Tanya Suarez
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. 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. I have also recently been elected to the Quantum Industry Consortium’s Governing Board.
Sessions in which Tanya Suarez participates
Santa Margherita - Auditorium
Plenary
Tanya Suarez, BlueSpecs/AIOTI (Moderator)
Thomas Hahn, Siemens AG (Speaker)
Dr Ulrich Kelber, The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Speaker)
Veronica Jarnskjold Buer, Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Speaker)
Sessions in which Tanya Suarez attends
University Ca' Foscari - Aula Mario Baratto
Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum (Moderator)
Richard Kuhn, NIST (Speaker)
Dr Ramon Alcarria, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Speaker)
Dr Alessio Pagani, nChain (Speaker)
Stephan Nilsson, UNISOT AS (Speaker)
Ca' Dolfin - Aula Magna
Mr Paolo Balboni, Maastricht University (Moderator)
Sophie Nerbonne, CNIL (Speaker)
Mr Cosimo Monda, European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) (Speaker)
Ms Immaculate Kassait, Office of the Data Protection Commissioner of Kenya (Speaker)
Mr Massimo Marelli, International Committee of the Red Cross (Speaker)
Sara Agnello, STELLANTIS (Speaker)
Mr Guido Scorza, Garante per la protezione dei dati personali - Italian Data Protection Supervisory Authority (Speaker)
Ms Emerald de Leeuw, Logitech (Speaker)
Santa Margherita - Auditorium
Michihito Kojima, Personal Information Protection Commission (Keynote speaker)
Ca' Dolfin - Aula Magna
Panel
Sébastien Ziegler, Mandat International / ECCP (Moderator)
Cecilia del Barrio Arleo, European Central Bank (Speaker)
Julien Thomas, Standard & Poors (S&P Global Ratings) (Speaker)
Helena Koning, Mastercard (Speaker)