Date: Tuesday 12 August 2025
Location: TBC
Seminar: Potential Business Opportunities Created by AUKUS, now on Tuesday 12th August 2025
As Members will know, we had been planning to organize a hybrid briefing on the potential business opportunities that might be created by the three nation AUKUS initiative, and for this to take place on Tuesday 1st July 2025. However, due to recent developments related to the AUKUS initiative, it was felt that this had to be postponed, and, as a result, it will now be taking place on Tuesday 12th August 2025, instead. Whilst we fully recognize that this new date, in the middle of August, is far less than ideal, we have reason to believe that such a delay might considerably benefit its’ taking place at that time.
The hugely significant regulatory changes that were introduced in Australia, the UK and US in 2024, following extensive consultations across the three nations, have been potentially revolutionary in their implications for co-development and co-production efforts between the three nations. When the final details of these changes were formally announced in Autumn 2024, there was huge interest within the three nations’ industries in the possibilities of them opening up considerable potential commercial benefits and new business opportunities. Now, some 10 months’ on from these changes being introduced and implemented, ADS Group is seeking to organize, with its close collaborative partner at Squire Patton Boggs (https://www.squirepattonboggs.com/en), and in cooperation with the UK and US governments, a hybrid briefing to enable UK organisations to have a better perception on what some of those potential business opportunities might be, and what early adopters’ practical experiences have been of the benefits that have resulted.
It has to be noted, right from the start, that the changes are NOT purely associated merely with AUKUS-related programmes, but are across the board and potentially would encompass ALL projects and technologies between the three nations which are outside of the very limited scope of the related “Excluded Technologies List” (summarized at: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-126/appendix-Supplement%20No.%202%20to%20Part%20126). Thus, the vast majority of UK firms who do, or have aspirations to be able to pursue, commercial activities and potential business opportunities with both the US and Australia, can make use of these changes to assist them in significantly reducing the bureaucracy that would, otherwise, have been involved in their efforts, even if these have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with any of the AUKUS-related projects that have been outlined by the three governments.
In essence, this event, will seek to build on other activities that have been being undertaken across the three nations since March 2024, and to generate greater awareness of the very real, practical and tangible benefits of these regulatory changes and how UK firms can seek to take advantage of these.
The format will be as follows:
13:00 Registration – tea, coffee, biscuits
13:30 Seminar Opens with Summary Opening Address (ADS/EGADD and SPB)
13:45 First Panel Session with Government Officials from the UK and US with open forum Q&A
15:00 Networking Break
15:15 Second Panel Session with early adopters outlining their perceptions of the tangible benefits of the changes and the opportunities that have resulted with open forum Q&A
16:30 Closing remarks (ADS/EGADD and SPB)
16:35 Informal networking drinks reception
17:30 Disperse
Further details are available can be found at: https://www.adsgroup.org.uk/events/hybrid-seminar-potential-business-opportunities-created-by-aukus/
