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Why attend?

Join us on 20th – 21st March

Accelerate Innovation. Together.

Less talk. More action.

Unlike other events, Connected Places Summit showcases real innovation that is helping to drive jobs and growth in local and regional economies.

Join us to:

  • Hear real-life case studies
  • Network with your peers from across multiple ecosystems
  • Meet the latest technology partners showcasing their latest products and solutions

Limited spaces available.

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From idea to market.

Join us to meet and network with other SMEs, showcase your brand and thought leadership and meet potential investors to help secure funding, find delivery partners and new customers.

Join us to:

  • Showcase your brand
  • Network with investors, funders, delivery partners and potential new customers
  • Learn how other businesses are innovating for change and delivering jobs and growth

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Deliver real world impact.

Connected Places Summit will bring together academics to increase the impact of research activity and maximise its exploitation. Driving real world innovation by verifying market opportunities, finding delivery partners, and identifying future customers and initiatives.

Join us to:

  • Network with our academic network
  • Hear real-life case studies
  • Learn how government and industry can rise to the unprecedented technological, economic, environmental and social changes

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Investing in a sustainable future.

Connected Places Summit showcases real innovation, presenting clear investment opportunities to help drive jobs and growth in local and regional economies.

Join us to:

  • Meet innovative SMEs who require funding and investment to drive a sustainable growth agenda
  • Learn how to empower cities and regions with greater decision-making authority to foster economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship
  • Network with critical decision makers from Government, local authorities, financial institutions, industry and academia

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Building a sustainable future. Together.

We are living through a climate emergency. Digital technologies and new ways of living and doing business are revolutionizing our city centers, suburbs and neighborhoods. The future demands a fundamental shift in how we think about everything from energy networks and travel systems, through to our buildings and stations, ports and parks.

Join us to:

  • Discuss how to empower cities and regions with greater decision-making authority to foster economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship
  • Learn how government and industry can rise to the unprecedented technological, economic, environmental and social changes
  • Network with peers from critical ecosystems including Government, local authorities, financial institutions, industry and academia

Limited spaces available.

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Investing in a sustainable future. Together.

The future demands a fundamental shift in how we think about everything from energy networks and travel systems, through to our buildings and stations, ports and airports. The Connected Places Summit will harness the collective ingenuity, innovation, and collaboration of our community to innovate together.

Join us to:

  • Discuss how to empower cities and regions with greater decision-making authority to foster economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship
  • Learn how government and industry can rise to the unprecedented technological, economic, environmental and social changes
  • Network with peers from critical ecosystems including Government, local authorities, financial institutions, industry and academia

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The sky’s the limit

Connected Places Summit will focus on aviation climate action, integration of Future Aviation, passenger experience, and digitally connecting the aviation ecosystem, in order to position the UK at the forefront of future air transport and aviation sustainability.

Join us to:

  • Hear real-life case studies, including connecting the airports of the future with Glasgow airport
  • Network with peers from air mobility and other critical ecosystems including Government, academics, investors and SMEs
  • Meet the latest technology partners showcasing their latest products and solutions

Limited spaces available.

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Homes & Housing

Connected Places Catapult summit will showcase how innovation in the built environment is helping us address some of the biggest challenges faced within the industry.  

Join us to understand how Connected Places Catapult is developing and implementing innovative technologies and approaches to: 

  • Retrofit our homes and built environments to achieve net zero and health outcomes. 
  • Create living and working environments that are resilient and adaptable to future demographic, technological and environmental changes. 
  • Design inclusive and engaging urban spaces that stimulate growth, vibrancy and connectedness. 
  • Boost local hubs of inclusive innovation which empower local supply chains and entrepreneurship.  

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Integrated resilience.

Connected Places Summit will explore how a truly integrated infrastructure will enhance the resilience, cost effectiveness, performance and environmental sustainability of our roads and pathways.

Join us to:

  • Hear real-life case studies
  • Learn about CReDo, (National Digital Twin programme’s Climate Resilience Demonstrator) (showing the benefits of connected digital twins across infrastructure networks on adaptation and resilience
  • Meet the latest technology partners showcasing their latest products and solutions

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Navigating challenges, delivering solutions.

Connected Places Summit will explore how the maritime & ports sector is the gateway to some of the biggest challenges facing the world today, and yet presents exceptional innovation opportunities to deliver sustainable, equitable growth for our communities and economies.

Join us to:

  • Hear real-life case studies, including the Port of Tyne: Innovating in the Northeast of England
  • Learn how government and industry can rise to the unprecedented technological, economic, environmental and social changes
  • Network with peers from maritime and other critical ecosystems including Government, academics, investors and SMEs

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Innovation-led levelling up.

Join us at the Connected Places Summit to help empower place leaders to be confident customers of innovation and effective stewards of the UK’s innovation economy.

Join us to:

  • Learn what the UK’s Procurement Bill means for local innovation, and where the opportunities for local contracting authorities, innovators and local economies are.
  • Hear real-life case studies, including, Kick-starting the West Midland’s Innovation Engine
  • Network with peers from critical ecosystems including Government, academics, investors and SMEs

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Connecting society together.

Join Connected Places Summit to accelerate innovation in the UK rail ecosystem – addressing technology and market barriers, as we bring supply chain and challenge owners closer together.

Join us to:

  • Hear real-life case studies, including, Bristol Temple Meads: more than just a railway station
  • Network with peers from maritime and other critical ecosystems including Government, academics, investors and SMEs
  • Learn how government and industry can rise to the unprecedented technological, economic, environmental and social changes

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OUR COMMUNITIES INCLUDE

Connected Places
Summit is the place for

Inspiration

About how places will
enable economic growth
and job creation

Discovering

New products and
solutions that will drive
innovation and sustainability

Networking

With UK and global
peers and visionaries

Engaging

With industry luminaries
and thought leaders