The Innovation@Leeds LIVE programme will see a series of conferences and knowledge-based events taking place across Leeds locations from February-April 2022.

The Innovation@Leeds LIVE programme will give the entrepreneurs of the future invaluable opportunities for learning and networking. The programme will underline the importance of collaboration as new forms of tech evolve and offer fresh solutions to local challenges as well as global issues such as climate change and poverty. It will also shine a light on the many ways in which tech businesses in Leeds have adapted to the unprecedented difficulties and changing behaviours of the last two years.

The Innovation@Leeds LIVE programme includes:

•    A launch event for the Green Finance Innovation Network, which is being established to connect the next generation of financial services professionals with experts on climate and environmental risks (February 28, Nexus – University of Leeds);

•    The Innovate Space Festival, organised by Space Hub Yorkshire and the University of Leeds Business School to encourage early-stage innovation in the space technology sector (March 15 and 16, Nexus – University of Leeds);

•    The FinTech North Leeds Conference 2022, where themes will include sustainability, diversity and inclusion in the world of financial technology (March 17, Salem Chapel);

•    AI Tech North’s Great Northern AI Summit 2022, where the agenda items will include creating new opportunities for businesses, start-ups and women in tech (March 17 and 18, Leeds City Museum).

•    Whitecap Consulting’s LegalTech in Leeds conference, which will bring legal and tech firms together with digital experts and a range of stakeholders (March 24, hosted by Bruntwood in central Leeds);

•    No Code Hack 2022, an event run by No Code Lab that will see multiple teams of self-confessed ‘non-techies’ working against the clock to tackle a technology challenge (March 31, Avenue HQ);

•    Northernlands, a conference organised by Open Innovations – in partnership with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands – where key topics will include innovation, data, sustainability and trade relations (April 26, online).