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thriving £5 billion digital ecosystem, Manchester is officially the <a href="https://www.investinmanchester.com/media-and-events/industry-news/2020/3/18/world-first-ai-survey-identifies-manchester-as-uks-top-digital-tech-city-a2769">UKs Top Digital Tech City</a> and its reputation for the radical has seen it take a leading position across established and emerging digital sectors, creating commercial opportunities, and leveraging tech to transform tomorrow’s business landscape.</p> <p>From start-ups to SMEs to global brands including Google, BooHoo, The Hut Group, and Microsoft, Manchester has more than 10,000 digital and tech businesses. Sitting side by side in the city’s digital and technology clusters, incubators and co-working spaces, together they converge, collaborate and drive innovation.</p> </section></div><div data-civid="6759b73bb4fb11e164c65d7b" class="contentRender contentRender_14 contentRender_type_widget contentRender_name_plugins_common_pull_quote" data-sv-time="27" data-sv-index="14" data-gtm-vars='{ "tCore" : { "contentNum" : "1" } }'> <figure class="pull-quote"> <div class="inner"> <blockquote class="quote"> “Manchester is one of the most vibrant and modern cities in Europe, with strong education links and high connectivity, offering outstanding opportunities and quality of life for our team. The new Enterprise City space is the perfect home for game development, with its deep investment in businesses focused on media, technology and creativity.” </blockquote> <figcaption class="author">— Chris Roberts, CEO of Cloud Imperium Games</figcaption> </div> </figure></div><div data-civid="6759b73bb4fb11e164c65d7d" class="contentRender contentRender_15 contentRender_type_widget contentRender_name_plugins_common_video_player" data-sv-time="27" data-sv-index="15" data-gtm-vars='{ "tCore" : { "contentNum" : "2" } }'> <div class="video-player full" data-guid="07c6882d-cc6d-4f00-89d9-083eee7529d7" data-js="plugins_common_custom_video_player" data-options="{"autoplay":false,"controls":["play-large"],"loop":{"active":false},"muted":false,"storage":{"enabled":false,"key":"plyr"}}" > <div class="plyr__video-embed" data-sv-player > <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/747942207?byline=false&portrait=false&transparent=0&gesture=media" allowfullscreen allowtransparency allow="autoplay" loading="lazy" width="768" height="432" ></iframe> </div> </div> </div><div data-civid="6759b73bb4fb11e164c65d7f" class="contentRender contentRender_16 contentRender_type_widget contentRender_name_plugins_core_textbox" data-sv-time="48" data-sv-index="16" data-gtm-vars='{ "tCore" : { "contentNum" : "2" } }'><section data-sv-core-textbox data-guid="0a37b110-b62c-4e27-bbe5-e1d4fb370106"> <p>The city region innovates across a variety of sectors and in 2020, a <a href="https://www.investinmanchester.com/media-and-events/industry-news/digital-and-technology-news/2020/3/18/world-first-ai-survey-identifies-manchester-as-uks-top-digital-tech-city-a2769">world-first AI study </a>found that Manchester outperforms all other major UK cities in fields including AI and data,  <a href="https://www.investinmanchester.com/sectors/creative-digital-and-technology/cyber-security">cyber security,</a> eCommerce and IoT. Manchester is also home to the UK's largest regional <a href="https://www.investinmanchester.com/sectors/financial-professional-and-business-services/fintech">FinTech </a>ecosystem.</p> <p>A leading destination for Foreign Direct Investment, Manchester has recently been voted as the UK’s most entrepreneurial city offering pioneering companies, large and small, the key ingredients to commercialise fresh and novel ideas.</p> </section></div><div data-civid="6759b73bb4fb11e164c65d81" class="contentRender contentRender_17 contentRender_type_widget contentRender_name_plugins_common_pull_quote" data-sv-time="27" data-sv-index="17" data-gtm-vars='{ "tCore" : { "contentNum" : "2" } }'> <figure class="pull-quote"> <div class="inner"> <blockquote class="quote"> “Since joining the Greater Manchester ecosystem, we’ve been absolutely blown away. The growth ambition of everyone here is massive, but the city-region has preserved the essence of its original vision - community comes first. Greater Manchester brings together the very best minds with a shared purpose of making the North West a world-class destination for digital and cyber. Thanks to this, in a matter of months we’ve been able to grow a strong and supportive network, and we’re ready and excited to play our part in Greater Manchester’s brilliant story.” </blockquote> <figcaption class="author">— Janet Coulthurst, Chief of Staff at 6point6</figcaption> </div> </figure></div><div data-civid="632db92a39f17006a4078af1" class="contentRender contentRender_18 contentRender_type_panel contentRender_name_plugins_common_grey_background" data-sv-time="0" data-sv-index="18" data-gtm-vars='{ "tCore" : { "contentNum" : "1" } }'> <div class="background-grey"> <div data-civid="632dbb5139f17006a4078b3b" class="contentRender contentRender_19 contentRender_type_widget contentRender_name_plugins_collections_type_custom_slides contentRender_name_plugins_collections_template_custom_core_slider_4_across_fullwidth" data-sv-time="200" data-sv-index="19" data-gtm-vars='{ "tCore" : { "contentNum" : "2" } }'> <style>.slider-4-across-fullwidth .img-cont { aspect-ratio: 320 / 124; 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