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Tanya Suarez
LLB (HONS) and PhD candidate in ICT.
Founder of IoT Tribe, an equity-free tech ecosystem builder that brings start-ups and corporates together to do business with hubs in London/Barnsley- Industrial Tech, Singapore- Deeptech and Madrid-Space tech. We are proud partners of Singapore's Global Innovation Alliance that brings outstanding Singaporean companies to the UK to scale through partnerships.
I also run BluSpecs a digital transformation agency that works with companies and public sector organisations on tech adoption, from skills to ecosystem building, and helping them understand and manage data value chains. Â Among other impact-driven work, we have set and run the IoT Next Club (free to join), have worked with over 1,900 researchers from across Europe on go-to-market strategies for their tech.
I am a member of the European Innovation Council, an initiative that provides up to 3M€ in non-dilutive funding and up to 15M€ to game-changing startups and SMEs from the UK, Europe, Israel and Turkey. I am also a WEF European Digital Leader, an advisory board member to the Next Generation Internet initiative and a number of start-ups,  a member of Tech London Advocates and Tech Spain Advocates.
I am on the board of the Alliance of Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI), an industry body set up to promote IoT adoption in Europe, where I collaborate with amazing companies of all sizes and sectors and a member of the Quantum Industry Consortium's Governing Board and Chair of the Ecosystems Working Group.