Comment: There's a real buzz about the new-look MACH

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MTA CEO James Selka reflects on a successfull first day for MACH 2018

The opening day of MACH 2018 was a tremendous success, when we were privileged to be joined by multiple Olympic sailing champion Sir Ben Ainslie to officially open the show.

There is a real buzz on site here at the NEC, the new Halls have refreshed the show and we can see from the visitor registrations, which are already up on the previous MACH show in 2016, that people are interested and engaged with the sector.

The other good news from the first day of the show is that BBC Breakfast have confirmed that they will be broadcasting live from MACH this morning, so do tune in a get a flavour of what is going here in Birmingham.

Over the course of this morning’s programme, Steph McGovern will be presenting several bulletins from the NEC. As a former ‘Young Engineer for Britain’ award winner for work she did for Black & Decker as an engineering apprentice, Steph is extremely knowledgeable about our sector and in particularly champions greater gender diversity.

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