Berkshire

The IET Berkshire Network is open to anyone interested in Engineering and Technology and wants to expand their knowledge, as well as encouraging people to enter the profession. The committee of the IET Berkshire Network organises visits, events, life skills workshops and professional registration clinics.

Our key topics and themes

Located at the heart of the Thames Valley, we're ideally located for a broad spectrum of high tech industries, as well as more traditional engineering. Just a small selection of topics include, AI, robotics, medical electronics, IoT, telecommunications including mobile telecommunications, such as 5G topics.

Events

Events are usually held in the Reading area, but since April 2020 we've been busy rescheduling events to be held online. Everyone is welcome to attend our talks and events whether online or at a physical meeting.

Take a look at our archive of 2020 Online Event Replays and Resources and 2021 Online Event Replays and Resources
You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook or visit our YouTube channel

Visit the events page filtered by Berkshire Local Network to find out about our upcoming events.

We are always looking for ideas or suggestions for events and visits, so if there is something that you'd like us to organise, or you'd like to help to organise, please get in touch.

2022 Volunteer Committee

Chair	Anthony Bardos
Vice Chair	Vacancy
Secretary	Andy Stickland
Vice-Secretary	Vacancy
Treasurer	Kevin Lewis
Vice Treasurer	John Waterhouse
Events co-ordinator	Vacancy
Education officer	Richard Hughes
Deputy Education Officer	Vacancy
Professional Registration Advisor	Arup Dhar
Webmaster	Keith Blackmun
Deputy Webmaster	Helen Rickerby
Social Media	Helen Rickerby
Deputy Social Media	Nicholas St. Hill
CC-UK Representative	Abhaya Sumanasena

Your Local Network needs you!

You can see that we have a number of volunteering opportunities on our committee. If you think can fill one of those vacancies, or to help us to organise future events, please contact us to find out more. Interested? – See the following reasons why our treasurer joined the Berkshire Local Network committee.

Why join the IET Berkshire Local Network Committee?

The key reasons why our treasurer joined the Local Network Committee:

To be with like-minded people with similar interests – social and personal interest
To promote engineering as a career to others
Greater involvement with skills and knowledge development in engineering and life-skills: lectures, visits, webinars etc.
Using the above to deepen my interest and knowledge in engineering and technology and other essential skills
To learn more about what is happening in the field in the Berkshire area and nearby.

The benefits our treasurer highlights, include:

Meeting many people through meetings and events – social and networking
Experience in planning and running events
As Treasurer – experience in budgeting and financial management
Much greater knowledge of engineering and current developments in the field of technology.

CPD certificates

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Suing the robots 20 October 2022

Contact us

Please contact the IET Berkshire LN committee by e-mailing us at berkshire-ln@ietvolunteer.org.