In 2012 Mark Glover, Director of Business Planning at the Technology Strategy Board will be co-chairing Taftie with John Hill, CEO of Pera. The Annual Conference, also open to non-European and non-member agencies, will be held in Cambridge on the 11^th June.

Taftie brings together 25 leading European innovation agencies, including Vinnova (Sweden), Tekes (Finland), OSEO (France), VDI/VDE (Germany), NL Agency (Netherlands) and FFG (Austria). Taftie works to share international best practice in supporting innovation, to train member agency staff through the Taftie Academy, and to aid the collaboration of European businesses in order to compete internationally.

Kate Yarrington and David Golding will also be representing the Technology Strategy Board on TAFTIE’s Executive Working Group. More information can be found on www.taftie.org.