FELLOWS ONLY
The Academy's Fellowship represents the best engineering researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, government advisers and leaders in the UK and across the world.
Following feedback from Fellows, we have refreshed the New Fellows' events to create even more opportunities to connet and celebrate our newest cohort. As part of the New Fellows' Welcome Celebration, we are introducing a new event - New Fellows' Reception at the Academy's home, Prince Philip House.
The Fellows are invited to congratulate and welcome our newly elected cohort. The reception will include an address from the President, videos of our cohort, refreshments and a valuable chance interact with the new cohort.
This is a ticketed event open to Academy Fellows and guests of new Fellows only. Places are available on a first come, first served basis.
Programme*
| 5.30pm |
Registration for reception guests |
| 6.00pm |
Welcome Sir John Lazar CBE FREng, President, Royal Academy of Engineering |
| 6.10pm |
New Fellow Response New Fellow pre-selected |
| 6.20pm |
CEO address Dame Tamara Finkelstein DCB, Chief Executive, Royal Academy of Engineering |
| 6.30pm |
Networking reception An opportunity to visit the 50th anniversary exhibition |
| 7.45pm |
Bar closes |
| 8.00pm |
End of event |
*Please note the programme is subject to change.
New Fellows' Welcome Celebration
The New Fellows' Welcome Celebration is a three part event, comprising of dinner, briefing and reception, held over two days. The dinner and briefing elements of the celebrations are limited to new Fellows' and guests of their choosing only, due to the capacity limitations. The newly added evening reception provides an opportunity for the wider Fellowship to meet and congratulate the 2026 new Fellows and support future collaborations.
New Fellows should register for the Welcome Celebrations via the unique link provided in their welcome letter.
Photography
Please note that photography 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.
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].
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 6 October 2026. 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.
Diversity monitoring form
The Academy is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and one of our goals is to develop an engineering community fit for the future. 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’.