Members of the ATI’s refreshed Advisory Network came together on Wednesday 20th May for the annual Network Summit.
Engineering Growth, the new UK aerospace technology strategy, was a focal point at the annual summit of the ATI’s Advisory Network, providing an opportunity to reflect and align mission the shared ambition of doubling UK aerospace value by 2035. The summit also provided the chance to reinforce the network’s important role in providing the strategic insight, challenge and perspective needed to help shape the ATI’s direction and long-term impact.
Made up of six groups of senior representatives from across industry, academia, RTOs and government, the ATI Advisory Network brings together a powerful mix of expertise and experience. Meeting several times each year, these groups provide strategic guidance that helps shape and steer the ATI’s priorities, while creating a forum where sector colleagues can come together to test ideas, share perspectives and inform the decisions that will define the future of UK aerospace.
Chairs from each group set out their vision and scope, before the afternoon provided each member with the opportunity to contribute directly to each group’s proposed objectives and priorities, generating valuable cross-cutting insight and strengthening the collective strategic input of the network. Discussions ranged from tactical implementation of Engineering Growth to capability gap analysis, key drivers including energy and future demand signals. The rate challenge and being competitively ready to support new aircraft programmes by the end of the decade were also discussed, with the members posing insightful and challenging questions.
The event was also the first opportunity for members of the newly-formed Market & Economics Advisory Group (MEAG) to meet. The creation of this group further strengthens the breadth of expertise within the Network and will support the ATI’s economics modelling, thought leadership and analytical capabilities, including the continued development of the ATI Market Model.
The groups are: the Technology Advisory Group (TAG), chaired by Jacqueline Castle; the Net Zero Technology Advisory Group (NZ-TAG), chaired by Alex Thirkell; the Industrial Competitiveness Technology Advisory Group, chaired by Angelo Emmi; the Modelling Advisory Group (MAG), chaired by Ritvik Anand; the Market & Economics Advisory Group (MEAG), chaired by Andrew Brough and the International Advisory Group (IAG), chaired by Chris Low.
