With a central location between London and Scotland and access to East Coast ports, North Yorkshire boasts strategically important assets including world-leading universities and research centres.
At this free-to-attend networking breakfast, expert panellists will tell us about key industry sectors which the area excels at including food and farming, agri-tech, hospitality and clean energy.
We ask how these are supporting innovation and scale-ups as well as UK-leading corporates. How are the area’s two universities and a network of further education colleges providing an R&D and employment pipeline?
Why key commercial and residential developments mesh with economic needs will be discussed and neighbouring regions of Teesside, West Yorkshire, The Humber and Lancashire.
As will the complementary relationship between the city of York and the vast expanse of wider North Yorkshire.
We shall assess how a unified York and North Yorkshire offers a giant inward investment proposition together under a new mayoral combined authority.
