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If You Build It, Will They Come? Designing Places Where Tech Talent Thrives

Every city wants to be a tech hub. Most aren't. What separates the places that actually attract and keep exceptional talent from the ones that build the campus and wonder where everyone went?

This session brings together people who've watched it work and those who've watched it fail — from London's Knowledge Quarter, now home to OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic, to the Amsterdam metropolitan region's next wave of expansion, and to the Dealroom data on where ecosystems are actually growing.