Overview

This event will discuss the current and future skills constraints in the transport and infrastructure industry. We will debate how the industry is responding to these constraints and emerging concerns and how the industry is planning to tackle these challenges and obstacles. We will also cover how companies and other countries internationally are pivoting accordingly to improve their resilience to future constraints and what we could learn to apply here in the UK.

Some of the topics that will be included are:

• How education is adapting to these challenges
• Sought after complimentary skills that the industry is pivoting towards.
• Supporting ambition amongst emerging talent
• Changing behaviours, ethics & values
• Global perspective of skill and capacity building and retention
• Talent attrition
• Attracting talent from other job sectors

This event is aimed at practitioners and educators in the Transportation industry and policy makers in the construction & engineering educational fields. We welcome those who are in the early years of their careers through to industry experts. This is a great networking opportunity to connect with likeminded professionals who share an interest on the subject.

The speakers

Deborah Sims

Lecturer at the University of Greenwich

Deborah Sims is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of CIHT, Deborah worked in both the public and private sector for over 25 years as a highway engineer specialising in road safety and asset management. For the past 10 years she has been an academic in the School of Engineering of the University of Greenwich at Medway, focussing on Engineering Professional Skills, Construction Management & Technology, and Highway Engineering. Deborah is the employability champion for engineering and has contributed to the development of the university’s assessment policy, and the employability, professional registration, and industrial aspects of a new university wide curricula. She has been a member of CIHT for over 30 years and has sat on numerous committees, working groups and panels, and served as a professional reviewer since 2003. Currently she is a Trustee and immediate past President.

Kate Myers

Director and Expert Adviser, Capacity Building at Crossrail International

Kate is an inspirational leader with over 20 years’ experience in government and major projects including social impact through jobs & skills, stakeholder & public relations, communications, delivery, policy and strategy. She has a track record of building strong and collaborative relationships across organisations and the wider construction & infrastructure industry to deliver social value.

Further Information and Registration

THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT.

The host venue is Arcadis 80 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 4BY. Delegates can attend in person or via the Teams link received upon booking, the event will begin online at 17.30.

For further information, e-mail us at regions@ciht.org.uk

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