28 March

3.00 pm Engineering Report Launch and tea. Committee Room 10, House of Commons

By invitation only. Ms Gretchen Kalonji, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences in UNESCO, will launch the UNESCO Global Report-‘Engineering: Issues, challenges and opportunities for development.

11 May 

'The importance of design to our economy’: Lunch meeting ( by invitation only) 12.15 for 12.45.Cholmondeley Room, House of Lords. Speakers: Sebastian Conran and Sir Christopher Frayling.

11 July
Lunch  ( speakers and venue tbc)

22 November
‘SMART TRANSPORT’: by invitation only, A debate at 6.00 pm in the House of Commons, Committee Room 12, and dinner at 7.30 pm in the Cholmondeley Room, The House of Lords.

Chairman: the Lord Broers, Chairman of the Group;
Speakers: Norman Baker MP-Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
                Professor Brian Collins CB-Professor of Engineering Policy at UCL and former Chief
                Scientific Adviser to the Department of Transport
                Nick Ridley-Director at TSB Transport Knowledge Transfer Network