Cybersecurity Trade Mission: Singapore 🇸🇬

Our journey began in Singapore, as part of the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) Cybersecurity Trade Mission. This mission provided a timely and highly valuable platform to engage with a world-class cybersecurity ecosystem, bringing together government stakeholders, industry leaders, and innovators focused on securing critical digital and physical infrastructure.

Singapore’s role as a regional cybersecurity hub made it the ideal environment to discuss hardware assurance, defence-grade security, and the increasing need for trust at silicon level. The mission enabled meaningful conversations around real-world deployment, cross-border collaboration, and how UK innovation can scale global

Strategic Engagement in Taiwan 🇹🇼

From Singapore, the mission continued to Taiwan, with the support of TAITRA Global (Taiwan External Trade Development Council) and the Taiwan Trade Centre in London. Taiwan sits at the heart of the global semiconductor supply chain, making it an essential destination for any company addressing hardware trust and assurance.

Engaging with Taiwanese stakeholders reinforced how critical hardware security has become- not only for commercial products, but also for national resilience, defence, and critical infrastructure. The discussions helped deepen our understanding of supply-chain assurance challenges and opened doors to long-term strategic collaboration.

At Ethicronics, we're almost always busy with events. It's important to consolidate what we've learned, and to appreciate the gems of knowledge bequeathed to us by deep-tech experts. So where have we been and what have we gathered?

The first photonic quantum computer was (arguably) designed in Bristol in 2013 -- thank you to Martin Weides for clarifying this point. Recently, as part of SiliconCatalyst's third cohort of start-ups, we attended Chipstart's event in Bristol. Here is a (blurry) picture of Franck doing his presentation!

The city's legacy in deep-tech is palpable. Each CEO gave an elevator pitch. As I watched, I became increasingly gripped by a pervasive sense of excitement. This, it occurred to me in a moment of inspiration, is how the world goes round. Novel ideas, and the execution of those ideas, function as the engine of human advancement.

Also, as a (self-admitted) neophyte in deep-tech, I learned an important lesson. Of course, when gauging the potential of a start-up, the ideas themselves are most important. But the way in which these ideas are communicated should not, by any means, be underestimated. I was struck by the clarity with which the CEOs expressed their ideas. Similarly, at Ethicronics, we strive to 'translate', as it were, deep-tech terminology to those who want to get into the industry.