Breakfast briefing

Confident, competent and certified - is that me? with Rachel Skinner. sponsored by Parsons Brinckerhoff

Session 1 - Chair: Rachel Skinner

Sue Kershaw - Transport For London 2012 Games

Parallel Sessions 2 and 3

Session 2: Chair Dolores Byrne

Theme: Planning and designing the way we travel

• The challenges for rail - Andy Mackintosh (Network Rail)
• The challenge of compromise –in-wheel motors for electric vehicles - Helen Monkhouse (Protean Electric)
• Managed motorways - Jennie Boyd (Highways Agency)
• Proud to be the engineering design experts behind London 2012 – Dorte Rich Jorgensen (Atkins Global)

Session 3: Chair Jan Peters

Critical skills for professional advancement

• Just what is gravitas? Laurel Herman
• Critical thinking -The MentorSET Workshop  -Jacqui Hogan

 Session 4 Chair: Sally Sudworth

Theme: Infrastructure and the future

• What lies below -  accessing asset records -Jo Parker (Watershed Associates)
• Goslett Yard Box – engineering Crossrail infrastructure for Tottenham Court Road - Emma Bradley (Atkins Global)
• Cycling infrastructure – the alternative approach - Claire Wright (Sustrans)
• The Startrek vision- towards model implementation roadmap to ‘seamless travel’ -  Muna Hamdi (Independent Intelligent Systems Consultant)
• Transportation and logistics within Royal Mail - Ian Wilson (Royal Mail )

Session 5  Chair: Pat Morton

• Energising girls about engineering  - Jill Collins and Dawn Fitt

Plenary Session 6: Celebrating technical women

Session Chair: Philippa Ayton

Keynote Speaker: Isobel Pollock

Presentation of the WES Karen Burt Memorial Award