The future of the aerospace supply chain, especially small manufacturers, came under the scrutiny of leading figures in UK civil and defence aerospace on 18 March at the second MAA annual conference.
Six industry and government keynote speakers presented an array of thought-provoking views, complemented by perspectives from small companies, to an audience of 160 at Rolls-Royce in Derby.
The programme
Click on the thumbnail to download the conference programme.
Keynote speakers
Our keynote speakers were:
-
Colin Smith, CBE, Director – Engineering & Technology, Rolls-Royce – and member of the main board, Rolls-Royce Group, plc
-
Andreas Schell, President, Actuation & Propeller Systems, UTC Aerospace Systems
-
Colin Sirett, Head of Research and Technology, Airbus in the UK
-
Philip Dunne MP, Minister For Defence Equipment, Support and Technology, Ministry of Defence
-
Sir Brian Burridge, KCB, CBE, ADC, FCMI, FRAeS, Vice President Strategic Marketing, Finmeccanica
-
Robert Thomson, Partner, Roland Berger Aerospace & Defence Strategy Consultants
Craig Askew, VP/GM Power and Hybrid Business Unit, TT Electronics and Jason Aldridge, Managing Director, Arrowsmith Engineering (Coventry) Ltd gave delegates their own thought-provoking presentations based on their experience managing small companies.
Images
Networking
Keynote presentation from Andreas Schell, UTC Aerospace Systems
Q&A session
Keynote speaker Colin Smith CBE, Rolls-Royce
Keynote speaker Sir Brian Burridge, Finmeccanica
Keynote speaker Colin Sirett, Airbus
What they thought . . .
Here is a sample of feedback from participants at the conference:
- Another excellent event
- It was good to be supported by government representation
- Good balance of speakers with different views and perspectives
- Well organised, informative conference with excellent calibre of speakers
- Some very useful statistics shared
- Very positive atmosphere
- Sponsoring the conference was extremely worthwhile from our point of view, and I would be grateful if you could keep us posted about next year’s event
- Presentations were at a very high level
- Cereal bars were a nice touch
- Good information and networking opportunities
- Informative and relevant
- Very good range of speakers - particularly the different perspectives they offered
- Great day well organised, real good content and very well put together
- Smooth and professional
- Very pleased with the conference sponsorship deal, I made several new contacts
- The calibre of speakers were excellent – I particularly enjoyed Robert Thomson’s overview on the industry and the future
- Some of the speakers were excellent - perfectly pitched
- Opportunities for sponsors well considered
- My first conference and found it informative and enjoyable
- Very well run conference delivered to expectation
- Presentations gave a nice overview of where some of our leaders see the UK aerospace industry needs to go
- Fruit and snacks much appreciated
- Congratulations on an excellent conference yesterday. Great speakers, programme content and networking opportunities
- Appropriate networking opportunities
- A very good day
- I found the event very useful and the sponsorship model worked really well for us
- An excellent worthwhile event - well done
- A very good day - congratulations to all involved
- I thought it was a very good conference, and was delighted to be a sponsor
- I would certainly be interested in sponsoring the conference again next year
- It all went very well, the MAA team must be pleased
- Congratulations to you all on a very success conference - I know it’s a lot of work but I'm sure everybody who attended was impressed by both the quality of the speakers and the organisation
Our sponsors
Our sponsors helped us organise a superb day. For more information click the logos.
Gold sponsors
Silver sponsors
Bronze sponsors
Thank you to all involved in making this a successful event.
