Tech City UK Cluster Showcase event - North East
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NORTH EAST SOFTWARE INDUSTRY
• 1,400+ software companies
• Over 10,000 sector employees
• £600m regional sector revenue
• £23.1m co-invested into the sector via FfBNE
• Over 3,000 coding club participants per year
NORTH EAST IN NUMBERS
IT’S ABOUT MARKET OPPORTUNITY & EFFICIENCY
• £900m renewable energy market place
• Automotive supply chain
• Burgeoning sub-sea sector
• Public sector challenge = software sector opportunity
• Significantly lower costs
OPPORTUNTIES
UNIQUENESS
• Newcastle University’s £2m Cloud Computing Centre and Centre for Doctoral training in Cloud & Big Data (50 Ph.D. students)
• UK’s first joint Catapult project – ITWIP
• NetPark – Satellite Application Catapult hub
• NaREC – Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult Centre
• CPI – High Value Manufacturing Catapult hub
• NVI Hub
• Finance for Business North East
SO WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
David Dunn, CEO
+44 (0)191 562 3346
uk.linkedin.com/in/ddunn1
@sunsoftcity
@ignite100
www.sunderlandsoftwarecity.com
www.ignite100.com
SO WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
David Dunn, CEO
+44 (0)191 562 3346
uk.linkedin.com/in/ddunn1
@sunsoftcity
@ignite100
www.sunderlandsoftwarecity.com
www.ignite100.com