IET Berkshire Network

13/04/2026

Safety System Resilience: The role of Functional Safety Assessments. Braywick Leisure Centre 23/04/2026 19:00 to 21:00. This presentation highlights the role of functional safety assessments, aligned with IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 in ensuring reliable, resilient safety‑critical systems. It covers the full safety lifecycle, demonstrating compliance and exploring challenges, best practices, and real‑world examples to help integrate functional safety into engineering and operations of a safety instrumented system. Register at the IET

14/12/2025

A free lecture on Myths and Realities of AI
Artificial Intelligence, at least AI as it currently exists is neither artificial nor intelligent. It is however extremely clever and certainly capable of doing some tasks better than humans. Equally, it is incapable of doing some tasks at all, but because it has no intelligence is want to make up the wrong answer when it is incapable, a phenomenal know as confabulation. Dai will explain why Artificial Intelligence has knowledge gaps and in what areas those gaps are particularly prevalent. Equally, Dai will explain the tasks current Artificial Intelligence is best at and why.
At Braywick Leisure centre at 1930-2030 register at the IET

14/12/2025

A free lecture on Myths and Realities of AI Artificial Intelligence, at least AI as it currently exists is neither artificial nor intelligent. It is however extremely clever and certainly capable of doing some tasks better than humans. Equally, it is incapable of doing some tasks at all, but because it has no intelligence is want to make up the wrong answer when it is incapable, a phenomenal know as confabulation. Dai will explain why Artificial Intelligence has knowledge gaps and in what areas those gaps are particularly prevalent. Equally, Dai will explain the tasks current Artificial Intelligence is best at and why. 22nd January 2026 @1930 register at the IET.

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02/12/2025

Visit the National Energy System Operator (NESO), known as ESO before, is making sure that Great Britain has the essential energy it needs by ensuring supply meets demand every second of every day. From hospitals to households, telecoms to transportation, our society relies on electricity. NESO control centre makes sure there is always a reliable and safe supply as we move megawatts around the country.
January 2026 2.30-4.30 Register at the IET

18/11/2025

Tideway - Reconnecting Londoners with the River Thames
With the Tideway ‘super sewer’ in its final commissioning phase and approaching completion, this IET lecture offers a timely opportunity to explore the engineering journey behind one of the UK’s most complex infrastructure projects. Spanning over a decade of design, construction and system integration, the 25 km Thames Tideway Tunnel is now fully operational — intercepting millions of tonnes of untreated sewage and transforming the environmental health of the River Thames. This session will provide a technical overview of the complex engineering challenges and methodologies that underpin the delivery of this groundbreaking engineering feat beneath the London. Join us to examine how Tideway set new benchmarks in resilience, sustainability and wider legacy benefits beyond the core purpose of creating a cleaner healthier River Thames.
Speaker: Stuart Grant, Director of Commercial Agreements & Property, Tideway
Stuart Grant is a Chartered Civil Engineer and senior leader on the Tideway project, responsible for the strategic management of commercial agreements, land acquisition, and property interfaces across the tunnel alignment. With over two decades of experience in complex infrastructure delivery, Stuart has played a pivotal role in aligning commercial frameworks with engineering delivery, ensuring the successful coordination of multiple contractors, stakeholders, and regulatory bodies.
Register at the IET for your place on 20/11/2025 7-9pm Reading University, Henley Business School building - Car Park 2

15/10/2025

Lecture on Quantum Computing Fundamentals, Braywick Leisure Centre, 13th November 18:30 for a 19:00 start, register at the IET. Quantum computing unlocks solutions to impossible problems, promising breakthroughs in medicine, AI, and materials. It means revolutionary advancements that will benefit everyone. In this talk, we demystify the fundamentals and how it compares to classical computing. This talk will explore the fascinating world of quantum physics and how its unique rules can supercharge computing far beyond anything classical computers can achieve. We'll compare its capabilities and limitations against today's technology. Then, we'll dive into quantum networks, understanding how they differ from and can even work with our existing internet. Finally, discover how UK quantum networks are already being used to create ultra-secure communication, protecting our digital future.

15/10/2025

Lecture at Braywick leisure centre 13th November 18:30 for a 19:00 start. Register at the IET. Quantum Computing Fundamentals
Basic fundamentals and comparison against classical computing.This talk will explore the fascinating world of quantum physics and how its unique rules can supercharge computing far beyond anything classical computers can achieve. We'll compare its capabilities and limitations against today's technology. Then, we'll dive into quantum networks, understanding how they differ from and can even work with our existing internet. Finally, discover how UK quantum networks are already being used to create ultra-secure communication, protecting our digital future.

25/09/2025

Tideway - Reconnecting Londoners with the River Thames

With the Tideway ‘super sewer’ in its final commissioning phase and approaching completion, this IET lecture offers a timely opportunity to explore the engineering journey behind one of the UK’s most complex infrastructure projects. Spanning over a decade of design, construction and system integration, the 25 km Thames Tideway Tunnel is now fully operational — intercepting millions of tonnes of untreated sewage and transforming the environmental health of the River Thames. This session will provide a technical overview of the complex engineering challenges and methodologies that underpin the delivery of this groundbreaking engineering feat beneath the London. Join us to examine how Tideway set new benchmarks in resilience, sustainability and wider legacy benefits beyond the core purpose of creating a cleaner healthier River Thames.



Speaker: Stuart Grant, Director of Commercial Agreements & Property, Tideway

Stuart Grant is a Chartered Civil Engineer and senior leader on the Tideway project, responsible for the strategic management of commercial agreements, land acquisition, and property interfaces across the tunnel alignment. With over two decades of experience in complex infrastructure delivery, Stuart has played a pivotal role in aligning commercial frameworks with engineering delivery, ensuring the successful coordination of multiple contractors, stakeholders, and regulatory bodies.

Register at the IET for your place on 20/11/2025 7-9pm Reading University Henley Business School building - Car Park 2

14/09/2025

London relies on a 150-year-old sewer system built for a population less than half its current size. As a result, millions of tonnes of raw sewage spills, untreated, into the River Thames each year. The solution is to construct the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a 25km ‘Super Sewer’ tunnel that will clean up and reconnect Londoners with the River Thames. The lecture will outline the need for the project, the technical solution, an update on progress and highlight some of the wider legacies that Tideway brings to London.
Tideway is upgrading London’s sewerage system to cope with the demands of the city into the 22nd century. Overflows of untreated sewage into the tidal River Thames add up to tens of millions of tonnes every year. By intercepting the sewage before it enters the river, the Thames Tideway Tunnel will help prevent the tidal River Thames from being polluted with untreated sewage which can stay in the river for up to three months before the ebb and flow of the tide finally takes it out to sea. The 25km main tunnel starts in in west London, generally follows the route of the River Thames to Limehouse, where it then continues north-east to Abbey Mills Pumping Station near Stratford. There it will be connected to the Lee Tunnel, which will transfer the sewage to Beckton Sewage Treatment Works. Built from three main construction drive sites in Fulham, Battersea and Southwark, the Thames Tideway Tunnel is nearly 90% complete, sewage overflows will start to be diverted away from the Thames in 2024 and is on course to be fully operational in 2025.

Join us at the university of Reading on the 30th Novermber 19:00 to 21:00 Register at the IET

14/09/2025

Communication systems are vital for military and professional users. This lecture will focus on some of the radio systems that were developed during the 1980s. This was a period of rapid advances in electronics, and some of these will be described. The presenter worked as an engineer for Racal during that time and will bring some radio hardware to the lecture. These include the Racal BCC Jaguar V frequency hopping manpack and the Racal BCC 39 HF manpack.
The lecture should be of interest to those interested in radio history, radio systems and hardware design. The presenter aims to cater for an audience of those with and without a background in communications technology.
Register University of Reading, Henley Business Suite, Room NHBS 10,8 October 30th 18:30 for 19:00 start till 20:30

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Communication systems are vital for military and professional users. This lecture will focus on some of the radio systems that were developed during the 1980s. This was a period of rapid advances in electronics, and some of these will be described. The presenter worked as an engineer for Racal durin...