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Equality in Engineering Conference 2023

Engineering a Brighter Future 

Tuesday 31st January 2023   /   London   /   09:00 onwards

Network with professionals, leaders and influencers enthusiastic about creating inclusive cultures for tomorrow’s workforce.

Connect Together

Network with professionals, leaders and influencers enthusiastic about creating inclusive cultures for tomorrow’s workforce.
Learn about ways to better engage your colleagues and organisation on performing better on inclusion.

Inform Each Other

Learn about ways to better engage your colleagues and organisation on performing better on inclusion.
Get re-energised on transforming the norm by empowering and supporting one another.

Empower One Another

Get re-energised on transforming the norm by empowering and supporting one another.
Speakers
Sessions
Attendees

Our Sponsors

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Our Sponsors

RS Components logo
ECITB logo
Blue logo of Airbus
Purple logo of Heathrow airport.

Our Speakers

Schedule

Tuesday 31st January 2023

Leonardo Royal London Tower Bridge Hotel

09:00 – 09:30

Registration Opens & Networking Breakfast
Tea, Coffee & Pastries

09:30 – 09:40

Welcome

09:40 – 09:50

Setting the scene
Dr Mark McBride-Wright CEng MIChemE
Founder & Managing Director, EqualEngineers

Session 1 (Opening Plenary) – D&I Leadership Panel – State of the Union
09:50 –   10:25

Chair: XXX 

10:25 – 11:15

Workshop Sessions

Workshop 1

Role Models in STEM and Inspiring Young People – Alexandra Knight, Stemazing

Join us for this interactive talk on the importance of visible role models in STEM, why this engagement needs to start as young as possible and what we can all do to make a difference. Alex will present the work STEMAZING, a not-for-profit Community Interest Company, is doing to empower women in STEM to be more confident, visible role models and inspire Primary School children with STEM. Discover how you can get involved and gain inspiration for your future STEM outreach initiatives.

11:15 – 11:40

Coffee Break

11:40 – 12:30

Workshop Sessions

Workshop 1

Engineering Inspiration: Case Study on Overcoming Stereotypes of Who Can Be an Engineer – Kevin Stenson, Chief Executive, Smallpiece Trust

Alongside Creative Access, Equal Engineers, and WES, The Smallpeice Trust is part of McLaren Racing Engage, a strategic alliance of collaborative initiatives to diversify talent in motorsport. The Trust’s role is to inspire, inform and influence students from secondary schools in McLaren’s community that meet EngineeringUK’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion criteria; namely the proportion of students that are eligible for Free School Meals, and the proportion of ethnic minority students. This case study features McLaren Extreme E’s visit, together with McLaren’s first female racing driver, to a school where students thought “McLaren will never come to my school”.

12:30 – 13:30

Networking Lunch 

Session 2: Representation & Accessibility
13:30 – 14:05

Chair: XXX 

  • ???, Disability 
  • XXX ReciteMe 
  • John Bradbury, Operations Director, InterEngineering 
  • Mara Makoni, AFBE-UK 
14:05 – 14:55

Workshop Sessions

Workshop 1

The Importance of Goal Setting: Improve your Personal Branding, Storytelling and Emotional Intelligence Wayne Hutt, RS Components

In this interactive session we’ll introduce the following elements:

how to improve your Storytelling,  Emotional Intelligence and  personal branding. We’ll explore ‘story telling in a corporate world’ to enable you to successfully align the 3 key elements (Motivation, Intention and Behaviour) and relay a verbal message with the effectiveness, and diplomacy you had intended. 

The aim of this session is to:

  • ensure participants understand the benefits of Goal Setting – both to their careers and lives.
  • Provide knowledge and skills training on how to set a goal.
  • To explore the different types of goals.
  • Gap Analydid – Where you want to get to? – V – Where you are currently?
  • Participants to create a live “Goal” from scratch and commit to first steps.
14:55 – 15:15

Coffee Break

Session 3: Inclusive Leadership: Creating Inclusive Cultures
15:15 – 15:40

Keynote speaker

15:40 – 15:50

Closing remarks & conference close

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