INVITATION ONLY
Guests will have the opportunity to meet the platform’s creators and the key players who have supported this new powerful brand-new equality, diversity and inclusion product.
The platform, part of a wider unprecedented programme the Academy has launched to address engineering startups and scaleups’ diversity and inclusion needs, has been developed in partnership with The Honeycomb Works, which takes take pride in an evidence-based approach to helping businesses create highly inclusive cultures.
The event will consist of talks, workshops and networking opportunities. Guests will be a part of the conversation on how to identify effective solutions that foster organisational cultures where everyone feels seen and welcomed, and co-build best practice that truly can benefit all employees and the sustainability of enterprises in engineering.
The Honeycomb Works
To create this new platform, we have partnered with The Honeycomb Works. The Honeycomb Works’ mission is for everyone at work to feel like they belong and are free to invent at work. Using science, technology and data, it focuses on behaviour change, transforming teams’ habit by habit, person by person, so that individuals thrive and organisations succeed.
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.
Elspeth Finch MBE FREng
Formerly the UK Innovation Director for Atkins, Elspeth is the CEO and Founder of IAND. Initially graduating as a chemist, Elspeth later turned her hand to transport and urban design, demonstrating business and technical leadership on over 100 transport planning projects both nationally and around the world. Elspeth chairs the Enterprise Hub’s Innovators Network and is a judge for the Hub’s Launchpad Competition. She is also a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee. In 2017, Elspeth was awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her services to engineering and enterprise. IAND is a digital platform that helps major enterprises manage multiple suppliers. IAND integrates data, systems and workflows delivering 360° intelligence of all supplier relationships, from finance to risk, ESG to performance.
Rani Saad
Co-founder and President, Stanford Angels of the UK. Rani has built and invested in ventures for 25 years, with around 35 deep-tech investments. He is Co-founder and President of the Stanford Angels of the UK, and is Founding Partner at Apex Black, a venture investment partnership. He is also engaged in driving Series A+ investments for a multibillion family office. Most recently, Rani helped launch and manage a venture capital (VC) fund in Berlin. He has also co-founded or co-built four startups in Silicon Valley, London and elsewhere, in addition to an emerging markets VC fund. He launched products globally and directed innovation acceleration at Microsoft, launched one of the first fintech platforms in the US at Capital One, and led venture formation at ideas42, a leading behavioural sciences entity. He also formerly served as a partner at Delta Pacific Partners (based in Silicon Valley and Tokyo) and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at a Silicon Valley accelerator, Reactivity. Rani holds an MBA from Stanford and degrees in computer engineering, communications engineering and intelligent transportation engineering. Stanford Angels of the UK is a Stanford University alumni group committed to facilitating investments in early-stage and growth ventures, while enriching the entrepreneurship ecosystem more broadly. Its members are Stanford alumni with expertise as successful investors, entrepreneurs and executives, and are actively engaged in backing founders and innovators.