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Spacetech - opportunities for business in space technology

Thursday, 9 February 2012 from 08:00 to 16:00 (GMT)

Sedgefield, United Kingdom

Spacetech - opportunities for business in space technology

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General admission - price includes VAT Ended £58.80 £0.00
NETPark Net member ticket - NET Two and NET Three (price includes VAT) Ended £36.00 £0.00
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Spacetech: 9th February 2012, PETEC, NETPark

Space 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

 

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 SARALYN MARK, NASA

12.00   Lunch

13.00   Novel welding and joining technologies for space applications

           CHRIS WISEMAN, TWI

13.30    Reducing time to market: creating innovation and collaboration in the supply chain. An SME   perspective

             MIKE BERRIDGE. AWS

14.00   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