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.

In less than a month’s time, the UK government will introduce a new Steel Trade Measure, designed – Ministers say – to […]
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Every two years, we launch our membership survey and we’re thrilled to launch it for 2026. The survey gives us the opportunity […]
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Joint Roland Berger study with the aviation associations ADS, BDLI and GIFAS highlights improved resilience, yet warns of structural vulnerabilities amid rising […]
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164 aircraft orders were placed in April 2026, nearly eight times those placed in April 2025 115 aircraft were delivered in April […]
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Rome (21 May 2026) – ADS and AIAD have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation for their respective defence […]
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Andy Williams joins the ADS leadership team as Director of ADS Scotland This appointment strengthens ADS’ mission to support the aerospace, defence, […]
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On 13 May 2026, King Charles III delivered the King’s Speech, setting out the Government’s legislative agenda for the next Parliamentary session […]
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Image credit to Ben Adams Photography 51 teams competed in the South East Regional Final of the UK Youth Rocketry Challenge (UKROC) The […]
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Image credit to Ben Adams Photography 64 teams competed in the largest Northern Regional Final of the UK Youth Rocketry Challenge (UKROC) Birkdale […]
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198 students took part in the largest South West Regional Final of the UK Youth Rocketry Challenge (UKROC) UTC Portsmouth (Day 1 […]
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Deborah Higgins joins the ADS leadership team as the Director of Security & Resilience This appointment strengthens ADS’ mission to grow […]
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Report finds that defence companies have reduced their emissions by 13% annually Defence companies have seen a 6% year-on-year increase in female […]
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569 commercial aircraft orders were placed in Q1 of 2026, representing the largest Q1 order book since 2013 Single-aisle aircraft orders were […]
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It hardly takes two glances at today’s newspaper headlines to see that that defence is vital to our national security, but also […]
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On 22 April 2026, the government has announced a new £50 million Defence Growth Deal for Northern Ireland. Set out in the […]
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