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Invest Leeds City Region Corporate Technology Join a thriving corporate technology hub Opportunity Company insight HQ hub Mastek Leeds City Region is a growing • Leading IT consultancy location for head office operations and • Works with blue chip and government development hubs including major agencies on transformation projects operations of Sky Betting & Gaming, • Collaborating with NHS Digital to Transunion, Walmart, Yorkshire Building implement a new authentication Society, Hiscox and Computershare. This process for clinicians which is giving provides a market opportunity of service back 30,000 care hours a year sector providers. Sky Betting & Gaming • Employs over 1,200 employees Ecosystem • Uses data and technology to build Our region benefits from significant personalised relationships with over strengths in skilled staff and research two million customers capability. It has a thriving business • From Leeds it maintains products and ecosystem and an affordable quality builds platforms that deal with half of life. a million customers each weekend, and processes more transactions per second than Amazon on Black Friday Digital solutions first direct Our concentration of corporate tech • The UK’s first digital and telephone only operations provides a large potential bank market for companies providing specialist • Employs over 2,000 people software. This includes cloud and data • Regularly tops national customer management solutions, digital marketing satisfaction surveys into the financial services, retail and Hiscox communications sectors. • Specialises in niche areas of the insurance market, aimed at companies Talent pool and high-net-worth individuals Over 332,000 are employed in the • Offer cover against such risks as financial and professional services hacking, kidnapping and satellite sector. Our universities produce 39,000 damage graduates per year providing a significant talent pipeline for IT and head office operations. Tony Corby | Sector Manager, Creative and Digital | M: +44 (0) 7779 455 027 | E: [email protected] Invest Leeds City Region Creative Industries Join a thriving creative sector Opportunity Company insight Leeds City Region has a thriving creative ecosystem of film makers, games designers and digital agencies. Production Park Home to UK broadcaster Channel 4’s new national • Where the world’s iconic music headquarters, the region offers a prime location to production stages are made capitalise on its commitment to commission 50 per cent of content spend across the Nations and Regions. • Europe’s largest live rehearsal complex • Used by Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Talent pool the Brit Awards, and F1 teams, as well as for art installations at the Olympics and the Louvre We are home to a thriving gaming sector with many leaders in their field including Team 17, Redkite Games Cyber Duck and Rockstar Leeds. These companies are aligned to institutions such as Digital Creativity Labs that deliver • Leading digital agency utilising bespoke software development courses. Our region user-centred design, data and offers an immediate and future proofed talent pool for technology creative companies. • Clients include the Bank of England, Mitsubishi Electric and Collaborate the UK government Rockstar Leeds Home to six of the top 10 digital agencies in the North of England including twentysix, Stickyeyes • Makers of iconic games and Epiphany. including Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne Strong community of creatives with which to collaborate and test market opportunity, with • Developers of top three best- specialisms in design, software engineering, visual selling game of all time Grand effects and data analytics. Theft Auto V (IGN, 2019) Market opportunity for service providers. • Utilises AI and machine learning Big facts The UK’s creative industries have grown by over 50 per cent in the past six years. We are home to a thriving independent production sector, including True North, True Vision Yorkshire, Daisybeck, Rollem, Air TV, Duck Soup Films, Workerbee and The Garden. Tony Corby | Sector Manager, Creative and Digital | M: +44 (0) 7779 455 027 | E: [email protected] Invest Leeds City Region Data Analytics Engage with UK-leading NHS clinicians in Primary and Join a national data analytics hub Opportunity Company insight Collaboration DAZN Perform Group Collaborate and utilise open data sets with the Open Data Institute and Data Mill North • World’s leading provider of live, in areas including health, transport, business detailed sports data via Opta and the provision of local services. • Clients include the English Premier League, the NFL, Sky Sports, the Data hub Football Association and the BBC Be part of a leading hub for data analysis supported by a significant talent pool with Hudl specialisms in health and finance. • Leader in the field of sports performance and integrated video analysis tools Big Facts • Supports many of the world’s largest sports clubs and athletes Home to the largest public data set in • Works with every club in the English the world (DataIQ, 2018). Premier League Jaywing Leeds has the largest cluster of data scientists of any UK city outside of London, over 2,000 digital • Developer of Whisper, a social health informaticians work at NHS Digital (Leeds listening tool that analyses millions of List, 2017). data points • Helps businesses identify who Home to five per cent of the UK’s population, the and what is influencing people’s region has 22 per cent of its digital health jobs. behaviour • Utilises AI and machine learning CORECT-R, a significant project underway to utilise data to improve and save lives in the treatment of bowel cancer. Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA), part of the Alan Turing Institute, is a leading centre for innovation in research and industry partnerships for the curation and visualisation of big data. Tony Corby | Sector Manager, Creative and Digital | M: +44 (0) 7779 455 027 | E: [email protected] Invest Leeds City Region Fintech £ Engage with UK-leading NHS clinicians in Primary and Join a thriving Fintech sector Opportunity Company insight Major financial services brands are looking BJSS for Fintech partners. There are opportunities • Six in every ten foreign exchange for early stage Fintechs to collaborate with transactions worldwide take place Leeds City Region-based brands to meet this on systems built and developed demand. by BJSS Vocalink Big facts • Vocalink pioneered the UK’s first network of ATMs and today powers the BACs and the Faster Leeds City Region features: Payments Service that underpin the UK financial infrastructure The UK’s second financial centre Worldpay • Worldpay payments technology Over 30 banks and financial institutions process nearly 50 per cent of transactions by UK retailers Three of the top five building societies TransUnion Four of the world’s largest payment • TransUnion (formally Callcredit) processors is the UK’s second largest credit reference bureau employing over Over 332,000 people employed in financial 1,000 people and professional services (BRES 2017) “Over the past decade, Leeds has affirmed its place as a Significant brands digital hub, and we’re proud to be a part of that. We’ve been “ fortunate to benefit from a great • first direct • Lloyds Banking Group PLC local pool of talent as we’ve • CYBG PLC • Yorkshire Building Society grown, with our innovation and expertise attracting international • Skipton Building Society • Credit Karma investment” • HSBC • Equiniti • Rothschild & Co TransUnion Tony Corby | Sector Manager, Creative and Digital | M: +44 (0) 7779 455 027 | E: [email protected] Invest Leeds City Region Smart TechEngage with UK-leading NHS clinicians in Primary and Join a thriving Smart Tech hub Opportunity Company insight Test and trial city solutions for transport, air Cocoon quality and health to a market of three million • Pioneers of the use of sub people, 126,000 business, four major cities sound technology for home and and numerous large towns. commercial alarm systems • The product is the size of a tennis Explore collaborative opportunities through ball and detects low frequency the development and implementation of the sounds inaudible to the human ear West Yorkshire Transport Strategy 2040. Simplifai Systems • Developers of traffic management solutions that work alongside existing systems, sensors and smart Capability city technologies • Ability to change the colour of traffic lights in real time across a Smart City solutions: city Konnektis The University of Leeds Institute of Transport is the only facility in the world to house a full size • Creators of a leading UK care car, truck and pedestrian simulator to research platform that is transforming and test human interactions with autonomous planning and delivery vehicle systems. • Places the person at the centre of care by automating all interactions The University of Leeds combines drone away from paper based systems technology, machine learning, autonomous • Enables better communication and systems, AI and 3D printing technology to help collaboration among a patient’s identify and repair potholes in road surfaces. support network The University of York is leading the Global Initiative for Safe Autonomy tackling the challenge of safe autonomous technology in robotics and autonomous systems. Nine European cities including Amsterdam, Hamburg and Gothenburg are utilising the University of Bradford’s capabilities in the internet of things, big data and software development. Tony Corby | Sector Manager, Creative and Digital | M: +44 (0) 7779 455 027 | E: [email protected] .