10th Anniversary High Value Manufacturing Conference 2012

Free to be bold and build

Where: Murray Edwards College, Buckingham House Conference Centre, Cambridge, England CB3 0DR
When: 10:00-18:00, 14 November 2012
Register here now to secure your place.

Executive briefing Years running: 10; Days=1; Room capacity=140; Plenary talks=12; Panels = 25 mins * 4; Networking = 2.5hrs; Expo = yes, up to 12 booths; Who=CxOs, Heads of x, TD, marketing directors; Level=Strategic/technical; Type=industrial, commercial, business, deal-making, briefing, networking, visionary, thought-leadership conference.

• Chair for day: Professor Sir Mike Gregory CBE, Head, Institute for Manufacturing Cambridge
• Speakers include (confirmed unless indicated):
• Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge University - 2012 Nobel Prizewinner Medicine (confirmed)
• Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister (invited)
• Phil O Donovan, Co-founder Cambridge Silicon Radio plc
• Sir Robin Saxby, Founder ARM Holdings plc & Angel Investor
• Indro Mukerjee, CEO Plastic Logic
• Ray Southam, CEO Tonejet
• Scott White, CEO, PragmatIC Printing
• Hugo Spowers, Managing Director Riversimple
• Billy Boyle, Founder Owlstone Technologies
• Professor Andrew Miller, Global Acorn
• Richard Archer, former CEO TAP Biosystems
• Will Barton, Head of Manufacturing for TSB; Senior Consultant for Oxford Catalysts
• Dick Elsy, CEO HVM Catapult
• Sir Michael Marshall CBE, Owner, Marshall Group
• Panellists: Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Chancellor Cambridge University, Former Minister Innovation, Matthew Bullock, Former Chief Executive NPBS, Charles Cotton, Former MD Globespan Virata, Nick McCooke, Former CEO Solexa plc

Who attends
SME innovators, entrepreneurs, multinational technology vendors/buyers, manufacturers, value adders: leading and niche service providers, business experts, consultants, financial groups: private equity, angel and venture capital investors.

Key competencies in UK in HVM :

• High performance machining; automated assembly; advanced composites including Hybrid and MMCs and automated processes; Structural integrity testing; Virtual reality modelling of processes and systems
• Fabrication of civil nuclear components
• Net shape manufacture; Intelligent automation; Advanced tooling and fixturing; Advanced joining techniques;
• Electronics assembly; System modelling and operational efficiency
• Billet forging; sheet forming; precision forging
• Design and manufacture of composites
• Chemical processing; biotechnology; printable electronics
• Lightweight product system optimisation; energy storage and management; digital verification and validation
• Measurement and verification; cost modelling; design and manufacturing systems; materials analysis

Source: HVM Catapult founded in 2011

The manufacturing landscape can be thought of as consisting of seven interlinked strands:

• trends and drivers: events or patterns that will influence manufacturing industries in the future
• challenges: overcoming obstacles in creating and/or providing value for the UK
• market needs and opportunities: products, processes or services that can capture market share to 2025
• high value manufacturing needs: products, processes or services that the manufacturing industry will have to provide to meet the perceived market needs if it is to be competitive in the future
• national competency: an attribute of the national manufacturing industry that enables businesses to respond to the key global trends and drivers, to be competitive and to capture value in global markets for the UK in the future
• research and development: emerging science and technologies that have the potential to have a positive impact on HVM products, processes, services and activities to underpin the development of competencies
• enablers: actions required to overcome the non-technical obstacles to HVM value creation and capture.

Source: TSB Report Feb 2012 'A landscape for the future of HVM in the UK'

5 Unique Features of the HVM Conference

• The only UK HVM conference reaching its 10th anniversary!
• 10 years of assembling the thought leaders, entrepreneurs, strategists and innovators in the business
• Refresh all your relationships and learning in a single day out
• 80% of delegates are at director level - mainly private sector
• Pricing matrix with even lower levels to suit all key categories of valued delegate for excellent networking

The delegate fee enabled an individual access to the full day.

Cambridge University hosts this 27th conference in the series at purpose-built conference facility in beautiful and relaxed surrounds near the historic centre.

Over 100 private sector senior executives to attend and rub elbows in networking.

We hope you enjoy the conference and exhibition.

Justin, Maya, Mike
CIR Team 10th Anniversary HVM Conference 2012