Europe's Premier Event to Accelerate Business within the Materiel Supply Chain

Name: Advanced Manufacturing for Aerospace & Materiel
Start: 2025-02-26
End: 2025-02-27

26 - 27 February, 2025 | Mercure Bristol Grand Hotel, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Empowering Growth: Supporting Advanced Manufacturing Capacity for a Sustainable Future

Defence iQ’s Advanced Manufacturing for Aerospace & Materiel conference is taking place in Mercure Bristol Grand Hotel, Bristol, UK on the 26-27 February 2025. Building on over a decade of success from our Additive Manufacturing conference, this event serves as an excellent platform for the exchange of knowledge and exploration of groundbreaking developments in this field. As the UK’s largest aerospace cluster, with more users from the defence and space community, Bristol is once again the optimal location to bring all the stakeholders from the Advanced Manufacturing and 3D Printing ecosystem together to address the current challenges.

The evolving landscape of Advanced Manufacturing calls for greater efficiency, innovation, and risk reduction. Through collaboration, we can harness emerging technologies, enhance supply chain resilience, and gain critical insights into demand-driven production—especially relevant to today’s threat environment.

During the conference, participants will engage in insightful presentations, thought-provoking panel discussions and engaging networking opportunities. In replacement of our Additive Manufacturing conference, this event conference will ensure an in-depth analysis on the full spectrum of Advanced Manufacturing, covering topics such as Digitalisation, Automation, Generative Design, Digital Twins, in addition to Additive Manufacturing.

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2025 Speakers:

Alexander Champion

Additive Manufacturing Engineer

Strategic Command - UK MoD

Andrew Munday

Global Technology Director

Babcock

Bradley Hughes

Principal Research Engineer - Additive Manufacturing

GKN Aerospace

Steve Salt

AM Design Specialist

Rolls Royce

Beth Dittmer

Propulsion Integration Division Chief

US Air Force Life Cycle Management Centre

John Sneden

Propulsion Director

US Air Force Life Cycle Management Centre

Ruaridh Mitchinson

Technology Manager

MTC

Evren Yasa

Head of Additive Manufacturing

University of Sheffield AMRC

Michael Wohlfart

Additive Minds Business Development Manager

EOS

Dr Thomas Broderick

Chief Scientist and Technical Advisor for Advanced Manufacturing and Materials

Federal Aviation Administration

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Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace, Defence & Space 2024 Highlights Video!

Take a look at the 2024 #AMADS Highlights reel, Europe's Premier Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace, Defence and Space Conference!

With 20+ Speakers, 150+ Attendees and 15+ Nations in attendance, 2024’s event has successfully explored the latest advancements, challenges, and breakthroughs on all things Additive Manufacturing in the Defence sector.

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NEW FOR 2025

#C01515

A widened topic scope to from Additive Manufacturing to Advanced Manufacturing

New speakers providing unique insights into manufacturing developments globally

Insights into bolstering cybersecurity and sustainability in manufacturing

Incorporating sustainability initiatives into the defence supply chain

Change of venue to the Mecure Bristol Grand Hotel, to accommodate the global audience

Gain access to unique perspectives uncovering the use of Additive Manufacturing to produce Uncrewed Systems by the USAF

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Key Themes Include:

Promotion of sustainability initiatives in manufacturing processes

Ensuring supply chain agility in manufacturing to to respond to evolving threats

Leveraging AI, Robotics and Digitisation to increase precision and accuracy

Stress testing and qualification of innovative materials

The importance of adequate cybersecurity measures when increasing reliance on data

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Testimonials

"The conference went beyond my expectations in information from major manufacturers' experience in implementing AM"

"AMADS2024 was a well attended event with leading industry experts and delegates across the business segments that recognized the challenges and spoke eloquently of the R&D efforts to address the them. Both the value proposition and quality assurance were forefront of the discussions, along with the various initiatives like America Makes and Pacer Edge."

"Great event, well organized and very informative"

"The event has been valuable for me to catch up with the latest trends, discuss how we tackle the challenges and general networking with colleagues from industry"