BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2443302caaeb9375eff81499d28b7263 DTSTAMP:20260311T221356Z SUMMARY:Alumni Connections Launch event DESCRIPTION:FULLY BOOKED\nPlease note\, that while we are currently over su bscribed for the event we will accept bookings on the day for Civil and En vironmental Engineering Alumni only. Please enquire at our registration de sk.\nJoin CEE’s flagship event to reconnect with fellow alumni\, expand your network\, and explore the future of Civil and Environmental Engineeri ng with sector leaders. Reconnect. Reflect. Celebrate.\nJoin us for a uniq ue and meaningful event as we celebrate 141 years of real impact—impact we’ve made\, and the impact we will continue to make together.\nAlumni C onnections is our inaugural alumni engagement event\, bringing together gr aduates of Civil and Environmental Engineering for an afternoon of insight and an evening of celebration. Whether you’re returning to campus for t he first time in years or staying connected to today’s research\, innova tion\, and education\, we’d love you to be part of this special occasion .\nThe programme\nThe event begins inside the Department with a keynote ad dress from Professor Chris Johnson\, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Depar tment for Science\, Innovation and Technology (UK Government). This will b e followed by a dynamic panel discussion on how innovation and sustainabil ity are shaping the future of civil and environmental engineering.\nYou’ ll also have the opportunity to tour our cutting-edge labs\, meet current students and view a showcase of our latest work\, and reconnect with fello w alumni over refreshments\nIn the evening\, we invite you to a black-tie dinner with live music\, where we’ll raise a toast to our shared legacy and the lasting impact of our community—celebrating those who are with u s and remembering those who has passed.\nWe’ll reflect on the sustained and significant global impact of our alumni and look ahead to a collective future where we continue to work together to shape the world.\nWhether yo u’re returning to campus for the first time in years or staying connecte d to today’s research\, innovation\, and education\, we’d love you to be part of this celebration\nRegistration via – https://www.eventbrite .co.uk/e/alumni-connections-a-festive-celebration-of-our-people-and-impact -tickets-1530048278589?aff=oddtdtcreator\nPlease note\, this registration link is strictly for alumni of the Department of Civil and Environmental E ngineering. For current Imperial staff or students interested in attending please email our events team directly t.gordon@imperial.ac.uk\nAlumni are invited to attend the full event\, or either Part I (Afternoon Programme) or Part II (Evening Celebration).\nFull Agenda:\n13:30 – Registration\ n14:00–17:00 – Part I: Welcome back to the Department\n\nKeynote: Pro fessor Chris Johnson CBE (Chief Scientific Adviser\, Department for Scienc e\, Innovation and Technology\, UK Government)  \nPanel: ‘Building the Future: The Next Era of Civil & Environmental Engineering’.\n\nModerator : Professor Jean Venables CBE (class of ’69).\nPanellists: Roger Bailey (Chief Technical Officer at Thames Tideway\, class of ’81)\, Anhad Narul a (Chairman at Africa Plus Partners\, class of ’02)\, Dr Mireille El Haj j (CEO at Astraterra\, classes of ’10 and ’17). Further panellists to be announced. \n\n\nNetworking reception: Join us for a tour of our world leading labs\, hear from researchers and students about our current resear ch\, and mingle with peers.\n\n– Programme break –\n18:30-22:30 – Pa rt II:  Black-tie dinner with champagne welcome and live music (surcharge £100)\n Speakers:\nProfessor Washington Yotto Ochieng CBE\nProfessor Wa shington Yotto Ochieng is Head of the Department of Civil and Environmenta l Engineering\, and Chair Professor in Positioning and Navigation Systems at Imperial College London. He is also the Director of Imperial’s Centre for Active Resilience and Security (CARS).\nWashington is a renowned expe rt in infrastructure resilience\, trans-modal mobility\, positioning\, nav igation and timing (PNT) systems and geomatics. Ochieng is a Chartered Eng ineer\, Fellow of the Royal academy of Engineering\, and Fellow of the Ins titution of Civil Engineers\, Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN)\, Instit ution of Highways and Transportation and the Institution of Civil Engineer ing Surveyors. He holds multiple high-profile positions\, including Presid ent of RIN\, Board Member of the Science Museum Group\, Chair of the Scien ce Museum Advisory Board\, and Member of advisory councils at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL)\, the Department of Transport (DfT) and the For eign\, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).\nProfessor Chris Johnso n\nProfessor Chris Johnson is the Chief Scientific Adviser in the Departme nt for Science\, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) having taken up the role in July 2024. Prior to this\, he served as Pro Vice Chancellor for Engine ering and Physical Sciences at Queen’s University\, Belfast (2020-24) an d Head of Computing Science in Glasgow University (2014-2020).\nChris’ r esearch interests lie at the intersection of cyber security and the engine ering of safety-critical systems\, in applications where it is not possibl e to halt operation and analyse potential malware without creating signifi cant safety concerns. He helped lead the Department for Transport (DfT) re view of UK airports\, airlines and air traffic organisations that informed the National Cybersecurity Strategy for Aviation. He set up cyber securit y labs for the UK Civil Nuclear Industry. He was SG Chair of the National Cyber Security Centre’s Community of Interest in Industrial Control Syst ems. He is a member of the National Cyber Advisory Board (NCAB) appointed to support the implementation of the UK Cyber Strategy.\nHis early work he lped deliver a range of analysis techniques to identify lessons learned fr om previous failures. He subsequently served as an expert witness to the G renfell Tower public inquiry where he helped identify recommendations to i mprove data and communications across the UK emergency services.\nHis more recent work has delivered techniques for the ethical introduction of mach ine learning in military systems\, including safety and security requireme nts\, on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).\nHe has held fellowsh ips from NASA\, as well as the US Air Force and the US Navy (Office of Nav al Research). \nProfessor Jean Venables CBE – BSc Civil Engineering (‘ 69)\nJean is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Environmentalist with an MSc i n Public Health Engineering and a distinguished career in water and wastew ater engineering\, flood risk management\, and environmental consultancy. She was the first woman President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (2 008/09) in its 190-year history and has held senior roles with the Environ ment Agency\, Thames Estuary Partnership\, and the Association of Drainage Authorities.\nJean has extensive experience in professional development\, lecturing\, and chairing high-level committees\, and is the author of Pre paring for the Professional Reviews of the Institution of Civil Engineers. She has received numerous honours for her contributions to civil engineer ing\, including an MBE\, OBE\, and CBE. Jean holds Visiting Professorships at Imperial College London\, Southampton\, and Strathclyde Universities.\ n\nRoger Bailey – BSc Civil Engineering (‘81)\nRoger joined the Thames Tideway Tunnel project in February 2012. He is a Fellow of the Institutio n of Civil Engineers and has held board level positions in both civil engi neering contracting businesses and engineering and planning consultancies prior to joining the project. The first 20 years of his career was in the geotechnical contracting sector (mining\, piling and ground engineering) i n the UK and overseas followed by over 10 years in transportation consulta ncy (highways\, rail\, aviation) for clients such as Crossrail\, Network R ail\, TfL\, Highways Agency and the Department for Transport. Roger’s Co mpletion & Handover Team at Tideway is responsible for technical oversight \, property and commercial agreements\, compliance with planning permissio n\, system commissioning and the operational integration of the completed Thames Tideway Tunnel asset into the existing London sewer network. Having spent over 12 years at the heart of decision making and delivery on the p roject Roger is uniquely able to reflect on its critical success factors a s it nears completion.\n\nMireille El Hajj – MSc Transport (‘10) and P hD (‘17)\nDr Mireille Elhajj is the founder of London-based boutique con sultancy Astra-Terra\, a company specialised in PNT and smart solutions. S he is also Visiting Professor at Imperial’s Department of Civil and Envi ronmental Engineering. Previously\, she was a Lecturer and an “Infrastru cture and Space Science Fellow” at the Institute of Security Science and Resilience. She has published various papers in Positioning\, Navigation and Timing (PNT)\, Interference mitigation and novel integrity monitoring methods for multiple applications in telematics and smart cities. She comp leted her PhD at imperial on the use of new GPS signals to improve accurac y for surface transport.\n\nPeri Smith – MSc Control Systems Eng\, Depar tment of Electrical and Electronic Eng (’07)\, PhD Civil and Environment al Engineering (’17)\nPeri is an Electrical and Electronic Engineer who completed her doctorate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engin eering. She is the Director of Systems Engineering and Integration\nat glo bal consultancy Ricardo (a member of WSP) and has attained over 20 years o f engineering and management expertise working\nacross a number of industr ies. This ranges from the commercial aviation flight simulation industry t o mainline\, metro and subsurface railway\nprojects in the UK and Australi a and for global clients.\nHer experience involves the delivery of organis ational change in the technical Systems Integration arena working across m ultiple engineering disciplines and technology and she has led award-winni ng projects and project teams\, including for the ‘Performance improveme nt in the public sector at London Overground’.\n\nCaroline Field\nCaroli ne Field leads National Resilience at PA Consulting. She is an expert in r esilience\, spearheading an integrated\, systems-based approach to underst anding threats\, vulnerabilities\, and opportunities – helping clients d etermine the best strategy for investing in resilience measures to enable their strategic objectives. Caroline has a background in asset and infrast ructure resilience with over 30 years of professional experience including 18 years in counter-terrorism\, blast mitigation\, and physical security and 25 years in earthquake engineering and dynamics. She has spent the pas t 15 years combining this expertise with the social and people aspects of resilience\, focusing on the resilience and adaptive capacity (of people a nd organisations). Caroline brings expertise in resilient leadership and d ecision making – catalysing behaviour change in organisations and commun ities to deliver greater resilience. She is accredited in resilient leader ship and has expertise in systems-based decision making to de-silo and pri oritise resilience building efforts – understanding interdependencies an d linking resilience to measured strategic outcomes.\nCaroline is active i n developing standards for resilience. She was Chair of the recently publi shed International Standard on Urban Resilience (ISO22371) and is the Lead of the Measuring Resilience Working Group for the UK Resilience Academy. She is co-founder of the Centre for Whole of Society Resilience and is sup porting Imperial College with the Centre for Active Resilience & Security (CARS).\nBenson Tam – BSc Civil Engineering (‘84)\nBenson Tam is Found er and CEO of Venturous Group. Tam founded Venturous Group in 2019. With h is expertise as a “3-in-1” civil\, software and financial engineer\, c ombined with 30 years of private equity investing in Asia\, Benson has bui lt an extensive track 9 of 10\nrecord. His experience spans venture capita l and private equity investments\, M&A\, Internet\, tech\, corporate finan ce and strategy with a clear focus on China\, being based in Beijing for t he last 20 years. Before that\, he worked globally in Hong Kong\, Kuala Lu mpur\, San Francisco and London.\nHe started his finance career at S.G. Wa rburg in London and continued with East Asia Warburg in Hong Kong. In 1992 \, he transitioned to private equity at Hellman & Friedman Asia and later became a Partner at Fidelity Growth Partners Asia\, Fidelity’s China ven ture capital and private equity platform\, where he spent 10 years and was involved in multiple successful “Super-Unicorns” such as Alibaba\, As iaInfo and Wuxi AppTec. URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/195904/alumni-connections-a-festive-c elebration-of-our-people-and-impact/ DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251203T133000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251203T200000 LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 164\, Skempton Building\, South Kensington Campus\ , Imperial College London\, London\, SW7 2AZ\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251203T133000 TZNAME:GMT TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR