Summary
Ahead of our Advancing Automotive Engineering summit, join a training course on 2-3 November to understand how to develop complex products faster while reducing late-stage technical issues.
Ahead of our Advancing Automotive Engineering summit, join a training course on 2-3 November to understand how to develop complex products faster while reducing late-stage technical issues.
Book your place to save on attending the conference and course together and expand your learning and networking.
Advancing Automotive Engineering 2026 - 4-5 November 2026 - British Motor Museum, Warwick
The Advancing Automotive Engineering (AAE) Conference is an annual gathering of professionals, innovators, and decision-makers from across the automotive sector, providing a unique opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of the future of mobility.
Four streams. Two days. One place to advance the conversation that matters
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Leading Software-Defined R&D and Product Programmes - 2-3 November 2026, MTI, Coventry
This two-day course gives engineers and managers the tools to make better decisions earlier, reduce programme risk, and lead integrated hardware-software development projects with greater confidence and control.
Course attendees will explore how integrated teams coordinate hardware and software development across prototyping, testing, and validation, through real-world case studies. The course examines how techniques such as digital simulation, hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) testing, and Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) shape programme decisions and inform technical leadership.
Attend to gain practical frameworks that can be applied immediately to your projects, teams, and technical trade-offs you face every day. These provide more predictable delivery, reduced R&D costs and enhanced preparedness of your teams, all leading to greater competitiveness in an increasingly software-driven market.
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How will I benefit?
Key topics
Mapped against UK- SPEC competencies:
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Professional commitment - For Incorporated and Chartered Engineers: ‘Demonstrate a personal commitment to professional standards, recognising obligations to society, the profession and the environment’
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Responsibility, management or leadership - For Incorporated and Chartered Engineers: 'Provide Technical and commercial leadership’
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Knowledge and understanding - For Chartered Engineers: ‘Use a combination of general and specialist engineering knowledge and understanding to optimize the application of existing and emerging technology’
For Incorporated Engineers: ‘Use a combination of general and specialist mechanical engineering knowledge and understanding to apply existing and emerging technology’
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Design and development of processes, systems, services and products - For Chartered Engineers: ‘Apply appropriate theoretical and practical methods to the analysis and solution of mechanical engineering problems’
For Incorporated Engineers ‘Apply appropriate theoretical and practical methods to design, develop, manufacture, construct commission, operate, maintain, decommission and re-cycle mechanical engineering processes, systems, services and products’
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Peter Guest
Peter Guest is a degree qualified Chief engineer and project director with over 30 years experience in the automotive industry across a number of brands in the premium and luxury sector, having led a number of complete vehicle programmes from business case to delivery.
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Tom Festa
Tom Festa is a MBA-qualified Chartered Engineer who has worked and led Vehicle Projects for MINI BMW for over 20 years. Now an Engineering Management consultant who lectures at Oxford Brookes University (Engineering Mgmt Ethics and Sustainability) and is a trainer for the IMechE.
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