b'Member News March 2023 9Year in reviewYoung Professionals Summit The Summit marked our biggest global gathering of young professional members and volunteers as we welcomed over 130 individuals to London to celebrate the success of our amazing young professionals community. We also announced the worthy winners of Engineering Open House Day the #Presentin10 and Global Hackathon competitions. 16 companies across the UKLearn more on pages 12, 18 and 26-27 respectively.opened their doors to more than 2,000 children and theirFocusing parents to get them excitedon future about all things engineering andtechnologyYoung Woman Engineer technology. Fun activities wereat IET Indiasof the Year Awardson offer, including having a goflagship event Hosted by Oti Mabuse, at being a television presenterwe celebrated the delivering breaking news! Industry leaders,extraordinary talent policy makers,of our five female academia andengineer finalists professionals camewho are challenging together at the IETstereotypes and Future Tech Congressinspiring the next in Bangalore to exploregeneration of how the demands ofengineers and tomorrows customerstechnicians. Learn will shape futuremore on page 16. technologies.JULY NOVEMBER DECEMBERSEPTEMBER DECEMBERProfessional registration in MandarinEngineersholding the keysA milestone achievement as for the firstEngineering Kids Futures reportto the future of humanitytime, 30 engineers were successfullyWe held a parliamentary receptionWe welcomed our 141st IETawarded Chartered Engineer status byto present our report on how President, Professor Bobthe Engineering Council having completedthe skills gap in the Cryan. In his Presidentstheir assessment wholly in Mandarin.engineering industryEngineeringAddress, he highlightedcould be closed byKids Futures Government to recommendations to the UK A series of r aise the profile of engagement the initiatives that hellexposing young peoplein engineering and technology within schools.be focusing on duringA new framework for Digital Twins to engineering during his term, includingAlong with other leading organisationstheir primary andtheiet.org/engineeringkidsfuturesinspiring the youngerin the manufacturing, tech and builtsecondary education.generation and theenvironment sectors, we published importance ofthe Apollo Protocol paper mentorshipto call for a commonEd Almond appointed as CESin creatingframework and languageWe announced in December engineeringso that the full potentialthat Ed Almond has been excellence.of digital twins can beappointed as Chief Executive unlocked. Learn moreand Secretary. Having worked on page 20. at the IET for 21 years, Ed has extensive knowledge of the workings of the organisation and is passionate about our purpose.'