The event claims to provide senior engineering decision makers across the UK supply chain with real networking and business opportunities within existing and upcoming aerospace programmes, delivered by leading representatives from civil and military programme management.
To be held every two years, and alternating with the Farnborough Airshow, AeroEngineering is set to attract over 1,500 attendees from every level of the UK aerospace supply chain with selective European and international attendance in a 100% ‘engineering only' environment.
Indeed, everyone who is anyone in UK aerospace trade associations and industry bodies has pledged support to this year's exhibition. In addition to UK Trade & Investment and the North West Aerospace Alliance, the event's long list of collaborative partners now also includes Aerospace Wales, Farnborough Aerospace Consortium, the Midlands Aerospace Alliance, the West of England Aerospace Forum and the Aerospace & Defence KTN, a network for business, Government and academia that fosters collaborative research and development.
Aimed at aerospace business leaders and supply chain professionals, AeroEngineering combines a focused exhibition with a Strategic Business & Skills Summit – ‘Providing the Vision to Generate Strategy' – where delegates will gain invaluable insight into future programmes and consider the related technology and skills capability requirements.
The event boasts a series of free to attend Open Technology Forums, presenting aerospace decision makers with the latest developments and trends throughout the aerospace engineering chain.
The comprehensive programme will extend from design modelling, simulation and analysis, through production techniques and quality control as well as test and evaluation. The series of highly relevant and ‘to the point' technically focused sessions – held in a dedicated auditorium on the AeroEngineering showfloor – will also embrace updates on: composites, hard metal machining, integrated assembly, advanced metalforming and joining, automation, robotics and tooling, and process treatments.
Aerospace business leaders and supply chain professionals are for the first time being offered exclusive opportunities to gain the inside track on future global aero programme opportunities and procurement processes at this year's event.
The presentations are designed to exclusively present the important facts, figures, and manufacturing and skill requirements to enable existing - and potential - members of the aerospace supply chain to correctly position their businesses to capitalise on future aero programmes.
The Strategic Business Summit and concurrent AeroSkills Session – designed to address the skills required for current and future aerospace engineers – complements the AeroEngineering Exhibition and Open Technology Forums designed to showcase leading edge suppliers and technologies.
In the AeroEngineering Strategic Business Summit Programme - Providing the Vision to Generate Strategy - tier one programme managers from around the world will present to delegates unrivalled insights that will help them determine the necessary technology requirements and skill needs of future programme requirements.
The programmes scheduled for discussion include:
The Future International Aircraft Programme session is scheduled to include:
These will be complemented by a chairman's opening address by Rear Admiral Terry Loughran CB FRAeS, a welcome address by Neil Semple, head of aerospace, advanced engineering, UK Trade & Investment as well as a keynote presentation by A|D|S (formerly the SBAC).
In addition, a session on prime contractors is planned by Reinald Plau, head of engineering, Premium Aerotec, Germany, plus the Future Engineering Challenges programme.
With such an array of industry elite presenters and high profile projects on offer at AeroEngineering, event director, Ian Stone claims: “If your business is in aerospace, then you have to make it your business to be at this event!”
AeroSkills session to meet industry needs
Targeted at inspiring, recruiting and maintaining the next generation of aerospace engineering professionals, the AeroSkills Session at AeroEngineering is dedicated to helping the UK and European aerospace engineering industries achieve their workforce expectations and requirements – both in the current economic climate and going forward over the next decade.
The AeroSkills programme will include:
There will also be a panel session – a skills discussion group – involving speakers from the UK aerospace cluster groups, and the closing address will be by Rear Admiral Terry Loughran CB FRAeS.
AeroSkills will appeal to business and financial leaders as well as HR professionals throughout the aerospace engineering industries, in addition to educationalists and recruitment consultants.
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