Events News

COVID-19 has had a profound effect on everyone and for young people, up and down the country who have had their school life completely turned upside down by the pandemic. In fact, recent research reveals almost nine in ten young people do not think scientists (89%) or politicians (92%) are talking to them when discussing COVID-19.

The lighting exhibition, LuxLive 2020,has been postponed until November 2021.

Now in its 12th year, the Make UK awards acknowledge and reward the extraordinary work of the UK manufacturing sector. The 2020 Make UK Awards seek to recognise leading lights within the manufacturing industry, looking for those apprentices and businesses that have made significant contributions across the industry.

Bentley Systems has announced that its annual infrastructure event, the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Conference, is 'going digital'. This new digital format will bring together, now for a broader global community, the thought leadership, networking, and learning content that Bentley conference attendees have come to expect.

In May, in response to limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Rockwell Automation ran its first online technology event: VirtualConnect, which focused on Smart Manufacturing. It featured two tracks of video presentations, complete with live Q&A from the speakers; a fully virtualised show floor, with access to experts and specialists from across the industry; and the opportunity to network with peers from around the globe.

This summer the National Science and Media Museum was due to host a new temporary exhibition of photographs to celebrate 50 years of the MacRobert Award for engineering innovation. Due to the current circumstances the museum is now bringing the exhibition online on 10th June, 2020, so as many people as possible can access these amazing images.

In its virtual trade show, igus presents more than 100 plastic innovations and product range additions from all areas of motion plastics. Around 400 square metres in size, the real stand is now open to online visitors and follows the theme ‘Cost down, Life up. It’s our job’. The trade show is part of the digital support given to customers, whereby personal guided tours, 1-to-1 meetings and group meetings on the stand can be arranged.

The METAV organiser VDW (German Machine Tool Builders' Association), Frankfurt am Main, is inviting all those interested to take part in its METAV Web Sessions - entitled 'Let's talk about innovation' - from 15th to 19th June 2020.

The UK’s annual gathering of engineering professionals, Advanced Engineering, will return to the NEC, Birmingham on 4th and 5th November, 2020. Here, the UK’s talented and vast engineering industry can come together again to begin generating business for the new year.

In a novel approach to exhibiting at a trade show RS Components plans to stage an artistic display to demonstrate the fusion of electronics and automation at embedded world 2020 in Nuremberg. Through the use of a machine that at first glance has no obvious purpose, visitors will get a clear view of how connected electronics can solve a classic automation and control task.