1. Wednesday 13 th February 2013 Ramside Hall, Durham Lindsay Middleton National Operations Manager Semta SSC Skills for Economic Development

2. Wednesday 13 th February 2013 Ramside Hall, Durham

3. Wednesday 13 th February 2013 Ramside Hall, Durham Talent Retention Solution – Nifco Managing delivery for supply chain & SMEs Employers, SSCs, Government, TUs, TAs working in partnership to deliver for the sector

4. Wednesday 13 th February 2013 Ramside Hall, Durham Autotech are an SME that design, install, maintain and upgrade electronic control systems and specialise in logistics, automotive, airports, food beverage, facilities and manufacturing. Semta Support Autotech identified that they need 5 Graduate 3D modelling CAD/CAM Engineers They have previously had barriers attempting to attract the right people into the company. Semta have helped them source and match quality Graduates to their business need.

5. Wednesday 13 th February 2013 Ramside Hall, Durham Nuclear Manufacturing Skills: Research Study Part of an industry wide LMI model sponsored by government and in partnership with Cogent. Aims to: quantify the UK nuclear manufacturing skills base inform the skills interventions required for the supply chain benchmark the start of nuclear new build forecast future supply and demand evolve as new build progresses to be integrated with data for Operations and Decommissioning. First phase of research is running this month. We welcome your input at this important time for the nuclear industry. An invitation to participate will be sent to you by email after today’s event.

6. Wednesday 13 th February 2013 Ramside Hall, Durham Career Advancement & Progression

7. Wednesday 13 th February 2013 Ramside Hall, Durham Employer’s View Bottom-line benefits using Business Improvement Techniques (B-IT) Savings of £1.2 million 280 employees up-skilled Winners of 2011 World Class Manufacturing Award “Semta were key to telling us what was available in the marketplace in terms of level of training, funding, the right providers – the support network to get us going. Without that we would probably never have got going in this kind of way” Colin Larkin, Plant Manager, Case New Holland (UK) Limited

8. Wednesday 13 th February 2013 Ramside Hall, Durham Six Sigma Green Belt Programme Clustered training Geographically/Financially accessible Sourced a solution to enable firms who may ordinarily not feel able to participate Savings of £1.5million achieved so far as a result of the training “The course itself was very comprehensive and the way in which it was run (one session a month for 6 months) meant we were able to work on our own projects as we completed the course, which made it much more relevant. I’m sure I will use the skills learnt many times in the future.” Andrew Early, Operations Manager at Flybrid