Author Archives for Sarbjit Bakhshi 
Head of the ICT Sector Group Team at UK Trade and Investment.
ICT stands for Information and Communication Technology and covers everything high tech and all application areas of Information technology including new media and computer games. Busting our targets
Dear blog fans,
It seems my blog posts are more widely read than I thought, judging by the complaints I have received about not updating in a while.
What’s been happening? Well it was the end of the financial year at the end of March for us which is like other types of new year but without [...]
ICT team in effect! February and March update!
Sorry blog fans for not posting in a while. February and March are incredibly busy months for the ICT Team at UK Trade & Investment. Overseas we’ve helped UK companies at CABSAT in Dubai, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and CEBIT in Hannover amongst others. That’s not to say that we spend all our [...]
South by South West Interactive
I hope all my blog readers have had a happy new year and if you are a CEO reading this, I hope this year is your most successful yet!
We are kicking off this year with a sold line up of events. Late last year I took part in the selection procedure behind the Mission we [...]
NY Digital Mission reception at Admiralty House
Last night we were party to a lovely reception held by the Minister for Digital Engagement and the Civil Service, Tom Watson MP, for all our lovely companies that attended the UKTI NY Digital Mission event held earlier in the year in conjunction with Chinwag.
It was great to see all the companies again, many of [...]
One week away from office = 500 email inbox
It’s amazing how one busy week can throw you out of kilter! I have had day and night engagements for over a week and now have a heaving inbox demanding my attention.
Last week we had Technology World 08 – which turned out to be a roaring success. We doubled the number of foreign companies we [...]
Opportunities for UK companies to meet the buyer!
My team and I work hard all year round to put British companies in front of the right people around the world to make business happen, and we’ve got some great events coming up sponsored by the ICT team. Apart from my usual bloginage I will keep you updated on them as time goes on.
We can always [...]
Debut Piece: ICT on the scene!
Welcome to my first blog post! This one is going to be all about me – so I’m going to give advance warning for a vanity post alert.
VANITY POST BEGINS
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I’m in the privileged position of being the Head of UKTI’s ICT team. Its an unwieldy term but it means that I am responsible for the promotion [...]