- Date:
- 9th February 2012 - 9am - 3pm
- Location:
- PETEC, NETPark, Thomas Wright Way, Sedgefield, TS21 3FD
- Cost:
- Tickets cost £49 + VAT with an Early Bird Discount of 25% discount available until 12noon on 23rd December 2011.
- Website:
- Spacetech
- Funding Sector
- Science, Technology
- Organiser
- IOP Applied Physics and Technology Division, NETPark Net, Spacetech
Want to sign up to this event?
Sign upSpace technology offers a wide variety of business opportunities from the unexpected (concrete production, software, data handling) to the traditional (electronics, photovoltaics, instrumentation, sensors). Spacetech will increase your awareness of the business opportunities and how to tap into them. If you're interested in the answers to the following questions, this event is for you:
- What activities are being carried out in the UK regarding space technologies?
- How is this market currently structured? What is the role of each participant?
- What activities / what influence do NASA and ESA have in the UK?
- What is the role of the UK Space Agency and what opportunities does this present?
- What kind of businesses are involved in development and commercialisation of space technologies / what is the relationship between them?
- What are the major international programmes and their objectives? Who is involved (which organisations and their locations) / what is the process for getting involved?
Draft programme:
08.30 Registration
08.55 Welcome
Event Chair: SALEH AHMED, Assistant Director, UK Space Agency
09.00 The importance of space technology to the UK economy
MICHAEL LAWRENCE, Head of Special Projects, Technology Strategy Board
09.30 The market structure and how to tap into it
RUTH MALLORS, Director, Aerospace, Aviation and Defence Knowledge Transfer Network
10.00 Coffee
10.20 Working on collaborative international projects
PROF RAY SHARPLES, Centre for Advanced Instrumentation, Durham University
10.50 The Square Kilometre Array Telescope - a £1.2BN euro opportunity
TIM STEVENSON, Square Kilometre Array Telescope Programme Office
11.20 NASA's programmes and contracts
DR SHEILA BAILEY, NASA
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Novel welding and joining technologies for space applications
CHRIS WISEMAN, TWI
Collaboration, innovation and time to market - an SME perspective
MIKE BERRIDGE. AWS
14.00 SPEECH TITLE TO BE CONFIRMED
TERRY MCMANUS, TEKDATA
14.30 Opportunities in the North East
TOM SMYTH, Deputy Head – BIS Yorkshire Humber and the North East
15.00 Wrap up and close
NB - please note programme is subject to change
Tickets cost £49 + VAT with an Early Bird Discount of 25% discount available until 12noon on 23rd December 2011.
To register for this event, please click HERE or contact Catherine Johns on 0191 370 8680 or e-mail