INVITATION ONLY
Join us for our inaugural Awardee Excellence Community event to network, share ideas and get involved in the work of the Academy for the first time.
As well as the opportunity to network with Community members, Fellows of the Academy and other invited guests, the events will be packed with inspiring talks and interactive sessions including a keynote from Billy Boyle MBE FREng, Co-Founder and CEO of Owlstone Medical Ltd - 2018 MacRobert Award winner. The keynote will be livestreamed from our London event, with a Q&A to follow after.
Delegates will also have an opportunity to bring their engineering expertise to bear on current and future global challenges, and the work of the Academy.
Event hosts: Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE, CEO and Fran Scott
Programme
| Time | Session |
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12.00pm |
Registration and lunch |
|
1.00pm |
Introduction and welcome |
|
1.10pm
|
Keynote speaker (livestreamed) and Q&A Billy Boyle MBE FREng |
|
2.00pm |
Break |
|
2.10pm |
Provocation talk |
|
2.15pm |
Exercise 1: Mapping a Future Vision |
|
3.15pm |
Refreshments |
|
3.35pm |
Provocation talk |
|
3.45pm |
Exercise 2: Innovation objectives |
|
4.30pm |
Break |
|
4.40pm |
Provocation talk |
|
4.50pm |
Exercise 3: Solutions ideation |
|
5.10pm |
Closing statement |
|
5.15pm |
Networking reception |
|
6.30pm |
Event ends |
About the Awardee Excellence Community
The Awardee Excellence Community brings together awardees from all career stages and disciplines to share their expertise, collaborate, and contribute new perspectives to the Academy’s work. It is open to current awardees and alumni of the Academy’s awards and prizes. Sign up to join the Community and receive regular communications including the latest opportunities and invitations.
Find out more about the community.
Recording notice
Please note this event will be streamed and recorded, and may be published on the Royal Academy of Engineering website.
Venue and accessibility
It is very important to the Royal Academy of Engineering that our events are accessible to all. If you have any accessibility requirements, please contact the Events team more than one week in advance of this event so that necessary arrangements can be made. Contact details: [email protected].
Further information about accessibility at Prince Philip House can be found at: https://raeng.org.uk/about-us/accessibility.
Billy Boyle MBE FREng
Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE
Hayaatun is CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation. She co-chairs with the Science Minister the government’s Business Innovation Forum and co-chaired with Sir Lewis Hamilton his Commission on improving Black representation in motorsport. She is a trustee of various charities, member of the government’s Levelling Up Advisory Council and Digital Skills Council and NXD at construction company Laing O’Rourke. She has been named as one of the ‘Inspiring 50’ women in tech in Europe and one of the most influential women in both UK engineering and UK tech. She has a Masters in Biochemistry (MBiochem) from Oxford and a PhD from Cancer Research UK/UCL. She is a Fellow of the IET, Honorary Professor at UCL and Honorary Fellow at The Queen’s College, Oxford. She has received honorary doctorates from UCL, Imperial College London, Newcastle, Brunel, Huddersfield and Southampton, as well as a Science Suffrage Award and the Engineering Professor’s Council President’s Medal. She was a finalist for the Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Award and was made a CBE for services to International Engineering in 2019. Prior to her current roles, she was Deputy CEO at the Academy and served as Committee Specialist and later Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee.
