Dispatch from Brussels: Updates on EU Tech Policy
Welcome to the latest edition of Dispatch from Brussels, techUK's bi-monthly update on the European policy developments shaping the operating environment for UK technology companies.
Global Tech & Trade Policy Update
Welcome to this week’s update on the fast-moving world of global trade, digital policy, and transatlantic relations. Here’s what’s shaping the global agenda right now.
techUK Report: Towards a UK–EU Partnership for a New Age
As Europe navigates a more turbulent geopolitical landscape, this report sets out the scale of UK–EU digital and security interdependence - worth over $350 billion in bilateral digitally deliverable services trade - and the practical opportunities for closer cooperation ahead of the UK–EU Summit.
Chancellor's first major speech: What does it mean for tech?
techUK’s CEO was in the room for the Chancellor's first major economic speech, delivered at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry on Monday 7 September.
Report: Confident Sovereignty - techUK’s framework for sovereignty to support growth, security and resilience
Digital technology is the UK's primary growth sector, adding over £100 billion in GVA a year and employing 1.7 million people. It is the country's most significant export engine and the foundation every other industrial strategy sector depends on. The UK has the third-largest tech ecosystem in the world by valuation, the deepest tech labour market in Europe, and in 2026 alone has raised roughly as much venture capital as the rest of Europe combined. The question is no longer whether government should intervene in technology markets. It is how to do so without weakening the firms the UK relies on for growth.
Call for Contributions: Digital Assets and Tokenization for the future stack
From pilots to production: Can your technology make it happen?
Talking 5: JES member BSI
techUK's Fran Richiusa talked to Laura Bishop, Digital Sector Lead at BSI, about about her vision for how standards and technology can better protect and support women, children, and vulnerable communities.
MPs see AI’s potential to help tackle social mobility – How do we realise it?
In this article, Sara Belhay, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, EY Foundation explores the potential of AI for social mobility and discusses their AI and Social Mobility Challenge Prize.
The case for agentic AI in health and social care and how to make it happen
A blog by System C's Gian Celino for health and social care leaders on why agentic AI adoption is slow, and the levers that could speed it up.
Building the foundations for AI-powered pathology
How digital pathology and AI could speed up cancer diagnosis. Exponential-e's Afshin Attari on the opportunity, and the barriers to adoption.
