Welcome Address - Mike Carr, IET President

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Tuesday, 02 April 2019
09:2 - 09:2
Duration: 3 mins
Publication date: 30 Apr 2019
Location: Turing Lecture Theatre, Savoy Place
Part of series The IET President's Address Series and Part of event IET EngFest 2019

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EngFest is the IET's flagship STEM event, designed to teach 11-18 year olds more about the mind-blowing world of science and engineering.

The event aims to inform and inspire future generations by offering them the chance to take part in a series of engineering-themed workshops, get hands experience with new technologies on in our interactive technology showcase and hear talks from some of the world's most exciting and influential speakers at the cutting-edge of their fields.

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Mike Carr

IET President

Mike is the former Chief Science Officer for BT and responsible for the company’s world-leading research and commercial exploitation unit, including patent licensing and corporate venturing activitiesMike joined BT as a Technician Apprentice in 1972. He studied Communication Engineering at Plymouth and joined the Visual Communication Research Division at BT Labs in 1980.During his first 15 years with BT’s Labs his career has focused on the research, development and practical design of real-time audio/visual and multimedia communications systems.He has several patents to his name in the field of video compression and is the holder of two prestigious BT awards; the Martlesham Medal for R&D (1992) and the BT Gold medal (1994) for leading multimedia product developments.In 1998 he was elected President of the Digital Audio-Visual Council (DAVIC) a non-profit association based in Switzerland and representing 160 companies in more than 25 countries, focused on developing specifications for audio-visual systems. From 1999 Mike was based in Silicon Valley, California, USA where he established BT’s US Technology office and Corporate Venturing activity.Mike returned to the UK in 2001 to lead BT’s Research & Venturing division. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Technology from the University of Plymouth in September 2009. More recently he has been a Council Member of the EPSRC and a Board Member of Innovate UK.Mike is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and serves on the Board of their Enterprise Hub. He is also Non-Executive Director for both Ordnance Survey Ltd and Ploughshare Innovations Ltd and is Chairman of Astigan Ltd, a start-up based in Somerset. He received an OBE for “services to innovation” in 2017.Mike is married with 2 daughters and lives in Bury St Edmunds. He and his wife Caroline have spent the past 3 years building their own “eco” house and now look forward to having the time to create a garden as well as following their passion to travel.

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