Speakers

Alex Ledley

Skills Academy Manager

Alison Clark

Partner

Andrew Esson

Future Skills Lead

Andrew Mellonie

Head of Innovation in Fresh Produce and Horticulture, Marks and Spencer PLC

Andy Pye

Consultant Editor, DFA Media

Andy Storer

CEO, Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre

Andy Street

Anni Toner

Group CEO

Arash Ghazanfari

Chief Technology Officer

Ashmita Randhawa

Lead

Brian Holliday

Managing Director

Carlos López-Gómez

Head of Policy Links

Charlie Nunn

Group Chief Executive

Chris Corken

Regional Director Midlands and East

Chris Courtney

Chief Executive Officer

Chris Furber

Performance Director

Chris Owen

Programme Director

Chris White

Director - Industrial Policy Research Centre

Clare Pickin

Managing Director, MTC Operations

Daisy McAndrew

Daisy McAndrew 2022

Journalist & Broadcaster

Dame Judith Hackitt

Chair, Make UK

David Atkinson

Regional Director and UK Head of Manufacturing

David Barrett-Hague

Head of Industrial Automation Marketing for UK & Ireland & Sustainability Ambassador

David Bright

BSc, C.Eng, MIMechE, MIET

David Grailey

Managing Director, MTC Training

David Rawlins

Chief Technology Officer, Warwickshire Manufacturing Group

Dawn Wilson

Head of Training Services

Dermot Lynch

Head of Business Development & External Affairs

Don Rashitha Jayasekara

Chief of Digital Manufacturing

Dr Clive Hickman

CEO, Manufacturing Technology Centre

Dr Egbert-Jan Sol

Program Director

Dr Jillian MacBryde

Professor of Innovation and Operations Management

Dr Peter Kinnell

Professor of Metrology

Dr Rick Robinson

Director of Smart Places, Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure, Jacobs

Elyn Corfield

CEO, Business & Commercial Banking

Emily Martin

Director in Sustainability and ESG Finance, Lloyds Banking Group

Emma Burke

Co-Founder & CEO, Perfectly Fresh

Graham Hoare OBE

Chief Executive Officer

Hannah Melia

Senior Product Manager

Harry Keeling

Head of Industrial Market Strategy, Rolls-Royce SMR

Helen Kennett

Director of UK Government Relations, Rolls-Royce

Hugo Spowers

Chief Engineer & Founder, Riversimple

Huw Howells

Managing Director, Manufacturing and Industrials, Corporate & Institutional Coverage, Lloyds Banking Group

Ivan McKee MSP

Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise

James Selka

CEO

Joe Darlington

Technology Director

John Richards

Head of Battery Manufacturing, Siemens plc

Jonathon Porritt

Co-Founder, Forum for the Future

Julie James

Minister for Climate Change

Katherine Bennett CBE

Chief Executive Officer

Kevin Craven

CEO, ADS Group

Kirsty Davies-Chinnock

Managing Director

Kish Chandarana

Group Head, Product Assurance Systems & Tools

Kostas Soumilas

Senior Vice President Engineering and Technology - Civil Airframe, GKN Aerospace

Lina Huertas

Manufacturing Industry Advisor

Lord David Willetts

President, Resolution Foundation

Lord Karan Bilimoria

President of the CBI

Louise Ball

Commercial Director

Louise Kingham CBE

Senior Vice President. Europe & Head of Country, UK, BP

Lucy Siegle

Journalist and broadcaster

Màiri McAllan

Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy, Net Zero and Energy.

Margot James

Executive Chair, Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick

Marie Wells

Head of Sustainability

Mark Pawsey

MP for Rugby and Bulkington

Martin Dury

Head of Future Skills

Michael Luck

Director of the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Professor of Computer Science

Mike Wilson

Chief Automation Officer

Nandini Chakravorti

Associate Director - Technology Strategy

Natascha Engel

CEO, Policy Connect

Neil Gray

Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy

Nik Spencer

CEO, HERU

Oliver Selby

Head of Sales

Paul Bates

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Paul Brooks

Digital Transformation Lead

Paul Gordon

Managing Director, Relationship Management, Business & Commercial Banking

Paul McKnight

Head of Operations

Paul Rose

TV Presenter

Paul Scully MP

Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy

Philippa Glover

Industry Sales Manager (UK & Ireland)

Professor Alan Norbury

Chief Technologist, Siemens plc

Professor Jan Godsell

Dean, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University

Rachel Sandby-Thomas

Registrar

Richard Bramley

Chair, NFU Environment Forum

Richard Browning

Founder and Chief Test Pilot

Robert Garbett

Chief Executive

Robin Budenberg

Chairman, Lloyds Banking Group

Rosa Wells

FE Principal & Dean for STEM

Sam Turner

Chief Executive Officer

Sean Culey

Head of Value Chain

Sean Robinson

Manager, Software Solutions

Steve Picker

Technical Lead

Sudheer Parwana

Director

Tim Minshall

Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation and Head of the Institute for Manufacturing

Tony Harper

The Challenge Director for the Faraday Battery Challenge

Vaughan Gething MS 2022

Minister for Economy, Welsh Government