Make Britain great again - What the UK innovation ecosystem can learn from the USA

Director at Milltown Partners specialising in UK and EU tech policy and Government relations for global tech companies. Earlier career spent in the UK Government advising Ministers in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

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Erol Morkoç is Co-Founder of MarginMood, a live sentiment intelligence platform that reads public conversation hour by hour in more than twenty languages, giving governments, campaigns and companies an early read on opinion before polls and market research catch up. He is also Co-Founder of Florida Trans-Atlantic, a private defense and intelligence firm advising governmental and private sector clients across the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, and serves as Vice Chair of External Relations for Republicans Overseas UK.

He is a familiar voice on international television, providing analysis on security, geopolitics, and US foreign policy for networks such as Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, Al Arabiya, TRT, GB News, and many others.

Erol holds an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and an MSc from the University of St Andrews, and is currently writing his doctoral thesis on leveraged sovereignty and the evolution of OSINT.

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Vinous leads public sector partnerships for ElevenLabs having spent a decade working in the tech policy space

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Nana is a Proposition Delivery Manager in the Barclays Eagle Labs. He drives engagement on external and internal communications and propositions for the function, aiding the growth of the UK founder ecosystem, the Eagle Labs brand and broader business innovation across. Nana produces a wide range of thought leadership content – inclusive of reports, regional investment thematics and online learning platforms for founders.

He is highly passionate about supporting diverse founders and has led on Eagle Labs’ accelerator programme efforts, to support these founders. Nana previously delivered Eagle Labs’ Black Venture Growth Programme, set up to aid scaling Black founders and has also been a strong advocate for Female and Asian founder workstreams.

Having worked in Barclays for 12 years, Nana’s experience spans Retail and Business Banking Coverage, Employee Communications, Marketing and his current post as a Proposition Delivery Manager.

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