Kemi Badenoch, UK’s Business & Trade Secretary on the Banqueting House in London. (Image: Debashis Sarkar/News18)
On the sidelines of the UK’s largest tech convention – London Tech Week – Business & Trade Secretary, Kemi Badenoch, addressed delegates, tech companies and buyers on the Banqueting House in London to announce the Unicorn Kingdom: Pathfinder Awards 2023.
The UK appears to be gearing as much as transfer on from Brexit, pandemic and the on-going Russia-Ukraine warfare and at last give attention to its tech enterprise technique to spice up its economic system. On the sidelines of the UK’s largest tech convention – London Tech Week – Business & Trade Secretary, Kemi Badenoch, addressed delegates, tech companies and buyers on the Banqueting House in London to announce that ‘UK is open for business’.
At London Tech Week 2023, the UK invited the largest ever Asia Pacific delegation, together with funding funds price £100 billion.
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“Ladies and Gentlemen, we are open for business. And that’s why I’m excited to announce the launch of our new global tech awards, promoting the benefits of the UK ecosystem around the world,” mentioned Business & Trade Secretary, Kemi Badenoch.
The UK’s authorities is actively selling itself to world tech companies as “Unicorn Kingdom”.
The new award is an growth of the Tech Rocketship Awards and known as ‘Unicorn Kingdom: Pathfinder Awards 2023’. The UK authorities hopes to determine the “brightest and best tech companies around the world.” The winners might be flown to the UK and given help to assist them speed up their enterprise development.
“And while I’m talking about growth, I’m sure you are all aware that it was just a few weeks ago that we agreed our accession to the CPTPP – the UK’s biggest trade agreement since we left the EU – which promises huge potential for the UK economy. Such trade deals are often framed as being all about tariffs and the trading of physical goods, but they’re about much more,” mentioned Badenoch.
The authorities is seeking to cement additional its relationship between the tech sectors of the UK and APAC. “For this reason, it is my great pleasure to say that the APAC Digital Trade Network, which seeks to raise the profile and accelerate the expansion of UK technology in Asia will expand its coverage to two new markets – Vietnam and Taiwan,” added Badenoch.
She additionally introduced that the federal government has appointed Oxfordshire-based Intralink to ship help throughout 11 APAC markets, “ensuring UK tech firms get the support they need to trade and flourish in this fast-growing and vibrant part of the world.”
