The Humber region is a land of opportunity for its businesses, KCOM CEO Tim Shaw told delegates to the Humber Business Week launch event.
The event, entitled Let’s Talk Place, was organised by Future Humber to energise the local business community and build momentum towards a shared prosperous future.
Mr Shaw said there was enormous potential for the digital and tech sectors in the Humber, using KCOM’s award winning full fibre broadband as a platform to build on.
“Digital and tech are really key in the area,” he said: “There are many global companies that are using the Humber as their base and lots of great start-up companies such as Vertual, which is developing world leading cancer treatment, at places such as C4DI Add to this the potential for remote working that was kickstarted by the pandemic and we have a huge platform here to attract people to our region.”
Mr Shaw added that the growing green energy sector led by companies such as Siemens had the potential to transform’s the area’s economy, while the region also had a strong pipeline of talent coming through from the strong science-teaching institutions such as the University of Hull, Hull College and Ron Dearing UTC.
“If we can fix the carbon problem in the Humber we can take that right around the world,” he said.
Mr Shaw was part of a panel discussing the subject alongside Jane Stafford, CEO of Hull University Students’ Union, Charlotte Bowen, Founder of The Culture House and James Trowsdale, Strategic Lead for Culture, North East Lincolnshire Council.
