Intrapreneurship: Disrupting from the inside – a workshop & networking event

Henry Royce Institute Royce Hub Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom

On International Women in Engineering Day, The Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge invites you to ignite your inner innovator.  Set in the UK’s National Institute for advanced materials research and Innovation, you will hear from incredible speakers who are raising the profile of women innovators as thought leaders in the Foundation Industries and making impactful changes from within their organisations. Join our workshop led by Stronger Stories where you will also have the chance to develop your own storytelling skills in order to become effective ‘intrapreneurs’ and create change from within, fairer and faster. There will also be a facilitated networking session to encourage interaction between a wide range of cross-sector stakeholders and partners with expertise or interest in the foundation industries/materials sectors. Confirmed speakers: Tata Steel Rolls Royce Materials Processing Institute Viridor Who should attend Businesses in the foundation industries or related materials sectors who champion proactivity, resourcefulness and [...]

Challenges in Sustainability Reporting Webinar

Virtual - Microsoft Teams

Following in depth research with local businesses TransFIRe in partnership with North Lincolnshire Council invite you to attend a series of curated events focusing on sustainability. In response to the increasing pressure to report on your sustainability credentials, how can sustainability metrics help evidence the positive benefits of your activities? TransFIRe is seeking to help high energy using companies to understand and use the emerging reporting requirements to benefit both their competitiveness as well as their sustainability reporting and performance. We particularly welcome SMEs to these events in addition to larger companies. This first event brings you a webinar to brief you on the emerging reporting requirements, provide examples of how metrics have been used in other businesses to best effect and interactively share local good practice. You will also get insight to the latest thinking of how working with wider stakeholders boosts long term performance. Following this event [...]

Challenges on Sustainability Reporting Workshop

Normanby Gateway Lysaghts Way, Scunthorpe, United Kingdom

To support the progress towards the 2040 Net Zero commitments, TransFIRe in collaboration with North Lincolnshire Council is seeking to work with companies, particularly high energy use industries, on considering how to align with broad economic, environmental and social metrics arising from emerging national and international standards. In doing so, companies can evidence their progress to stakeholders as well as drive activities beyond the factory gate that give potential for greater net zero reductions for themselves and their community.   Half-day Workshop: Exploring needs and interests Purpose: This will be a workshop for manufacturing companies to hear from experts within policy and sustainability to explore current and near future needs for sustainability metrics in detail and how manufacturers can aid in decision making and progress toward Net Zero and other sustainability targets. Outcomes: We expect you to leave the workshop with: Better understanding of enablers and good practice for [...]

20th International Conference in Manufacturing Research ICMR 2023

Aberystwyth Business School Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom

The International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2023) will take place from 6th until 8th of September 2023 at Aberystwyth Business School, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. It will include keynote presentations by internationally renowned researchers and industrialists, as well as papers from academia and industry, exploring all core areas of advanced and digital manufacturing engineering. Initiated by the Consortium of UK University Manufacturing and Engineering (COMEH), ICMR has been the UK's main manufacturing research conference for 36 years and an international conference since 2003 - bringing researchers, academics and industrialists together to share their vision, knowledge and experience, and discuss emerging trends and new challenges. With the accelerating globalisation of manufacturing in the 21st century, the urgent need to keep pace has produced rapid advancements in technology, research, and innovation. ICMR solicits papers on both cutting-edge and emerging theoretical research and its recent industrial applications with the goal of bringing [...]

UK Metals Expo

NEC, Birmingham

UK Metals Expo is the ONLY event that brings the entire metals supply chain together with engineering and manufacturing. From primary metal manufacture to supply chain management, processing metals, metal fabrication, machinery, engineering, surface coatings and recycling. Forging a Sustainable Future Together and Accelerating the Green Industrial Revolution

10th International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing

Polytechnic University of Bari Via Edoardo Orabona, 4, 70126 Bari, Bari, Italy

We are pleased to invite contributions for SDM23 taking place in Bari, Italy as a conference organised by KES International. SDM-2023 will consist of keynote talks, oral presentations, invited sessions and workshops. It will cover the theory and applications of sustainable design and manufacturing, and related areas, whilst providing an excellent platform for the presentation and discussion of new data and concepts, leading to knowledge exchange and the generation of new ideas. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer as book chapters in a volume of the KES Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies series, submitted for indexing in Scopus and Thomson-Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) and the Web of Science. The deadline for invited contributions is the 21 May 2023. For full information please visit: http://sdm-23.kesinternational.org http://sdm-23.kesinternational.org/cms/userfiles/is01.pdf Please pass this onto any colleagues or contacts that may be interested.

Foundation Industry Forum

Herringbone Suite, Cloth Hall Court Quebec Street, Leeds, United Kingdom

An interactive programme of events to share insights and learning across foundation industries to support progression towards transformation. The forum includes a series of workshops with the opportunity for you to meet industry experts and leading academics. Social Media: #FIForum Main Sponsors:                 Supporters:                    

Highways UK Exhibition

NEC, Birmingham

The Highways UK exhibition brings together the people responsible for planning, developing, managing, maintaining, and future-proofing the nation's roads networks. This year will bring together 15,000+ attendees including 375+ exhibitors, 300+ speakers, 60+ start-ups, 30+ partners and associations, and more. Industry leaders will share their views and expertise in theatres including National Highways Theatre, Local Authority Theatre, Technology & Transformation Stage, Innovation Stage, Sustainability Theatre and more. The exhibition will host over 375 exhibitors from across the globe, featuring new ways of thinking and novel partnerships to generate solutions. Tickets are completely free and give you full access to the premium conference, the exhibition and networking with thousands of industry leaders.

Celebrating Circular Economy Innovation

Royal Academy of Engineering Prince Philip House, London, United Kingdom

CENTS Research Showcase and Celebration Event 2023 Thursday 16th November 2023, Al-Qasimi Room, Royal Academy of Engineering, Prince Philip House, London Join us at the CENTS Network's End-of-Project Celebration Event, as we mark four years of dedicated effort and a steadfast mission: fostering a vibrant community of practice with a specific focus on applying Circular Economy principles within Sustainable Transportation systems. In partnership with our management team, the network's members, and valued partners, we have collaboratively generated impactful outcomes. These outcomes have laid the pathways, cultivated critical mass, and added to the necessary thought leadership in realising a Circular Economy Transition. Now, we arrive at the pivotal question: what's next? We've extended invitations to policymakers, business leaders, industry experts, academia, and additional stakeholders. Together, we will continue to amplify the networks legacy and chart the course forward About the event Circular Economy research showcase for Sustainable Transportation Systems Networking [...]

19th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing

Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, Argentina

The GCSM serves as a global forum for academics, researchers, and specialists from universities, research institutes and industry across the globe, working on topics related to sustainable manufacturing. A unique feature of the GCSM conference series is its integration of industrial engineering perspectives, sustainable manufacturing applications in emerging and developing countries, as well as education and workforce development for advancing sustainable manufacturing. Sustainable Manufacturing is the buzzword for our global conference, taking place annually since 2003 and returning to South America for the second time in 19 years. The conference aims to exploit manufacturing engineering potentials for bridging the gap between awareness on sustainability challenges and means to systematically and concretely cope with them. To overcome the challenges of global sustainability becomes an ever more urgent task, as the awareness about imbalanced wealth distribution, climate change and lack of holistic responsibility in investments are considerably rising. Interdisciplinary discourse and [...]

TFI Network+ Conference

Mercure Sheffield St Pauls Hotel and Spa, 119 Norfolk Street, Sheffield, United Kingdom

This in-person conference will bring together the Foundation Industries community to discuss the latest innovations and developments. There will be many chances to network throughout the event, as well as poster sessions, Q+A and a conference dinner.  

Here to Hope 2024

YHA Castleton Losehill Hall Hope Valley, Derbyshire, United Kingdom

‘Here to Hope 2024’, is an annual gathering of enthusiasts for industrial sustainability.  The programme is structured around the need for Industrial Transformation to happen at scale and speed with an extra focus on Regenerative Manufacturing.  The agenda is flexible and will also offer opportunities to meet your needs. This is a programme about the future and sprinting into it with purpose for what the planet needs most.  We want you to think about your impact, your careers and your PhDs within this context and make the most of this time set aside for conversations and exploration.  Part of the time will be spent tackling specific issues to allow our thinking to move to reality (we will be leading sessions on Regenerative Manufacturing for example), and some of the time will be spent discussing how we cope as individuals. NOTE:  Standard Registration is not free of charge.  When you register, you [...]