The volunteers of the IET Anglian Coastal Network organise events and other activities covering engineering and technology topics for engineers and also members of the public who have an interest in engineering and technology. Even if you’re not a member of the IET, you’re still welcome to join us at any of our events.
We cover the areas of both Norfolk, Suffolk and north Essex will organise activities for these areas. Over the past year we have organised a large number of highly successful Webinars as face-to-face meetings have not been possible. However, when we are able to resume face-to-face events, we will look to run these in venues in Norwich and Ipswich and we will aim to retain many of the benefits of the Webinar format where practical. We will also organise occasional visits to places of engineering interest across the entire area too.
Contact us
We’re always looking for ideas and suggestions for events and visits etc so if there is something you would like us to organise, or to help you to organise, please get in touch: angliancoastalln@ietvolunteer.org.
Foothold 
An important message from our local Foothold representative (Dorrie Giles): “We’re here to make sure engineers and their families never face life’s challenges alone. Whatever the problem, big or small – you’ll find tools to make your life better right now.”
Now that the IET no longer keeps you up-to date with Foothold services or collects your donations to Foothold with your IET subs, please sign up to receive regular updates directly from Foothold. We all hope that we never need Foothold's help, but unfortunately life can throw the unexpected at us. To sign up please click on the link: Contact Foothold
Watch a recorded webinar
Many of our webinars are recorded and are now available to watch online.
CPD Certificates
PDF Chaos Theory - from Butterflies, to Predators and Prey - 16 November 2023
PDF Getting off gas - 18 July 2023
PDF Routes to registration - 7 June 2023
PDF Connecting offshore windfarms - 31 May 2023
PDF 'Open RAN' - the marmite of mobile telecoms - 16 March 2023
PDF Artificial Intelligence and you - 7 February 2023
PDF A to Z architecture aspects for Internet of Things - 19 January 2023
Visit the events page filtered by Anglian Coastal Local Network to find out about our upcoming events.
Previous event information
PDF Chaos Theory - from Butterflies, to Predators and Prey - 16 November 2023
PDF Getting off Gas (PDF of slides) - 18 July 2023
PDF A to Z architecture aspects for Internet of Things - 19 January 2023
PDF For a few dollars more, a partial and recent history of the UK telecommunications sector - 15 November 2022
PDF Machine learning making smartphones smarter - 29 March 2022
7506.LIfe near black holes.pdf The strange neighbourhood of black holes - 22 February 2022
Our committee
Chair | Kevin Foster |
Secretary | Afolabi Agbede |
Treasurer | Ian Buxton |
Members | Mark Power |
Eleni Kaplani | |
Trevor Branton | |
Rod Willis | |
Salman Abdi Jalebi | |
Felix Ngobigha | |
George Williamson | |
Alex Barrett | |
David Baker | |
John Ames | |
Graham Evans | |
Dorrie Giles | |
Local Network Manager (staff) | Julie Hudson |