UKTN | The Podcast

About UKTN | The Podcast

Each week, Jane Wakefield sits down with some of the key movers and shakers from the UK tech ecosystem for the UKTN Podcast. Learn growth strategies from both seasoned and up-and-coming founders, hear market sentiments from investors, and understand the tech policy affecting businesses across the country. The UKTN Podcast provides insight into the most influential people in the UK’s innovation economy, exploring their personal and professional journeys and hearing their views on the hottest tech topics of the day.

Publisher

UKTN

Category

business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Feb 2022

Latest episode

24 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

175 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Aug 2026

   The power behind the UK’s AI revolution - Simon McIntosh-Smith, Director, BriCS

   Jane Wakefield talks to Simon McIntosh-Smith about the role the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing is playing as the UK builds it own AI economy. The supercomputer is the UK’s fastest - and we discuss its size, why it is helping monitor a herd of dairy cows, and how the centre is dealing with the challenges of power-hungry AI.

2. 

   17 Aug 2026

   Universities aren’t set up for commercialisation – Anne Lane, CEO, UCL Ventures

   Dr Anne Lane, chief executive officer of UCL Ventures, discusses why commercialising research at British universities remains a challenge despite significant will and the enormous impact of spending money on cutting-edge research. UCL Ventures, formerly UCL Business, is the commercialisation arm of one of the world’s most prestigious universities.

3. 

   10 Aug 2026

   Producing drugs in outer space – Katie King, BioOrbit

   Katie King, co-founder and chief executive of BioOrbit, discusses how her company is building pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities designed to operate in space and why that could fundamentally transform how the production of medicine works. BioOrbit is a British space tech company that aims to use the irreplicable conditions of outer space to improve the development of drugs that could massively shape how humans treat some of Earth’s most dangerous conditions.

Who has been a guest on UKTN | The Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Gary Waterfall
• Ahti Heinla
• Elena Pantazi
• Jessica Lennard
• Tanya Suarez

Reach and audience

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Spotify

4.9 / 5

20 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

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Quality

80

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

82

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