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Lecture

ICE South West Regional Committee Annual General Meeting

Event organised by ICE

Date
03 October 2024
Time
17:00 - 20:30 BST (GMT+1)
Location
Engine Shed
Station Approach
Temple Meads
Bristol, BS1 6QH
United Kingdom

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Overview

The ICE South West Regional Committee represents ICE members of all grades across the region and undertakes a wide range of activities to share knowledge and promote civil engineering. 

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) brings together committee members and volunteers to review achievements to date and outline plans for the year ahead.

Special guest, Séan Harris, ICE deputy director general and director of membership, will give an overview of the ICE Plan. 

The meeting will also be asked to appoint any new committee members.

A buffet and refreshments will be served, and the AGM will be followed by a networking session aimed at connecting civil engineers and infrastructure professionals from across the region.

Everyone is welcome at the AGM.

Programme

17:00 - 18:00
Buffet and networking
18:00 - 18:01
Welcome - Miranda Housden, regional director, ICE South West 
18:01 - 18:11
Chair's report - Christopher Ackland, senior vice chair, ICE South West Regional Committee
18:11 - 18:14
Honorary secretary's report
18:14 - 18:25
ICE South West Neurodiversity Network launch - Richard Lang
18:25 - 18:55
Overview of ICE Plan - Séan Harris
18:45 - 19:00
Q&A
19:00 - 20:30
AGM business ends followed by drinks and networking

Speakers

Séan P F Harris

Séan P F Harris

Institution of Civil Engineers

director of membership and deputy director general

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Séan P F Harris

After a distinguished career in the British Army, which concluded as Commander British Gurkhas, Séan Harris joined ICE as director of membership in 2015, bringing leadership, planning, and financial experience to the role. Séan is guided by a core principle of growing a diverse, broad, and professionally qualified membership.

By helping individuals to realise their potential and supporting employers in professionally developing their workforce, he believes that the Institution of Civil Engineers can play a powerful role in meeting the existential challenges of climate change and assuring society that its engineers are credible, current and competent. In 2023, he was also appointed deputy director general and secretary of the institution.

Miranda Housden

Miranda Housden

Institution of Civil Engineers

regional director South West

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Miranda Housden

As the South West director at the ICE, Miranda is responsible for raising the profile of civil engineering in the region, maintaining professional standards, encouraging a diverse future workforce and providing leadership and direction to the ICE South West team and more than 6,000 ICE members.

Prior to moving to the South West, she was the ICE director for London and South East England, having previously been the London director for the Royal Institute of British Architects. Miranda has produced a number of films including Engineering the London Underground, Engineering Plymouth and Engineering Happiness for which she was awarded the Institution of Civil Engineers Garth Watson medal.

Alongside her ICE role, Miranda is chief executive officer for the South West Infrastructure Partnership.