AE Talks | Digital Series
Take a look at our upcoming and most recent on-demand sessions.
AE Talks are digital offerings that exist to create an active dialogue between engineering manufacturing professionals, designers, product manufacturers, technology inventors and OEMs.
Our digital series is formed of individual, stand-alone sessions that each focus on a niche topic of interest within the engineering community.
Previous topics covered in our digital series include…
- Electrification in the automotive industry
- Innovation in digital manufacturing
- Understanding your supply chain throughout and after Covid-19
- Navigating the R&D tax relief landscape
- The benefits of optical surface metrology

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Volkswagen Group: Leading the Charge into an Electrified Future
Tuesday 8 December 2020
Oliver Larkin, Head of Group Corporate and Public Relations, Volkswagen Group
The Volkswagen Group are in the vanguard of the changeover to electrified, connected and autonomous cars. In this session led by Oliver Larkin, Head of Group Corporate and Public Relations at Volkswagen Group in the UK we will hear:
- Why Volkswagen Group is so focused on climate change – and the opportunity it affords.
- Their approach to electric cars
- Their approach to battery cells
- Their approach to software and connectivity
- Initiatives on e-mobility within the UK


Look but don't touch: 5 reasons to use optical surface metrology from Polytec
Tuesday 1 December 2020
Joe Armstrong, International Sales, Poltec
Take a look at our upcoming and most recent on-demand sessions.
AE Talks are digital offerings that exist to create an active dialogue between engineering manufacturing professionals, designers, product manufacturers, technology inventors and OEMs.
Our digital series is formed of individual, stand-alone sessions that each focus on a niche topic of interest within the engineering community.
Previous topics covered in our digital series include…
- Electrification in the automotive industry
- Innovation in digital manufacturing
- Understanding your supply chain throughout and after Covid-19
- Navigating the R&D tax relief landscape
- The benefits of optical surface metrology


Never let a good crisis go to waste - Understand your supply chain to bounce back stronger
Thursday 26 November 2020
Aristides Matopoulos, Associate Professor in Supply Chain Design & Logistics Systems, Aston University
Firms neither exist nor compete in isolation. Their fates are tied up with those of their supply chain partners. This raises an important question: Do you really know your company’s supply chain? The Covid-19 pandemic showed that many companies were “flying in the dark” with limited understanding of their supply chain.
The goal of this session is to discuss key actions for navigating through the crisis in the short, medium, and long term and also how an improved understanding of your supply chain can help you to achieve your objectives.
