Explore the latest thinking from industry leaders across performance engineering, motorsport, advanced manufacturing and materials.
You present your final slide. Two words on it: "Thank you". You've been talking for an hour. The OEM politely thanks you and says, "We'll get in touch". He won't.
This is not a marketing problem. It's not even a capability problem. You likely have the right tech that the OEM needs.
It is a visibility problem, happening long before anyone makes a choice. By the time the RFQ is written or the funding round opens, the shortlist already exists in people's heads. The names on it earned their place earlier, by being understood. This session closes that gap. Not with more slides or louder marketing, but with one practical tool you can use the moment you leave the room. We will rebuild a pitch live, together. You will not watch a theory. You will help run it. You will leave with a method you can apply to your next pitch, event, RFQ, or investor conversation. Bring the project you most need someone to understand.
Are you thinking about attracting the eyes of investors, raising bank finance, scaling up or diversifying your product portfolio? With the arrival of serious money into the sector, motorsports and low-volume automotive OEMs are evolving into a serious alternative asset class and a production capacity opportunity.
Join this conversation that cuts through the noise to give you clarity into the business and commercial opportunities as well as the tribulations to be mindful of you venture on this business development journey. How has the market dynamic changed in recent times, what are investors looking for, to the risks of moving from low volume to serial production, and the opportunities to use your skills base to serve other non-automotive sectors.
As the 2027 season regulation cycle demands faster, higher-fidelity data pipelines than ever before, hear how columnar data formats, specifically Apache Parquet, are quietly revolutionising the way race teams ingest, store and interrogate telemetry at scale. With over a million data points collected per second across hundreds of onboard sensors, the challenge is no longer just capturing the data; it's structuring it so that simulation engineers, vehicle dynamics leads and strategy teams can query race-weekend datasets in milliseconds rather than minutes.
For engineers building high-performance, low-volume and motorsport-derived vehicles, the emissions compliance landscape has never been more complex or more technically demanding.
Small OEMs building low-volume, high-performance and electrified vehicles face a compliance landscape designed for mass manufacturing volumes, one that adds cost, complexity, and risk entirely disproportionate to their real-world environments. This is both an engineering problem, pushing for the absolute limits of performance and a regulatory one. This session brings together low-volume vehicle makers, powertrain specialists, and policy-aware voices to cut through the regulatory noise and explore what practical reform could look like for low volume OEMs in the UK and their trade in local, European, and US markets to ensure viability, commercial resilience and growth. Expect frank conversation, real examples, and a push towards identifying where the industry needs to speak with one voice.
For engineers building high-performance, low-volume and motorsport-derived vehicles, the emissions compliance landscape has never been more complex or more technically demanding.
Hydrogen internal combustion engines represent one of the most technically intriguing frontiers in motorsport powertrain engineering. With many exploring hydrogen as a route to decarbonisation without abandoning the acoustic and mechanical drama of combustion, join this session to understand the latest in hydrogen ICE engine design, fuel systems, cooling, hydrogen purity, batteries, injectors and storage solutions, and the working through of the engineering challenge.
With rising demand for lightweight and high-performance automotive components pace and sale of need, coupled with signals to reduce production time and developmental costs, additive manufacturing growing its scope in where it can provide solutions. From improved efficiency to reduced material waste, to production grade load bearing, performance-critical components AM has come out to play. Join this touch it, feel it, see it session on manufacturing what was formerly impossible with traditional methods.
The ECU has evolved from engine management into the central nervous system of a performance vehicle, with the rate of change accelerating. With transitions to zonal and central computing architectures that help enable more scalable, SDVs that support advanced features, today coupled with the integration of gen AI and machine learning, magic is coming to life, with performance engineers in the pit lane. The 2027 seasons winners will be those who can crunch the heavy data, interpret it, and decide the fastest. For engineers sourcing or specifying control systems for new programmes, understanding the electronic architecture available, and what they unlock, join this session to explore the latest in cutting-edge ECU capability and AI-assisted calibration capabilities and real-time adaptive strategy.
The UK Motorsport Valley employs 41,000 people across 4,300 companies and holds 80% of the world's top motorsport engineers. That density is the industry's biggest asset, and its biggest vulnerability. Everyone is fishing from the same small pond, and the pond is shrinking exactly where it matters most. Join this outside view of the sector on approaches to skills investment, regional skills coordination as an investable, measurable programme rather than the present-day fragmented approach that it is.
Metallurgy is one of the oldest sciences which continually advances as manufacturing methods and material technologies emerge. Sadly, the literature and design data on the subject is not frequently updated and the availability of the information can be outdated, fragmented or difficult to access. This leads to the division of knowledge across the supply chain. Downstream users are unfamiliar with manufacturer’s full capabilities, limitations and service offering, whilst manufacturers may supply material that is fully compliant but not optimised for real world challenges faced by specific applications or industries. The conversation will explore how industry can bridge the gap between material producers, engineers, designers and end users to improve confidence in material selection, strengthen supply chain reliability and achieve more consistent end-product performance.
The boundaries between racing, defence, deep tech to clean energy and beyond are dissolving. Cross sector synergies are increasingly acknowledged as fields align, and more industries value how our sector problem solves complex engineering constraints to produce the most rapid innovations. This stargazing session explores where the technology has already gone, where is it going next, and what is coming back into our world from others? Featuring cross sector engineers, entrepreneurs, and leaders who have personally navigated the transfer from pitlane to operating theatre, battlefield, wind farm, and satellite.
AI agents are moving into the engineering workflow. Autonomously running simulation sweeps, interrogating test data, accelerating design iteration cycles that once took weeks and now integrating seamlessly with engineering tools like simulation software. This session explores how motorsport and high-performance vehicle teams can and are deploying agentic AI across CFD, structural analysis, and vehicle dynamics to compress development timelines without compromising engineering rigour, evolving engineering teams methodology.
Becoming central for engineering organisations: connecting fragmented test, simulation and operational data; reducing manual analysis bottlenecks; and using AI to accelerate engineering workflows without removing the need for human judgement and validation.
Practical engineering discussion around where AI genuinely improves speed of learning, where validation remains essential, and how engineers should trust or challenge AI-supported outputs
Get up close with the machines, the parts, and the people. Meet the tech gurus, materials experts and engineering specialists who make the impossible routine. Join this session to explore what keeps this cluster at the top of the world. From the tolerances and lead times that OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers in other industries simply cannot match to the latest advancements in materials, engineering and technology operating at the limits of temperature, load, wear and performance.
Within the automotive industry, multiple teams within a single organisation often use different simulation software tools to represent various aspects of vehicle behaviour. It’s common for these tools to rely on their own native tyre-model implementation, validating the compatibility of these tyre models across multiple tools is inefficient. This presentation demonstrates how these fragmentation can be solved by packaging tyre models as FMUs creates a single, reusable component that's compatible with most simulation workflows. This novel approach streamlines validation, improves confidence in simulation results and enables simpler integration of third-party add-ons.