Podcasts about tech london advocates

‘Which country is going to be the next tech superpower?' And is Britain a contender? Russ Shaw CBE, co-founder of London Tech Week and founder of Tech London Advocates and Tech Global Advocates, shares his perspectives in the latest ‘Pull up a Chair' episode. If you're short on time and want to know whether Russ thinks the UK is doing enough to attract future tech unicorns and investors, hear some of the highlights from their discussion in under 10 minutes.   This episode is part of Pull up a Chair's 'Insights' series, featuring bite-sized perspectives and advice from the podcast's guests.

In the latest episode of the ‘Pull up a Chair' podcast, Bina is joined by Russ Shaw CBE. Together they reflect on the UK's growing influence in the regulation of AI, diversity and inclusion in our tech sector, how to unlock investment for entrepreneurs in the UK, and which countries are going to be the big tech superpowers of tomorrow.

Suj Premachandran shares how Digital Influx brings UX to children, how they integrate Eastern educational philosophy, and the challenge of changing archaic education systems. Highlights include: How are you helping children to become creative thinkers and designers? Are some of Digital Influx's practices too ‘foreign' for UK educators? How are you bringing design to people of colour through Digital Influx? What inspiration have you taken from non-Western education systems? Why do students create projects related to UN Sustainable Development Goals? ====== Who is Suj Premachandran? Suj is the CEO of Digital Influx, an international, industry-led, and interactive EdTech platform that helps children, teens and adults to develop UX design skills and to think differently about problems, large and small.  Suj is also the Vice President of the recently established Digital Influx Foundation; a US based non-profit that aims to make design education accessible to all children, regardless of their socio-economic background. Before founding Digital Influx, Suj worked in design recruitment as a senior talent partner for Revolut, one of the world's first global super apps. And also as a creative talent consultant for product and UX people at Salt in London. Suj is an advocate for design & UX education at Tech London Advocates, a network of more than 15,000 tech leaders, entrepreneurs and experts across the globe. He is also a member of the Design Leadership Forum. ====== Find Suj here: Website: https://digitalinflux.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suj-premachandran-b630b444/ X: https://twitter.com/CEOinflux ====== Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen). Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/ ====== Hosted by Brendan Jarvis: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/ Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

As official podcast partner to Cambridge Tech Week 2024, we're delighted to run our first full episode dedicated to the event, starting with the recording of the panel at the Cambridge launch, and an interview with Russ Shaw from the London launch event.The Cambridge event really highlighted the desire to bring the outside in – to create a #SXSW for Cambridge and the tech space, where the objective is to bring the outside in. The panellists (Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, CEO, Nu Quantum, David Moore, CEO, Pragmatic, Pam Garside, Chair, Cambridge Angels, and Harriet Fear MBE) had an open discussion about innovation, funding, and challenges of growth, as well as sharing feedback on last year's event and their wishes for 2024.As one of the events ‘ambassadors', Russ Shaw, Founder of Tech London Advocates, talked about Cambridge's global reputation for Science and Innovation – “Cambridge punches enormously above its weight in terms of its size and scale”.And we also caught up with Douglas MacDonald, Partner who heads up the national tech sector at Mills & Reeve who are also one of the event sponsors (others include Rathbones, Cambridge Management Consulting, UK Telecoms Innovation Network UKTIN, HSBC and Cambridge Consultants).And of course, we caught up with the man himself, chair of the organising committee Chris Bruce, to find out which three words are on the top of his mind for 2024. Produced by Cambridge TV. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Suki Fuller, founder of Miribure, discusses the power of advocacy to improve gender and ethnic diversity in tech, unpacks the importance of storytelling in data, and explains why we should dispel the myth that tech is a “highfalutin career path”. In this episode, Fuller shares her experience as a woman and person of colour working in tech and why it's important to raise awareness “every single day with everything you do”. She explains how she “struggles” with the dichotomy of needing labels like ‘women in tech' to highlight that change is needed, despite male entrepreneurs not being described in the same way. Fuller founded Miribure in 2015. It provides advice to businesses from startups to multinationals on how to mitigate risks. In addition to founding Miribure, Fuller is the co-lead of the Tech London Advocates Women in Tech and the co-chair of the Global Tech Advocates Black Women in Tech. She is also a fellow at the Council of Competitive Intelligence Fellows and was voted Computer Weekly's ‘2023 Most Influential Woman in UK Tech'.  

Greetings Glocal Citizens! In some circles, my guest for this two-part episode could be thought of as a spy by a different name. With roots in Jamaica, and raised between the Middle East, Europe and the United States, Suki Fuller (https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/suki-fuller/), an intelligence advisor, author, acclaimed international keynote speaker and Fellow of The Council of Competitive Intelligence Fellows (https://www.cifellows.com/) is a women that is usually intent on not being watched. She is the Founder of Miribure, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of DC Analytics (https://www.dcanalytics.net/) and Storyteller for Group of Humans (https://www.groupofhumans.com/). She is a contributing author to A Practical Guide to Competitive Intelligence (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Guide-Competitive-Intelligence/dp/B0BDSRQL6R/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1). Suki is a fierce supporter of intelligence, ethical tech, #SafetyTech, Security, Privacy and Surveillance. Her eclectic 20-year career within strategic intelligence and technology has taken her from the US Department of Defense to teaching business students in China. She currently resides in London, where she is an intrinsic part of the tech community as a Board Advisor for Tech London Advocates / Global Tech Advocates (https://techlondonadvocates.org.uk/), which includes key positions as Co-Lead TLA Women in Tech (https://tlawomenintech.org/), and Vice-Chair for GTA Black Women in Tech (https://theblackwomenintech.com/). Suki was recently named by the Most Influential Woman in UK Tech by Computer Weekly 2023. There's so much more to this #dynamicdiasporan, I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. Where to find Suki? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sukifuller) On X (https://twitter.com/SukiFuller) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/sukifuller) What's Suki reading? Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life (https://a.co/d/64cWKM2) by Arnold Schwarzeneger Cobalt Red: How the Boll of the Congo Powers Our Lives (https://a.co/d/1dydGko) by Siddharth Kara The Mircostress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems--and What to Do About It (https://a.co/d/4bnLMTL) by Rob Cross and Karen Dillon Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace: A Guide for Equity and Inclusion (https://a.co/d/e3driEg) by Janice Gassam Asare Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It (https://a.co/d/jenKHdt) by Kashmir HIll What's Suki watching? Beckham on Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/gh/title/81223488) The Power on Amazon Prime (https://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Season-1/dp/B0B8NT89QY) Other topics of interest: Balham, London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balham) Surrey, United Kingdom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey) Some Jamaican Patios to practice (https://jamaicans.com/talk/) About Rastafarianism (https://www.history.com/topics/religion/history-of-rastafarianism) Pismo Beach, California (https://www.experiencepismobeach.com/things-to-do/) Royal Air Force Lakenheath, an American Air Force Base in the UK (https://www.lakenheath.af.mil/About-Us/) Penn State's Behrend College (https://behrend.psu.edu) About Chi Chi's Restaurant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-Chi%27s) Mercyhurst University - Intelligence Studies (https://www.mercyhurst.edu/academics/intelligence-studies) Agatha Christie's Poirot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot) Twitter and SXSW (https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/04/twitter-foursquare-sxsw/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFBYPgujumoLKi9A5VgBkTDxG8QNcxdjmAWoTu0hJ36YplpYzN0SOG3SBHa85cU1stTSfVXIJPVKJQ_FRbP3HYbfjY8-8AeafD8xZVnQLYwIAuX4D9dqU70nJtSh-kQaaqi6HgHdfw5ijngMGQazuoGTaQRqmCVdoSLk_MceS70J) About Robert Baker (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-baker-potentia-talent-consulting/?originalSubdomain=uk) Innit? (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=innit) IA Safety Bill (https://aibusiness.com/responsible-ai/online-safety-bill-passes-ai-chatbots-subject-to-rules-on-protecting-users#close-modal) The Pod Generation Film (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pod_Generation) Special Guest: Suki Fuller.

Greetings Glocal Citizens! In some circles, my guest for this two-part episode could be thought of as a spy by a different name. With roots in Jamaica, and raised between the Middle East, Europe and the United States, Suki Fuller (https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/suki-fuller/), an intelligence advisor, author, acclaimed international keynote speaker and Fellow of The Council of Competitive Intelligence Fellows (https://www.cifellows.com/) is a women that is usually intent on not being watched. She is the Founder of Miribure, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of DC Analytics (https://www.dcanalytics.net/) and Storyteller for Group of Humans (https://www.groupofhumans.com/). She is a contributing author to A Practical Guide to Competitive Intelligence (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Guide-Competitive-Intelligence/dp/B0BDSRQL6R/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1). Suki is a fierce supporter of intelligence, ethical tech, #SafetyTech, Security, Privacy and Surveillance. Her eclectic 20-year career within strategic intelligence and technology has taken her from the US Department of Defense to teaching business students in China. She currently resides in London, where she is an intrinsic part of the tech community as a Board Advisor for Tech London Advocates / Global Tech Advocates (https://techlondonadvocates.org.uk/), which includes key positions as Co-Lead TLA Women in Tech (https://tlawomenintech.org/), and Vice-Chair for GTA Black Women in Tech (https://theblackwomenintech.com/). Suki was recently named by the Most Influential Woman in UK Tech by Computer Weekly 2023. There's so much more to this #dynamicdiasporan, I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. Where to find Suki? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sukifuller) On X (https://twitter.com/SukiFuller) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/sukifuller) What's Suki reading? Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life (https://a.co/d/64cWKM2) by Arnold Schwarzeneger Cobalt Red: How the Boll of the Congo Powers Our Lives (https://a.co/d/1dydGko) by Siddharth Kara The Mircostress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems--and What to Do About It (https://a.co/d/4bnLMTL) by Rob Cross and Karen Dillon Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace: A Guide for Equity and Inclusion (https://a.co/d/e3driEg) by Janice Gassam Asare Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It (https://a.co/d/jenKHdt) by Kashmir HIll What's Suki watching? Beckham on Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/gh/title/81223488) The Power on Amazon Prime (https://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Season-1/dp/B0B8NT89QY) Other topics of interest: Balham, London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balham) Surrey, United Kingdom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey) Some Jamaican Patios to practice (https://jamaicans.com/talk/) About Rastafarianism (https://www.history.com/topics/religion/history-of-rastafarianism) Pismo Beach, California (https://www.experiencepismobeach.com/things-to-do/) Royal Air Force Lakenheath, an American Air Force Base in the UK (https://www.lakenheath.af.mil/About-Us/) Penn State's Behrend College (https://behrend.psu.edu) About Chi Chi's Restaurant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-Chi%27s) Mercyhurst University - Intelligence Studies (https://www.mercyhurst.edu/academics/intelligence-studies) Agatha Christie's Poirot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot) Twitter and SXSW (https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/04/twitter-foursquare-sxsw/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFBYPgujumoLKi9A5VgBkTDxG8QNcxdjmAWoTu0hJ36YplpYzN0SOG3SBHa85cU1stTSfVXIJPVKJQ_FRbP3HYbfjY8-8AeafD8xZVnQLYwIAuX4D9dqU70nJtSh-kQaaqi6HgHdfw5ijngMGQazuoGTaQRqmCVdoSLk_MceS70J) About Robert Baker (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-baker-potentia-talent-consulting/?originalSubdomain=uk) Innit? (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=innit) IA Safety Bill (https://aibusiness.com/responsible-ai/online-safety-bill-passes-ai-chatbots-subject-to-rules-on-protecting-users#close-modal) The Pod Generation Film (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pod_Generation) Special Guest: Suki Fuller.

 The UK government has published its long-awaited semiconductor strategy, with £1B earmarked for research and development over the next decade. But why are chips seen as the new oil and can the UK compete with the vast sums being pledged by other nations?Bloomberg's Thomas Seal and Tom Mackenzie explain everything you need to know about these electronic brains and why they've become a global hot commodity. Then industry experts Scott White, founder of Pragmatic, and Tech London Advocates' Russ Shaw weigh in on the government's plan. Hosted by Yuan Potts, Caroline Hepker & Lizzy Burden. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Asher Ismail is the Co-founder of Uncapped, Europe's first revenue-based finance provider. He is also the Founder of InterTech Diversity Forum and a Board Member for Tech London Advocates and Global Tech Advisors. Prior to founding Uncapped, Asher worked as the CEO at Midrive, the General Manager and Group Director of Strategy at Moneysupermarket Group, the Head of Click to Call at Skype, and a Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. He was also the CEO and Founder of Make it Matter, an online marketplace that connected local social projects with individuals who wanted to help.  In this episode… Are you a new e-commerce business looking for a better way to grow? Have you been struggling to find a fast and effective method to fund your company? If you answered yes, you don't want to miss this episode! Uncapped is a successful revenue-based finance provider that believes you shouldn't have to make sacrifices to scale. With Uncapped, you are free to rapidly grow your business without being strapped to a chain of debt. The company has given over $150 million in funding to emerging entrepreneurs. Now, Uncapped Co-founder Asher Ismail is here to share his story with you.  In this episode of the Quiet Light Podcast, Joe Valley sits down with Asher Ismail, the Co-founder of Uncapped, to discuss how his company is helping entrepreneurs grow without giving up control of their businesses. Listen as Asher talks about his data-driven approach to funding, the ins and outs of his fund repayment system, and the benefits of working with Uncapped. Plus, he shares an exclusive offer for Quiet Light Podcast listeners. You won't want to miss this!

In this HRchat episode, we consider how HR leaders can utilize AI for building leadership and developing company culture. Bill's guest this time is Devyani Vaishampayan, CEO at the HR TECH Partnership, an investment and digital innovation venture focused on the 'future of work'. The fund invests in AI-based HR digital start-ups and the firm also runs innovation hubs, helping organizations engage and learn about digital disruption in the workplace.She has a diverse range of experiences as a senior HR Director across a number of industries including engineering, telecoms, oil & gas, banking, professional services and technology. Devyani was previously Group HR Director at BSI and AET Tankers and has experience in large international businesses such as Citibank, G4S, AT&T, Rolls-Royce, and BG Group.Devyani was a finalist for the 2020 Asian Women of Achievement Award - Digital. She's also been listed in the 2017 Financial Times Ethnic Minority Leaders List and the 2016 Cranfield FTSE 100 Women to Watch list. Questions Include:Where do you see AI being used to support and build leadership and culture initiatives?What new tech is helping to augment work? What are some of the concerns corporate leaders have about the use of AI  solutions? Talk to us about some of the big data privacy concerns.  You are the Managing Partner of HR TECH Partnership. The firm aims to support corporate organizations with their digital innovation journeys around Talent and Workplace Productivity by helping them pilot AI & Digital solutions. Tell us about typical concerns and obstacles when starting the journey to AI and machine learning adoption with your clients.You're also Chair of the People Tech Group at the Tech London Advocates, a collection of tech leaders, experts, and investors uniting to form the most influential group in tech. With no government backing, this is the self-described "voice of the private sector in London". The group is one of nine groups in the Global Tech Advocates network of communities. Tell us about the group and its mission. We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast, and Iceni Media Inc.  

Oli Barrett MBE – Connector, Presenter and Co- Creator 'Great Ideas Start With Laughter' Described by WIRED magazine as "the most connected man in Britain", OIi Barrett is a serial co-founder who enjoys connecting people and ideas. He is a shareholder in several companies including Calm.com and Troubadour Theatres and co-founded the UK's largest schools enterprise competition, Tenner. He co-founded StartUp Britain with support from the British Prime Minister and the Clean and Cool Mission, supporting cleantech scaleups to connect with global investors and markets. He is a regular event host, including for the Great British Entrepreneur Awards and sits on the advisory boards of Tech London Advocates, One Million Mentors and Founders4Schools. His latest audio course, Build a Better Network, has been taken by people around the world and his latest charity campaign (TOTS) encourages broadcasters and tech companies to turn on the subtitles, improving children's literacy.  Timeline 0.00 Theme 00.45 David introduces Oli Barrett 04.19 Tenner - The Schools Entrepreneurship Challenge 06.00 Where Do You Get Ideas From? Distilling a big idea and making it something beautifully simple 08.50 Turn on the subtitles (TOTS) 11.35 The get-up-and-go mentality? 14.19 Bringing people together & the process of collaboration 17.50 The love of hosting events The amazing people you get to meet Breadth of subject The process of being on stage and making other people feel comfortable. Creating authenticity and honesty in the room. 22.00 Oli's network - the golden rules 24.10 The joy of meandering - life is a search for people 28.15 The lessons of ‘seize the day' - action / restoration 31.20 Getting to know other people more easily - the sense of the fellow traveller 34.30 The ‘Wanderful' experience - seeing the funny side The link between lightness and creativity 38.08 Post ‘Wanderful' exercise - what did we learn? 40.37 End credits   Resources Tenner https://www.10xchallenge.org.uk/ Turning on The Subtitles (TOTS) https://turnonthesubtitles.org/ David Ogilvy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ogilvy_(businessman) Brij Kathari - TED Talk: Reading For A Billion, With Bollywood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP4xfN89Ss Nudge Theory - Richard H Thaler & Cass R Sunstein https://uk.bookshop.org/books/nudge-the-final-edition-9780241552100/9780241552100 Start Up Britain https://www.greatbritishentrepreneurawards.com/startup-britain-2/   Quotes ‘Make your thinking as funny as possible' (Oli Barrett) “Most of the things I've started have come through experiencing or reading about a problem.” (Oli Barrett) “TOTS is all about the power of same language subtitles… if you put subtitles on kids TV you double the chances of them becoming a proficient reader.” (Oli Barrett) “That process of connecting ideas and people - you create conditions for people to inspire each other, which means that quietly and respectfully, you can step back and enable them to get on with it.” (Oli Barrett) “If something I've been involved with in any gets mentioned publicly and I'm not mentioned, I take that as a huge compliment, because it gives me that sense that it really could carry on without me.” (Oli Barrett) “I do like process of making people feel comfortable, who wouldn't normally feel comfortable and getting something from them that almost surprises them.” (Oli Barrett) “You can travel the world looking for joy but they're also on your doorstep.” (David Pearl) “Life is a search for people is a beautiful thought” (Oli Barrett) “To solve some of the biggest problems in the world you have to join unusual forces together.” (Oli Barrett) “If you think you'll live forever you do give yourself time to moan, whereas if you remember its finite, you may make more use of your day.” (David Pearl)   Connect   Oli Barrett Twitter @OliBarrett David Pearl Twitter @davidpearlhere Instagram @davidpearl_here Andrew Paine (Producer) Twitter @ItPainesMe

Flavilla, c'est l'histoire d'une femme… qui décide de quitter la France à 22 ans pour rejoindre Londres, sans parler un mot d'anglais, et qui en quelques années devient l'une des références féminines de la tech en Angleterre. Brand Strategist, Speaker International, BBC Brand Advisor, fondatrice de Black Women in Tech (1 300 membres), éditrice du podcast Tech Brains Talk, nommée “She's Mercedes” businesswoman, invitée au Palais de l'Élysée par le Président de la République… elle dirige son agence de 7 personnes « 3 Colours Rule » et fait partie du Top 5 des femmes les plus influentes dans la Tech londonienne. Elle qui a commencé par accompagner ses clientes dans le cadre de leur relooking, elle travaille désormais pour des marques comme Facebook, WeWork, BBC… et est véritablement partout ! Son dada ? Le branding personnel. Dans cet épisode d'1 heure, elle révèle ses secrets de branding, les 4 types de contenus que les gens aiment, comment elle a fait pour devenir une des références dans son secteur d'activité, comment elle a fait pour organiser toutes ses activités (et notamment déléguer un maximum), comment elle a fait pour écrire un livre et enfin comment elle a conseillé ses clients lors de la crise de la Covid-19. Et parce que nous n'aurions pas pu ne pas en parler, elle nous livre une liste d'outils à ne pas manquer pour gagner en productivité… et en visibilité (Hootsuite, Limelist, Slack...).  Bref, un épisode qui te bouge, qui te fait sortir de ta zone de confort, de ton canapé… et de tes croyances. Et comme Flavilla le dit si bien « Ceux qui réussissent ne sont pas forcément les meilleurs mais ceux qui ont les meilleures opportunités », vous savez ce qu'il vous reste à faire… saisir l'opportunité d'écouter cet épisode ! Flavilla sur LinkedIn :  https://www.linkedin.com/in/flavillafongang/ 3 Colours Rule :  https://www.3coloursrule.co.uk/london-branding-agency/ Tech London Advocates : https://www.techlondonadvocates.org.uk/working-groups/black-women-in-tech/#:~:text=TLA%20Black%20women%20in%20tech,to%20black%20women%20of%20talent.

In this episode, Flavilla talks with Suki about how can competitive intelligence improve your brand innovation. Suki Fuller is a Fellow of The Council of Competitive Intelligence Fellows and Founder of Miribure a strategic and competitive Intelligence consultancy; DC Analytics, Senior Vice President Europe and a board member for Tech London Advocates and Global Tech Advocates. Suki has nineteen years of experience as an intelligence advisor from chemical engineering to security. She speaks globally on ethics in technology, deep tech, AI, social networks, connected data for security and female entrepreneurship.To find out more about Miribure, click hereTo connect with Suki Fuller, click hereJoin Tech Brains Talk mailing list for more perks, click hereTo find out more about 3 Colours Rule Agency, click here

Jason Foster is the CEO of OriBiotech and has held leading roles in consulting, healthcare and technology companies for nearly 20 years in the US, UK and Europe. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of Health Equity Consulting, a healthcare growth consultancy, a Venture Partner and/or mentor at a number of funds and accelerators in the healthtech space and a member of the Tech London Advocates healthtech working group. Ori Biotech is a London and New Jersey-based innovator changing the game in cell and gene therapy manufacturing. They've developed a proprietary, bespoke and flexible manufacturing platform, enabling patient access to a new generation of personalised, lifesaving treatments. Ori offers therapeutics developers the opportunity to seamlessly scale from pre-clinical process development to commercial scale manufacturing. Get in touch with Ori: https://oribiotech.com/ Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Born in the USA, today Russ Shaw is the man on a mission to turn London into the world-beating home of tech. Launching Tech London Advocates seven years ago to give the tech sector an independent voice, it has since been described by the Evening Standard as "London's most influential business network”. Now an established titan of tech himself, Russ has taken the Advocates model around the world to help more cities build their tech ecosystems.

As part of the UK Fintech Week 2020, DIT will host a digital panel to showcase why the UK has emerged as the global destination for financial services companies wishing to expand globally. Panellists will include UK government experts, starts-ups from across developed and emerging markets – now active in the UK – and think tanks. This session is aimed at UK and overseas tech companies, looking to grow internationally, and keen to understand how the UK government can support. Attendees will also get a chance to hear from other start-ups on their internationalisation journey, challenges they have faced, and why the UK presents the ideal launch pad from which to scale into new markets. Panellists: Moderator: Sameer Gulati, FinTech Specialist, UK Department for International Trade Elena Novokreshchenova, VP International Europe and APAC, Remitly Kavita Reddi, Founder, Voxta Russ Shaw, Founder, Tech London Advocates & Global Tech Advocates Tony Hughes, Dealmaker – Global Entrepreneurship Programme (GEP), UK Department for International Trade --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/innfin/message

In this week’s podcast, Carlos is joined by Russ Shaw, Founder of Tech London Advocates, and Asher Ismail, Co-founder of Seedcamp-backed company, Uncapped, Europe’s first revenue-based finance provider, as they discuss the need - now more than ever - alternative financing mechanisms to support founders. If you are currently raising or trying to determine how to navigate this current climate, listen in as Russ and Asher discuss the need to provide capital to founders more efficiently, from both an institutional and a venture capital standpoint, and why alternative forms of investment are democratising and diversifying the investment landscape and becoming increasingly popular among the founders of tomorrow Links: Russ Shaw - twitter.com/RussShaw1 Tech London Advocates - www.techlondonadvocates.org.uk Asher Ismail - twitter.com/asher_ismail Uncapped - www.weareuncapped.com Carlos Espinal - twitter.com/cee Seedcamp - www.seedcamp.com/

Hey Podcast Community, This episode was a long time in the making. I sit down with Oli Barrett who's #1 love in life is helping get ideas started and making useful connections. Oli Barrett Bio: Oli Barrett is a serial founder who enjoys making useful connections between people and ideas. He created Tenner, the UK's largest schools enterprise challenge, in which over 250,000 pupils have made money and made a difference in a month, starting with just ten pounds. He co-founded Volunteer It Yourself (VIY), the social venture, which has helped thousands of young people to fix their own youth clubs. He is also the founder of TOTS (Turn on the Subtitles), the children's literacy campaign. His first job was at Walt Disney World in Florida, and his first experience in television was working on the launch of Bob the Builder. He co-founded The Rainmakers (an innovation and incubation company) in 2004, which continues to operate out of San Francisco. From 2008, he co-created and led eleven international trade missions (including WebMission and the Clean and Cool Mission), to help companies succeed overseas. In 2011, he co-founded StartUp Britain, launched by the British Prime Minister and funded by the private sector. The campaign led to the creation of PitchUp Britain (with John Lewis and Sainsbury's) and PopUp Britain, with the opening of shops around the UK. Oli hosts The Lens podcast with Business in the Community, which pairs senior leaders with future leaders, to discuss the future of work. He is a regular conference and awards host, for events across education, technology and entrepreneurship. He is on the advisory boards of Tech London Advocates, One Million Mentors and Troubadour Theatres, and is a Fellow of impact incubator and business builder Zinc. His latest venture, The Connector Unit, founded in 2016, forges valuable and creative connections across a range of sectors and industries.

Fred Schmidt (nee Fernando Klemens Jan Borys Czochralski-Schmidt) MBE is Director of International Affairs at Capital Factory, a top U.S. incubator – accelerator - investment fund nurturing over 700 tech startups in downtown Austin Texas. There he oversees Touchdown Austin, a soft landing program for foreign companies seeking to expand into the U.S. market, and Texas scaleups ready for expansion overseas. He also is a co-founder and investor in his 4th videogames tech company, Portalarium. And, concurrently, he is co-founder and CEO of a collection of unique Austin experiential retail businesses in music, fashion, toys and confectionery. Previously, Fred's career spans over 30 years of management experience in the tech and creative industries in the U.S. and Europe. Fred also serves the Mayor of Austin as a citizen ambassador in building the thriving tech and creative industries Sister Cities relationship between Austin and the London Borough of Hackney, home to the UK's flourishing “Tech City” scene – work for which he has been awarded the honour of Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He also heads the Austin Chapter of Tech London Advocates. As a child, Fred was granted asylum in the USA as a political refugee from Poland during the Cold War… grew up in Detroit… and now has been a 28-year resident of Austin, dividing his time between that city, Los Angeles and London. Links Fred's LinkedIn profile Capital Factory Austin Monthly Article About your host Richard Lucas Richard is a business and social entrepreneur who founded, led and/or invested in more than 30 businesses, Richard has been a TEDx event organiser, supports the pro-entrepreneurship ecosystem, and leads entrepreneurship workshops at all levels: from pre-schools to leading business schools. Richard was born in Oxford and moved to Poland in 1991. Read more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/entrepreneurship-and-leadership

Russ Shaw is the founder of Tech London Advocates and Global Tech Advocates. He originally founded Tech London Advocates in 2013 to establish an independent voice for the technology sector which would focus on the private sector. Since then he has been championing London as a global tech hub and campaigning to address some of the biggest challenges facing tech companies in the UK – diversity, digital skills, immigration, infrastructure and of course access to funding. Tech London Advocates is a network of more than 6,000 tech leaders, entrepreneurs, and experts in London, across the UK and in over 50 countries worldwide and Philip actually joined Tech London Advocates a few years back. Before starting TLA Russ was previously the Chairman of The Marketing Group of Great Britain following senior positions at Skype, Telefónica, O2, and CEO of a later stage startup called Mobileway. He’s an angel and venture investor.

Russ is the Founder of Tech London Advocates (TLA) and Global Tech Advocates, private sector led groups of leaders promoting tech ecosystems and addressing the issues on the horizon. The groups are not-for-profit communities of individuals with aspirations to build and promote tech hubs globally. TLA recently set goals for the tech sector in London with a 5 year period to achieve them, in this interview we discuss what they are. Also on the show we discuss two pieces of tech news. Links below to read before or after your listen. Enjoy the show! https://www.uktech.news/news/industry-analysis/the-case-for-connection-the-next-phase-in-the-evolution-of-uk-tech-20180517 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/20/may-to-pledge-millions-to-ai-research-assisting-early-cancer-diagnosis

We’re getting a little bit political on the show today with Russ Shaw, founder of Tech London Advocates. TLA is an influential group of over 3000 technology entrepreneurs, established digital giants, journalists, government figures and vital suppliers to the tech industry. They’re all working together to champion and support London’s tech sector. Previously, Russ was […] The post Russ Shaw, founder, Tech London Advocates appeared first on Reevoo.

Russ is an angel and venture investor and non-executive director of a number of high growth businesses. He is also a limited partner in Ariadne Capital’s ACE Fund and an investor in and advisor to Amazing Media Group. Russ is also a board member of the Tech City Advisory Group. Previously, Russ was Vice President & General Manager at Skype with responsibility for its mobile division globally. Russ exited when Skype was sold to Microsoft. Before Skype, Russ was at Telefonica, where he was the Global Innovation Director. This included managing a venture fund and an internal ‘incubation’ initiative. Prior to this role, he was with Telefonica’s O2 mobile business, as Marketing Director, responsible for initiatives such as The O2 venue in London. In Today’s Episode You Will Hear: 1.) How Russ made his entry into the investing world? What was it that attracted 2.) What were Russ’ big takeaways from his career investing institutionally? How does he allocate his portfolio in terms of differing asset classes? How much of his angel capital pool does Russ set aside for follow on rounds? 3.) What does Russ believe are the right reasons for founders to be raising money? What does Russ want to hear founders spending angel money on? 4.) How has Russ’ investment decision making process changed when approaching prospective startups to invest in? 5.) What is the TLA? What is the main purpose and function? What more can London do to become and be seen as the hub of tech behind Silicon Valley that we all so desperately want it to be? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Fave startup or investing blog? Huff Post, Tech City News As always, you can learn more about SyndicateRoom here: www.syndicateroom.com and see Russ' latest tweets here: www.twitter.com/RussShaw1

Daniel Glazer co-leads Fried Frank's Tech Group and is resident in the firm’s London and New York offices. Dan focuses on technology transactions, including complex licensing, outsourcing, and services arrangements. He also advises UK, Irish and other non-US companies on US expansion and US fundraising. Dan works closely with investors and governmental agencies, as well as accelerators such as Techstars, Barclays, Seedcamp, Microsoft Ventures, Wayra, MassChallengeUK, Startupbootcamp FinTech, Dassault, CyLon and Ignite. The American Lawyer honored Dan as its 2015 Transatlantic Innovator of the Year. London's Tech City News named Dan a top "Community Connector" and The New York Law Journal selected him as one of its inaugural under-40 "Rising Stars." Chambers USA, Legal 500, and similar publications regularly recognize Dan as a leading transactional lawyer. Dan is a member of Tech London Advocates and was appointed by the Scottish Government to the GlobalScot network of Scottish business advocates. He is also a frequent speaker and author; his publications include "Coming to America: The Legal Basics" (http://bit.ly/1oylzqw), and Practical Law Company’s primary resources on data licensing and on IP/IT issues in M&A transactions. He also is a member of PLC's IP/IT Advisory Board.  

Minter Dialogue Episode #176 — This interview is with Russ Shaw, serial entrepreneur, angel investor and founder of the Tech London Advocates, which is a community of over 2,300 volunteers keen to promote London as a thriving center for tech and entrepreneurialism. In this interview, we discuss the changing role of Facebook for breaking news, the importance of women in tech, how big companies and small agile entrepreneurs can better collaborate and integrate, as well as the right balance of profiles for one’s Board of Directors. Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Russ Shaw is the Founder of Tech London Advocates, a group of leaders promoting London's technology sector and addressing the issues on the horizon.