Webinar: The UK Auto Industry Post COVID 19

How has COVID changed the UK Car Industry and who will the new winners be?

Join this hour-long online webinar to hear an absorbing discussion between a panel of automotive experts who will debate these and many more burning questions, including a live Q&A session with webinar attendees: book your place at the event page.

Everyone agrees COVID-19 has changed our lives in many unpredictable ways. Industry has changed radically too and is peppered with unlikely winners and tragic losers. The same can be said for the UK's automotive businesses, with many engineers that were its beating heart have also been hit extremely hard.

Huge questions now hang over the whole sector, including:

• What must businesses do to succeed in the new, post-virus world?
• How has customer demand for cars changed?
• Can UK car making regain its former strength, especially its export markets?
• What sort of car businesses will succeed in future?
• How long is any recovery likely to take?
• Will Brexit and mass electrification help our industry or hinder it?
• What are the implications in all this for professional engineers?

Confirmed panellists include:

• Steve Cropley, Editor in Chief, The Autocar
• Mike Hawes, CEO, SMMT
• Stephen Norman, Managing Director, Vauxhall Motors
• Richard Parry-Jones, Consultant, RPJ Consulting
• Paul Markwick, Consultant, JN Consulting