INVITATION ONLY
If you have any questions, please contact the Awardee Excellence Community team at [email protected].
The Awardee Excellence Community Conference will celebrate our diverse community and foster meaningful connections between UK-based awardees and the Academy. The event will encourage networking, collaboration, and facilitate a rich exchange of knowledge so awardees can learn from each other's expertise and shape the work of the Academy.
Day One: This includes optional awardee-led site visits followed by a networking dinner at the DoubleTree Hotel, Manchester Piccadilly.
Day Two: The Conference will include an exhibition, workshops, training, panel discussions, lightning talks and more opportunities to connect with other attendees. Our Awardee Excellence Community plays a valued part in helping us to deliver the Academy’s ongoing mission and vision. By joining this event you will have an opportunity to not only connect with other awardees but help us to shape the current and future goals of the Academy.
Aligned to the work of the Academy, the event’s themes are:
- Green futures
- Emerging technology
- Engineers of the future
- Collaboration and partnerships
Click on 'more details' to read more about each of the event themes.
Registration is open to UK-based awardees only. Awardees will be expected to attend both the networking dinner and the conference. However, if this is not possible and you can only commit to attending the conference please email [email protected].
Reasonable expenses for travel to and from Manchester will be reimbursed in line with the Academy expenses policy. One night of accommodation will be covered at the venue hotel on 14 November for all awardees (unless this is not necessary).
Event themes
Green futures
One of the goals of the Academy is to harness the power of engineering to build a sustainable society. We are achieving this through our funding and our policy work.
The Green Future Fellowships is a 10-year, £3 million award designed to support exceptional scientists, researchers and innovators to transform their pioneering engineering innovations into climate solutions with real-world impact.
Our wastewater and decarbonisation of the electricity system reports are examples of how we are bringing engineering thinking to the heart of policymaking. Find out more about our Sustainability and Net Zero policy work. Internationally, we are working on issues such as the open burning of waste.
We also celebrate engineering success through our prizes and medals including the Major Project Award for Sustainability.
Emerging technologies
Innovation is one of the core pillars of the Academy’s work.
We are investing in some of the UK’s most creative and exciting engineering ideas and businesses. We do this by supporting the growth of hundreds of companies through our Enterprise Hub and our Chairs in Emerging Technologies programme which supports researchers developing emerging technology areas that have potential to deliver economic and social benefit to the UK.
Our MacRobert Award recognises outstanding innovation coupled with tangible societal benefit and proven commercial success. Winners include Google DeepMind for their GraphCast technology and Quanta Dialysis Technologies for their portable dialysis machine.
Engineers of the future
Talent and diversity in the engineering workforce is critical to meeting our goal of an inclusive economy that works for everyone.
We are developing skills for the future by identifying the challenges of an ever-changing world and developing the skills and ideas we need to build a resilient and diverse engineering profession.
We do this through our education programmes which range from bursaries and scholarships to visiting professors. Our Engineers 2030 project challenges how we think about engineering today, and how the engineering workforce needs to be different.
The This is Engineering campaign seeks to encourage more young people, from all backgrounds, to consider engineering careers.
Collaboration and partnerships
We believe in the power of partnerships. That’s why we bring the world’s best engineers from industry, enterprise and academia together to address the greatest global challenges of our age.
We do this through programmes such as Engineering X: Transforming Systems through Partnership, which supports collaboration between universities and industry and Frontiers, which connects and empowers researchers, innovators and practitioners from the UK and around the world to work together on new ways to solve complex global challenges.
Our Industrial Fellowships scheme enables mid-career academics and industrialists to undertake a collaborative research project in either an industrial or academic environment. We also celebrate sustained, strategic collaboration between academia and industry through the Bhattacharyya Award.
Programme
Thursday 14 November
| Afternoon | Site visits in Manchester area (optional) |
| Late afternoon | Travel to hotel |
| 5.30pm | Drinks reception |
| 7.00pm | Networking dinner |
| 9.30pm | Close |
Friday 15 November
| 9.00am | Awardee exhibition |
| 10.30am | Welcome remarks |
| 11.00am | Morning sessions |
| 1.00pm | Lunch |
| 2.00pm | Afternoon sessions |
| 3.45pm | Closing remarks |
| 4.00pm | Networking coffee break |
| 5.00pm | Event close |
Photography/filming notice
Please note that photography/filming may take place during this event. All photographs and videos will be securely stored on the Academy’s servers and used for editorial, marketing and media use by the Academy and selected press or industry media. Please let us know if you do not agree to this processing. Please refer to our General Privacy Policy for more details.
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].
Diversity monitoring form
The Academy is committed to building an inclusive economy that works for everyone. To help us achieve this, we would like to collect some basic anonymous data about the event attendees. If you would like to help, please complete the diversity monitoring form by logging into your user account on our website and completing ‘Update my D&I data’.