Dra. Tanya Suarez

PhD in Information and Communication Technologies (UPCT) and a degree in Business Law from London Guildhall University. She has nearly 30 years of experience at the intersection of strategy, emerging technologies, and the creation of new ventures.

Founder and CEO of IoT Tribe, an organisation specialising in the creation and acceleration of advanced technology companies, headquartered in London with an office in Dublin. She launched Janus, the dual-use technology accelerator of the UK Ministry of Defence and NATO DIANA. Janus works with startups and high-potential scale-up companies to transform cutting-edge technologies into operational capabilities for the United Kingdom and its NATO allies.

IoT Tribe is also part of the Heimdall consortium, led by QinetiQ, contributing advanced data integration capabilities to Defence Digital Decision Accelerators (DDAD).

She is a member of the Advisory Board of Trinity Business School and of the governing body of the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC), where she chairs the Defence and Security Working Group. She is also a member of the European Innovation Council (EIC) jury and the STEP Scale-Up jury.