Date: Wednesday 10 February 2010
Venue: Winter Gardens, Weston Super Mare
WEAF ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Date: Wednesday 10 February 2010
Venue: Winter Gardens - Weston Super Mare
The 2010 Annual conference theme is "Managing the Future" and has an exciting line up of speakers.
AGENDA
08:45 Registration
09:45 Conference Welcome & Introduction
10:00 BAC 100 Launch
10:10 Ian Godden A|D|S
10:30 James Godman - AgustaWestland
10:50 Jim French - Flybe
11:10 Coffee Break
11:40 Ian Lucas MP
12:00 Interactive Session
12:40 Election Results
12:45 Networking Lunch - Exhibition stands
14:00 Session 1
UKTI China Workshop - (90 minutes)
With the rapid growth of the Chinese aerospace and automotive sectors, value chain opportunities are emerging in all areas of advanced engineering. Excellent opportunities exist for high-level UK advanced engineering companies. Over the last 9 months, UK Trade & Investment has deployed three specialists to identify opportunities in automotive, aerospace and clean manufacturing, with two of the specialists having recently completed short secondments in China. By attending this event, you will improve your company's knowledge and capability in the following key areas:
Key market drivers and trends
Principal China business opportunities
Market entry and methods of doing business, including business culture; and
Network of UKTI support in China
14:00 Session 2
Nuclear the opportunities - (40 minutes)
The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) is the trade association and information body for the UK civil nuclear industry, representing over 180 companies. www.niauk.org
The NIA's Nuclear Supply Chain Development Programme (SC@nuclear) is an industry/government initiative aimed at raising awareness of the opportunities that exist and that are being created in the civil nuclear sector.
This session will provide an outline of the current status and signpost useful links and information sources, plus offer advice on how to get involved.
14:45 Session 3
Aerospace opportunities in offshore wind - (40 minutes)
UK aerospace skills and capacity are in demand for work on projects such as the world's largest offshore wind power installation, the £2 billion London Array wind farm. The array is one of 37 UK offshore sites earmarked for development by 2020. Some 6,000 turbines are planned.
The industry to supply, install and operate these turbines will require a manufacturing and support services industry comparable in scale to that of North Sea oil and gas. Many of the relevant skills and services are already present in the aerospace sector.
The potential work includes the design, tooling and manufacture of large and small composite structures, aerofoil/blade design, engineering testing and analysis, gearboxes and drive train component design and manufacture, forgings and castings, sensors and control systems, radar mitigation technology, helicopters and robotic vehicles (ROV), MRO and operations management.
Free expert help is available through the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) UK Renewables Service to assist aerospace suppliers to understand the opportunity for their business, and plan an approach if appropriate.
16:00 Event Close
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