Agenda
Registration and Networking Breakfast
The rise and fall and rise of British manufacturing: A potted history
Conference Co-Chairs- Peter Marsh, Manufacturing Editor, Financial Times
Ministerial Address
Making Things Work: The Government's Perspective
Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade, explains how the Government will achieve its vision for British manufacturing as a more powerful engine of growth in the new economy.
- The Growth Review Framework for Advanced Manufacturing
- Barriers to growth; clearing the way ahead
- Strategies to strengthen industry alliances
- Achieving regional balance
- Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills,
Corporate Keynote
How to Make Things: The Manufacturer's view
BAE Systems Chairman Dick Olver shares his insights on what can - and must - be done to help the UK make its way out of recession.
- One myth
- Two tough challenges
- Three great opportunities
- Dick Olver, Chairman, BAE Systems
Keynote Case Study
Manufacturing Innovation: How to Foster a Culture of Innovation and Change
- Ron Dennis, Executive Chairman, McLaren Automotive and McLaren Group
In conversation...
The Shape of Things to Come
In the light of a fast-changing global economic situation, Dick Olver, Will Hutton and Brian Groom discuss what needs to happen in the policy and business environment to future-proof UK manufacturing.
- Today's reality; tomorrow's world
- What new measures are needed to promote growth?
- 'Manu-services': is manufacturing more than making things?
- How do you drive innovation and exports over the long-term?
- Know-how & human capital: does image matter?
- How are global trends shaping the future of UK manufacturing?
- Where, and what, next?
- Brian Groom, UK Business & Employment Editor, Financial Times
- Will Hutton, Principal, Hertford College, University Of Oxford
- Dick Olver, Chairman, BAE Systems
Networking Tea and Coffee Break
Panel: Manufacturing Success through Innovation
This panel will showcase the companies and people - from the UK and beyond - that are successfully challenging manufacturing orthodoxy and helping spearhead a manufacturing revival.
Conference Co-Chairs- Peter Marsh, Manufacturing Editor, Financial Times
- Andrew Churchill, Managing Director, JJ Churchill
- Sir Mike Gregory, Head, Manufacturing and Management Division, Cambridge University Engineering Department and the Institute of Manufacturing
- Terry Scuoler, Chief Executive, EEF
- Roop Singh, Vice President & North America/Europe/JAPAC Head, Wipro Consulting Services, Wipro Technologies
Closing Remarks and Networking lunch
