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18th - 19th APRIL, 2018, RICOH ARENA, COVENTRY, CV6 6GE This will feature: * Market Intelligence * The latest technology * Network opportunities * Top-rated conference speakers The UK-based CP&De exhibition is organised by Global Media Publishing Ltd. This will be held on 18th – 19th April 2018 at the Ricoh arena, Coventry, UK. This focuses on aspects of Independent Power, Gen- sets, CHP / District heating, battery and UPS systems. Exhibitors currently booked include companies such as: AKSA, Edina, Greenfrog, FG Wilson, Volvo, Leroy Somer, Turner EPS, Shell Lubricants, IPU, Meccalte, Scania, Sutton Power Engineering, EJ Bowman, Agriemach, Centa Transmission, centrica, TVR, RODEng Consulting LLP , 2G Energy, KTR, PFS and STAMFORD I AvK , to name a few.
Energy
experts gather for April Conference in Coventry
UK gender imbalance must
be rectified
Women account for only 7% of the professional engineering workforce in the UK, and less than 4 % of engineering technicians (IET figures). This underrepresentation is far greater than in other European countries. Engineering is a well-paid career, so this gender gap represents a missed opportunity to reduce pay inequality in the workforce. With projections showing that the UK will experience a serious shortage of engineers in the coming years, it also represents a threat to the industry, and to the economy more generally. Such a huge gender imbalance detrimental to UK industry and bad for gender equality, but it also has wider negative implications for the economy. The IET, which has 163,000 members across 127 countries, has an ongoing initiative to help promote engineering and the sciences to women. Just 9% of the UK’s engineering workforce is female but the country requires an extra 1.82m engineers to meet demand over the next seven years.
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OMEN IN POWER (WIP) is a unique Conference being launched as a key section of the CP&De
Conference & Exhibition being organised by Global Media Publishing Ltd. This will be held on 18th – 19th April 2018 at the Ricoh arena, Coventry, UK. This premier energy conference & exhibition focuses on
engineering aspects of Independent Power, Gensets, CHP, District heating, Battery and UPS systems. WOMEN IN POWER involves a number of key women speakers - power engineers and HR specialists and problem solvers - who will be presenting 20-minute talks/presentations about the problems involved with women achieving their maximum potential in industry in the 21st Century. This CP&De event is sure to attract a lot of media attention
and the organisers are already projecting attendance figures of 500+ for attendees and delegates. WIP Conference Organiser Judith Packer, CEng MIMechE, comments: "The idea behind WOMEN IN POWER is to inspire people (and companies) to overcome gender bias and encourage diversity in the workplace, especially in the power heavy engineering sector. “A recent report from Engineering UK has revealed a
chronic shortage of engineers. The London-based not-for- profit organisation, which works in partnership with the engineering community to promote the vital role of engineers and engineering and to inspire the next generation, confirms that engineers make up almost 20% of the UK workforce - but we need more." Judith points out: "According to E-UK between now and
2024 British industry needs to recruit 186,000 people a year with engineering skills to meet demand. Women currently make up just 9% of UK engineers – the lowest such percentage in Europe. With this WIP Conference we will be providing a platform for UK/European and other international companies to come together to try and resolve current issues about gender diversity, and to share learnin g and innovation to solve current and future power issues." One of three Engineering Directors in the Energy business
for Parsons Brinckerhoff, Judith Packer was also the high- profile Project Manager for the Whitegate 400MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Power Plant in Cork, Ireland from 2007 - 2010, where she was responsible for a €4 million management, construction and testing programme. She was also the key Project Manager behind the Ghana
Domunli 'new concept' power plant in Ghana, designed to make electricity sources more accessible to everyone - especially women - in the country. She comments: "Even in the 21st Century not all countries
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have got electricity and women - especially in Africa and other areas of the Third World - are most affected by this. Pilot programmes have shown you can radically improve the lives of women by introducing more accessible, independent, offgrid power supplies and enhancing the prospects of a real education for them. I've been involved in industry with the manufacturing of power generating equipment - especially
JANUARY ‐ FEBRUARY 2018 UK POWER NEWS
UKPN DIARY
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WOMEN IN POWERCONFERENCE ‐ one of the key Conference strands at Critical Power & Decentralised Energy 2018 in Coventry, UK
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