Trade Programme at techUK.
Based in Brussels, she leads our EU policy and engagement. She is also our lead on international trade policy, with a focus on digital trade chapter in FTAs, as well as broader engagement with the G7, G20, WTO and OECD.
As a transatlanticist at heart, Sabina is a GMF Marshall Memorial fellow and issue-lead on the EU-US Trade and Technology Council, within DigitalEurope.
Previously, she worked as Policy Advisor to a Member of the European Parliament for almost a decade, where she specialised in tech regulation, international trade and EU-US relations.
Sabina loves building communities and bringing people together. She is the founder of the Gentlewomen’s Club and co-organiser of the Young Professionals in Digital Policy. Previously, as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community, she led several youth civic engagement and gender equality projects.
She sits on the Advisory Board of the University College London European Institute and The Nine, Brussels’ first members-only club designed for women.
Sabina holds an MA in War Studies from King’s College London and a BA in Classics from the University of Cambridge.
Sue leads techUK's Technology and Innovation work.
This includes work programmes on cloud, data protection, data analytics, AI, digital ethics, Digital Identity and Internet of Things as well as emerging and transformative technologies and innovation policy. She has been recognised as one of the most influential people in UK tech by Computer Weekly's UKtech50 Longlist and in 2021 was inducted into the Computer Weekly Most Influential Women in UK Tech Hall of Fame. A key influencer in driving forward the data agenda in the UK Sue is co-chair of the UK government's National Data Strategy Forum. As well as being recognised in the UK's Big Data 100 and the Global Top 100 Data Visionaries for 2020 Sue has also been shortlisted for the Milton Keynes Women Leaders Awards and was a judge for the Loebner Prize in AI. In addition to being a regular industry speaker on issues including AI ethics, data protection and cyber security, Sue was recently a judge for the UK Tech 50 and is a regular judge of the annual UK Cloud Awards.
Prior to joining techUK in January 2015 Sue was responsible for Symantec's Government Relations in the UK and Ireland. She has spoken at events including the UK-China Internet Forum in Beijing, UN IGF and European RSA on issues ranging from data usage and privacy, cloud computing and online child safety. Before joining Symantec, Sue was senior policy advisor at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Sue has an BA degree on History and American Studies from Leeds University and a Masters Degree on International Relations and Diplomacy from the University of Birmingham. Sue is a keen sportswoman and in 2016 achieved a lifelong ambition to swim the English Channel.
Programme Assistant, Markets and International Trade, techUK
Jago Corry
Programme Assistant, Markets and International Trade, techUK
Jago joined techUK in July 2022 as a Programme Assistant to Financial Services, Justice and Emergency Services and International Trade. Prior to joining techUK, Jago studied an MSc in European and Global Governance at the University of Bristol.
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