What the robots need
Plus the Tech Summit and latest job moves.
Happy Monday and welcome back, today I'll mainly be stomping around King's Cross.
Happening Today 📆
Reds and Blues: It's the Tech Summit at H/Advisors' HQ in King's Cross, organised by the Fabian Society and Bright Blue. The keynote this morning is from shadow tech minister Ben Spencer at 10am, followed by City Minister Lucy Rigby at 2pm. Other speakers include chair of the Sovereign AI Unit James Wise, who is on a panel at 9am, the Lib Dems tech spokesperson Victoria Collins at 11:20am, while a regulation panel at 12:10pm includes Kir Nuthi from techUK, Leo Ringer from Form Ventures and David Lawrence from the Centre for British Progress.
Robot report: TechUK launches its robotics report at 3pm with an event at its St Bride Street office. More below.
Lots of hyphens: Business secretary Peter Kyle is in Berlin for the German-UK Business-Government Forum. There is a decent tech representation with speakers from Darktrace, Vodafone and Siemens.
In Westminster: Parliament should wind down this week ahead of the May elections, but the government still needs to get the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill through which is being held up by a row with the Lords over a social media ban for under 16s. It is in the Lords this afternoon and then scheduled to return to the Commons this evening if the Lords don't agree the government amendments.
Other evening plans: The Council for Countering Disinformation discusses the impact of AI on disinfo at an event in the Lords from 5pm.
In today's edition for paid subscribers:
🤖 The UK is great at robotic research, terrible at adoption. TechUK has some ideas to change that.
👀 Why a Canadian-German AI deal should be closely watched by the UK.
💼 Latest job moves