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One future. Three themes.
Once-in-a-generation opportunities.
How will we live in the next generation?
Find out at Expo Sunderland: an extraordinary series of events.
Experience the future cityscape, homes, and lifestyles in the UK’s first carbon-neutral city-centre neighbourhood. Expo Sunderland is for everyone – the public, businesses, industries, and government – to learn and to be inspired.
Launched in 2023, Expo Sunderland is a growing citywide event programme designed for residents and businesses to experience the city's incredible transformation up close.
It is attracting people, brands, industries and government from the region, the UK, and beyond.
Expo is here. Are you in?
Expo Sunderland is centred around three core themes, each offering transformative experiences for visitors:
Future Homes: Explore greener, affordable homes for all residents and the solutions and initiatives supporting this goal.
Future Living: Discover ways to live happier, healthier, and more connected lives, with community-led initiatives at the heart of these solutions.
Future City: Unlock the city's potential as a connected, smart city, leveraging its industrial base, infrastructure, and environment.
Future Living
Your Future Expo - coming soon
The Future Living events programme and festivals are for residents and communities to discover new opportunities in Sunderland including healthy lifestyles, fun and entertaining activities, education, culture, food, low-carbon lifestyles and work.
New prospects in Sunderland’s growing green economy are coming to life and will be showcased at Your Future Expo in March 2025. Further Future Living events are being planned:-
- A celebration of living well in the city and making the most of new opportunities.
- Step into healthy, active, low-carbon city living, encompassing leisure and recreation, skills, culture, food, fashion, travel, and finance.
- Explore what wellbeing at work will look like for the growing business communities of the future.
Future City
Delivering the Future City 14-15 Oct 2025
The Future City events programme is where business & government come together to discuss, explore and progress innovative ideas that create city success.
Inspired by Sunderland’s imaginative regeneration, we explore how to boost social & economic growth and create sustainable cities.
Visitors come together to discover Sunderland’s low carbon, connected future through a smart city experience.
- Discover and discussed ground-breaking ideas that will make cities more equitable, healthy, sustainable and successful in our ever-changing future.
- Met innovators and technologists enabling net-zero progress.
- Explored the city’s low-carbon, connected future.
Future Home
The Future Home events programme will be the new destination for expert advice, great inspiration, innovative ideas and products for home design, better building, interiors, sustainable living, shared communities and home technology.
A selection of low-carbon homes and an exciting multi-generational housing development are the main attraction in the Vaux Neighbourhood, all built to the highest specification achievable today. And for a peek into tomorrow’s possibilities, visitors can explore further concept homes that offer affordable, efficient & healthy green homes.
- Explore sustainable home design, building, energy, interiors, technology, and upgrades.
- Tour low-carbon concept homes, Expo homes and gardens.
- Discuss and debate the future of Modern Methods of Construction, Building Information Management, eco-friendly commercial interiors and building management solutions.
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Bringing together the city’s skills and talents
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Promoting careers in new industries such as offsite advanced manufacturing and the film industry
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Increasing employment & career opportunities for everyone in Sunderland
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Generating interest in green industries and activating supply chains
Green
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Delivering the City’s carbon neutral commitments
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Promoting healthy lifestyles
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Protecting natural assets and increasing biodiversity
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Creating active travel solutions
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Encouraging sustainable living
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Creating circular economies
Smart
- Transforming digital connectivity
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Investing in digital skills & innovation
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Connecting our communities
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Capturing data to improve service delivery
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Pioneering technological solutions
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