Past Events
RAeS - Handley Page Lecture: Shooting for Aviation’s moving Sustainability Targets
16th October 2025 6:00 pm
How can aviation meet its sustainability targets in a world of constant change?
The 2025 Handley Page Lecture will cover the large scale of aviation, its global nature and energy requirements, set against the balance of…
RPhil - Growth a reckoning
15th October 2025 7:30 pm
Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from poverty and made our lives far healthier and longer. As a result, the unfettered pursuit of growth defines economic life around the world. Yet this prosperity has come…
IChemE -Robotics and AI in High Hazard Industries
15th October 2025 6:00 pm
RAICo (Robotics and AI Collaboration) is a collaboration between government, industry and academia, designed to accelerate the deployment of robotics and AI in key areas of the nuclear industry. Covering operations such as remote…
ICE - Low-carbon competency: decarbonising infrastructure using PAS 2080 and BSI Flex 350
15th October 2025 12:30 pm
How can standards help us to manage carbon in infrastructure?
What guidance can they offer supply chain members on whole-life carbon management?
And how do standards aid the collaborative drive to decarbonise the built…
AFBE- How to best Collaborate and support our ERGs
15th October 2025 12:00 pm
As part of Black History Month, join AFBE for a thought-provoking panel bringing together ERG leaders, HR and People functions.
Scottish Transport and Industrial Collections Knowledge network - Industrial Heritage Skills
11th October 2025 3:47 pm
STICK will hold our annual conference on Friday 11th October 2024. The theme of this conference will be Industrial Heritage Skills and it will be held at Discovery Point home to the world famous RRS…
STICK - Industrial Heritage Skills
11th October 2025 10:00 am
STICK Conference: Industrial Heritage Skills
Our annual conference will be held on Friday 11th October in Dundee. The theme of this conference will be Industrial Heritage Skills and…
IMarEST - Sir Charles Parsons: Development of the marine steam turbine and SY Turbinia
9th October 2025 5:30 pm
In 1894 the Hon Sir Charles Algernon Parsons OM KCB FRS MA DSc LLD, one of Tyneside’s most famous engineers, filed his patents for the marine steam turbine. As part of his development strategy, he also designed, constructed, launched…
RAeS - A brief history of the U-2 Spyplane
8th October 2025 7:30 pm
“A Brief History of the U-2 Spyplane” Presented by Chris Pocock at Cambridge Museum of Technology and live on Microsoft Teams.
ICE- What is a green building - the Passivhaus solution
8th October 2025 7:00 pm
This webinar focuses on the critical topic of “Green & Sustainable Buildings,” exploring the frequent gap between design intent, certification, and actual building performance. While architects, structural engineers, and mechanical…
RAEng - Innovation incoming: a MacRobert Special
8th October 2025 6:00 pm
Bringing together leading voices to explore the impact and significance of this year’s winning technology, this is a unique opportunity to go behind the scenes of a breakthrough that exemplifies the power of engineering to change lives,…
AFBE - Inclusive by Design: Ethical AI in the Workplace
8th October 2025 12:00 pm
This session brings together expert voices to examine how AI can unintentionally, and intentionally, reinforce bias.
CIOB - Embodied Carbon in Construction: Why Supply Chains Hold the Key
8th October 2025 12:00 pm
This webinar will explore why collaboration of the entire supply chain is vital in the quest to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
CABE - Consolidation of Soils and Foundations using Minimally-Invasive Methods
8th October 2025 10:00 am
GEOSEC Ground Engineering specialises in resolving subsidence and ground stabilisation challenges through advanced geopolymer resin injection.
What truly sets us apart is our exclusive use of 3D…
ICE - The Future of Rail: How rail can transform urban spaces
7th October 2025 12:30 pm
As we celebrate 200 years of the modern Railway, we look to explore how the railways of the future could continue to positively support and create communities, and those who live in them.
Rail infrastructure has been at the…
IET - Manufacturing in Space
7th October 2025 12:00 pm
While space offers exciting opportunities, manufacturing beyond Earth presents unique challenges. This session will delve into:
The creation of materials in space
How hostile conditions like microgravity and radiation could help…
BCS - Data needs testing too
6th October 2025 7:00 pm
Application developers typically test their code, often with large suites of automated tests, before each new release. But, when the application is running live, it will be receiving data from multiple sources, over which we may have…
BCS - Data needs testing too
6th October 2025 7:00 pm
Application developers typically test their code, often with large suites of automated tests, before each new release. But, when the application is running live, it will be receiving data from multiple sources, over which we may have…
James Watt Dinner 2025!
3rd October 2025 7:00 pm
The details for this year’s James Watt Dinner have just been announced!
Visit our James Watt Dinner page for full details!
RPhil - How lessons from frogs help mend a broken heart Professor Sir Jim Smith
1st October 2025 7:30 pm
Jim Smith began his career as a developmental biologist, studying the mechanisms by which cells in the embryo come to form the right kind of specialised cell type in the right place. He focussed on the development of the frog Xenopus…
BCS - Forever Chemicals - already harm to marine and humans
1st October 2025 6:00 pm
PFAS called ‘forever chemicals’ have contaminated water worldwide; they’re in seas, rivers, lakes, rainwater, drinking water and arctic ice.
PFAS - Find out more about them, why they’re a problem and what we’re doing about…
AFBE - Standing Firm in Pride and Power
1st October 2025 12:00 pm
Jeremy Crook has over 35 years’ experience of promoting diversity and inclusion and developing practical solutions in the public, private and civil society sector.
His current roles include: Metropolitan Police Service External…
BCS - Scalability with Near Zero Run Cost - Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire branch
29th September 2025 6:30 pm
This session explores how to design scalable, AI-driven data systems that align with the “Zero Cost by Design” requirements.
As a Data Architect, this session explores how to design scalable, AI-driven data systems that align…
HES - Biggar Gasworks Activity Days
27th September 2025 1:00 pm
Join us at Biggar Gasworks for some activity days! Take part in some family fun activities and a team of volunteers will be on hand to explain how the gasworks operated to provide power to the town.
Fun activities will include;…