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“This generation is bright, passionate and skilled to face society-based challenges of the future, and the IET is here to support them” explained Ed Almond CEO & Secretary at the IET, during the opening remarks of the IET Young Professional Summit, evening celebration, held at De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, London on Saturday 12th November 2022.

It was an opportunity to celebrate success and get energised by some keynote speakers and winners of the #PresentIn10 and the Global YP Hackathon competitions, and as always, an opportunity to network, with the YP Summit conference delegates, award winners and other guests from around London.

Sophie Harker, who in 2018, was the winner of the IET’s Young Women Engineer of the Year Award, hosted the event.

The #PresentIn10 IET finalists were;

• **Winner** Sustainability and Climate Change category winner - Matt Bacarese-Hamilton - Magway - The Future of Logistics?
• Healthy Lives category winner - Esmee Huijten - How data saves lives (Finalist)
• Digital Futures category winner - David Xu - The Rise of Machines; How bots are coming for your job (Finalist)
We also heard from IET Honorary Fellow Ruth Amos who spoke of her journey in launching StairSteady and the challenges she faced and how she overcame them, and she also spoke about her YouTube channel ‘Kids Invent Stuff‘ that discusses the finer things in life, like a ‘Twitter Activated Jelly Bean Pooping Unicorn’ or ‘Popcorn firing doorbell’..

The ‘dirty data’ #IETHackathon Challenge 2022 winners were;

• The Infrastructure Stream winners: Team Shocksoc from the UK
• The Software Stream winners: Team DataSolvers from Australia

I was fortunate to meet Maria Gitau who is from Kenya. Maria spearheaded Kenya’s first IET On Campus group launched in April 2022. Based at Strathmore University in Nairobi, the group has now gone from strength to strength. Learning about her tenacity in building the group and her views on volunteering clearly demonstrated why she was a part of the IET Young Professional Summit– a future leader in the making!

With over 145 entries from 20 different countries, this really was a global summit of young professionals! Congratulations to all that took part!

More details on #PresentIn10 here, #IETHackathon here and Kenya’s first IET On Campus group here.