Tech Policy Leadership Conference 2022

Julian David

CEO, techUK

Julian David is the CEO of techUK, the Digital Technology Trade Association. 

Julian leads techUK's 60 strong team in representing over 800 member companies, comprising global and national champions and more than 500 SMEs. He is a member of the UK Government and Industry Cyber Growth Partnership, the Digital Economy Council and the Department of International Trade’s Strategic Trade Advisory Group. He is also the Vice President for National Trade Associations, on the Executive Board of DIGITALEUROPE, Vice President representing Europe on the board of WITSA the Worldwide IT Association, and a member of the board of the Health innovation Network, the South London Academic Health Science Network. 

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Professor Jonathan Haskel

Co-author, Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy

Jonathan Haskel is Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, as well as a financial advisor to governments and industries, both in the UK and beyond. He has taught economics at prestigious global institutions such as the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, the Stern School of Business at New York University, and the Australian National University.

Haskel’s research interests focus on productivity, innovation, intangible investment and growth. His 2018 book Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy (with Stian Westlake) was praised by Bill Gates and shows the growing importance of intangible assets has also played a role in some of the big economic changes of the last decade. His new book, Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy is also co-authored by Stian Westlake and offers radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today’s intangible economy.

He has advised the UK government as a members of the FCA Competition Decisions Committee and the Payment System Regulator Enforcement and Competition Decisions Committee. Since 1st February 2016, he has been a non-Executive Director of the UK Statistics Authority. He tweets at @haskelecon.

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Matt Warman

MP Boston & Skegness,

Matt Warman was first elected as MP for Boston & Skegness in 2015, returning with increased majorities in 2017 and 2019. Prior to entering politics, he worked for the Daily Telegraph from 1999 until 2015, focusing for most of the period on technology, leading coverage of Facebook, Google and Apple, and covering the launch of products including iPhones, the BBC iPlayer and the Apple Watch, as well as interviewing key figures including the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web. Matt’s former ministerial portfolio covered mobile coverage, telecoms supply chain, cyber security, and the Building Digital UK (BDUK) and Gigabit Delivery programmes. He is continuing to champion these areas and his other interests from the backbenches.

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Anthony Breach

Senior Analyst, Centre for Cities

Anthony is a Senior Analyst at Centre for Cities, where he is the lead on housing and planning. He has also led research on city centres and commercial property in cities, local government funding and finance, urban economic history, exports, productivity, and devolution and the Levelling Up White Paper.

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Justin Madders

Shadow Minister for Employment Rights,

Following a career in employment law Justin was elected the MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston in the 2015 general election. During his Parliamentary career he has sat on the BEIS and Health Select Committee’s and has used his experience in employment law to contribute to debates and parliamentary activity interests on employment legislation and workers rights. He was appointed Shadow Minister for Employment Rights in December 2021 and has led on Labour’s employment policy including the recent Employment Rights Green Paper.

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Antony Walker

Deputy CEO, techUK

Antony Walker is deputy CEO of techUK,  which he played a lead role in launching in November 2013.

Antony is a member of the senior leadership team and has overall responsibility for techUK’s policy work. Prior to his appointment in July 2012 Antony was chief executive of the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), the UK’s independent advisory group on broadband policy. Antony was closely involved in the development of broadband policy development in the UK since the BSG was established in 2001 and authored several major reports to government. He also led the development of the UK’s world leading Open Internet Code of Practice that addresses the issue of net neutrality in the UK. Prior to setting up the BSG, Antony spent six years working in Brussels for the American Chamber of Commerce following and writing about telecoms issues and as a consultant working on EU social affairs and environmental issues. Antony is a graduate of Aberdeen University and KU Leuven and is also a Policy Fellow Alumni of the Centre for Science and Policy at Cambridge University.

: @techUKdepceo

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Charlotte Holloway

Government Relations Director, UK and Ireland, Zoom

Charlotte is Government Relations Director for Zoom Video Communications, covering the UK and Ireland. She is a former political adviser and has previously worked at the RSA, TechUK and The Work Foundation. She has served on the Smart London Board for the Mayor of London and completed a policy fellowship at the Centre of Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge.

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Kathryn Baddeley

Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Cisco

No bio provided

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Nimmi Patel

Head of Skills, Talent and Diversity, techUK

No bio provided

: https://www.techuk.org/skills-talent-and-diversity-programme.html
: nimmi-patel1/
: @nimmiptl

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James Uffindell

CEO & Founder, Bright Network

James Uffindell is a technology entrepreneur and one of the UK’s leading experts on the entry level talent market. James has spent the last 20 years helping over one million students with their applications to both blue chip employers and leading universities. James is an expert on social mobility at university level, the graduate job market, internships, entry level talent, and managing and engaging Gen Z and millennial employees.

James set up his first business in in his university bedroom in 1999 which he sold to a Private Investor in 2013. Frustrated at the lack of careers support for graduates, James founded Bright Network in 2013, a high-growth technology platform that uses data and insights to build the workforce of tomorrow. Bright Network now works serves 12M+ of careers advice content a year and supports over 500,000+ graduates and 300+ of the world’s largest employers including Google, Goldman Sachs, Accenture and PwC. The business has raised £8M+ of investment to date and is one of the fastest growing careers networks in the UK.

In January 2021, Bright Network launched Technology Academy, to support the next generation become the technology leaders of the future. By developing thousands of graduates and directly addressing the UK’s technology skills shortage by providing upskilled and diverse entry level talent to leading employers and their technology teams.

James is a regular media commentator on careers, talent and entrepreneurship – he has been featured in The Economist, Management Today, The Times, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph as well as on live on BBC (radio and TV), Sky News, Channel 4, CNN and on ITV.

James gives regular keynotes at conferences including Talent Leaders Connect, the How To Academy and Capitox, and has spoken at The Oxford Union, London School of Economics and The New Entrepreneurs Foundation. 

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Deepak Malhotra

Head of Utilities Consulting (UK), Infosys Consulting

Deepak shapes and delivers technology related transformations for energy & utility clients in the UK.
Deepak has a strong background in helping CXOs developing their strategy and in delivering.
business outcomes. Over the last 20 years Deepak has helped business leaders in:

- Conducting current state assessments- (including process maturity assessments)
- Developing business outcome focused technology strategies
- Designing operating models
- Designing retained organisations - (including Greenfield operations)
- Technology transformation roadmaps
- Transformation business cases

Deepak holds an MBA degree from Imperial College and a Bachelor's degree Accountancy & Economics. Deepak also holds a Software Engineering Diploma from NIIT India.

: deepak-malhotra-b08617

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Shane Murphy

Privacy Policy Manager EMEA , Meta

No bio provided

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David Parker

Director, Competition Practice, Frontier Economics

David Parker is a Director in the Competition practice at Frontier Economics. David advises companies facing competition investigations in relation to agreements, abuses of dominance, market studies and investigations and mergers, across many national and supra-national jurisdictions, and in relation to state aid. He has led Frontier’s work on a large number of detailed market studies and investigations. His expertise covers an extremely wide range of sectors, including financial services, retailing, energy, transport, telecoms, media, online platforms and retailers, agricultural products, FMCG products, chemicals, petrochemicals, health services, pharmaceuticals, and postal services. David has advised many digital firms on mergers, market studies/investigations, and Competition Act and Article 101/102 TFEU investigations.

David also provides expert advice in litigation cases, including representative actions, standalone cases relating to breaches of competition law, and follow-on damages cases arising from breaches of competition and other laws. He acted for Pride in Dorothy Gibson vs. Pride Mobility Scooters (the first UK competition law class action case), is acting for Justin Le Patourel in Le Patourel vs BT, and is also involved in several other current representative actions. He has given expert evidence in several courts and tribunals, including the England and Wales High Court and the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

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Victoria Hewson

Head of Regulatory Affairs, Institute of Economic Affairs

Victoria Hewson is Head of Regulatory Affairs at the Institute of Economic Affairs. A practising solicitor, she has specialised in commercial, technology and data protection matters across a range of sectors. At the IEA, she has written about trade and regulatory policy, most recently focusing digital competition and content regulation.

: @missvhewson

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Neil Ross

Associate Director, Policy, techUK

As Associate Director for Policy Neil leads on techUK's public policy work in the UK. In this role he regularly engages with UK and Devolved Government Ministers, senior civil servants and members of the UK’s Parliaments aiming to make the UK the best place to start, scale and develop a tech business.

Neil joined techUK in 2019 to lead on techUK’s input into the UK-EU Brexit trade deal negotiations and economic policy. Alongside his role leading techUK's public policy work Neil also acts as a spokesperson for techUK often appearing in the media and providing evidence to a range of Parliamentary committees.

In 2023 Neil was listed by the Politico newspaper as one of the '20 people who matter in UK tech' and has regularly been cited as a key industry figure shaping UK tech policy.

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Sam Sharps

Executive Director of Policy, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Sam draws on his deep experience in government and the private sector to lead policy across all areas of TBI, with a focus on unlocking the transformative power of technology. He has shaped major pieces of legislation, represented the UK in international settings and spent years advocating for policy improvements.  
His aim is to instil a shared vision between policymakers and technologists, helping policymakers become less intimidated by technology while encouraging technologists to be more trusting of the policy process.  
Prior to joining TBI, Sam worked for many years at Apple, and as an advisor to Google and Vodafone.

: @samsharpsTBI

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Ruth Smeeth

CEO, Index on Censorship

Ruth Smeeth is the Chief Executive of Index on Censorship – the international campaign to protect and promote free speech around the world, which was originally launched in 1971 to provide a platform for Soviet dissidents to expose what was happening behind the Iron Curtain. 

Ruth was previously the Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent North & Kidsgrove from 2015-2019.  During that time she was the Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party and the Parliamentary Chair of the Jewish Labour Movement. 

Before her election Ruth ran HOPE not hate the anti-extremism campaign which defeated the BNP and EDL.  Ruth has also worked in the trade union, third sector and private sectors before seeking election.  

: @RuthSmeeth

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Amy Jordan

Director, Technology Policy, Ofcom

Amy is Director of Technology Policy at Ofcom, focussing in particular on supporting the delivery of the online safety regime from a technology perspective as well as addressing a range of cross cutting tech policy issues. Previously she has worked across a range of UK government departments leading on technology security and data policy issues in the UK and internationally. She also spent two years at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity leading initiatives on the impacts of future technologies on cyber threats, and on telecoms security.

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Lulu Freemont

Head of Digital Regulation, techUK

Lulu is Head of Digital Regulation at techUK, working across areas related to digital regulation, such as online harms and competition.

Prior to working at techUK, Lulu worked at social enterprise Parent Zone for a number of years, heading up the Policy and Public Affairs team. Working closely with technology companies, Parliamentarians and schools, her focus was on building digital resilience to help improve outcomes for children growing up in a digital world.

Lulu holds a MA (Hons) in Human Rights Law from SOAS, and a BA (Hons) in Politics from the University of Exeter.

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Elizabeth Denham CBE

International Consultant, Data and Tech, Baker McKenzie

Elizabeth Denham CBE, joined Baker McKenzie as International Consultant, Data and Tech in 2022. She has over 15 years' experience as a data protection regulator in four jurisdictions. She was most recently the Information Commissioner for the UK (2016-2021) . During her tenure in the UK she also chaired the Global Privacy Assembly, which brings together more than 130 data protection authorities around the world - the premier global forum for data protection. She is recognized as a leader in enabling responsible data use by government and the commercial sector, and for implementing the GDPR into UK law. She tackled some of the most complex issues facing the digital economy, including the use of data in political campaigns, the use of live facial recognition technologies in the commercial and police sectors, and the transparent and fair use of analytics and AI. She is passionate about the protection of children online, ethical and accountable use of health data, and supporting companies to embed data protection and security into their services and offerings. Elizabeth was honoured in the Queen's 2019 Honours list a CBE for services to protecting personal privacy of UK citizens.

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Sue Daley

Director, Technology and Innovation, techUK

Sue leads techUK's Technology and Innovation work at techUK.

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.

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Annabelle Dickson

Political Correspondent, Politico

Annabelle Dickson is political correspondent for POLITICO in London. She is an author of the Sunday Crunch and London Playbook emails, and has a special interest in what policymakers are thinking and doing on tech policy in Westminster and Whitehall.

: @newsannabelle

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Drew Smith

Head of Government Relations UKI, Zoom

No bio provided

: drewsmithuk

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Chris Philp MP

Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Chris Philp was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 17 September 2021. He was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office and Ministry of Justice from 13 February 2020 to 16 September 2021. Before that, he was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice from 10 September 2019 to 18 December 2019 and Minister for London at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government from 18 December 2019 to 13 February 2020. 

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Sue Daley

Director, Technology and Innovation, techUK

Sue leads techUK's Technology and Innovation work at techUK.

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.

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