Join Resilience Shift CEO Seth Schultz for the next lecture in the Institution of Civil Engineers’ Brunel International Lecture series. The focus for this lecture, to be given on the 1 September, will be South Asia.

Seth will be joined by a panel of experts to discuss how the engineering community in South Asia can rise to face the challenges of climate change, globalisation, urbanisation and digitalisation.

Entitled “21^st Century Leadership is Partnership: How a Coalition of the World’s Engineers Can Change the World”, the lecture series is exploring how the engineering community can deliver a carbon-neutral and resilient society by mid-century.

The series considers what it is to be an engineer, and whether this meets the needs of a future workforce that can deliver resilient and sustainable systems. Debating whether engineers need to think differently to deal with the global uncertainty we are facing, the lecture will discuss how systems engineering and understanding is needed to bring it all together, and whether engineers are well placed to deal with the complex systemic challenges ahead of us.

The lecture and discussions will examin the role of engineers, the current practices, the gaps in capabilities and in the workforce, particularly thinking about the need for more women, alongside a more geopolitically diverse workforce.

Seth’s lecture “21^st Century Leadership is Partnership” will be followed by a panel debate tackling both global and local perspectives, the big issues facing the planet and the engineering profession before answering audience questions.

Event details

Institution of Civil Engineers’ Brunel International Lecture Series: South Asia

Wednesday 1 September 2021 – 17:00 Indian Standard Time /07:30 Eastern Daylight Time / 12:30 British Summer Time

Brunel lecture given by: Seth Schultz, FICE, CEO The Resilience Shift

Opening remarks: Matthew Colton, BEng(Hons), CEng, FICE, CPEng, FIEAust, CPPM, MAIPM, MAICD, ICE Council Member for Asia Pacific

Chair: Mark Hansford, Director of Engineering Knowledge, ICE

Panel:

• • Tim Khan, ICE Regional Chair for South Asia and ICE representative for Bangladesh
  • Tondup Wangail, ICE President’s Future Leader 2020-2021, India
  • Malith Mendis, ICE representative for Sri Lanka
  • Smita Sawdadkar, ICE representative for Bangalore

Booking

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