Julian David, Chief Executive Officer, tech UK
Roger Bickerstaff, Partner, Bird & Bird
Elizabeth Diaferia, Head of Brexit Media Policy, Expert Media Partners;
Tony Craddock, Director General, Emerging Payments Association
Tim Hames, Director General, British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
Delegates will discuss the key opportunities and priorities for the tech sector including attracting – both domestic and foreign – investment, ensuring access to workers with the necessary skills, increasing exports and the developing regulatory framework. Areas for discussion include:
- Innovation – assessing the UK’s chief strengths in key emerging technologies and how they can be further supported by Government;
- Investment – priorities for ensuring the UK remains an appealing arena for international investment, and highlighting the significance of recent M&A activity in the sector;
- Infrastructure – how well does current and planned infrastructure support the UK tech sector throughout the UK, including in the regions and devolved nations;
- Trading relationships – implications for key sectors of potential changes to trading relationships, particularly tariff free trade and passporting rights;
- Skills – examining the most desirable options for UK access to highly skilled labour from overseas and addressing long standing tech sector skills gaps;
- Regulation – implications of Brexit for the application of forthcoming regulation like EU GDPR and long term priorities for UK influence in future regulatory developments; and
- Policy priorities – assessing opportunities open to a more autonomous UK in areas such as trade, tax and regulation.
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