The conference actually combined six volunteering events into one week to coincide with the Members Annual Information Event (16 June, available on IET.TV). Other events included Registration and Standards Training, Mentor Training, Communities Volunteer Conference (CVC), Education Volunteers, Council, and the Young Professionals Community Volunteering Conference, culminating in a plenary session on Friday, 17 June, to bring everyone together from these other events. The conference provided CPD hours for all volunteer members attending the conference.
If you would like to see some photos and messages from the event please click on the following link: https://storify.com/IETCommunities/the-iet-global-volunteer-conference
The following is a brief outline of the IET Global Volunteer Conference 2016 held at the Institution of Engineering and Technology, in Savoy Place, London on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th June 2016.
AGENDA
Friday, 17 June:
Morning Plenary session
- Welcome and Introduction by Naomi Climer – President of the IET
- Presentation to "Inspire – Growing engagement" by Eur Ing R (Gordon) Dixon BSc CEng FIET FRSA and Joseph Dunn MIET
- The Solent Network’s Young Professional team was show-cased. The speakers also talked about the importance of volunteers to the IET in its mission to inspire, inform and influence the global engineering community
- Presentation on CPD and its importance by David Parr CEng MIET, PRA & CPD Advisor
- Presentation on IET Accounting and Finance by Nigel Ward, Honorary Treasurer and Ed Almond, Director of Finance and Planning.
- Presentation on the future of Engineering and the IET: “Influencing the future” by Naomi Climer
- A summary wrap up of the morning session by Nigel Fine – Chief Executive and Secretary.
Afternoon Session:
- Presentation on Communities Strategy and Resources by Colin Arthur, the Chair of CRC (Communities Resourcing Committee)
- Presentation about the YPCC (Young Professionals Communities Community) by Clara To and Sachini Yapa
- Presentation on "Building online communities: how the Southern California Network uses Engineering Communities" by our very own Richard Tregaskes from the Southern California LN
- Presentation on “Leadership and Future Thinking” by Danielle Antonellis from CRC
- Breaktime “Ideas World Map Activity” – see photos of map and ideas at Ideas World Map pictures
- Break Out Group Sessions covering 14 topic areas (with links to captured group ideas and follow-on discussions from volunteers and members from around the world on Engineering Communities site – you’ll need to login as a registered user before being able to review and contribute to these discussions)
- Why do you volunteer? [Group 2]
- Presentations on TPNs:
- Strengthening the TPNs: case study from the Healthcare Technologies TPN by Danny Abasolo, and
- LNs and TPNs working together by Rich Baker from the Tribology Network.
Evening Session
- The first day ended with a Presentation of awards and prizes, and dinner.
Saturday, 18 June (half day):
- Breakout sessions for each Region of communities to discuss challenges and success of implementing the IET’s strategy in each region and LN.
- Combined session to share feedback from each Region of Communities
- Communities Committees Panel – Q&A session
- Conference wrap up, Conference Highlights, followed by lunch.
Additional Resources
- GVC Discussion topics online at: https://communities.theiet.org/communities/discussions/538/990
- GVC 2016 community site is online at: https://communities.theiet.org/communities/home/538
- Presentations files have been uploaded to the GVC 2016 community file section ready to download at https://communities.theiet.org/communities/files/538
- Some of the videos are on the IET.tv website, but without download links at the moment which we hope will change so we can use them going forward at https://tv.theiet.org/?videoid=8885