b'4 Partner News Summer 2021IET updates150@150: Celebrating our 150 Enterprise Partners On 17 May, we celebrated our officialBack in 2016 we launched our Enterprise 150th anniversary with the launch ofPartner Programme, a partnership The 150 Show - a one-hour magazinefor UK-based SMEs (small-medium programme celebrating the diverse worldenterprises) that would supply staff with of modern engineering and technologyProfessional Development tools and and some of our brilliant engineers andprovide exposure for the business. technicians, which was broadcast each day throughout our anniversary week.After signing 16 companies in the first year, Enterprise Partners has grown The five episodes, filmed from our flagshipleaps and bounds and become a valued venue, IET London: Savoy Place, exploredand esteemed offering to SMEs that sit a range of interesting topics such aswithin our wider Partnership community,Knorr Bremse in 2019the future of medicine, sustainabilitycompromised of Academic, Corporate, in fashion, women in STEM, our digitalHealthcare and MOD Partners. future, and much more. If you were unable to tune in live, all shows are availableCommitment to supporting on-demand at theiet.org/150-show. the communityIn recent years, weve seen members of From inspirational talks and competitions,our Enterprise Partner community speak like the IET/Times/Chicken Houseat numerous IET events, collaborate with Childrens Fiction Prize, to awards andacademia, sit on industrial advisory boards, unlikely new partnerships, weve beenbe actively involved in developing a toolkit celebrating with our networks and widerthat supports the Concordat, as well as community since October 2020. consistently demonstrating commitment to our mission to inspire, inform and influence Our 150th anniversary gives us a fantasticthe global engineering community. opportunity to not only celebrate theAtmos in 2019engineering and technology achievementsOur Enterprise Partners willingness to of the past 150 years, but also our ambitionengage with all areas of engineering and to inspire the next generation of engineerstechnology has enabled them to build strong and technicians and deliver our mission;networks and use tools that supplements working to engineer a better world. their staff development processes.Our Partnership community haveMichelle Richmond MBE CEng FIET, IET been instrumental in supporting thisDirector of Membership & Professional mission. As we celebrate our 150thDevelopment, commented on this fantastic anniversary year, we celebrate anotherachievement: Who would of thought back milestone: the signing of our 150thin 2016 that only 5 years later we would Enterprise Partner, Scolmore Group. be celebrating 150 Enterprise Partners and that it would coincide with our 150th year. Ferranti in 2018'