Women in Engineering 2021 is now available to watch on demand!
We delivered this incredible event virtually again this year, making the event as inclusive and wide-reaching as possible.
Filmed from our event home, The IET, 2 Savoy Place, London and broadcast live to students and graduates across the UK & globe.
It was fantastic to hear from several STEM societies who were watching the event together from a lecture theatre at their universities.
What a line up!
We heard from the awe inspiring Claire Gott MBE at WSP, Neera Kukadia from TFL & Ella Podmore from McLaren who shared their journey and offered empowering insights to support you in your career aspirations and make a real difference in equalising the gender balance in this typically male-dominated industry.
Laura Fox ran another brilliant LinkedIn masterclass “How to Elevate your Professional Brand with Content“. You can watch Laura’s 2020 masterclass sessions on demand: How to create & improve your Linkedin brand identity & Successfully network with industry mentors and employers.
Panel discussion: Our employer panel span several sectors: WSP, GSK, BP & Mott MacDonald. We had some great questions in for the employer panel. Check out the advice offered during this session.
This year’s employer insights sessions were packed full of application tips, overviews of office culture & employee community, as well as hearing first hand from candidates in placements & graduate roles and how that is starting to transform post the pandemic. Thank you to the 15 women that shared their time with us to deliver true insights at WSP, Mott MacDonald, bp, Capgemini & MBDA.
We experienced a technical glitch during GSK’s employer insights, but here it is to watch in full now.
Event partner – The Institute of Engineering & Technology (The IET) find out how you can get involved with the Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards 2021/2022.
Read more about our speakers:
Claire Gott MBE – UK Head of Industry & CSR
Claire is passionate about transforming lives through major engineering projects, driving net zero and humanitarian aid.
Claire specialises in managing multi-disciplinary design teams on complex, high profile projects including the £56billion High Speed 2 rail project, £790m London Bridge Station redevelopment and the 225,000sqft Rosalind Franklin Laboratory for Covid 19.
As a role model for women in construction, she champions initiatives to encourage young people into engineering through her board position with the Major Projects Association. Claire is also passionate about making positive sustainable change, leading WSP’s programme to become net zero by 2025.
In 2015 Claire was awarded an MBE for “Services to civil engineering and international charity work” in recognition of her founding role in Cameroon Catalyst, the sustainable engineering charity delivering clean water to over 20,000 villagers in East Cameroon.
Ella Podmore – Materials Engineer
Ella Podmore is a Materials Engineer for luxury British supercar maker McLaren Automotive. She is responsible for all the material investigations in the business across all development phases of the company’s supercars; from concept drawings, all the way to customers in the field. Balancing her time between experiments and leading technical meetings, Ella created this department from the ground-up and plans to demonstrate the importance of materials in the automotive industry even further.
As the leading STEM ambassador for McLaren, Ella helped launch the recent competition McLaren Automotive ran with BBC Blue Peter asking children to design their ‘supercar of the future’ and was one of Autocar’s Top 10 ‘Rising Star’ in 2019.
Winner of the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) award “Young Woman Engineer of the Year 2020” (YWE) Ella wants to continue to use her platform to “encourage the next generation of engineers and scientists to push the boundaries of what’s possible.”
Check out Ella’s winning YWE profile video
Neera Kukadia – Project Engineer
Neera is a Project Engineer at Transport for London, working on the Elephant and Castle Station Capacity Upgrade Project. She joined TfL on the mechanical engineering graduate scheme where she completed rotational placements. Neera rolled off into the Major Projects Directorate where she has since worked on some of TfL’s most exciting projects that will positively impact London.
Neera achieved Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the IMechE in 2019, where she now mentors a mechanical engineering graduate at TfL.
Neera aims to improve diversity in the engineering industry, where her focus is to work with girls schools in less represented boroughs within London.
Neera was recognised as one of the top 6 IET Young Woman Engineers in the UK in 2020, and was a finalist in the Young Woman Engineer category for the 2019 Women in Construction and Engineering Awards.
Check out Neera’s winning YWE profile video
Laura Fox – MD at Linkedin Fox
Following the popularity of her workshops at last years event, Laura is returning to coach you on how to elevate your professional brand with a simple yet effective approach to content.
Laura has worked in Marketing & Advertising for 19 years. After seven transformational years at LinkedIn, Laura now runs her own LinkedIn Consultancy helping companies to leverage LinkedIn to support Hiring, Marketing, Sales and to elevate their brand.