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