Speeches

• April 23 . Aerospace materials and the Cambridge phenomenon: History of  Hexcel. Duxford History Society 

• November 26. Address at Bessemer Society dinner – Lifetime achievement award. London. https://www.bessemer-society.co.uk/events/
• July 4, Dartington Arts centenary night celebrations: Honouring the Elmhirsts. Evening event at Green Table, Dartington. https://www.tixtree.com/e/dartington-arts-centenary-night-celebrations-fed8ecbf4a9c

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• January 25, Hardtech industry and the future,  Foundation for Science and Technology/Royal Society, London
• March 30,  What’s next for UK manufacturing,  Confederation of British Metalforming annual dinner, Birmingham
• July 27, Interview Mike Griffiths & Susanna Griffith, Soundart Radio. Espionage, code-breaking – and fathers

• August 8, Interview Anna Neima (historian), Soundart Radio. The Elmhirsts’ legacy: the past and future for Dartington   
• December 14, Interview Satish Kumar (ecologist), Soundart Radio. Why life can improve – despite war and climate 

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• January 7, The Circular Economy -What it is and where it’s going,  Kordsa Global Leadership Summit Istanbul

• June 26, Powering the Future- the Shape of the Next 50 years, Association of Project Management conference, Manchester.

• April 8, Private meeting on future of UK manufacturing, CIL management consultants, London.
• June 19, The Digital Future of Mid-Ulster Engineering, address at Face the Future conference, Cookstown, Northern Ireland.
• October 3/4, Financial Times Annual Manufacturing Summit, London.

• January 31, Boston Consulting Group, Opportunities from Industry 4.0, London
• May 10, Made in Britain seminar, Dudley, UK.
• June 8, The Future of Manufacturing, Seminar  on Industry 2027 and Disruptive Innovations : Risks and Opportunities for Brazil,  National Confederation of Industry,  Sao Paulo.
• June 28, The New Industrial Revolution,  Manufacturing Indaba Conference, Ekurhuleni, South Africa.
• October 3, Financial Times Annual Manufacturing Summit, London.
• October 10, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Future Factory Day, London.
• November 20-22, Private engagement with Goppion, Milan.

• January 25, Planning meeting for sponsors/supporters, Made Here Now, London.
• March 17, Autodesk/Financial Times conference on manufacturing, Düsseldorf
• March 18, Making the City – Ideas Workshop at Urban Innovation Centre, London.
• April 13, The role of SMEs in the next manufacturing revolution, annual conference of International Network for Small and Medium Enterprises, Doha.
• May 12, Opportunities for UK manufacturing, Made in the Midlands exhibition,  Wolverhampton.
• May 19, Manufacturing in London, London Society, London.
• May 25,  Conference, Meet the Manufacturer/Make It British, London.

• June 23, Conference on Ireland and new manufacturing, Irish Business and Employers’ Confederation (IBEC), Dublin.
• June 28, Makers’ Workshop, EU Horizon Project, University of Birmingham.
• July 13, What’s ahead for re-shoring in the UK, Bessemer Society, Plymouth.
• July 14, UK manufacturing: Opportunities for a renaissance, annual meeting, Plymouth Manufacturing Group, Plymouth.
• October 4, Financial Times Future of Manufacturing Summit, London.
• October 6, A snapshot of UK manufacturing, Walter Scott investment conference,  Edinburgh.
• October 18, Technology, innovation and organizational change in 21st century manufacturing and its implication for industrial policymaking, Speech at Unido manufacturing conference, Warsaw.
• November 17, How Britain will gain from the new industrial revolution, Locators conference, Poole, Dorset.
• December 7, Global manufacturing: the next 100 years, Manufacturing 2075 conference, Cranfield University.
• December 8-10, 21st-century manufacturing: the jobs, workers and technology for a new era, Ditchley, UK.
• December 15, Launch of UK Manufacturing Review 2016-17, Update on Made Here Now Phase 2,  London.

• January 21, Discussion with Sir David McMurtry (Renishaw) and John O’Higgins (Spectris), Financial Times 125 Club, London.
• January 27,  Lecture on future of manufacturing in Britain, Plymouth.
• February 13, Private seminar, Walter Scott investment group, Edinburgh.
• February 27, Conference on production industries, Copenhagen.
• March 6, Industry Past, Present and Future – Where Britain Fits In. Address at Words by the Water Literary Festival, Keswick.
• March 17, Cranfield University lecture on future of global manufacturing.
• March 25, Royal Geographical Society meeting on “Made In Britain”, London.
• April 15, Motor industry private event, SMMT Industry Forum, Birmingham.
• April 23, Reception and launch, MadeHereNow, London
• April 29, Epicor UK manufacturing conference, Telford.
• May 21,  General Assembly, European Factories of the Future Research Association, Brussels.
• Sept 28, Engineering Industry Forum, London.
• September 30, FT Future of Manufacturing Conference, London.
• October 21, The New Era for Manufacturing:Where Robots Fit In, Opening of Robot Hall, Danish Technological Institute/Invest in Odense, Odense, Denmark.
• November 3, The New Manufacturing Era: Opportunities for the UK,  Greenwich Manufacturing Group , University of Greenwich, London.
• November 18, Guardian Trade Boost seminar for manufacturers, Birmingham.
• November 18, Address at inaugural meeting of Bessemer Society, London.
• November 27, The New Manufacturing Era, Opportunities for Europe, Villa Manin, Passariano, Italy
• November 27, Innovative Manufacturing – Challenges for Policymakers,  Villa Manin, Passariano, Italy 
• November 29, December 1. Digital Technologies for Manufacturing Innovation, seminar, Nottingham University. 
• December 2, Makers’ Summit, Royal Society of Arts, London.

• January 23-25 , Conference on manufacturing, Ditchley, UK.
• January 29, Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College.
• February 18, Lecture at Cranfield University.
• March 5, OECD Workshop on the Next Industrial Revolution, Paris.
• March 10, Discussion on “radical manufacturing”, The Crowd, London.
• March 27, Manchester Business School.
• April 29, Chicago Manufacturing Renaissance Council .
• April 30, Walter Scott investment seminar, Chicago.
• June 3, London Hardware Collective meeting.
• June 24-26, CWIEME technology seminar, Berlin.
• July 9, BAE Systems conference, Blackpool.
• July 10, Way with Words literary festival, Dartington, Devon
• September 17.  Detroit Manufacturing Renaissance Council seminar on future for US & Michigan manufacturing, Detroit
• October 21, The New Industrial Revolution and Opportunities for Britain, Pinsent Masons lecture, London. Pinsent Masons lecture, London.
• October 22, The New Industrial Revolution and Europe’s Future, Universal Cultures Forum, Naples.
• October 23, The New Industrial Revolution and Opportunities for Europe and the World, Friuli Futures Forum, Udine.
• October 27, Technology, Innovation and Organisational Changes in 21st Century Manufacturing, Unido workshop on manufacturing in developing countries, Vienna.
• November 6, Korea Development Institute annual conference, The future for global industry,Seoul.
• November 6, Lecture at Science and Technology Policy Institute, Seoul.
• November 7, Korea Information Society Development Institute conference on manufacturing and ICT developments, Seoul.
• November 21, Institute of Directors conference on manufacturing, Manchester
• November 27, Financial Times seminar on European industry.
• December 9, Address at conference on ‘Economy transformation- Step into the Future’, Vilnius, Lithuania

• February 14, Liverpool University
• March 19, European commission conference, Brussels
• April 11, London School of Economics
• April 18, Lecture to Luxottica, Agordo, Italy
• May 17, Seminar on 3D printing, Royal Academy of Engineering, London.
• April 23, Address to Weir Group, Gleneagles, Scotland
• June 3-4, Meeting on 21st century manufacturing, Unido, Vienna
• July 4-5, Discussion on manufacturing and Africa, Unido, Vienna
• September 18, London Design Festival
• September 30, Local Enterprise Partnership, Liverpool
• October 8, Lunch, Jones Lang Lasalle, London
• October 17, Diplomacy Festival, Rome
• October 31,Lecture, China Center for Information Industry Development
•  November 1, Reform in China, FTChinese conference, Beijing
• November 4, Private event, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization
• November 4, Seminar,  Swiss Embassy, Shanghai
• November 5, Opening address, Shanghai Industry Fair
• November 6, Panel on 3D printing, University of California, Berkeley
• November 14, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Sheffield
• December 4, Internet seminar, organised by Venture Outsource, San Francisco