Awards dinner 2025

The Awards Dinner is the most prestigious event in the Academy’s calendar and this year, we will be heading back to Leicester Square's stunning, sustainably designed and engineered hotel, The Londoner. 

The highlight of the evening will be the announcement of the winner of the UK's premier prize for innovation in engineering - the MacRobert Award. The presentation of the Award recognises outstanding innovation coupled with tangible societal benefit and proven commercial success. Amol Rajan, journalist and broadcaster, will host the main proceedings and Baroness Martha Lane Fox CBE HonFREng will deliver the keynote presentation. 

Throughout the evening several other major Academy awards for achievements in engineering will be presented, including:

• The Princess Royal Silver Medals
• The Sir George Macfarlane Medal
• The President's Medal
• The Rooke Award for the public promotion of engineering 
• Major Project Award for Sustainability

Who attends

• Leaders in UK engineering business, industry and academia
• Academy Fellows
• Medallists and Awardees

Dress Code

Black tie, cocktail dress and decorations. 

Photography and filming notice

Please note that photography and filming will 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. 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 2025. 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.

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’

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