techUK teams are focused on 21 distinct programmes of activity, plus a dedicated SME programme. Within each of these Programmes, there is a team of techUK colleagues supporting members to collaborate and build networks across business and government.
- Members join our community to build strong relationships with potential customers, partners, regulators, Government, and peers across the UK.
- Members participate in networks and workstreams relevant to their business. They lead our Boards and Working Groups, and they set the agenda for our workstreams.
- Members help us to define policy positions that will benefit the industry, and champion tech as a driver of the economy.
- Members have access to timely insights, events, breaking news, thought leadership, and policy updates.
techUK members have access to all Programmes as part of their membership. You can read an overview of each Programme below:
Central Government
Our aim: To serve citizens better, improve outcomes, and deliver more value for money, the UK has to accelerate the transformation of public services through the smart application of digital technology. techUK aims to lead debate on new technologies and provide a forum for government to engage with tech suppliers. We help government access leading industry expertise at an early stage in tackling challenges, and help our members improve their understanding of government requirements.
Our value: We facilitate market engagement sessions with all the major Whitehall Departments – particularly the Home Office, DWP, HMRC and the GPA – based on upcoming procurement opportunities. Critically, the Programme also allows members to network with a view to developing effective partnerships for public sector bids.
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Climate, Environment and Sustainability
Our aim: All sectors need to commit to climate action and to set robust and measurable science based targets. With this in mind techUK is committed to helping our members, our sector, and all other industries to reach net zero. We continue to develop useful resources, to run events and to publish guidance that help organisations to reach this important goal.
Our value: We support our members to build strong relationships, providing opportunities for members to present tech solutions that assist carbon emission reduction, circularity, and human rights goals. techUK also helps our members with their own net zero transition, including measurement, implementation, compliance, and reporting.
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Cloud Computing
Our aim: Cloud computing is a key driver of the UK’s data-driven economy, with cloud-based platforms, infrastructure and services supporting UK businesses across every industry and sector. techUK’s work focuses on ensuring the UK stays at the forefront of cloud adoption and is a single point of contact for UK government and key stakeholders on issues impacting the development of the UK cloud market and industry.
Our value: The Cloud Programme helps members to raise their profile, build a network within our tech community, and meet potential partners and customers. Members will see market trends earlier, better understand changes to regulation and legislation, gain access to key stakeholders and decision-makers, and shape the conversation on issues like skills and sustainability.
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Communications Infrastructure and Services
Our aim: techUK brings together government, the regulator, telecom companies and its stakeholders to help the UK maximise the benefits of adopting advanced communications services, maintain confidence in the security and resilience of our networks, and explore future telecoms. We do so to help lower the cost of deployment, spur innovation and unlock value for all parties in connectivity. This is delivered through a mix of thought leadership, multilateral engagement and ecosystem building.
Our value: Members have a clearer understanding of market developments, customer requirements, and government priorities than their competitors. Membership also provides access to the latest information on regulation, compliance and new legislation that will impact businesses. Joining our community helps members to get to market faster, meet suppliers, meet customers – and directly impact their performance.
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Consumer Tech and Regulation
Our aim: This programme supports member companies to navigate policy and regulatory requirements when delivering technology products and services to UK consumers. We assist members in addressing UK product regulations and non-tariff barriers, which have become more complex after Brexit, and engage widely in the media and broadcast policy space and consultations into consumer rights legislation. The programme was extensively involved in the development of the UK Media Act and DMCC Act, and is working with regulators to ensure that implementation guidelines are clear and proportionate.
Our value: We provide members with operational support, compliance advice and direct interactions with government
which would be extremely expensive to engage external help on. We positively impact our members’ bottom line by supporting them in anticipating, shaping and reacting to change, ensuring compliance and mitigating regulatory risk with reduced costs and minimised disruption to business operations.
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Cyber Security
Our aim: Cyber security underpins technologies that are enabling the UK to digitally transform. techUK brings together key players across the sector to promote leading-edge UK capabilities, build networks and grow the sector. techUK also provides a link between industry and government to support the national strategy, ensuring that the UK remains a leading cyber nation.
Our value: Our Cyber Security Programme offers members working across the UK cyber ecosystem the opportunity to network, share ideas and collaborate, enabling the industry as a whole to address common challenges and opportunities together. The Programme holds market engagement sessions across public and private sectors and the exports market, providing industry with market intelligence and practical advice on how to engage key partners. We ensure that members are well prepared to take advantage of business opportunities across the cyber security sector which lead to successful business outcomes.
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Data Analytics and AI
Our aim: AI and data analytics offers growing opportunities and benefits for both the UK economy and society, from revolutionising business productivity to transforming people’s lives. To ensure the UK remains a world-leader in these technologies, techUK aims to maximise the value and adoption of the technology, whilst mitigating the risks and barriers. We work closely with key government departments and regulators to enable the benefits of AI and data analytics to be felt across the UK.
Our value: Members of techUK join a thriving community of companies committed to showcasing and demonstrating the power of data analytics and AI. We bring together industry leaders, policymakers, regulators and civil society to affect the change needed to drive the data analytics and AI market in the UK. We help our members to build strong relationships with these stakeholders, reach new customers, and enable their business to grow.
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Data Centres
Our aim: Data centres provide the core infrastructure that underpins the UK’s digital economy. techUK provides a collective voice for UK operators working with government to improve the business environment for our members. To date we have saved UK operators over £150m, alerted them to business risks, mitigated regulatory impacts and raised awareness of the value of the sector.
Our value: Through techUK, members have the opportunity to showcase thought leadership and innovation directly with government bodies such as DCMS. The Programme coordinates a regular calendar of events to keep members up to date on the key technical and regulatory developments that may impact growth and on funding opportunities that may increase commercial competitiveness. These opportunities help techUK members to plan better strategies.
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Defence
Our aim: The Defence programme works to help the UK’s defence technology sector align itself with the MOD, specifically with the department’s Defence Digital organisation. The Programme aims to help the sector remain at the forefront of technology exploitation. Through our Defence and Security Board and our forums covering Information Superiority, R&T, Commercial Business and SME’s, the Programme delivers a broad range of activities which support the MOD as it procures new digital technologies.
Our value: techUK members are able to navigate and better understand the UK Defence sector to successfully align their own investment and resources to take advantage of business opportunities. This is complemented by our work to ensure members are able to shape and influence policy development, reducing costs and risks to business. For companies already working in Defence or aspiring to do so, the Programme provides members with access to key stakeholders and market insight that is not readily available publicly.
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Digital Identity
Our aim: Digital identities will provide a gateway for citizens and SMEs into the connected ecosystem of services making up the digital economy. Consumers will be able to give permission for the secure use of their data across companies and sectors, allowing innovative players to create new services. Through market wide standards, digital identities will bring great economic and social benefits, deliver trust, security and privacy for citizens and save millions in costs for public and private sectors.
Our value: Through a regular calendar of activity members raise their profile as thought leaders, influence, and shape policy outcomes, and strengthen their relationships with potential clients and decision-makers. By working with techUK’s market-verticals our members can demonstrate the benefits of digital identity to emerging markets whilst gaining a better understanding of how they can better support these companies on their digital ID adoption journey.
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Financial Services
Our aim: The financial services industry relies heavily on technology, from communications and infrastructures, to new innovations such as cloud, AI and blockchain. Now more than ever, financial services providers embark on new digital transformation journeys to improve processes, resilience, and services. We connect firms from across the ecosystem to ensure innovation and technology can be fully harnessed and embraced by industry and regulators.
Our value: techUK market engagement and insight activities ensure that members are well prepared to make informed decisions which lead to successful business outcomes. techUK have a programme of events which allow financial services the opportunity to engage the sector, providing insight on the latest technology trends and their impact on the sector, addressing misconceptions, empowering decision makers and aiding collaboration.
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Health and Social Care
Our aim: With health and care systems around the globe facing increasing pressures, the use of digital technology has never been more important. Supporting a vibrant ecosystem with the potential to become a world leader, techUK is helping its members navigate the complex space of digital health in the UK to ensure our NHS and social care sector is prepared for the challenges of the future.
Our value: A major advantage of techUK membership is the opportunity to meet potential partners and like-minded innovators, collaborating to address challenges faced by the NHS and social care providers. By providing market insight, we help members validate new ideas and build impactful strategies, ultimately ensuring that they are market-ready, with a strengthened presence in the UK health and care technology sector.
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International Policy and Trade
Our aim: We believe the UK should be a leader in digital trade policy and international regulatory cooperation on tech. We work with government to develop state-of-the-art policy in both trade negotiations and international fora for tech policy coordination. We provide member companies with the opportunity to learn about and engage with foreign markets, by sharing knowledge, expertise and networks. And we welcome international tech companies into the UK to expand their service offering in our country.
Our value: techUK supports members with their international trade plans and aspirations. Whether you are looking to understand market opportunities and tackle market access barriers in the EU, the USA, India, China, Japan, or the wider Asia-Pacific region, or to build partnerships with key actors in your target market, we provide members with the framework and the opportunities for those commercially meaningful connections to take place. We run events every year in partnership with our wide network of expert contacts, to provide you with countless opportunities to engage confidently with new markets and find new customers around the world.
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Justice and Emergency Services
Our aim: The Justice and Emergency Services Programme represents the supplier community that operates in the public safety, criminal justice, and blue light markets. The Programme aims to create strong relationships between members and public sector customers by creating forums to encourage industry engagement, unlock innovation, explore emerging technology and interrogate challenges to digital transformation.
Our value: techUK prides itself on helping members to network with industry stakeholders. We run pitching and speed dating events to help SMEs to deliver elevator pitches to larger companies in the Justice and Emergency Services market, and all members have opportunities to participate in member-led working groups to drive change and help tackle challenges facing the sector. These opportunities help members build better strategies for the future.
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Local Public Services
Our aim: Local public services are faced with a range of challenges and digital presents the opportunity to do things differently and smarter. We bring together companies large and small with local authorities to find solutions that improve outcomes for citizens and help create thriving, productive, healthier and safer places for all. Local government can be a complex market, that is why we help members to navigate it and champion the innovations that can create truly digital local public services and outcomes.
Our value: techUK supports new entrants and SME members by helping them to engage with larger suppliers, identify new business partners, providing a faster route to market. We also support engagement with potential local government customers via a series of outcome led engagements. As the go-to forum for public sector partners we help members to build trusted relationships with local government.
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National Security
Our aim: techUK’s National Security programme aims to lead debate on new and emerging technologies which present opportunities to strengthen UK national security, but also expose vulnerabilities which threaten it. Through a variety of market engagement and policy activities, it assesses the capability of these technologies against various national security threats, developing thought-leadership on topics such as procurement, innovation, diversity and skills.
Our value: For companies already working in the secure government space or aspiring to do so, the Programme provides members with access to key stakeholders and market insight that is not readily available publicly. Members can successfully align their own investment and resources to take advantage of business opportunities, and can influence policy development to help reduce costs and risks to business.
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Nations and Regions
Our aim: techUK champions the tech sector throughout the UK. We work with local authorities, devolved government, and local and national policy makers to advocate for the tech sector in strengthening economic growth and resilience across the nations and regions. We provide opportunities for our members and stakeholders to meet, develop relationships, and collaborate to drive forward projects that build stronger local economies.
Our value: techUK promotes collaboration between our members and the public, private, and third sectors to understand local priorities and help deliver change. We facilitate introductions, champion our members, and support local government and tech in working together to embrace the benefits of digital innovation. This support helps our members to raise their profile, meet suppliers, partners, and customers, and build better strategies.
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Policy and Public Affairs
Our aim: techUK helps its members understand, engage and influence the development of tech policy in the UK and beyond. We are in constant dialogue with policymakers across Whitehall, Westminster, the devolved nations, and Brussels to represent the sector and make a case for how tech can help address some of the UK’s most significant challenges. Members participate in this dialogue through industry briefings and events, allowing our members to talk directly to key decision-makers. We aim to help businesses and policymakers understand the complex policy questions confronting our sector.
Our value: techUK helps our members understand, engage and influence the development of digital and tech policy in the UK and beyond. We support our members to understand some of the most complex and thorny policy questions that confront our sector. From the impact of AI on our economy and society to how we get the right infrastructure, skills, and regulatory environment for a thriving UK tech sector. Our members get access to expert networks and analysis, helping them orientate their business in an ever-changing world.
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Skills, Talent and Diversity
Our aim: To make sure that the UK is a world-leading digital economy that works for everyone it is crucial that people have the digital skills needed for life and work. Rapid digitisation is creating surging demand for digital skills across the economy and the current domestic skills pipeline cannot keep up. Digitisation is also leading to rapid changes in the labour market that means some traditional roles are being displaced. There is an urgent need to better match the demand and supply.
Our value: The modern workplace needs a digital skillset. We work with our members to signpost the opportunity of digital jobs and ensure these opportunities are open to people of diverse backgrounds. We strive to help our members attract, recruit, and retain a diverse workforce, whilst showcasing their work on workplace innovation and talent management through our website, blogs, and speaking opportunities.
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Smart Infrastructure and Systems
Our aim: Our built infrastructure is digitally defined. We champion the role of technology in driving positive outcomes; from hitting net zero goals to improving safety. In doing so, we also optimise the commercial and regulatory landscape to ensure innovation in infrastructure can flourish.
Our value: In a competitive market, we bring members access to exclusive opportunities to meet with prospective clients and partners. Our programme of networking, roundtables and market engagement events help members improve performance and generate commercial advantage. This unparalleled access, supported by need-to-know regulatory updates, enables our members to grow, influence, and strengthen their reputation as innovators.
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SME
Our aim: With over 600 SME members, techUK understands the issues that are most relevant to the UK SME tech sector. Across our 21 dedicated Programmes our expert teams help our SME members to do things they may struggle to do alone. We help members to meet, network and collaborate with their peers, industry leaders, and customers in the private and public sectors. We help members to achieve their business goals, and ultimately, we support a return on investment for their membership. If you are an SME, you will find that techUK has a range of services, programmes and advice to help your business.
Our value: Across 21 dedicated Programmes our expert teams help our SME members to do things they may struggle to do alone. We help them to affect policy that is beneficial to their businesses. We develop relationships critical to their growth. We showcase their products and services to our audiences. We facilitate meetings and events, and we create opportunities for them to meet clients, customers, policy makers and politicians.
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Technology and Innovation
Our aim: techUK is central to the UK’s innovation ecosystem. We bring members, industry stakeholders, and UK Government together to champion emerging technologies as an integral part of the UK economy. We help to create an environment where innovation can flourish, helping our members to build relationships, showcase their technology, and grow their business.
Our value: techUK is passionate about showcasing our members working at the cutting edge of emerging technologies. We hold over 50 events a year giving members the opportunity to share their insight, connect with clients, customers, and partners, and speak with policy makers and politicians on issues important to them. We strive to help our members develop relationships critical to their growth.
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The first step towards becoming a member of techUK is to have a meeting with our Membership team. In this meeting we can discuss the value of membership, answer your questions, and explain our joining process.
If you would like to find out more about techUK membership please complete the enquiry form below and our Membership team will be in touch. Alternatively, FAQs are below, or you are welcome to email us at [email protected] for further information.
For more information about techUK membership, please contact:
Glyn Hughes
Glyn is head of business development at techUK and works with potential member companies to understand their business needs and make sure that they are aware of what techUK has to offer.
Jaroszlav Katai
Jaroszlav is the Business Development Executive at techUK.