Session 1
Tuesday 16 March, 11:10 AM
This opening session the Summit provides a progress report on the work of the new Midlands Manufacturing Commission following its launch in December 2020. Led by M2R Chair and MTC CEO Dr. Clive Hickman, the webinar will provide an update on the work that is underway across the 12 recommendations that aim to support the resilience and growth of Midlands manufacturers.
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Tuesday 16 March, 11:10 AM
Led by the Lloyds Banking Group, this session will provide both a strategic overview the current financial challenges and opportunities for UK SME manufacturers alongside practical support and signposting to help SME’s understand how to access the financial required to support their future growth plans.
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Tuesday 16 March, 11:10 AM
The defence sector is a national priority and a British manufacturing success story that contributes more than £11bn in exports and supports 260,000 jobs. As the technological landscape of defence evolves at pace, this webinar will showcase the innovations likely to impact the future of defence and what British manufacturers must do to stay at the forefront of this fast paced, high value sector.
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Tuesday 16 March, 12:15 PM
With the government looking at at increasing its R&D spend and new mechanisms to provide more funding and financial support to the UK’s R&D this webinar will support our audience to understand this new funding landscape and how they can benefit from new programmes, such as the Advanced Research Innovation Agency (ARIA). Led by former Government Minister, Lord David Willetts, the session and host a Q&A which will be one of the first public forums to discuss ARIA and its potential to UK manufacturers.
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Tuesday 16 March, 12:15 PM
If the ‘goal’ of our manufacturers are shooting for is one of economic prosperity and sustainable growth then how can the UK manufacturing communities build more collaborative networks and harness the regional skills and expertise across all four nations to create the partnerships that lead to new, Great British manufacturing success stories. This webinar will bring together a number of leading speakers to start to answer some of these questions and provide examples of success stories that can inspire others to see what UK manufacturers are capable of when we work across boarders and combine our skills and expertise.
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Tuesday 16 March, 12:15 PM
As we look to create new, positive trading opportunities across the globe, how can UK inspired advanced manufacturing help lead our post-covid, post Brexit recovery? This webinar will showcase a vision for how the country’s ambitions to be a major global player across multiple high value industries can be led by the UK’s increasingly responsive, confident and agile manufacturers.
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Tuesday 16 March, 14:05 PM
If the vision is to be a world leader in high value manufacturing, how do we work together to create the right conditions to enable our largest manufacturers to expand or re-shore their production to the UK? How do we better support the growth of our new tech. sectors? And what do we need to start today to create the skills we need for tomorrow to create the next generation of UK manufacturing success stories. Our speakers will share a vision of how we take on these challenges to build back stronger, with high value manufacturing at the core of the UK’s economic recovery and future prosperity.
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Tuesday 16 March, 14:05 PM
The Governments' Ten Point Plan is a step change in articulating the roadmap to how the country will achieve its legal aim to be carbon net zero by 2050. The creation of new, advanced and clean Small Nuclear Reactors across the UK is a central pillar of this plan and building this will creates major new opportunities for our nuclear sector as well as its supply chain and our manufacturing SME’s. This webinar will showcase the future of importance of green technologies and how the future of nuclear power production can power the growth of the supply chain and our SMEs with opportunities for growth
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Tuesday 16 March, 14:05 PM
In 2021 Coventry becomes the UK’s City of Culture. As a city with a strong manufacturing heritage the session with enable the Council leaders to not only share their exciting plans for the year ahead but also detail how its strong manufacturing focused past can be help shape a bright future for its local population in the creation of new, sustainable high value jobs.
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Tuesday 16 March, 15:15 PM
Take part in a genuinely rare opportunity to hear from a truly great Britain and one of the world’s greatest explorers. This live webinar will provide a rare insight about his planning, his unwavering focus and determination. We will learn how he learnt new skills, how he built multiple teams and managed his supply chain and how he achieved the finance and promotion needed to maximise the opportunity presented by every expedition. Learn how Sir Ranulph achieved so many amazing feats of endurance and be inspired by how you and your organisation can successfully overcome your own challenges.
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Wednesday 17 March, 9:50 AM
As the world’s first factory, celebrates his 250th birthday, fast forward 250 years on 50 miles away in the West Midlands a team of engineers based at the MTC are working with a range of industrial partners to re-define a modern, modular, mobile factory, ready to deploy anywhere in the world and constructed in a box. Funded by Innovate UK and ERA and led by the MTC’s engineering teams, this webinar will also detail the potential for the customisable factory in a box as well as showcase ways for new industrial partners to engage in a series of new, funded production led projects at the MTC’s new Digital Manufacturing Accelerator team in Liverpool.
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Wednesday 17 March, 9:50 AM
Industry, academia and government have a shared responsibility to build a workforce fit for the future in Manufacturing. Join Siemens to hear about their journey over the decades and learn about how they are working with their stakeholders to drive change for generations to come. Gain insight from an Apprentice that started his career over 40 years ago to an Apprentice that started her career last year and hear from Siemens skills ambassadors, Brenda Yearsley and David Thomas about why it’s critical we continual invest in skills for the future and why we have a collective responsibility.
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Wednesday 17 March, 10:50 AM
Led by the Mandy Hickson this session looks at what makes great teams and leaders. Mandy was the only female pilot on her Front Line Tornado Squadron, flying multimillion pound fast jets for the Royal Air Force. She has operated in hostile environments, including patrolling the ‘No Fly’ zone over Iraq. Carrying the latest weaponry she and her unit were ready to drop ordnance on any target in support of operations. Mandy now draws on her experiences of strategic decision-making, leadership under pressure and communication to inspire others.
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Wednesday 17 March, 10:50 AM
Productivity is one of the most important factors in determining prosperity and improving living standards. If the UK’s growth in manufacturing lies in its ability to re-shore and produce more of what we design, then increasing productivity to increase efficiencies and output from our workforce is the summits that the manufacturing communities must collectively scale. This webinar will be led by the recently launched Productivity Institute which aims to support a step-change in research available in the UK that will directly inform government policies and business strategies to improve productivity.
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Wednesday 17 March, 10:50 AM
Hosted by Nick Hussey, CEO, Hennick Group who publish the Manufacturer, this session hears from seven different manufacturing companies from across the UK on the biggest challenges they have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they have overcome them.
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Wednesday 17 March, 11:50 AM
View some of the highlights from the National Manufacturing Summit 2021 with key note addresses from: Robin Budenberg CBE, Chariman, Lloyds Banking Group, Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture, Scottish Government, Diane Dodds MLA, Minister for Economy, Transport and Northern Ireland, Ken Skates MS, Minister for Economy, Transport and North Wales, Welsh Government.
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Wednesday 17 March, 11:50 AM
In the foothills where SMEs have legacy infrastructure and limited digital skills, it is still possible to collect valuable manufacturing data and gather insights from it. There are small steps which can be taken to scale up to the pinnacle. At the pinnacle, Big Data can be utilised, in the Cloud, AI used to implement machine learning, Remote condition monitoring, Energy and process optimisation data collected, analysed, action taken and visualised, even while working from home.
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Wednesday 17 March, 14:15 PM
The challenges posed by COVID-19 created a number of high profile successes for the UK manufacturing sector. From the successful manufacturing of newly designed ventilators to the production of PPE our manufacturers delivered for the national effort. So how do we harness this newfound agility and confidence? How do we showcase the need to re-shore for both our national security and capability and and how do we create more ‘moon-shot’ projects that encourage collaboration and partnership? Led by the HMVC and VentilatorChallengeUK Consortium CEO Dick Elsy, the session will share his experiences of successfully meeting the UK’s ventilator challenge and wider societal benefits of a successful and prosperous manufacturing sector.
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Wednesday 17 March, 14:15 PM
Join Andrew Peters, Managing Director - Siemens Congleton Factory to hear about their sustainability journey on the pathway to Net Zero. Andrew will take you on a journey over the years, showcasing where they started and how far they’ve come with focus on the importance of the Environmental efficiency, the supply chain, design and behavioural change. Achieving Net Zero is a collective responsibility – We are in this together!
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Wednesday 17 March, 15:15 PM
There are few sectors in the UK that can argue their case more strongly for the breath of socio-economic benefits their provide to the their communities than manufacturing. A buoyant manufacturing sector helps upskill workers, creates rewarding jobs, can support the ‘levelling up’ agenda and helps build our national capability to deal with future crises. So how does manufacturing become the beating heart of our local communities again and how does government work with the sector to help enable, grow and then celebrate new UK based manufacturing success stories? Led by Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, the non-Executive Director of the Co-Operative Group, Collaborate CIC and the Chair of Social Enterprise UK, our experts will debate these questions and showcase a vision for how a successful manufacturing sector can create many socially responsible and inclusive benefits for communities across the UK.
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Wednesday 17 March, 15:15 PM
Successful projects are rarely completed by individuals, but by teams; coming together and working towards a collective goal and creating synergies by combining their skills and expertise. As manufacturing led projects are rarely linear, they often require multiple skills as individuals come together and new teams are created. This session will be led by MTC Ambassador and Paralympic para-canoe gold medallist Emma Wiggs as she provides a rare insight into the inner workings of the team that support her efforts to compete in Tokyo 2021. Emma will then be joined by senior engineers from the MTC and National Composites Centre (NCC) to discuss their ground breaking collaboration to build a completely new, bespoke, composite paddle, to help propel Emma to her second Paralympic gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympics.
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