#FutureFrontiers has begun 🎉

Oli Barrett with opening remarks 🎙️

Russ Shaw CBE 'London, a city that has been around for 2000 years and always reinvented itself' 🌆

Gavin Poole 'London is without doubt one of the greatest capital cities in the world' 🌍

A great discussion underway on London tech staying ahead with Tom Adeyoola Dr Christina Yan Zhang Andrew Roughan and Oli Barrett at #FutureFrontiers at Here East - TechLondonAdvocates Global Tech Advocates

Gavin Poole TechLondonAdvocates Russ Shaw CBE Global Tech Advocates TLA Women in Tech Oli Barrett leads a panel at #FutureFrontiers with Tom Adeyoola Dr Christina Yan Zhang & Plexal’s Andrew Roughan on how London can remain a leading city for emerging #technology

Next up at #FutureFrontiers is an investment discussion with Stephanie Heller Bootstrap Europe and Adam French Antler with Oli Barrett - TechLondonAdvocates Global Tech Advocates Here East

Where do we go from here? #FutureFrontiers

Tom Adeyoola 'This is a new opportunity to set a new national narrative, a real chance now to define who we are and how we go forward'

Andrew Roughan 'We're a quarter of the way through the century now, the next 25 will be defining' 🌆

Discussing how the capital can stay ahead of the curve at #FutureFrontiers

If we think about globally, where are we in emerging tech?

Dr Christina Yan Zhang 'Very strong. Looking at the number of unicorns that London has produced, we have more than 100 - 3 times as many as Paris' 🦄

We’re heading to 2050 at #FutureFounders at Here East with Sana Khareghani Ash Ramrachia Academy (academy.tech) and Tim Creswick Vorboss with Oli Barrett - TechLondonAdvocates Global Tech Advocates Plexal

Adam French of Antler on understanding the global context:

'I think one of the challenges London faces is being complacent because there's a lot of other ecosytems that historically have been inspired by it.' 🎤

Onto 'Scaling London's Tech Sector'

Stephanie Heller of Bootstrap Europe 'Clearly London put itself on the map through betting on the Fintech sector - the tradition of financial services has been there from the start.' 🗺️

What happens by 2050?

Sana Khareghani 'I'm very optimistic. I see us living in a future where responsible AI is able to give us longer, healthier lives where we can do fun stuff creatively.

The bet the Government has to make today for our nation is literacy - digital literacy.'

Always a pleasure to spend time with TechLondonAdvocates — at Here East for #FutureFrontiers and the launch of #LDNTechManifesto as Russ Shaw CBE kicks things off with a word of warning not to be complacent about the continued world-leading success of the #London #tech ecosystem

An A-list cast for the first panel at #FutureFrontiers , as Tom Adeyoola, Dr Christina Yan Zhang, and Andrew Roughan join Oli Barrett to explore what it will take for #London to remain at the head of the pack for #emergingtech

A warning from Tom Adeyoola that the rest of #Europe is catching up to #London in terms of #innovation in #AI in particular, with the last four #unicorns created coming from outside the #UK

When you have £500m available for compute, that won’t touch the sides in terms of picking winners, but can make a massive impact at the research stage where the UK is exceptionally strong.

“We’ve been too loose in thinking about what our strengths and weaknesses are as a city… We should be taking a Sport England approach to double down on areas of strength.” — Tom Adeyoola on how #government should think about resource allocation for #innovation .

“We did a really good job of getting the ecosystem going — now it’s a case of figuring out how to make our success stories into real giants.” — Tom Adeyoola

How do we create a culture of serendipity that facilitates the connections that drive unexpected #innovation ? Andrew Roughan pushes back against the commonly-expressed frustration about UK #scaleups going abroad to grow. The knowledge exchange is important!

Funding on the agenda now at #FutureFrontiers — Stephanie Heller of Bootstrap Europe and Antler’s Adam French discussing how to scale #London ’s mature #tech ecosystem TechLondonAdvocates Here East

Stephanie interestingly highlights a transition in other markets such as Berlin from the #software companies that drove the tech #startup boom towards #hardware and infrastructure, especially in #climate tech. Will London follow suit? Can it? Should it? #FutureFrontiers

Outside of #climate , what are the booming sectors at the moment? Adam highlights *applied* #AI , from #healthtech to #fintech ; Stephanie mentions #mobility , but also talks about life sciences facing difficulties #FutureFrontiers TechLondonAdvocates Here East