INVITATION and FELLOWS ONLY
This year's Awards Dinner will take place at an exciting new venue: The Peninsula London Hotel. The overall proceedings will be hosted by Krishnan Guru-Murthy, journalist and a lead presenter on Channel 4 news, and Professor Juergen Maier CBE FREng FRS will deliver the keynote address.
The highlight of the evening will be the announcement of the winner of the MacRobert Award, which celebrates outstanding innovation, societal benefit and commercial success. 2024 marks the 55th anniversary of the MacRobert Award, the UK's longest-running and most prestigious national prize for engineering innovation.
Throughout the evening several other major Academy awards for achievements in engineering will be presented, including:
- The Princess Royal Silver Medals
- The RAEng Engineers Trust Young Engineers of the Year
- The Sir George Macfarlane Medal
- The Rooke Award
- Major Project Award for Sustainability
- The President's Medal
Who attends
- Leaders in UK engineering business, industry and academia
- Academy Fellows
- Medallists and Awardees
The Awards dinner is only open to Academy Fellows and invited guests, and we are therefore unable to offer any additional places to additional guests. Thank you for your understanding.
Dress Code
Black tie, cocktail dress and decorations.
Photography and filming notice
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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. Please do also contact the events team for hotel recommendations, at [email protected].
Cancellations
All cancellation requests must be received in writing via email to the events team at [email protected]. A request for cancellation (and refund) will be accepted up to the deadline 25 June 2024. Royal Academy of Engineering must make commitments to suppliers at that time and making changes will result in additional costs or penalties. If the cancellation request is received after the deadline, we cannot issue a refund and would recommend a substitution to attend in your place. A written notification of a substitution will be accepted by email up to the morning of the event.
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Professor Juergen Maier CBE FREng FRS
Juergen Maier is Chair of the Digital Catapult, is the co-founder of vocL – a platform for responsible business voices, and is Vice-Chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership where he supports the drive for the green re-industrialisation of the North of England. He advises tech start-up and scale-up businesses which are a key part of the industrial ecosystem creating the green 4th Industrial revolution. In that capacity Juergen advises the Welsh hydrogen car company Riversimple. Juergen is the former Chief Executive of Siemens UK. A position he held from July 2014 to December 2019. Over his 33 year career with Siemens he held a number of senior roles within Siemens in the UK and Germany.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Krishnan Guru-Murthy is the award-winning anchor of Channel 4 News and appears on Unreported World, the foreign affairs series. He has also popped up on 8 Out Of 10 Cats and Never Mind The Buzzcocks, and made a cameo appearance in Shaun of the Dead. Originally at the BBC, Krishnan worked on a variety of programmes from Newsnight to Newsround. He reported for National Lottery Live, presented the Asian Arts show East and fronted Posh Frocks & New Trousers. For Channel 4 Krishnan has presented The Autopsy, the first public post-mortem to be broadcast live. He has also hosted various debates, including one about the impact of reality television and another on human genetics. He also hosts the podcast Ways to Change the World, interviewing guests on the big ideas influencing how we think, act and live. © Copyright: JLA All rights reserved