UK Workshops
Amy Weatherup
Amy Weatherup (formerly Amy Mokady) is a serial entrepreneur who has held senior sales, marketing and business development roles in both start-ups and multinational companies, and now focuses on turning university research into practice. She was co-founder and marketing director of STNC Ltd., a venture-backed start-up which was one of the first companies to develop web…
Dr. Lara Allen
Dr Lara Allen has worked extensively in international development and in academia. She has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and was an Associate Professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2007, she co-founded Tshulu Trust, which links rural communities in the Venda region of South Africa with universities around…
Terence Naidu
Terence Naidu is the Founder and CEO of Envisionit. Envisionit Deep AI is an innovative medical technology company that utilises AI to streamline and improve medical imaging diagnosis for radiologists. Their AI validation tool, RATify®, allows for a prospective analysis of an AI’s performance in real-time once it has been deployed into an environment. Envisionit…
Nguyen Tuan Anh
Nguyen Tuan Anh is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Lumi, the leading smart home brand in Vietnam’s domestic market. Lumi has a vision to bring Vietnamese technology to the world market and cooperate with international companies to constantly innovate in order to provide outstandingly comfortable and safe living solutions for customers.
Dr. Atif Syed
Dr Atif Syed is the CEO and Founder of Wootzano Ltd, a British state-of-the-art robotics company based in Sedgefield, in the northeast of England. Their highly dexterous robotic system, Avarai™, is crafted to meet the needs of the post-harvest industry by supplementing a struggling workforce in the packing of delicate, soft produce. Wootzano is expanding…
Susannah Poulton
Susannah Poulton is an International Trade Adviser within the Department for Business and Trade. She works with companies to find proactive solutions to promoting their business positions globally and within the UK. Susannah shared some of the opportunities for support available to UK companies interested in engaging with the ASEAN region.
Azira Ahimsa
Azira Ahimsa is the Senior Trade and Investment Manager within the Department for Business and Trade at the British Embassy in Jakarta, focusing on Digital Trade. She led the first UK Artificial Intelligence Trade Mission to Indonesia in September 2023, bringing eight leading AI organisations from the UK to meet and exchange ideas with Indonesian…
Richard Carey-Evans
Richard Carey-Evans is a Senior Innovation Advisor at St John’s Innovation Centre with a demonstrated history of successful international company management. He delivers Innovate UK EDGE funded mentoring and coaching to innovative and disruptive growth companies in and around Cambridge. Richard shared more about the work of St John’s Innovation Centre and the UK support…
