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Tech City UK Cluster Showcase event - Sheffield & Leeds
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#SuperCityNorth
Sheffield – Maker CityLeeds – Data City
@SuperCityNorth #SuperCityNorth
Investment opportunity
Metropolitan population of 4.8million, 155,000 SME’s22% of workforce in knowledge economy195,000 students, 55,000 graduates per year5million sqft of grade B & C office stock available at circa £10/sqftCost of living 60% lower than London2hrs travel to London by train (with coffee and wifi) 140,000 TMT workersICT salary costs 25% lower than LondonDigital Economy worth £3.4bn p/aUK leading quality of life and cost of living combination
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Quality of life???
40 mins from centre of Leeds30 mins from centre of Sheffield
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Some Established Players
Infrastructure
Telecoms & Healthtech
Sports Data & Gaming
ELearning & Digital Agencies
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Fintech
20 Years of cluster development
Health– NHS England, HQ in Leeds– NHS Spine– NSCIC – the data source for UK health
statistics– Smart City for Health & Innovation– University of Huddersfield 3MBic
hardware incubator– Bradford University Health2.0 Institute
Financial & Professional Services– 2nd largest UK financial and business
services hub in Leeds– 120,000 jobs in Financial & Professional
Services– HSBC European ICT HQ, HBOS,
Yorkshire Bank, Direct Line, DLA Piper, PWC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Arup, KPMG Innovation & Solutions Centre
Consumer Services– 20 years of leading the gaming industry
~ Rockstar, Sumo Digital & Sheffield Hallam University ACES faculty
– Elearning cluster catalysed by LearnDirect
– ISP & Telecoms cluster catalysed by PlusNet, EE, Vodafone, Dialogue and BT
– Digital Agency cluster in Leeds
Advanced Engineering – University of Sheffield AMRC– Advanced materials design &
development– University of Sheffield A.I. research, and
Big Data in Energy and Virtual Health, now teaching agile dev methodologies
– Leeds University Big Data Institute
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Some of our Rising Stars
Leeds
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Huddersfield
Connected super city:
• 15m Population in the m62 corridor
• Six high growth tier 2 cities & 2 global ports
• Transport modernisation programme committed anchored by Northern Rail Hub
• 400 years of importing talent and global export of goods and services
• 400k TMT workers, 40k engaged in TMT research and R&D
• 420k students, 80k studying computer science or engineering
At the heart of the original silicon valley
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Did we mention quality of life???
40 mins from centre of Leeds30 mins from centre of Sheffield
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Building on our assets
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• Sheffield– IoT Accelerator ~ Leveraging materials expertise and manufacturing
supply chains across the North– Social Enterprise Accelerator ~ Focusing on Health & Social Care,
eLearning and Voluntary communities across the North• Leeds
– MedTech Accelerator ~ Working with AHSNs and Healthtech supply chains across the North
– FinTech Accelerator ~ Leveraging the Financial services cluster in Leeds.• Manchester ~ Working in partnership with our red rose cousins, two more
accelerators coming soon……..• Entrepreneur Hubs ~ H.O.T’s agreed on Campus Sheffield (60k sqft),
negotiations ongoing on Campus Leeds (circa 100k sqft)• Entrepreneur Rail Pass ~ in development with East Midland Trains
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