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Professor Lord Bhattacharyya welcomed Professor Timothy Tong, President of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, to WMG as part of his visit to the University of Warwick.

A Labour Party Forum for Young People was held at WMG’s International Digital Laboratory on 16 March. The event was attended by Labour Leader Ed Miliband MP, who was welcomed to the campus by WMG’s Chairman, Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, along with the Vice–Chancellor, Professor Nigel Thrift and Registrar, Mr Ken Sloan of the University of Warwick.

WMG at the University of Warwick was delighted to host the 2012 Viscount Nuffield / Mensforth Lecture at its International Manufacturing Centre on 15 March. The Viscount Nuffield / Mensforth Lecture is the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s premier manufacturing lecture established in 2003. This year’s prestigious lecture, ‘Setting Premium Standards in Automotive Manufacturing’, was be given by Dr Ralf Speth, CEO of Jaguar Land Rover.

At the event, Dr Speth was also presented with the Mensforth Gold Medal, an IET honour, awarded to recognise distinguished contributions in engineering and technology. Dr Speth was awarded with the medal for his success as CEO of Jaguar Land Rover in the last few years.

Dr Speth's lecture, delivered to a packed auditorium, provided an overview of Jaguar Land Rover, discussed the organisation's success factors and considered the opportunities and challenges currently being faced by the automotive industry.

A video of Dr Speth's lecture is available on the IET website.

The SME Programmes Team at WMG is running a breakfast meeting for SMEs to give an insight into WMG’s research expertise in Cloud Technology.

The session, being held at the International Digital Laboratory, will involve a briefing and discussion about WMG’s expertise in this area, funding opportunities and a case study from a company that has used cloud services to manage a full range of IT processes. Delegates will have an opportunity to participate in live discussions and meet other businesses in a networking session over breakfast.

For more information and to register http://cloudtechnology230312.eventbrite.com/ 

WMG's Dr Geraint Williams will be speaking at the Global Automotive Lightweight Materials Conference running from April 25th - 26th in London.

The focus of the conference will be 'Reducing The Cost Of Sourcing, Integrating & Manufacturing Light Weight Materials For Automotive Strategies & Applications For Mass Market Vehicle Weight Savings To Achieve Improved Fuel Economy'. Expert speakers will include representatives from some of the biggest automotive manufacturers such as Audi, BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, General Motors, Toyota and Fiat as well as research and development institutions and government legislators.

Award Winning US Marketing Professor Stephen L. Vargo has just arrived in the UK to undertake an extensive research collaboration as a Visiting Professor with WMG’s Service Systems group at the University of Warwick from Feb 1 to Sept 30, 2012.

Professor Vargo, who will be working on projects in WMG and around Europe this year, will collaborate with Professor Irene Ng and researchers at the Service Systems group on research efforts in the area of service and value. He is particularly known for his work in Service-Dominant Logic, which was first published in the ground-breaking article “Evolving to a New Dominant Logic for Marketing” in the Journal of Marketing. It is the most-cited marketing article published in the last decade, having been cited over 1,800 times in the past seven years in the domain of management, marketing, operations, engineering and information systems.

WMG at the University of Warwick is delighted to host the 2012 Viscount Nuffield / Mensforth Lecture, the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s premier manufacturing lecture. This year’s prestigious lecture, ‘Setting Premium Standards in Automotive Manufacturing’, will be given by Dr Ralf Speth, CEO of Jaguar Land Rover.

This special event will take place at 18:30 on Thursday 15^th March at the International Manufacturing Centre, WMG’s headquarters on the University of Warwick campus. The lecture is free for anyone to attend. Register early at the IET website to avoid disappointment.

WMG at the University of Warwick and the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) invite you to a FREE one day knowledge dissemination workshop on Smart Digital Media, Effective Skills Access and R&D Funding opportunities.

This interactive workshop will be held at the International Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick on Tuesday 27th March 2012, 08:30-13:00.

WMG at the University of Warwick and spin out company, goHDR, will be exhibiting their cutting-edge video imaging technology at the world’s largest electronic media show in April. goHDR’s High Dynamic Range (HDR) video technology enables the image detail that is typically lost in the glare of bright light and in deep shadow on standard High Definition (HD) video to be revealed with the same clarity as seen by the human eye.

WMG and goHDR have been invited to showcase their HDR research at the NAB Show®, in Las Vegas, from 14-19 April. goHDR has already released a free beta version of its HDR viewer and will be demonstrating the latest advances, including 3D-HDR, from its research laboratories.

WMG has an extensive portfolio of equipment and resources, which are available for companies to use for testing and research. The equipment, which can often be difficult for companies to access elsewhere, is coupled with a very broad technical capability available from staff within the WMG. Companies are able to use the equipment in a variety of ways from a fully-funded, free-of-charge basis, through to a facility day-rate charge.

Our facilities are state-of-the-art and, in all but the most exceptional cases, are provided with expert technician support. All are offered at competitive rates, where applicable. Some of our equipment, such as the Vehicle Energy Facility, a Science City Research Alliance funded project, is unique in terms of being available for use within the public arena.

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