Sponsors 2025
SMMT
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) is the voice of the UK motor industry, supporting and promoting its position to government, stakeholders and the media at home and abroad. UK Automotive is a global centre of excellence for innovation and engineering, and the shift to electrification, digitalisation, connectivity and autonomy means there has never been a more exciting time to join the industry. We need talent from across all background and genders to fill the widening range of roles, and we hope this event will help inspire more women to join our industry, helping to shape the future mobility of the UK.
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Bentley Motors
Bentley Motors is the most sought-after luxury car brand in the world. The company’s headquarters in Crewe is home to all of its operations including design, R&D, engineering, Mulliner and production of the company’s five model lines, Continental GT, Continental GT Convertible, Flying Spur, Bentayga and Bentayga EWB. The combination of fine craftsmanship, using skills that have been handed down through generations, alongside engineering expertise and innovative technology is unique to UK luxury car brands such as Bentley. It is also an example of high-value British manufacturing at its best. Bentley employs around 4,000 people at Crewe.
We are united in our goal to make Bentley successful and take positive actions. It is our colleagues' differences that make us strong, drives our innovation and creates change. Our DEI journey underpins high performance with diversity of thought and true inclusion. This is what Belonging at Bentley means.
Keyloop
With a legacy spanning over four decades, we’ve dedicated ourselves to pioneering cutting-edge technology, tailored to empower car retailers and manufacturers in achieving their objectives.
Our remarkable journey commenced in the quaint town of Hungerford, UK, where we established our roots under the name Kerridge. Over the years, our unwavering commitment to excellence has seen us undergo various transformations through acquisitions and exponential growth.
Renowned as ADP Dealer Services and CDK Global during our expansion across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, we proudly welcomed a significant milestone in 2021 when we were acquired by Francisco Partners, a preeminent technology investment firm. Embracing this new era, we emerged as Keyloop.
Nissan
Globally, Nissan employs over 130,000 staff with 7,000 of those from across sites in the UK, from the design studio in London to the manufacturing plant in Sunderland. Nissan believes that diversity makes us stronger, leading to creative solutions and innovative ways of thinking, which in turn leads to a better customer experience.
Nissan offers a broad range of careers in the UK covering every area in the automotive industry – there really is something for everyone. To encourage more women to pursue the varied opportunities within the automotive industry, Nissan has for a number of years worked on initiatives to engage school-age children. For example, The Nissan Skills Foundation – a scheme to get young people interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) – has reached more than 80,000 children from primary and secondary schools.
It includes a programme specifically for teenage girls called GIMME – Girls in Monozukuri, Manufacturing and Engineering – which offers presentation and engagement opportunities with women in the automotive industry. Nissan continues to see rising numbers of female applicants to the graduate scheme, and through continued focus on diversity and inclusion aims to increase the number of women in senior positions within the company.
Volvo Cars
Volvo Cars was founded in 1927. Today, it is one of the most well-known and respected car brands in the world with sales to customers in more than 100 countries. Volvo Cars is listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange, where it is traded under the ticker “VOLCAR B”.
"For life. To give people the freedom to move in a personal, sustainable and safe way." This purpose is reflected in Volvo Cars' ambition to become a fully electric car maker and in its commitment to an ongoing reduction of its carbon footprint, with the ambition to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.
Volvo Cars' head office, product development, marketing and administration functions are mainly located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Cars' production plants are located in Gothenburg, Ghent (Belgium), South Carolina (US), Chengdu, Daqing and Taizhou (China). The company also has R&D and design centres in Gothenburg and Shanghai (China).
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