On 15th March, I attended The WES Centenary Conference, along with nearly 200 delegates.
Sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering and taking place at the RAF Museum London we all gathered to commend the theme "Celebrating the Past and Transforming The Future."
WES says it chose the 2019 theme to reflect on the last 100 years and to look forward to what the future holds.
The conference was chaired by Sally Sudworth, and was split into three parts Part 1: Our challenge Part 2: Our potential Part 3: Our future – along with a celebration of the organisation heritage with the WES Centenary Trail and a display of a fraction of its historic collections cared for by the IET Archives.
Speakers included Mandy Hickson, John Edmonds, Emma Howard Boyd, Jan Peters, Sophie Hutchins, Rachel Higham, Air Marshal Sue Gray, WES's President Dawn Childs and WES CEO Elizabeth Donnelly.
Organised by Jo Douglas-Harris, the exhibition hall hosted 21 high quality entries in the WES Young Members Board early career engineer Poster Competition.
Winner of the Judges prize was Pauline Dumont of Delta Motorsport and Tymèle Deydier of Loughborough University won the Audience Choice prize.
Keynote speaker Mandy Hickson tweeted WES after the event: “What a wonderful celebration. Thank you so much to everybody that has posted such wonderful comments. I would love to thank you personally but there are too many!! It was my absolute pleasure. The one thing that stood out for me was your passion."
