b'WITH THANKS TO OURE&T INNOVATION AWARDS ADVISORY BOARDOur Advisory Board plays an important role in setting the strategic direction of the E&T Innovation Awards by providing expert opinion and independent guidance. This ensures the E&T Innovation Awards remain current, relevant and engaging with the purpose of celebrating the very best in innovation in engineering and technology.Charles Adler Designer, Technologist and EntrepreneurDesigner, Entrepreneur and Technologist with a slant toward architecture, the future,creative independence and a world driven more globally by people.Charles is a social entrepreneur, Co-founder and formerCharles co-founded Kickstarter in 2009 shaping it into Head of Design at Kickstarter, and Founder of Lost Arts. the worlds largest platform funding independent creative Kickstarter, the ground-breaking crowdfunding platform,endeavours. Since its inception, Kickstarter has raised revolutionized how creative projects are funding globally. over $2bn from over 6.4m people for over 75,000 successful projects ranging from computer games to Lost Arts, a new experiment in the future of creative work,music albums, technology, fashion, educational projects aims to drive innovation through open support of creativity. and full length feature films.As a leading entrepreneur and designer, his work rangesCharles previously co-founded the online art publication from systems design to interaction and communitySubsystence, and founded Source ID, where he operated design, interface design to information architecture. as Principal Creative Director from 2003 to 2009.In 2013 he was named as one of Forbes MagazinesTop 12 Most Disruptive Figures in Business.Kate Bellingham Broadcaster, Engineer and Champion for Women in STEMKate Bellingham has had what is best described as a portfolio career. With a degree in Physics, an MSc in Electronics and GTPTechnology, Engineering and Maths).A passionate teaching qualifications, she has worked as a computerchampion for womens opportunities in engineering, Kate programmer, broadcast engineer, TV and radio presenterhas been awarded seven honorary doctorates and the (including 4 years on BBC TVs Tomorrows World),University of Hertfordshires new student accommodation, secondary school maths and physics teacher and asBellingham Court, has been named after her. the National Careers Coordinator for STEM (Science, eandt.theiet.org/innovation#eandtawards 4'