The future for UK manufacturing – challenges ahead for policy following the Foresight Project

Westminster Business Forum Keynote Seminar

The future for UK manufacturing - challenges ahead for policy following the Foresight Project

with

Professor Sir Mark Walport, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government and Head, Government Office for Science (subject to diary)

Janice Munday, Director, Advanced Manufacturing and Services, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Dirk Pilat, Deputy Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD

and

Dick Elsy, High Value Manufacturing Catapult; Professor Steve Evans, University of Cambridge; Professor Richard Hague, University of Nottingham; Professor Richard Harris, University of Durham; Professor Alan Hughes, University of Cambridge; Mike Hutchinson, Tharsus Group; Mike Rigby, Barclays and Bill Twigg, Semta

Chaired by:

Chris White MP, Co-Chair, Associate Parliamentary Manufacturing Group

Morning, Thursday, 28^th November 2013

Central London