Friday 21 June 2019
Birmingham Conference & Events Centre
Please find attached the agenda for the IET Gender Parity in Engineering Conference as part of INWED this year in Birmingham.
Aimed at STEM stakeholders, it’s our 3rd annual event on the subject of increasing the number of women in engineering and the number of girls interested in STEM. I believe the event will provide lots of networking and knowledge-sharing opportunities for attendees.
The full line of speakers include:
- Katherine Mathieson, CEO, British Science Association
- Elizabeth Donnelly, CEO, Women's Engineering Society
- Julie Feest, CEO, Engineering Development Trust
- Sue Gammons, Coaching Director, GlaxoSmithKline
- Denise Neill, Project Manager Non-Operated Ventures UK, Shell
- David Jenkins, Practice Director Engineering, Transportation and D&I Committee Member, Atkins
- Clara Wicks, Group Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager, Costain
- Sophie Lea, Senior Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisor, Mott MacDonald
- Hema Marshall, Executive Lead for Inclusion & Diversity, Cisco
- Cathy Travers, Buildings and Infrastructure General Manager, Mott MacDonald
- Chloe Chambraud, Gender Equality Director, Business In The Community
- Dawn Bonfield MBE, Founder, Towards Vision
- Gill Thomas, Senior Manager, Diversity & Inclusion, Royal Academy of Engineering
- David Lakin, Head of Education 5-19, IET
- Dr Sarah Chen, Assistant Subject Matter Expert, EDF Energy
- Stephen Howse, Research Manager, WISE
- Eva Fryc, Regional Network Lead, STEM Learning
- Leslie Whyte-Venables, Regional Network Lead, STEM Learning
- Aimee Welch, Employer Support Manager, EngineeringUK
- Savi Bhamra, Diversity Advisor - Workplace Inclusion and Wellbeing, Business in the Community
- Abigail Frost, UK Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Manager, WSP
- Heli Frosterus, Spectrum Policy Principal, OFCOM
- Richard Chapman-Harris, Head of Inclusion and Responsibility, Mott MacDonald
- Jill Faure, Senior Technology Advisor, OFCOM
- Alex Lawrence, Talent Inclusion Director, Head of D&I, Ramboll
- Ffion Jones, Learning & Development Manager, WSP
The one-day conference is packed with 15 practical workshops with plenty of time for networking and discussions. It is officially supported by 12 major organisations dedicated to seeing more women in engineering and more girls in STEM:
- Association for BME Engineers
- British Science Association
- Engineering Development Trust
- EngineeringUK
- Equate Scotland
- Primary Engineer
- Prospect
- Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng)
- STEM Learning
- Women in Nuclear (WiN)
- Women’s Engineering Society (WES)
- Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)