Tech London Advocates & Global Tech Advocates

Global Tech Advocates UK Regions Group Lead 

Tech North Advocates

Tech North Advocates is a collection of tech leaders, experts and investors uniting to form the most influential independent, private sector group in the North of England.  
 
Tech North Advocates is a private sector led coalition of  expert individuals from the tech sector and broader community who will becommitted to championing the North of England’s potential as a world-class hub for tech and digital businesses. It will strive to support the North's tech start-ups and high-growth businesses in finding new investment, new talent and continued success. The group will consists of technology entrepreneurs, established digital giants, journalists, government figures and vital suppliers to our industry. The group also has Overseas Advocates from 20 countries and territories across the world which include Tech London Advocates, Tech Nordic Advocates, Tech China Advocates, Tech India Advocates to name but a few.

Co Founder

Oxford Innovation

Economies and places flourish when entrepreneurs are supported to start and grow their businesses.

We work with universities, local authorities, science parks, companies and investors to help transform their towns, cities and communities. We do this by creating the workplaces that help ambitious entrepreneurs and innovators to grow their businesses and create high value employment.

Throughout our network of innovation centres, we are providing entrepreneurial businesses with the communities and workspaces that encourage their growth.

We are passionate about regeneration, fostering innovation, encouraging talent and providing support to young companies. Building clusters of great businesses, we help to create successful sector-focused hubs in universities, public sector buildings and research sites, enabling entrepreneurs to innovate and grow.

Innovation Director

Self-Employed

I have worked with several types of businesses over the last 10 years. From billion pound turnover companies to startups. I am usually brought in to do a specific project and and as consultant don’t always get to see the final result. I have a business-drive approach. 

All projects start with a clearly defined business challenge brief to ensure that we do not chase shiny objects and instead deliver targeted value. 

Looking beyond a product-centric focus to explore new business models, new channels, new services, new technologies, new consumer experiences and the evolving path-to-purchase. Utilising proven startup processes and tools including venture pitch development I roll up my sleeves to become part of the “founding team”.

The local/national/international ecosystem needs are important to me, I like seeing a business grow and take shape and be part of the ecosystem. Great founding teams with a real passion, have an unfair advantage, and some sort of founder/market fit. I have worked with businesses to identify their purpose, and use that purpose to help decide which goals deserve their attention.

I have worked with businesses to become entrepreneurial - making them adopt a hands-on approach with their projects using a wide variety of entrepreneurial tools, as well as a structured intrapreneurship process to change ideas into market-ready solutions. Putting the end user at the very centre of the innovation process, to design new solutions that customers will love. 

An innovative culture and the right set of creativity techniques are essential. Enhance your team’s customer-centric mindset and skills in developing new products, services, and business concepts, as well as finding new markets for your innovative technology. 

Supporting a business to map out how you’ll achieve your business goals, from the initiatives you’ll run, to the budget, and the governance model. I am willing to challenge ideas and thoughts.

Freelance Growth & Innovation Consultant 

The University of Salford

Supporting programme development and organisation of 50th Anniversary ICZ events including Innovating Future Business and Creative Entrepreneur 2017. Guest lectures and support for a range of modules including Business IT, MSc Digital Marketing, Employability and Events management. Support for employability hub to connect students and projects to industry
Other consultation aimed at supporting ICZ initiatives and exceptional partners.

Honorary Industry Fellow

Board Member - Salford Business School Industry Advisory Board

The Industry Advisory Board (IAB) is an independent body of experienced professionals brought together on the basis of their expertise and engagement with the School to support and advise the Salford Business School Dean, Executive Team and wider staff. Non-Academic Advisory Board Members contribute business acumen, expertise and ‘industry reach’ in the UK and internationally that contributes to the current and future activities and development of the Business School and/or to the wider University.

Chair - Salford Business School Industry Advisory Board

Various guest lectures on a variety of subjects including employability and enterprise. Startup Mentor on the Global Innovation Office project.

Guest Lecturer

GSI - Growth Strategy Innovation

We are GSI, advisors to entrepreneurs on growth, strategy and innovation. Our team have worked with companies ranging from startups to scale-ups and from family businesses to listed corporations providing entrepreneur led advice, and access to the networks, partners and suppliers to enable sustainable success.

Co-Founder

UK Tech Week

The inaugural UK Tech Week will be hosted across the country on 23rd to 25th April, with existing tech weeks and regional festivals taking part, both to put on events during the week and also to signpost their own events during the year. An open platform format means that any existing events and organisations can take part in the week, benefiting from collaboration across the UK.

Founded by Stuart Clarke MBE, the Festival Director of the Leeds Digital Festival, it has the support of a number of events such as Birmingham Tech Week and organisations including techUK and Global Tech Advocates. UKTN will be the media partner for the inaugural event. Clarke is being supported by Naomi Timperley, a well-known and respected figure in the tech world.

Parnerships and Engagement 

Vocaleyes Democracy C.I.C.

A digital platform to help you organise, support and inspire communities and get ideas moving...
Quite simply we bring together communities, social innovators, educators and everyone who wants to get collaborative ideas into action on one platform.

Connect. Collaborate. Co-create
Make a positive change for the people and places you care about.

Our platform provides an open and transparent means for promoting the ‘vocalisation’ of ideas, and for deliberating, deciding and progressing the best of these ideas into meaningful actions. 

We encourage ideas and are committed to positively supporting change. We care about our impact on wellbeing and the environment, and we collaborate openly to encourage inclusion, wellbeing and participation. This ethos is not just a way of life for us but built into the foundations of our platform.

Board Member

FutureEverything

Since 1995, we’ve been kickstarting conversation and co-designing the future of digital culture with communities around the world. Together with an international community of artists, technologists and industry collaborators, we explore the intersection of art, technology and society through bold new art commissions, living labs, participatory design and public events.

Interim Chair

Capital Pilot

We exist to navigate capital to ideas and ideas to capital so both grow faster and everyone can benefit from more success. Our mission is to use our platform to harness knowledge and talent, connecting the whole system through radical transparency to create an environment that’s positive, open-minded and works for all. Our vision is for our model to have positively changed the way people raise and invest capital across the globe, helping thousands of startups to take off and go further than they ever imagined.

Chair

Naomi Timperley is a trailblazing business consultant and co-founder of Tech North Advocates, a leading network championing the growth of the UK tech sector. Recently named the 2nd Most Influential Woman in UK Tech by Computer Weekly in 2024, Naomi has a distinguished career mentoring startups, advising global organisations, and supporting digital innovation. Her expertise spans AI adoption, business transformation, and collaboration between corporates and tech ecosystems. Naomi’s engaging talks provide actionable insights that empower businesses to embrace change and thrive in a digital-first world.

Dear LinkedIn

I hope this message finds you well. 

I am reaching out as both a long-standing member of the LinkedIn community and a recent victim of a serious, criminal case of cyberstalking. After more than two years of sustained online harassment across multiple platforms, the perpetrator in my case was recently convicted and sentenced to 28 months in prison for stalking and malicious communications.

The case has been widely reported:

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Despite this conviction and despite multiple reports made to LinkedIn providing evidence of the abuse, defamatory posts, and police involvement, these posts remain live on the platform.

To make matters worse, there is now a third party actively harassing us on the perpetrator’s behalf, continuing the campaign of intimidation even after sentencing. Which myself and Brad 🇬🇧🦁🔆 Burton have reported to the police as we have a restraining order in place. 

LinkedIn’s own guidelines clearly prohibit:

“Abuse, including bullying, harassment, targeted attacks, and the sharing of private information. This also includes trolling, hate speech, scams, and unwanted sexual advances.”

However, the reality of enforcement has not matched this policy.

I fully recognise the scale of moderation challenges LinkedIn faces, but the wider social impact of inaction in cases like this is devastating, not only for victims like me but also for the platform’s reputation as a trusted professional space.

I am writing to ask:

Can LinkedIn’s Trust & Safety and Social Impact teams urgently review this case?

Can stronger victim protection measures be put in place for verified victims of harassment, particularly in cases with criminal convictions?

Can we explore how LinkedIn might collaborate with law enforcement or advocacy organisations to better support victims of online abuse?

This is not just a matter of content moderation. It’s about the duty of care to protect users from further harm especially when the courts have already recognised the severity of that harm.

I would be grateful for the opportunity to discuss this further, or for you to connect me directly with someone in the appropriate team who can help.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. I believe LinkedIn has a powerful opportunity here not only to protect victims like me but to set an industry standard for what accountability and compassion look like in digital spaces.

Warm regards
Naomi Timperley

*Hopefully the cat pic will get your attention

Naomi Timperley FRSA

Computer Weekly Most Influential Woman in UK Tech 2024 (2nd), Innovation Director, Growth & Innovation Consultant & Innovation Eco System Builder

On Monday 13th October at 10pm, the second episode of Social Media Monsters airs on Channel 4 (also available on 4 on Demand). This episode tells the story of me, Brad 🇬🇧🦁🔆 Burton  and Justine Wright, as three victims of a relentless campaign of online harassment that has deeply affected our lives and wellbeing.

Social Media Monsters examines serious crimes where social media played a significant role, meeting victims, friends and families, and gaining insight from police, psychologists and other experts.

For over three years, we’ve fought not only to protect ourselves but to be heard. To be believed. To seek justice in a system that has delayed sentencing five times and still leaves us without closure.

This documentary is difficult, honest, and important.
It shows the devastating real-world impact of online abuse not just the messages or posts, but the emotional, psychological, and professional toll it takes on victims. What happens after the police report is made. What happens when justice is delayed again and again.

I’m sharing my story because I want things to change for myself, for Brad 🇬🇧🦁🔆 Burton , Justine Wright and Lauren D. and for every other victim who has been made to feel invisible.

The damage caused by stalking casts a long shadow over victims’ lives.

Please watch. Please share. And please remember: behind every online comment, there’s a real person and sometimes, a survivor.

You can watch on TV tonight or on demand here: https://lnkd.in/eBfWTY79

#SocialMediaMonsters #Channel4 #OnlineHarassment #StalkingAwareness #DigitalSafety #JusticeDelayed #VictimsVoices #WomenInTech #MentalHealthAwareness #StopOnlineAbuse

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“Tech leader’s stalking ordeal highlighted in powerful Channel 4 documentary” 

The makers of the programme from Crackit TV also contacted the social media companies who have failed to stop the harassment and examined serious crimes where social media played a significant role, meeting victims, friends and families, and gaining insight from police, psychologists and other experts.

They include Jane Lawrenson, a highly decorated senior police officer, most latterly with the National Crime Agency, who said: “Social media companies have a huge responsibility in cases like this, and they should be held accountable for what goes on on their platforms.”

Naomi T.

Open article: Tech leader's stalking ordeal highlighted in powerful Channel 4 documentary | TheBusinessDesk.com by thebusinessdesk.com

Tech leader's stalking ordeal highlighted in powerful Channel 4 documentary | TheBusinessDesk.com

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