b'16 Member News March 2024Early careerOur Young Professional About the YPCThe YPC aims to collaborate with Committee helping us the global community of young professional engineers to promote engineering and technology careers add value and innovations to solve the worlds biggest challenges.Sabrina Singh is the IET Young Professional Committees (YPC) skills-based representative. Here she reports on the 2023 YPCs inaugural meeting in Glasgow, during October.The 2023 Committees inaugural meetingWe split into groups for the next session. spanned two days and covered a range of topics,Putting ourselves in the shoes of students, with our main focus being on how we can guideapprentices, early-career professionals the IET to provide the most value to YP members.and early-to-mid-career professionals was After a truly engaging (and often comical)challenging at times, but it enabled us warm-up session led by Vice Chair, Ivan Ling, weto identify the volunteering needs of key got down to business. The meeting kicked offdemographics. It was a good exercise that with a welcome from Chair, Robert Mayall, whore-emphasised the huge diversity of YPs we gave us an overview of how the YPC fits intorepresent and how the IET can tailor its efforts the broader IET structure and how our goalsto each demographic. align with the IETs vision. On day two we applied this approach to Robert then led into an interactive sessionconsider the support that IET local networks can on the future of the IET as a Professionaland should provide to students and apprentices.Engineering Institution (PEI). He explained thatSam Duffield, the YPCs UK Representative, the shift in workplace culture and technologygave a presentation on the Royal Academy is forcing many PEIsincluding the IETto re- of Engineerings Early Career Executive evaluate where they can bring the biggest valueProfessional Engineering Committee, a UK-to their members.based committee that includes representatives Richard Furey, Chair of the Technical Networksfrom many PEIs. This session helped us to Communities Committee (TNCC) joined us for aunderstand that the IET and many PEIs are workshop about the Technical Networks (TNs).facing similar challenges.We were shocked to discover that only one YPCMost of us were not due to leave Glasgow member belongs to a TN, and we went on tountil the next day, so we had plenty of time to discuss how to improve engagement betweenexplore the city. After a few hotly contested TNs and YPs. Ashvin Selvakannan, the YPCs TNpool games, we reconvened for a final dinner. representative, will share our suggestions withThe next morning, we said our goodbyesthe TNCC and we look forward to receiving theand we are all looking forward to thefeedback from that meeting. next meeting.About SabrinaSabrina is one of the YPCs newest members. In June 2021, she earned a masters degree in Bioengineering from the University of Cambridge. Two months later she joined Morgan Stanley, Sabrina Singh, IET YPCs where she now works as a Technology Associate, with a focus on traditional and cloud data skills-based representative products. Outside of work, she volunteers as a STEM ambassador and a Tech She Can champion.'