Building the Indonesia–UK Innovation Corridor: One Vision. Creating Value. Scaling Impact.
Digital innovation is reshaping economies worldwide, and the partnership between Indonesia and the United Kingdom sits at the heart of one of its most exciting frontiers.
Indonesia is Southeast Asia's largest economy and its most vibrant startup ecosystem. The country is home to over 2,400 startups, is a testament to Indonesia's capacity to build technology that scales. With a digital economy valued at over USD 90 billion in 2024 and projected to reach USD 200–300 billion by 2030, Indonesia is not just a market to watch, it is a market to act on.
At the same time, the United Kingdom brings the ideal complement. As Europe's leading tech hub, the UK is home to over 30,000 technology companies, a thriving deep tech and AI research base, world-class universities, and one of the most active venture capital markets globally. London consistently ranks as a top-three global startup ecosystem alongside Silicon Valley and New York.
The convergence of these two ecosystems, one defined by depth and maturity, the other by scale and momentum, creates a compelling case for collaboration. Strategic partnerships, co-investment, talent exchange, and market access commitments between UK and Indonesian stakeholders are not just possible. they are increasingly necessary for both countries to remain competitive in a fast-moving global digital economy.
This masterclass session at London Tech Week 2026 brings together founders, investors, policymakers, and ecosystem leaders from both nations to turn that potential into impactful action. The Vice Minister will deliver his keynote on Indonesia's policy on digital and AI development. After that, six high-growth startups from Indonesia will also pitch their innovations, namely:
Kata.ai: Enterprise conversational AI and automation solutions that help businesses and public institutions manage customer interactions.
Nodeflux: Computer vision and video analytics technology that turns existing CCTV into AI-powered systems for security, traffic management.
Braga Technologies: AI-powered geospatial analytics platform that turns spatial data into actionable insights for monitoring, analysis, and decision-making across sectors.
PathGen Diagnostik Teknologi: PathGen aims to transform Indonesia Healthcare with vomprehensive genomics solutions through melecular diagnostic and services, and digtal platform for pathology and clinical support.
MileApp: No-code field operations platform that helps businesses plan, track, and optimise logistics, sales, and service activities in real time
Inspigo: AI-powered enterprise learning platform that helps organisations build and measure human capability through simulation, coaching, and personalised learning paths
We invite all investors, VCs, tech companies, and partners to join this masterclass session discussing and exploring cooperation with Indonesia tech startups.
Speakers:
H.E. Desra Percaya, Ph.D,The Ambassador of Indonesia to the UK, Ireland and IMO -
H.E. Ambassador Desra Percaya, PhD is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Kingdom, also accredited to Ireland and the International Maritime Organization. Throughout his career, Ambassador Desra has been deeply engaged in shaping Indonesia’s foreign policy, particularly in the areas of international peace and security, disarmament, human rights, economic development, and social and humanitarian affairs.
Mr. Edwin Hidayat Abdullah, Director General of Digital Ecosystem at Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia -
Mr. EdwiN Hidayat Abdullah is a well seasoned Executive and a former Deputy Minister of State Owned Enterprise with a demonstrated history of working in the aviation service industry management consulting, property, oil and gas and telco industry. Skilled in Analytical Skills, Corporate Finance, Strategic Management, Corporate Restructuring, Stakeholders Management, Economic Policy, Martial Arts, and Leadership. Strong community and social services professional graduated from National University of Singapore. LKY Fellow at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Ideas Fellow at Sloan School of Management, MIT.
Mr. Arifin Putra, Co-Founder at Habibie Innovation Incubator -
Arifin is an actor-turned-angel investor, who firmly believes in empowering social entrepreneurs to be impactful, sustainable and profitable in order to expedite the world’s transition to a circular economy. He has actively invested up and down the sustainable food value chain from food tech, e-grocer and alternative protein start-ups in the Asia Pacific region. Arifin is now actively empowering Small and Medium Enterprises in Indonesia to go global through the Habibie Innovation Incubator, as well as facilitating foreign entities to explore expansion opportunities into Indonesia.
Six startup founders will also join the session:
Irzan Raditya, CEO Kata.ai
Indra Prastha, CEO of MileApp
Dirga Sumantri, CEO of Braga Technologies
Meidy Fitranto, CEO of Nodeflux
Setyo Guritno, CEO of Inspigo
Susanti, Founder of PathGen