This document provides a detailed response from the Digital Industry to the consultation launched by the Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership and Mayoral Combined Authority to set the region’s economic direction for the next 20 years. This response has been compiled from contributions made by Sheffield Digital’s membership, the wider digital community in and

Within weeks of the world entering lockdown in 2020, users of online gaming platforms such as Steam and Twitch soared. The popularity of video gaming, and particularly online gaming, increased as many people picked up a controller to help reduce the stresses and anxieties of social restrictions and lockdowns, as well as using online games

Without a doubt, none of us could have imagined how different the world would be in 2020. When we published our first “Quarterly Briefing” in October 2019, we fully expected to be producing regular updates on the state of Sheffield’s digital industries. Instead, we find ourselves 12 months on, grappling with the long term impacts

Writing this in October of 2020, the economic impacts of the Covid 19 pandemic are at the top of everyone’s mind and do not feel like they will be resolved for a long time, but I am proud of the collaboration that is at the heart of Sheffield’s response, across all sectors. A Business Response

Sector Priorities Increase engagement in R&D-led funding opportunities, as Sheffield doesn’t claim as much as it should for the size of its economy. Create a city-wide tech careers engagement strategy. Bring all the startup, scaleup, funding and business support infrastructure together in an annual conference and expo. Develop a region-wide digital transformation agency, which acts