Next Gen Makers Engineering Skills Conference 2025

Join us at The MTC in Coventry for a day of Skills Insight, Best Practice Sharing and Networking.

About this Event

Get up to speed with ways to solve your Engineering Skills Shortage.

· Discover strategies to better attract early careers talent

· Understand how to create the ultimate apprentice experience from our Apprentice Panel Discussion

· Learn how to leverage Diversity & Inclusion and emerging technologies like AI to solve skills challenges

· Uncover how to navigate the changing landscape of technical education and Apprenticeship Assessment Reform

· Build your network with Industry and Education over lunch

Agenda


🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Arrival, Drinks and Networking

🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Welcome and Introduction
Host: Adam Tipper - Next Gen Makers

🕑: 10:20 AM - 10:35 AM
Attracting Talent Part 1 – Changing perceptions of manufacturing
Host: Thomas Flude – Engineers Insight

🕑: 10:35 AM - 10:50 AM
Attracting Talent Part 2 – Employer Branding for the Next Generation
Host: Holly Hobbs – urfuture

🕑: 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
An AI Approach to Skills Based Talent Management
Host: Nicholas Taylor - Ishida Europe

🕑: 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Using T-levels as a route to Recruitment
Host: Pip Carty-Hornsby – Gatsby Foundation

🕑: 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Coffee Break

🕑: 11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion to solve skills challenges
Host: Annum Mahmood - Youth Futures Foundation

🕑: 12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
MTC Apprentice Panel Discussion - How to create a great Apprentice Experience

🕑: 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM
Aligning Student Skill Sets with Current Industry Trends
Host: Ken Christy - Eplan

🕑: 12:50 PM - 01:20 PM
Lunch

🕑: 01:20 PM - 01:40 PM
Celebrating Achievements for Businesses and Apprentices
Host: Fiona McGarry - Enginuity

🕑: 01:40 PM - 02:00 PM
Travelling the World with WorldSkills
Host: Cameron Pinder - Kirkstall Precision Engineering

🕑: 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM
Navigating Apprenticeship Assessment Reform
Host: Rob Nitsch - Federation of Awarding Bodies

🕑: 02:20 PM - 02:30 PM
Event Close

🕑: 02:30 PM
Optional Tour of MTC

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