Event

Thales Open Innovation Event (Postponed)

Monday, 28 September 2009 from 05:00PM to 07:00PM

Please note that this event has been postponed

Venue: Thales, Manor Royal, Crawley (not Central London as originally advertised)

Background

The purpose of this event will be to enable Thales to meet and discuss with small to medium sized companies possible collaboration opportunities between Thales and those companies that are able to provide Thales with capabilities to fill gaps in their supply chain.

The event is specifically intended for engineering, manufacturing and high technology companies who can offer solutions to fill capability gaps or enhance Thales' security product offering across a range of capability areas in particular:

  • Surveillance and tracking
  • Risk and resilience
  • Intelligence and forensics
  • Information security and assurance
  • Sensing, detection and response

The event is limited to 35 SME participants who will have the opportunity to meet and discuss areas of mutual interest with around 15 technology specialists from Thales.

The event will be by invitation only with the final selection of delegates made by Thales.

If there is a significant oversubscription, then the event will be repeated.

Agenda

Welcome from Thales

Briefing from Thales on:

  • Where Thales wants to work with SME’s
  • Thales' National Security and Resilience focus
  • Key account leadership

There will then be an opportunity for delegates to network with Thales technology specialists over drinks and canapés to discuss:

  • R&D facilities
  • Capability gaps
  • FP7 gaps
  • The MPS Mobile Identification Unit contract*

*A number of SITC members have expressed an interest in collaborating in a bid for the recent MPS contract on Mobile Identification Units. Thales is also interested in bidding for this contract, but acknowledge they have gaps in their capability to fully meet the requirements of the contract.

Booking

If you believe your SME meets the criteria set out above and you wish to attend this event, please contact Paul Osborne ( posborne@securityintech.com ) indicating who you would like to attend, their job title and providing a brief outline of the type of engineering, manufacturing or high technology products your company offers. 

This information will be passed to Thales and used as a basis for determining which SMEs will be invited to attend this event. 

We do not expect to be able to offer more than one place at the event per company.

 

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