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Events
The core Industry Forum membership programme focuses on a range of key current or strategic issues and features some 20-plus meetings per year on topics chosen by members. Our events are informal and interactive, and adhere to the… read more
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Membership
Membership is open to businesses, trade bodies and other organisations operating in the UK and with an interest in business-related public policy in the UK and Europe. Members of the Industry Forum include leading international enterprises from Industry Forum members…read more
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About
The Industry Forum promotes constructive dialogue between public policy makers, industry operating in the UK, and leading commentators. It has operated for over 20 years and has established good relations with the main political parties….read more
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Upcoming events
Restoring trust in digital tech
04 June 2019 - Early evening meeting - Login for venue
Panel discussion,
The explosive growth in use of the Internet and the World Wide Web began in the 1990s and saw the rapid establishment of what are now tech titans such Google, Facebook and Amazon as well as the furthe... Read More
Sponsors: Fieldfisher LLP
Labour’s plans for investment in science & technology
18 June 2019 - Breakfast meeting - Login for venue
Peter Dowd MP, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Over a long term, companies and industries based on science and technology have contributed strongly to economic growth and the quality of life. For such reasons there is a growing consensus that sign... Read More
Sponsors: Institute of Physics
Key issues for the Home Affairs Select Committee
01 July 2019 - Lunch meeting - Login for venue
The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, Chair, Home Affairs Select Committee
The continuing uncertainty over Brexit poses serious problems for the staffing plans of businesses operating in the UK. The reduction in the supply of EU workers and the likely future conditions on ... Read More
Sponsors: TBC
Radical approaches to improving UK skills
04 July 2019 - Lunch meeting - Login for venue
Panel discussion,
After a decade of poor economic performance, with fast growing international competitors, and massive disruption by new technologies, the UK urgently needs to upgrade its skills base. Possible changes... Read More
Sponsors: KPMG
May Newsletter
Our May Newsletter is packed full of events we have scheduled for the next few months and those we a...
The deep roots of the trust crisis
Sigmund Freud, the public affairs industry and the internet may all have played a part in declining ...
Brexit & UK higher education: turning a challenge into an opportunity
Klaudia Chmielowska has produced this opinion piece summarising the output from a student project at...
Technology, work and the future
After Brexit and the weather, the hottest topic this year may be the future of work and the impact o...
A tentative, ‘me-too’ approach to industrial strategy will lead us nowhere
An ambitious and entrepreneurial government could transform the UK economy by playing to its strengt...
“Hard Brexit”, International Trade and the WTO Scenario
A new report by Dr. Andrew Black of the Global Policy Institute looks at the possible consequences o...
Why WTO rules are not a viable alternative and could wreck the economy
A Brexit "no deal" and WTO rules would wreck the economy, writes IF Economist Andrew Smith. Countrie...
Rethinking the Treasury
During 2016, Industry Forum Chair, Rod Dowler, assisted Lord Kerslake’s independent review of the ...
Trump’s New World Order: Brexit and Europe in a World Turned Upside Down
In this wide-ranging analysis of the implications of the election of Donald Trump and the UK vote fo...
Difficult Questions yield some concensus
The joint Federal Trust/Global Policy Institute/Industry Forum project to tackle the difficult quest...
First, get their attention
In this provocative article, David Rowe argues that although Brexit will clearly lead to short-term ...
We have seen the future and it doesn’t work
Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust, gives his views on the consequences of unleashing t...
Why governments won’t invest
Sir Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board ...
Andrew Smith’s answers to FT economics questions for 2016
Economist Andrew Smith gives his views on the economic outlook for 2016 in a recent Financial Times ...
Economics update
A packed meeting at the National Liberal Club heard economist, Andrew Smith, give a wide-ranging eco...
Economic prospects briefing 2017 – increasing risks and uncertainties
At the annual Industry Forum economic prospects briefing for 2017, Andrew Smith outlined the increas...
The challenges facing legacy banks
In September 2015 the Industry Forum organised a lively panel discussion, hosted by techUK, on the ...
Economic prospects for the UK
In June 2015 Andrew Smith, formerly Chief Economist at KPMG, gave a detailed analysis of the overall...
The EU in the future of British security
This report by Andreas Capstack is intended as a counterpoint to the British government’s 'EU Bala...
