Protecting the UK’s place in global tech – Russ Shaw, founder, Global Tech Advocates

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Russ Shaw, Founder of London Tech Advocates and Global Tech Advocates, discusses London and the UK’s place in the tech world and how it differs from Silicon Valley, the urgent need to support digital skills growth to protect the tech ecosystem and why the new government needs to be clear on its tech policy strategy.

Shaw founded London Tech Advocates – a non-profit launched to champion and empower the burgeoning London tech industry in the early 2010s – and has since gone on to build a network of Global Tech Advocates, supporting tech hubs across the UK and internationally. Shaw also discusses his role in the UK’s semiconductor strategy and why Labour needs to clarify its position on it.

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0:00.0	When I was seeing the startups emerged in the London tech scene in 2012, 2013, it felt a bit closed.
0:13.5	And I just said, look, it's not going to succeed.
0:16.4	If it's closed, we must open it up.
0:20.7	We're up there with three of the largest nations in the world
0:23.7	punching well above our weight. Why are we so successful? A number of reasons. Skills, talent,
0:29.4	funding, good government policies, but I actually think it's our collaborative nature as an ecosystem.
0:38.3	I'm about to go to China in a couple of weeks.
0:40.3	A number of the people that I meet when I'm there
0:43.3	are Chinese who've been educated in the UK.
0:45.3	They have fun memories.
0:47.3	They love the UK and they want to engage in the UK.
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1:25.0	Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK
1:30.7	tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related.
1:35.0	I'm your host Jane Wakefield and today I'm joined by Russ Shaw, the founder of Tech London
1:40.7	Advocates and Global Tech Advocates. Welcome Russ. Thank you Jane Great to be here. Now, let's start off with you explaining what those two groups are and what it is that they sort of do.
1:51.0	So I set up tech London advocates back in 2013 to be an independent grassroots community of tech leaders, all coming together as volunteers to promote and
2:02.6	support startups and scale-ups in the London tech ecosystem.
2:06.3	The model was so successful, certainly caught me by surprise, that we've now replicated it
2:11.7	across the UK and in 40 different hubs around the world, hence the creation of global
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