We deliver a comprehensive programme of in-person and online events and networking opportunities aimed at helping you win business across the globe.
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Delivering sector-specific conferences, expansive industry tradeshows and digital engagement, we help organisations of all sizes to meet with new customers, innovative partners and procurement decision makers.
To support you in meeting your objectives, through our comprehensive events schedule ADS:
With a proven heritage of creating new business opportunities in key sectors, ADS events are aimed at helping you win business across the globe, stay up to date with important topics, engage with speakers, foreign delegations and senior industrialists, whilst providing you with the opportunity to network with new contacts and colleagues.
Our aims are to expand this unique workforce capability and national advantage by delivering sector investment and knowledge to the frontiers of advanced manufacturing.

As we approach the forthcoming NATO Industrial Advisory Group (NIAG) Plenary at NATO HQ on 25 – 26 February 2026, we need […]
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“To meet the wider threat, it’s clear that we are going to have to spend more, faster.” These were the very welcome […]
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Could EIC Accelerator Grants help fund your next stage of innovation? If you’re working on complex, long-term innovation, you know the environment […]
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Two years have now passed since ADS published its Manifesto for 2024’s General Election. A lot has changed in that time. A […]
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Introduction Last week, the Home Office set out the foundations for what it describes as the most radical reform of policing in […]
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2,175 aircraft orders were placed in 2025, marking a sharp 50% year-on-year increase compared to 2024 1,411 aircraft were delivered in 2025, […]
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Photos from the ADS Annual Dinner can be found here. Good evening Ladies, Gentlemen – we are delighted to welcome so many […]
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Today’s Police Reform White Paper, ‘From local to national: a new model for policing’, sets out a comprehensive package of reforms designed […]
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A very busy 2025 has finally drawn to a close. As we look to the year ahead, there is much to reflect […]
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face unprecedented complexity in our sectors, from technological disruption and supply chain shifts to talent shortages and […]
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Joseph Reffitt joins the ADS leadership team as Director of ADS Northern Ireland This appointment strengthens ADS’ mission to support the aerospace, […]
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Introduction Cyber threats are existential risks. With the UK increasingly targeted by sophisticated state actors and organised crime groups, and vulnerable to […]
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The ADS Drone Platforms and Counter-Drone (DPAC) Special Interest Group helps shape policy, identify opportunities and build connections across this fast-evolving domain. […]
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2026 has begun with a series of shocks — many unexpected, all reinforcing the sense that we continue to live in volatile […]
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Networking shouldn’t be measured by the number of conversations you have. In today’s competitive aerospace, defence, security, and space markets, what is […]
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