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A conversation with Andy Harter and Ed Almond

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  • Duration: 38 mins
  • Publication date: 15 Nov 2022

Abstract

FOCUS FOR GROWTH

Our journey to 2030 - Ed Almond and Andy Harter, IET Deputy President.

By the end of the session, attendees will:

1. Understand any impact and expectations placed upon them as a result of the key discussions and decisions at the recent Board of Trustees meeting

2. Have greater clarity on how the IET’s 2030 Strategy remains current, will determine our future priorities/activities and what this means for how they lead their teams.

3. Understand how the IET Reward Strategy intends to underpin the above

4. Have a greater awareness of the behaviours and mindset required to constantly improve what the IET achieves against our Strategy, and have considered what this means for how they lead their teams

Speakers

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    Ed Almond

    IET, CEO

    Ed Almond joined the IET in 2001 as Head of Business Planning and Performance. Ed gained an MBA in 2004 before becoming Director of Corporate Strategy & Planning in 2005 and taking up his current role in 2006. Previously he worked within the John Sisk construction group and provided strategic support to the UK Board.In 1989 Ed commenced training as an accountant with Ernst & Young working with a wide variety of clients including McDonnell Information Systems and Leica. He qualified in 1992 and is now a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.Ed trained in Biological Sciences at the University of Exeter before completing a Masters in Applied Molecular Biology at University College London. With a particular interest in extremely thermophilic archaebacteria, Ed undertook postgraduate research within the Chemical Engineering departments of Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley before returning to the UK and working for the SERC at Rothamstead Research Station in 1987.
  • Dr Andy  Harter

    Dr Andy Harter

    Andrew Harter is an innovator and entrepreneur. He is responsible for VNC software which allows remote control of one computer screen from another. The technology is on billions of devices, is on more different kinds of computer than any other application and is an official part of the internet. In 2002 he founded RealVNC which received three Queen’s Award for Enterprise in three years.Andrew was previously Director of Research and Engineering at the influential AT&T Cambridge Laboratory.In 2010 he received the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal, and in 2013 he led the team that won the Academy’s MacRobert Award. He was awarded the IET Faraday Medal in 2016 and gave the IET Turing Lecture in 2018. He has an MA and a PhD from Cambridge University, where he is a Fellow of the Department of Computer Science and Technology and a Fellow of the Cambridge Judge Business School. He is Chairman of the Cambridge Network.He was awarded a CBE in 2017 for services to engineering. He was the High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire 2018/19 and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire in 2019.
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    Ed Almond

    IET, CEO

    Ed Almond joined the IET in 2001 as Head of Business Planning and Performance. Ed gained an MBA in 2004 before becoming Director of Corporate Strategy & Planning in 2005 and taking up his current role in 2006. Previously he worked within the John Sisk construction group and provided strategic support to the UK Board.In 1989 Ed commenced training as an accountant with Ernst & Young working with a wide variety of clients including McDonnell Information Systems and Leica. He qualified in 1992 and is now a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.Ed trained in Biological Sciences at the University of Exeter before completing a Masters in Applied Molecular Biology at University College London. With a particular interest in extremely thermophilic archaebacteria, Ed undertook postgraduate research within the Chemical Engineering departments of Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley before returning to the UK and working for the SERC at Rothamstead Research Station in 1987.
  • Ed Almond

    Ed Almond

    IET, CEO

    Ed Almond joined the IET in 2001 as Head of Business Planning and Performance. Ed gained an MBA in 2004 before becoming Director of Corporate Strategy & Planning in 2005 and taking up his current role in 2006. Previously he worked within the John Sisk construction group and provided strategic support to the UK Board.In 1989 Ed commenced training as an accountant with Ernst & Young working with a wide variety of clients including McDonnell Information Systems and Leica. He qualified in 1992 and is now a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.Ed trained in Biological Sciences at the University of Exeter before completing a Masters in Applied Molecular Biology at University College London. With a particular interest in extremely thermophilic archaebacteria, Ed undertook postgraduate research within the Chemical Engineering departments of Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley before returning to the UK and working for the SERC at Rothamstead Research Station in 1987.
  • Ed Almond

    Ed Almond

    IET, CEO

    Ed Almond joined the IET in 2001 as Head of Business Planning and Performance. Ed gained an MBA in 2004 before becoming Director of Corporate Strategy & Planning in 2005 and taking up his current role in 2006. Previously he worked within the John Sisk construction group and provided strategic support to the UK Board.In 1989 Ed commenced training as an accountant with Ernst & Young working with a wide variety of clients including McDonnell Information Systems and Leica. He qualified in 1992 and is now a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.Ed trained in Biological Sciences at the University of Exeter before completing a Masters in Applied Molecular Biology at University College London. With a particular interest in extremely thermophilic archaebacteria, Ed undertook postgraduate research within the Chemical Engineering departments of Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley before returning to the UK and working for the SERC at Rothamstead Research Station in 1987.
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