Abstract
In a world where innovation is increasingly a social process, the role of standards as a means for industry to work in consensus with its stakeholders has come of age.
The use of consensus standards to support innovation, growth and trade in the global economy is evolving as regulators and industry search for new tools to support their ambitions, whether this is meeting the challenges of the UK exiting from the EU through ‘Brexit’, tackling UN goals of environmental sustainability and international development or addressing global supply chain risk.
Join us for a review of the international, European and national standards landscape as it applies to engineering and technology; consider global directions of travel and discuss public policy implications and industry issues facing engineers and engineering everywhere.
For the 2017 Lecture, we have the tremendous privilege of being joined by The Hon Timothy Knatchbull, grandson of Earl Mountbatten of Burma / Lord Mountbatten.
Tim will be awarding the prestigious IET Mountbatten Medal to Professor Jean Armstrong of Monash University Australia.
