Tanya Suarez
LLB (HONS) and PhD candidate in ICT. Founder of IoT Tribe, an equity-free tech ecosystem builder that brings start-ups and corporates together to do business with hubs in London/Barnsley- Industrial Tech, Singapore- Deeptech and Madrid-Space tech. We are proud partners of Singapore's Global Innovation Alliance that brings outstanding Singaporean companies to the UK to scale through partnerships. I also run BluSpecs a digital transformation agency that works with companies and public sector organisations on tech adoption, from skills to ecosystem building, and helping them understand and manage data value chains. Among other impact-driven work, we have set and run the IoT Next Club (free to join), have worked with over 1,900 researchers from across Europe on go-to-market strategies for their tech. I am a member of the European Innovation Council, an initiative that provides up to 3M in non-dilutive funding and up to 15M to game-changing startups and SMEs from the UK, Europe, Israel and Turkey. I am also a WEF European Digital Leader, an advisory board member to the Next Generation Internet initiative and a number of start-ups, a member of Tech London Advocates and Tech Spain Advocates. I am on the board of the Alliance of Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI), an industry body set up to promote IoT adoption in Europe, where I collaborate with amazing companies of all sizes and sectors and a member of the Quantum Industry Consortium's Governing Board and Chair of the Ecosystems Working Group.