2024 – A Year In Review

As 2024 draws to a close (and the last of the Christmas crackers are being pulled), we’ve taken a moment to sit back and reflect on the scale and impact of our activities this year.

It’s been rewarding to have welcomed a record number of school and college students into our Innovation District during 2024, through KQ Futures, as well as ensuring we inspire and raise career aspirations in young children right across the city region thanks to The Animates project.

Expanding our reach hasn’t ended there, having hosted several international business and public sector delegations, speaking at a number of high profile conferences and relaunching our own thought leadership event series.

All of this wouldn’t be possible without the ongoing support and collaboration from our fantastic Partners, Stakeholders and the wider community. Our unique mix of like-minded cultural and commercial organisations, academics, clinicians and scientists, has created a world-leading innovation district greater than the sum of its parts, and has resulted in a place in which the next generation of innovators know they can thrive. 

Here’s to a 2025 full of new knowledge, creative culture and world leading innovation!