Prestige Lecture Series

IET Prestige Lecture Series

Attending an IET Lecture is your opportunity to see the future of engineering. IET Lectures are free to attend and are a key highlight of the IET’s events calendar.

Showcasing the latest ideas and technologies, the ten lectures cover a range of engineering disciplines, ranging from general interest to the more technical.

The President of the IET begins his year in office with an inaugural lecture every October. Many of the lectures were established in memory of engineers who achieved exemplary and ground breaking work in their day.

The speakers invited to give IET Lectures are of that caliber – innovative, forward-thinking and at the top of their game.

Clerk Maxwell Lecture Smart energy - now it's personal 19 January 2012 Pilgrim Beart AlertMe IET London: Savoy Place	Turing Lecture From cryptanalysis to cognitive neuroscience - a hidden legacy of Alan Turing February 2012 Professor Ray Dolan UCL IET London: Savoy Place	Viscount Nuffield / Mensforth Lecture "Made in Britain" - Premium Automotive Manufacturing for a Global Market 15 March 2012 Dr Ralf Speth CEO, Jaguar LandRover University of Warwick
Kelvin Lecture From protons to petabytes - the science and computing challenges at the Large Hadron Collider   22 March 2012 Professor Peter Clarke University of Edinburgh IET London: Savoy Place	Appleton Lecture Real Time Heathrow: improving Heathrow's resilience   17 April 2012 Philip Langsdale BAA IET London: Savoy Place	Sir Henry Royce Memorial Lecture Rolls-Royce: Past, Present and Future - sustaining the traditions of Sir Henry Royce    3 May 2012 Professor Philip Ruffles IET London: Savoy Place
Sports Technology Lecture Sports technology - enabling, enhancing or cheating?  24 May 2012 Dr David James Sheffield Hallam University IET London: Savoy Place	The IET President's Address Incoming IET President        4 October 2012 IET London: Savoy Place	Young Professionals' Event Inspiring future generations with open hardware - the Raspberry Pi    18 October 2012 Eben Upton Raspberry Pi IET London: Savoy Place
Mountbatten Memorial Lecture Intelligence and Security in the Cyber Age  15 November 2012 Professor Brian Collins DfT and BIS IET London: Savoy Place

Tweeting during our Lectures

One of the latest additions to our lectures is the live tweeting that takes place. As a lecture attendee – it’s exciting to be a part of the online conversation during the evening. Also if you are not at the event, it’s really exciting to watch it unfold via Twitter!  If the event is also being streamed live on IET.tv then Twitter makes an ideal companion to the streaming.

At IET Prestige Lectures we have tried to make tweeting and following the conversation as simple as possible. We have put together some top tips for successful tweeting from an IET lecture.

Prestige Lecture Series organisers

The Prestige Lecture Series is run by the IET Event Production and Services Department and overseen by the IET's Lecture Committee. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact us:

Tel: +44 (0)1438 765 670 / 765 652
Email: eventsa1@theiet.org