Meet with experts from across the capability areas.
Network with the best innovators from academia and industry, collaborate with likeminded people, and learn how to access funding opportunities.
Join us for this free engagement day as we reveal MOD’s most ambitious S&T programmes to date with details on our technical challenges and requirements.
Play your part in keeping the UK safe and prosperous.
Help us secure strategic advantage through science and technology.
Full agenda to follow.
Registration closes at 5pm on Friday 20 May, 2022.
We will be vetting all registrants.
For security purposes, when signing up you must use a legitimate work or academic email address.
You must also provide a telephone number should we need to make contact for further checks with you.
If we need to review or cancel your registration, we will be in touch.
To gain access to the event you must bring valid photo ID and a work/organisation pass, along with your ticket.
We look forward to seeing you in Newport!
Fred Sugden
Fred Sugden
Fred is responsible for techUK's activities across the Defence and National Security sectors, working to provide members with access to key stakeholders across the Defence and National Security community. Before taking on the role of Associate Director for Defence and National Security, Fred joined techUK in 2018, working as the Programme Head for Defence at techUK, leading the organisation's engagement with the Ministry of Defence. Before joining techUK, he worked at ADS, the national trade association representing Aerospace, Defence, Security & Space companies in the UK.
Fred is responsible for techUK’s market engagement and policy development activities across the Defence and National Security sectors, working closely with various organisations within the Ministry of Defence, and across the wider National Security and Intelligence community. Fred works closely with many techUK member companies that have an interest in these sectors, and is responsible for the activities of techUK's senior Defence & Security Board. Working closely with techUK's Programme Head for Cyber Security, Fred oversees a broad range of activities for techUK members.
Outside of work, Fred's interests include football (a Watford FC fan) and skiing.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 07985 234 170
Jeremy Wimble
Jeremy Wimble
Jeremy is the programme manager responsible for the defence programme, which works to help the UK's defence technology sector align itself with the Ministry of Defence including Defence Digital.
Prior to joining techUK, from 2016-2024 Jeremy was International Security Programme Manager at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). In that role he coordinated the team’s research and impact activities for funders including the FCDO and US Department of Defense, as well as business development and strategy.
Jeremy has a MA in International Relations from the University of Birmingham and a BA (Hons) in Politics & Social Policy from Swansea University.
- Email:
- [email protected]
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