Engage with... LIVE! 2023 - Driving Forward UK Electrification Technologies
Join the UK’s Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD) experts at this in-person conference featuring key enabling net zero technologies for the electrification of sectors including manufacturing, transport and energy.
Recording now available
UKRI’s Driving the Electric Revolution Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, is hosting Engage with… LIVE! 2023. This conference is for the Power Electronics, Machines & Drives (PEMD) supply chain community and key enabling technology providers working towards global decarbonisation and building a net zero economy. This event provides you with a showcase of the latest PEMD examples from sectors including aviation, automotive, energy generation & supply, manufacturing, marine, off-road, rail, robotics & AI, semiconductors and skills.
This one-day in-person event will enable UK industry to network across sectors and share insights for navigating the global transition to cleaner, safer, and more resilient technologies.
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View the full event agenda below. (* indicates that the session was recorded and can be viewed in the video above)
Main stage sessions
8:30am Registration opens
09:00 Drinks and networking
10:00 Introduction to Sessions & Agenda
Bruce McLelland, Knowledge Transfer Manager – Emerging Technologies & Industries, Innovate UK KTN* 10:05 Keynote Session: Power Electronics, Machines & Drives (PEMD): Critical Technologies for National Ambitions
Dave Smith, the UK’s National Technology Adviser* 10:35 Current Sector Specific Funding & Engagement Opportunities
Chaired by Raluca Popovici, Knowledge Transfer Manager ‑ Industrial Technologies and Manufacturing at Innovate UK KTN– Alex Wood, Senior Project Delivery Lead at the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC)
– Mark Scully, Head of Technology: Advanced Systems & Propulsion at the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI)
– Iain Mauchline, Innovation Lead – Electronics, Sensors and Photonics at Innovate UK* 11:20 Energise your career in electrification!
Deepak Farmah, Electric Revolution Skills Hub (ERS Hub) Commercial Director12:00 Lunch & Networking
13:30 Non-Grant Routes to Funding
Chaired by Matt Boyle, Chair of the Driving the Electric Revolution Industrialisation Centres (DER-IC)* 15:00 The Investor Partnership Programme
Harriet Hole, Interim Head of Investment at Innovate UK KTN, and Bruce Colley, Programme Manager at Innovate UK15:25 Exhibitor awards & closing remarks
Guy Woolley, Chief Operating Officer at Innovate UK15:35 Drinks and networking
17:00 Close
Mezzanine floor off-stage sessions
Two sessions at 12:45 or 15:45 – Electric Revolution Skills Hub (ERS Hub) Showcase
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We have an incredible group of exhibitors including:
Advanced Electric Machines, aerospaceHV Ltd, Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), Carbon Three Sixty, C Brandauer & Co Ltd, Cenex, Centre for Modelling and Simulation (CFMS), Clas-SiC Wafer Fab, CSconnected, Custon Interconnect Limited, Driving the Electric Revolution Industrialisation Centre (DER-IC), EDRMedeso, Energy Systems Catapult, Electric Revolution Skills Hub (ERS Hub), Engineering Development Trust- Industrial Cadets, ePropelled Limited, FluxSys Ltd, Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub (FEMM Hub), Fuzzy Logic Studio, Gencoa, GreenSpur Wind, H V Wooding Ltd, Hexagon, Hirst Magnetic Instruments Ltd, HyProMag Ltd, IMAPS-UK, Industrial Systems and Control Ltd, Lotus Cars Limited, Magnomatics Limited, McLaren Applied, Nascent Semi, National Physical Laboratory (NPL), OxDrive Ltd, Power Electronics UK, PPM Power, RAM Innovations Ltd, Sensor Technology Ltd, Semiwise Ltd, Supply Design Ltd, Talos Technology, Tannlin Ltd, The Blair Project & Oasis Play, The Thinking Pod Innovations, The University of Nottingham, Turbo Power Systems, Ultrawise Innovation, University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) & Wavedrives Ltd.
This event brings you solutions across Skills, Industrialisation and Innovation.
Skills – Introduce the ERS Hub, their skills development support and insights from companies that have successfully leveraged their funding.
Industrialisation – Present the DER-IC and how you can utilise their experience, equipment and facilities. We will also demystify private investment and ‘non-grant’ routes to funding to scale a business successfully.
Innovation – Highlight available funding opportunities through programmes such as Made Smarter, marine, semiconductors and agriculture. We will also demonstrate how Innovate UK KTN’s PEMD Innovation Network helps organisations in their search for game-changing solutions.
Watch the recorded sessions from Engage with…LIVE! 2023 to discuss net zero technologies, manufacturing capabilities, sector skills, industry talent, partnership opportunities and Net Zero. Meet new customers, share your expertise and collaborate on innovative solutions. Together, the PEMD supply chain will grow stronger.
