The Asia-Pacific Technology Network (APTN) is a London-centred network of people interested in Asian technology. The Network has developed from the delegates who attended annual UK-Japanese, UK-Chinese and UK-Korean High Technology Forums run over 20 years from the mid-1980s.. Today, the Network is interested in developments from Japan through to India, with ASEAN and Australasia also on the agenda.
The goal is to encourage collaboration between the UK, wider Europe and Asia in the area of high technology and corporate strategy. The Network seeks to do this by deepening the mutual knowledge that participants from the two regions have of each other's innovation systems (ie how government, industry and academia work together in high technology sectors), and on the ways in which sophisticated technology is best applied to business activities
The core of our activities is a seminar series, involving some 30 seminars a year, primarily in London, but sometimes elsewhere in the UK. We invite people to these through a regular, mass email campaign. We offer annual membership, or else charge lightly for attendance. To the extent we have the time, we support the activities of others who are in the same general area. We are developing this website to include things like an annotated bibliography of books which serious observers of the Asian scene should find useful.
The next events of interest will be
At the Planning Stage (dates and programmes are still fluid)
If you want to be kept in touch with the development of any of these seminars, please drop an email to biz@aptn.org