A careful selection of one-hour seminars running in the morning and afternoon will allow delegates to understand complex areas of specific interest. You will have the opportunity to attend two seminars in total. These sessions will open up into an interactive discussion, giving you the chance to contribute and debate the hot topics of the day. Some of the seminar areas that will be covered are as follows:

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• Promoting UK manufacturing; critical to economic growth
• Boosting UK advanced manufacturing supply chains
• Novel materials, medical research and computing
• The National Higher Education STEM Programme
• The Space Innovation and Growth Strategy 2010 to 2030
• High tech electronics and manufacturing in the UK
• Innovation in Defence Research and Development
• Partnerships between industry and university for Energy-Efficiency
• Future skills in Science and Bioscience
• Horizon 2020 – working collaboratively to reduce pollution across Europe 
• Open Innovation
• The higher education and college IT network, JANET
• Delivering high capacity data storage across the research councils
• Funding for specialist supercomputers in areas such as particle physics and astronomy
• Delivering excellence in procurement
• Higher Education in a Knowledge Economy 
• Generating and exploiting new applications of technology

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