IET Buckinghamshire Events
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In-Person
Think Britain does not make anything anymore?
In So You Think We Do Not Make Anything Anymore? British Manufacturing in the 21st Century, manufacturing systems engineer and industrial historian Dr Richard Marks draws on 25 years of hands-on experience to dismantle the myth of decline and reveal the vibrant reality of British industry today.
- Speaker:
- Dr Richard Marks
- Date/Time:
- Tuesday 10th February 2026 @ 7:30 PM
- Location:
- Buckinghamshire New University - Main Campus, High Wycombe, HP11 2JZ
- Hosted By:
- IET Buckinghamshire
Recommended events from around The IET
Online
From Advice Notes to Intelligent Automation - The Evolution of Telecom Operations (online)
Dave Milham is uniquely placed to tell this story and has held pivotal roles in the development of OSS/BSS architectures and standards. With more than 35 years at BT and the GPO and approaching 20 years at the TM Forum Dave was "in the room" as many key developments emerged. Dave will tell a story of increasing IT automation. From manual processes he will chart the rise of end to end process automation.,
- Speaker:
- Dave Milham Chief Architect TM Forum
- Date/Time:
- Wednesday 14th January 2026 @ 7:00 PM
- Venue:
- Online via Microsoft Teams
- Hosted By:
- IET Anglian Coastal
Online
AI Translation between Sign and spoken language
Using AI techniques to interpret sign language.
- Speaker:
- Prof. Richard Bowden - University of Surrey
- Date/Time:
- Wednesday 14th January 2026 @ 7:30 PM
- Venue:
- Online via YouTube
- Hosted By:
- IET Surrey
In-Person
Myths and Realities of AI
Artificial Intelligence, at least AI as it currently exists is neither artificial nor intelligent. It is however extremely clever and certainly capable of doing some tasks better than humans. Equally, it is incapable of doing some tasks at all, but because it has no intelligence is want to make up the wrong answer when it is incapable, a phenomenal know as confabulation. Dai will explain why Artificial Intelligence has knowledge gaps and in what areas those gaps are particularly prevalent. Equal
- Speaker:
- Dai Davis
- Date/Time:
- Thursday 22nd January 2026 @ 7:30 PM
- Location:
- Braywick Leisure Centre, Maidenhead, SL6 1BN
- Hosted By:
- IET Berkshire
In-Person
- Speaker:
- NESO viewing gallery
- Date/Time:
- Wednesday 28th January 2026 @ 2:30 PM
- Location:
- Bearwood Road, Sindlesham, RG41 5BN
- Hosted By:
- IET Berkshire