Arcadis
Arcadis is the leading global design and engineering consultancy firm for natural and built assets.
- Date
- 14 October 2024
- Time
- 17:30 - 20:40 BST (GMT+1)
- Location
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Online
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Overview
Join us online for the ICE's first-ever creative arts and music festival, which looks to make crucial connections between civil engineering, nature and the arts.
The event, Ikigai 2024, will feature speeches from key sustainability personalities and a unique nature and sustainability themed fashion show.
At the event, a panel of judges, which includes Dragons' Den star Deborah Meaden, will present awards to winners of the Ikigai competition that's been running over the past few weeks.
Headline Sponsors
University of East London
We're reshaping education for the benefit of all, giving students from any background the skills and opportunities to thrive in the modern world.
Platinum Sponsor
Project Groundwater Northumbria
The project emphasises both innovation and learning, and we are committed to trying fresh approaches and learning from them.
Gold Sponsor
Mott MacDonald
We’re a global engineering, management and development consultancy focused on guiding our clients through many of the planet’s most intricate challenges.
Bronze Sponsors
Hamish Lal Partners
Dr Hamish Lal represents clients in a range of high-value, highly technical, international construction and engineering disputes and international arbitrations.
Qflow
Qflow enables you to make informed decisions on cost, carbon and quality. Collecting real-time materials and waste data at source for construction teams.
Sapphire Utility Solutions
Providing award winning services to the Cleanwater, Wastewater, Gas, Digital Networks and Highways sectors.
Programme
17:30 - 17:40
Welcome - Prof Anusha Shah
17:40 - 18:00
Keynote speeches
18:00 - 18:45
Performances
18:45 - 19:40
Break
19:40 - 20:35
Fashion show
20:35 - 20:40
Closing remarks - Prof Anusha Shah
20:40
Event closes
Speaker
Prof. Anusha Shah
Institution of Civil Engineers
president 2023/24
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Prof. Anusha Shah
Anusha Shah is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and its president for the 2023-24 session. She’s the third woman and first person of colour to be elected as president in over 200 years of ICE history.
She’s a senior director for resilient cities and UK climate change adaptation lead at Arcadis, a global sustainability, design, engineering and management consulting firm.
She’s also a non-executive director at the Met Office, a trustee at the Green Alliance and a visiting professor at Edinburgh University. She was awarded honorary professorship by the University of Wolverhampton for knowledge transfer and an honorary doctorate of engineering by the University of East London for her services to address climate change.
Anusha specialises in water and environmental engineering and has over 22 years of experience in designing, managing and leading projects and programmes in the UK and internationally.
Anusha sits on various industry climate change groups. She represents Arcadis at the London Climate Change Partnership and the 50L Home Initiative of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. She’s a past chair of the Thames Estuary Partnership Board.
Anusha is the recipient of several awards, including the 2020 Top 50 UK Women Engineers Sustainability Award and the CECA Inspiring Change Award. She was recognised by Climate Reframe as one of the UK’s leading Black, Asian and minority ethnic voices on climate change.
