Monday 22 June 2020

Re-Engineering the Future

The BBC World Service and the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 are bringing together leading experts and an online audience from across six continents to share their insights and inspire innovation worldwide.


What can engineers do to re-imagine the everyday and make life safer and easier across the globe?

Presenter Kevin Fong will be joined by a panel of four leading engineers from around the world. The panel will respond to questions, comments and computer science degree jobs from a global audience linked by Zoom.This is a special edition of an annual event series staged in partnership with the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851.

The panellists are:

Luke Leung, Director of Sustainable Engineering at SOM, who worked on the Burj Khalif in Dubai and Zhengzhou Greenland Tower in China.

Linda Miller, Civil Engineer at Bechtel, who has worked on the Sydney Metro and Crossrail in London.

Rebecca Shipley, Director of UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering and is responsible for reverse engineering the CPAP ventilator.

Carlo Ratti, Director of the MIT Senseable City Lab, who is responsible for the creation of CURA Pods, mobile ICU units.

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