IET Berkshire Events
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In-Person
Thames Water Control Centre visit
Thames Water serves 16 million customers across London and the Thames Valley every day. From that first cup of tea in the morning through to baths at bedtime. As well as supplying water to your taps, Thames Water takes wastewater away. We collect and treat sewage, returning clean water to our rivers.
- Speaker:
- Lucy Barnes
- Date/Time:
- Monday 20th April 2026 @ 10:00 AM
- Location:
- 550 S Oak Way Green Park, Reading, RG2 6AD
- Hosted By:
- IET Berkshire
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In-Person
Safety System Resilience: The role of functional safety assessments
This presentation highlights the role of functional safety assessments, aligned with IEC 61508 and IEC 61511, in ensuring reliable, resilient safety-critical systems. It covers the full safety lifecycle, demonstrating compliance and exploring challenges, best practices, and real world examples.
- Speaker:
- Michael Ossai
- Date/Time:
- Thursday 23rd April 2026 @ 7:00 PM
- Location:
- Braywick leisure centre Braywick Rd Maidenhead SL6 1BN, Maidenhead, SL6 1BN
- Hosted By:
- IET Berkshire
In-Person
BMW Mini Cowley Site Tour
Experience the most exciting elements of car production in around 100 minutes from the so-called body in white with the body shell, to the finished personalised Mini. You will visit the state of the art plant and see how thousands of parts come together to produce up to 1,000 minis per day. And we take a look into the future: What will the electromobility of tomorrow look like? Experience the plant up close
- Speaker:
- BMW Mini
- Date/Time:
- Tuesday 26th May 2026 @ 12:00 PM
- Location:
- Eastern By-pass Road, Cowley, OX4 6NL
- Hosted By:
- IET Berkshire
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- Speaker:
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- Date/Time:
- Friday 17th April 2026 @ 10:30 AM Local time (BST/CET/ UTC +1 hours)
- Venue:
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- Hosted By:
- Project Controls TN
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- Speaker:
- Rashad Issa
- Date/Time:
- Monday 20th April 2026 @ 12:00 PM Local time (BST/CET/ UTC +1 hours)
- Venue:
- Online via Zoom
- Hosted By:
- Project Controls TN
In-Person
Local:SKILLS - CEng/IEng/EngTech Workshop
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- Speaker:
- Julie MacManus
- Date/Time:
- Tuesday 12th May 2026 @ 7:30 PM
- Location:
- Buckinghamshire New University - Main Campus, High Wycombe
- Hosted By:
- IET Buckinghamshire
In-Person
Telecoms: Past, Present and Future
The lecture will take us on a tour through the evolution of telecommunications, from crackly analogue lines to modern SD WAN. We will explore telecoms as the electronic transmission of voice, data, IP, and video over distance via cable, radio, or satellite - forming the global network that underpins communication and internet access today.
- Speaker:
- Steve Conn
- Date/Time:
- Wednesday 29th April 2026 @ 7:30 PM
- Location:
- University of Surrey, GUILDFORD, GU2 7XH
- Hosted By:
- IET Surrey