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: Professor Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE, President and Catriona Schmolke FREng
Programme
| Time | Session |
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12.00pm |
Registration and lunch |
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1.00pm |
Introduction and welcome |
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1.10pm
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Keynote speaker (livestreamed) and Q&A Billy Boyle MBE FREng |
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2.00pm |
Break |
|
2.10pm |
Provocation talk |
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2.15pm |
Exercise 1: Mapping a Future Vision |
|
3.15pm |
Refreshments |
|
3.35pm |
Provocation talk Professor Colin McInnes FREng and RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies |
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3.45pm |
Exercise 2: Innovation objectives |
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4.30pm |
Break |
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4.40pm |
Provocation talk |
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4.50pm |
Exercise 3: Solutions ideation |
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5.10pm |
Closing statement |
|
5.15pm |
Networking reception |
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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].
Billy Boyle MBE FREng
Billy Boyle MBE FREng has a vision is to change the way we currently diagnose and monitor serious disease. He is the co-founder and CEO of Owlstone Inc., whose mission is to become the global leader in the non-invasive detection of cancer, infectious diseases and inflammatory diseases – in the process saving 100,000 lives and $1.5 billion in healthcare costs. Billy received The Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal and was a winner of the 2018 MacRobert Award; he was then made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020 and an MBE in 2021. Billy sits on the CRUK Early Detection and Diagnosis Research Committee and was previously a judge for the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Pioneer award and a trustee of the Linacre Institute. He likes to combine a love of running with raising money for charities such as CRUK.