BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC) is a leading open SaaS and composable ecommerce platform that empowers brands and retailers of all sizes to build, innovate and grow their businesses online. BigCommerce provides its customers sophisticated enterprise-grade functionality, customization and performance with simplicity and ease-of-use. Tens of thousands of B2C and B2B companies across 150 countries and numerous industries rely on BigCommerce, including Burrow, Trade Tools, Harvey Nichols, King Arthur Baking Co., MKM Building Supplies, United Aqua Group and Uplift Desk.
As a development and commercialisation organisation, Lucideon specialises in the research, implementation, and scaling-up of novel materials technologies. We work across a variety of industries including healthcare, construction, energy, and aerospace, with expertise in a wide range of materials. Together, this gives us the cross-sector experience and skills needed to understand a clients’ product or process inside and out.
We help our clients overcome the materials challenges their businesses face in a world demanding ever more environmentally focused application of materials resources and energy. As a trusted partner, we’re aiming to make the world a materially better place.
Yamazaki Mazak is a global leader in machine tools, laser cutting, CNC software, and automation. Founded in Japan in 1919, the company has 11 manufacturing factories worldwide, with its European Manufacturing Plant based in Worcester, UK since 1987. The site produces around 1,000 machines annually and is home to over 900 skilled staff supporting industries from aerospace to medical. Worcester also houses the European Technology Centre, where customers explore machining innovations, test components, and receive expert advice. With over 50 machine types built on-site, Mazak UK plays a vital role in delivering precision and productivity across Europe and beyond.
Xometry is an AI-powered marketplace revolutionising on-demand manufacturing. It connects engineers and businesses with a vast global network of vetted manufacturing partners. Through its proprietary Instant Quoting Engine®, Xometry provides immediate pricing and lead times for custom parts, offering a wide array of processes like CNC machining, 3D printing, injection moulding, and sheet metal fabrication. This streamlines the procurement process, enables rapid prototyping, and facilitates resilient supply chains for industries ranging from energy and robotics to consumer goods, empowering innovators to bring their ideas to market efficiently.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is the main funding body for engineering and physical sciences research in the UK. By investing in research and postgraduate training, we are building the knowledge and skills base needed to address the scientific and technological challenges facing the nation.
Our portfolio covers a vast range of fields from healthcare technologies to structural engineering, manufacturing to mathematics, advanced materials to chemistry. The research we fund has impact across all sectors. It provides a platform for future UK prosperity by contributing to a healthy, connected, resilient, productive nation.
EPSRC is part of UK Research and Innovation, a new body which works in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities, and government to create the best possible environment for research and innovation to flourish. We aim to maximise the contribution of each of our component parts, working individually and collectively. We work with our many partners to benefit everyone through knowledge, talent and ideas.
SheCanEngineer is a charity working to close the gender gap in engineering industries by showcasing the accomplishments of female engineers, raising awareness around issues relating to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I), and promoting engineering to children. With the support of our sponsors, Professional Engineering Institutions, collaborators and volunteers, we have reached diverse audiences — connecting with professional engineers, students and their teachers, parents and guardians. The SheCanEngineer ethos has inclusion at its core - with all activities open to all genders.
Way back in 1856 the founders of The Engineer laid out a vision to document and report on the astonishing innovations and breakthroughs of the industrial revolution.
More than 160 years later – although the technological landscape would be unrecognisable to our Victorian predecessors - the publication remains true to this vision.
Via its website and monthly print magazine - and through a combination of news, in-depth reports and hard-hitting opinion – the publication gives engineers across all sectors early warning on the disruptive technologies, trends and products that will impact their roles; keeps them informed of developments in other areas of engineering and champions all that is great about UK engineering and manufacturing.
Today, at a time of accelerating technological change, when the role of the engineer is broader than ever before and cross sector collaboration is the key to maintaining a competitive edge, The Engineer has never been more relevant.
