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Tanya Suarez

Board Member of AIOTI, Founder of IoT Tribe and CEO of BluSpecs
BluSpecs
Participates in 4 items

BluSpecs, CEO | IoT Tribe, Founder | AIOTI, Board Member | QUIC, Governing Board

LLB (HONS) and PhD candidate in ICT

Founder of 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.  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 also run IoT Tribe, an equity-free tech ecosystem builder that brings start-ups and corporates together to do business with hubs in London/Barnsley- Connected Places and  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 am a regular contributor to the UK Tech Sector Calls that enables the Minister for Digital and Infrastructure to gage the state of the UK’s tech scene and how policy and HMG initiatives may impact it.

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. I have also recently been elected to the Quantum Industry Consortium’s Governing Board.


 

Sessions in which Tanya Suarez participates

Tuesday 5 April, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Rome
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Quantum Computing & Security: What & Why?
1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

University Ca' Foscari - Aula Mario Baratto

Panel

Laure Le Bars, SAP (Chair)

Tanya Suarez, BluSpecs (Speaker)

Carlos Abellan, QuSide (Speaker)

Simone Capeleto, ThinkQuantum (Speaker)

Ms. Eleni Diamanti, CNRS (Speaker)

Track description: By exploiting the properties of quantum physics, quantu...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Quantum Internet & Quantum Communication
1 hour, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

University Ca' Foscari - Aula Mario Baratto

Panel

Tanya Suarez, BluSpecs (Moderator)

Laure Le Bars, SAP (Speaker)

Ms. Eleni Diamanti, CNRS (Speaker)

Martina Ottavi, Thales Alenia Space (Speaker)

Giuseppe Vallone, University of Padova (Speaker)

Marc Kaplan, VeriQloud (Speaker)

Track description:  By exploiting the properties of quantum physics, ...
4:30 PM
4:30 PM

University Ca' Foscari - Aula Mario Baratto

Panel

Tanya Suarez, BluSpecs (Moderator)

Laure Le Bars, SAP (Chair)

Rainer Baumgart, Eurobits / eleQtron (Speaker)

Track description:  By exploiting the properties of quantum physics, ...
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
Welcome reception
2 hours, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Networking Events

Ms. Cecilia Àlvarez Rigaudias, Meta (Participant)

Mr. Pasquale Annicchino, Università di Foggia (Participant)

Francisco Arga e Lima, ELSA (Participant)

Mr Alessandro Bernes, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Participant)

Luca Bolognini, Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati (Participant)

Prof. Carlo Alberto Carnevale-Maffé, Bocconi University (Participant)

Roberto Cascella, European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) (Participant)

Anna Cataleta, P4I- Digital360 (Participant)

Vinton G. Cerf, Google (Participant)

Avv Vincenzo Colarocco, studio previti (Participant)

Mr Cédric Crettaz, MI (Participant)

Alessandro Del Ninno, Tonucci & Partners Law Firm (Participant)

Giuseppe Fico, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Participant)

Mr Stefano Fratta, Meta (Participant)

Dr Marie-Louise Gächter, Data Protection Authority of the Principality of Liechtenstein (Participant)

Ms Clarisse Girot, OECD (Participant)

Ms. Urszula Góral, Personal Data Protection Office (Participant)

Thomas Hahn, Siemens AG (Participant)

Katherine Harman-Stokes, Department of Justice (Participant)

Ms Andrea Jelinek, EDPB / DSB (Participant)

Mr Peter Kimpian, Council of Europe (Participant)

Ms. Kari Laumann, Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Participant)

Ms Catherine Lennman, FDPIC (Participant)

Prof. Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, Predictby (Participant)

Mr Alessandro Mantelero, Politecnico di Torino (Participant)

Estelle Massé, Access Now (Participant)

Fabrice Naftalski, EY, société d'avocats (Participant)

Paul Nemitz, European Commission (Participant)

Roberto Obialero, Clusit (Participant)

Enrico Pelino, Grieco Pelino Avvocati (GPA) (Participant)

Dr Attila Péterfalvi, Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Participant)

Alessandra Pierucci, Garante per la protezione dei dati personali/Council of Europe Consultative Committee of Convention 108 (Participant)

Ms Audrey Plonk, OECD (Participant)

Ms. Renáta Radócz, IoTLab (Participant)

Anand Rao, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Participant)

Giovanni Maria Riccio, E-Lex Law Firm (Participant)

Ph.D., LL.M. Carlo Rossi Chauvenet, Studio Associato CRCLEX (Participant)

Mr Ralf Sauer, European Commission (Participant)

Dr. Stefan Schiffner, BHH University of Applied Sciences (Participant)

Guido Scorza, GPDP (Participant)

Isabelle Servoz-Gallucci, Council of Europe (Participant)

Claudio Telmon, Clusit (Participant)

Ms Cécile Théard-Jallu, De Gaulle Fleurance (Participant)

Mr Nino Tlapak, DORDA Rechtsanwälte GmbH (Participant)

Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor (Participant)

Sébastien Ziegler, Mandat International / ECCP (Participant)

Ms. Selina Zipponi, Dedalus S.p.A (Participant)

Conor Hogan, BSI Group (Participant)

Laure Le Bars, SAP (Participant)

Marco Scialdone, Euroconsumers / Università Europea di Roma (Participant)

Mr Waldemar Gonçalves Ortunho Júnior, ANPD (Participant)

Bruno Gencarelli, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers at the European Commission (Participant)

Ms. Elham Tabassi, NIST (Participant)

Ms. Jane Horvath, Apple (Participant)

Mr Rob van Eijk, Future of Privacy Forum (Participant)

Ms Karolina Mackiewicz, European Connected Health Alliance (Participant)

Mr Alban Schmutz, OVHcloud (Participant)

Alexander Filip, Data Protection Authority of Bavaria for the Private Sector (Participant)

Mr Gwendal Le Grand, EDPB (European Data Protection Board) (Participant)

Brent Homan, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Participant)

Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum (Participant)

Mr Olivier Guillo, Smart Global Governance (Participant)

Antonio Skarmeta, Universidad de Murcia (Participant)

David Goodman, Trust in Digital Life (Participant)

Joann O´Brien, TM Forum (Participant)

Eva Fogelström, Ericsson (Participant)

Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University (Participant)

Magdalena Kogut, Timelex (Participant)

Mr James Joshi, US National Science Foundation (Participant)

Ms. Federica Paolucci, ELSA International (Participant)

Tanya Suarez, BluSpecs (Participant)

Mr Joe Jones, IAPP (Participant)

Steve Wood, PrivacyX Consulting (Participant)

Mr Renato Opice Blum, Opice Blum, Bruno e Vainzof Advogados (Participant)

Ms. Heidi Kivekäs, National Cyber Security Centre of Finland (Participant)

Bilel Jamoussi (Participant)

Mr Gurdip Singh, National Science Foundation (Participant)

Dr Ana Brian Nougrères, OHCHR (Participant)

Ms. Blanca Lilia Ibarra Cadena, National Institute for Transparency Access to Information and Personal Data Protection (Participant)

Mr Norman Barbosa, Microsoft (Participant)

Ms. Silvia Stefanelli, studio Stefanelli&Stefanelli (Participant)

Andrea Stazi, Google (Participant)

Ms. Laura Liguori, Portolano Cavallo (Participant)

Ms Fernanda Faini, University of Pisa - Università Cattolica (Participant)

Mr. Rosario Imperiali D'Afflitto, House of Data Imperiali (Participant)

Mr Diego Fulco, Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati (Participant)

Rocco Panetta, IAPP (Participant)

Geert Somers, Timelex (Participant)

Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Radboud University (Participant)

Nadia Arnaboldi, Asso dpo (Participant)

Fabiana Zollo, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Participant)

Teresa Scantamburlo, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia (Participant)

Prof. Fabrizio Marrella, Ca' Foscari University (Participant)

Tim Jacquemard, Trilateral Research (Participant)

Julie Brill, Microsoft (Participant)

Cornelia Kutterer, Microsoft (Participant)

Patrick Wetterwald, Cisco (Participant)

Florence Raynal, CNIL (Participant)

Alexander Seger, Council of Europe (Participant)

Ms. Anna Fielder, EDRI (Participant)

Pierre Chastanet, European Commission DG Connect (Participant)

Mr Olivier Micol, European Commission - Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (Participant)

Anne Josephine Flanagan, WEF (Participant)

Duncan Brown, IDC (Participant)

Yiannos Tolias, European Commission (Participant)

Prof Leandro Pecchia, University of Warwick (Participant)

Paolo Balboni, Maastricht University ECPC (Participant)

Mr. Giulio Maggiore, Telecom Italia (Participant)

Jana Pattynová, PIERSTONE (Participant)

Fabrizio Venturelli, WORKDAY (Participant)

Mr Spiros Tassis, Chair of HADPP (Participant)

Ms. Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology (Participant)

Aleksandra Korolova, USC (Participant)

Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) (Participant)

Fulvio Sarzana di S. Ippolito, International University UniNettuno of Rome (Participant)

Ms. Cristina Schulman, Cybercrime Convention Committee (Participant)

Avv. Nicola Fabiano, Studio Legale Fabiano (Participant)

Mr Cosimo Monda, European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity - Maastricht University (Participant)

Mr Massimo Marelli, International Committee of the Red Cross (Participant)

Mr Aaron Martin, Tilburg Law School (Participant)

Mr John Magee, DLA Piper Ireland LLP (Participant)

Mr Giulio Coraggio, DLA Piper (Participant)

Mr Giangiacomo Olivi, Dentons Europe Studio Legale Tributario (Participant)

Dott. Agostino Ghiglia, Garante della Protezione dei dati Personali (Participant)

Peter Winn, Department of Justice (Participant)

Daniele Canavese, Politecnico di Torino (Participant)

Afonso Ferreira, CNRS-IRIT (Participant)

Sunil Chaudhary, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Participant)

Vasileios Gkioulos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Participant)

Carlos Esteban Budde, University of Trento (Participant)

Giuseppe Manco (Participant)

Shukun Tokas, SINTEF DIGITAL (Participant)

Laurens Sion, KU Leuven (Participant)

Médéric Collas, Informatique Banque Populaire (Participant)

Stephan Krenn, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) (Participant)

Juan Carlos, Atos Spain (Participant)

Carlos Abellan, QuSide (Participant)

Martina Ottavi, Thales Alenia Space (Participant)

Lutz Peschke, Bilkent University (Participant)

Athanasios Drougkas, EU Agency for Cybersecurity - ENISA (Participant)

Mr Lucio Scudiero, Legance Avvocati Associati (Participant)

Frans Folkvord, PandeVita (Participant)

Ms. Marit Hansen, Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz (ULD) (Participant)

Tommaso Stranieri, Deloitte Risk Advisory (Participant)

Mr Andrea Rigoni, Deloitte (Participant)

Mr Valerio Sudrio, Usercentrics (Participant)

Mr Stefano Leucci, EDPS - European Data Protection Supervisor (Participant)

Ms. Eleni Diamanti, CNRS (Participant)

Simone Capeleto, ThinkQuantum (Participant)

Stefano Rinauro, Polizia di Stato (Participant)

Adam Smith, Boston University (Participant)

Mario Maawad, CaixaBank (Participant)

Aljosa Pasic, Atos Spain (Participant)

Mr Olivier Matter, European Data Protection Supervisor (Participant)

George Mina, Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Participant)

David Reichel, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) (Participant)

Chiara Romano, Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali (Participant)

Thomas Duong, Health Data Hub (Participant)

Philipp Mittelberger, BWB Rechtsanwälte AG (Participant)

Nathalie Thiberge, European Commission (Participant)

Julien Thomas, Standard & Poors (S&P Global Ratings) (Participant)

Giuseppe Vallone, University of Padova (Participant)

Rainer Baumgart, Eurobits / eleQtron (Participant)

Andreas Maetzler, Prighter Group (Participant)

Sebastian Steinbuss, International Data Spaces Association (Participant)

Mr Pierre Gronlier, Gaia-X (Participant)

Karolina Mojzesowicz, European Commission (Participant)

Dr. Andrea Bertolini, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Participant)

Pilar Sala, MYSPHERA (Participant)

Mr. Nicola Bernardi, Federprivacy (Participant)

Evangelos Ouzounis, ENISA (Participant)

Sara Testa, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Participant)

Isabel Hahn, European Data Protection Supervisor (Participant)

Luis Carrascal, Inetum (Participant)

Olav Lysne, Simula Metropolian CDE (Participant)

Veronica Jarnskjold Buer, Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Participant)

Dr. Liming Zhu, CSIRO (Participant)

Owe Langfeldt, EC DG Justice (Participant)

Alison Howard, Microsoft (Participant)

Kenneth Harris, United States Department of Justice (Participant)

Matteo Melideo (Participant)

Alexander Mense (Participant)

Ms. Nairane Rabelo Leitão, ANPD (Participant)

Griff Ferris, Fair Trials (Participant)

Ms. Catherine Jasserand, KU Leuven CiTiP (Participant)

Gianluigi Marino, Osborne Clarke (Participant)

Francesca Sallicati, TREE TECHNOLOGY (Participant)

Caroline Goemans-Dorny, INTERPOL (Participant)

Willy Fabritius, SGS (Participant)

Hielke Hijmans, Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit (Participant)

Mr Shawn Jensen, Profila (Participant)

Alessandro Ortalda, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Participant)

Dr. Sandro Lovisa, SAP SE (Participant)

Dominik Schwarz, SAP SE (Participant)

Lukas Helminger, TACEO (Participant)

Marc Kaplan, VeriQloud (Participant)

Peter Fleischer, Google (Participant)

Pietro Randine, Norwegian Centre for E-health Research (Participant)

Cristina Melero, Medtronic Ibérica S.A. (Participant)

Dr Yomna Abdelrahman, Bundeswehr University Munich (Participant)

Supriya Sreekant Adhatarao, Inria - Grenoble - France (Participant)

Sven Albrecht, Chemnitz University of Technology (Participant)

Lauren L. Bernick, United States Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Participant)

Peter Broennimann, State Secretariat for Education (Participant)

Manuel Cheminod, CNR-IEIIT (Participant)

Nasreen Djouini, U.S. Department of Commerce (Participant)

Mr Peter Eberl, European Commission (Participant)

Helena Koning, Mastercard (Participant)

Dr. Eugenio Gaeta, UPM (Participant)

Alain Herrmann, Commission Nationale pour la Protection des données (Participant)

Juanjo Hierro, FIWARE Foundation e.V. (Participant)

Romeo Kadir, Association Data Protection Professionals Europe (ADPPRO) (Participant)

Nicholas Martin, Fraunhofer Institute (Participant)

Franco Mercalli, MultiMed Engineers srls (Speaker)

Stea Miteva, UDG (Participant)

Marie-Laurence Navarri, French Ministry of Defense (Participant)

Christoph Bausewein, CrowdStrike | EFDPO | BvD (Participant)

Marta Staccioli, Google Italy S.r.l. (Participant)

Silvia Vidor, University of Trento (Participant)

Lipsarani Sahoo, University of North Carolina (Participant)

Arianna Rossi, SNT - University of Luxembourg (Participant)

Annalisa Trama, Evaluative Epidemiology Unit at the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori (Participant)

Otto Bruun, Swisscore (Participant)

Giada Galasso, University of Foggia (Participant)

Gerd Brost, Fraunhofer AISEC (Participant)