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.

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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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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A very busy 2025 has drawn to a close. Marked by global increases in defence spending, a wave of vital […]
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239 commercial aircraft orders were placed in November 2025, representing a 203% increase compared to the same month last year Four times […]
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On 10 December 2025, The UK was formally acceded to the Agreement on Defence Export Controls, joining France, Germany, and Spain as […]
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ADS today announces key leadership changes designed to strengthen its organisational capabilities and enhance support for almost 1,800 members across the UK’s […]
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Emerging technologies are rapidly disrupting how organisations across the aerospace, defence, security and space sectors operate, compete and grow. Through our Business […]
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London (11 December) – The Security and Resilience Industry Suppliers Community (RISC), today announces the appointment of Paul Lincoln CB OBE VR […]
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Series Introduction On 8 September 2025 the Government published the Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) with the objective of strengthening the UK’s industrial […]
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What links tariffs, threats to subsea cables that keep our financial system running, high-profile cyber-attacks, the global tech race, and those critical […]
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Series Introduction On 8 September 2025 the Government published the Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) with the objective of strengthening the UK’s industrial […]
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Introducing Claire Cutts, the new Chief People Officer of the ADS Group We are delighted to welcome Claire to the ADS Group […]
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Within our 1700+ member companies, there is a growing cluster of specialist service providers covering a wide range of professional domains. They […]
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132 aircraft were delivered in October 2025, an increase of two thirds compared to October 2024 October 2025 aircraft orders fell by […]
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On Friday 28 November 2025, the UK and EU failed to reach an agreement on the UK’s participation in the €150 billion Security […]
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