Headline Supporter
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
“The IET is proud to partner with WISE in hosting its annual awards, which celebrate incredible women engineers and scientists. As an institution, we recognise and value the importance of reaching greater gender parity within Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, and the global benefits that this will bring. We’re committed to working with WISE and our other partners to strive for equality in the sector, today and in the future.”
Ed Almond, IET Chief Executive and Secretary
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a world-leading professional organisation – aiming to inspire, inform and influence the global engineering and technology community to engineer a better world.
As a diverse home across engineering and technology throughout the world, it provides a professional home for life for its 156,000 members worldwide – supporting those developing skills in new engineering capabilities to those perfecting established skills.
The breadth and depth of the IET means that it is uniquely placed to help the sector progress society. Whether generating new knowledge, sharing academic thinking, making connections that inspire, or turning theory into practice, the IET leads the engineering and technology profession to make better sense of the world in order to solve the challenges that matter.
As a registered charity, the IET works to inspire the next generation of engineers and does this by running fun and engaging initiatives and education programmes for children to get involved with, exciting them to think about engineering and technology as a possible career.
Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) are core to the IET’s values and beliefs and run throughout its strategy – building an inclusive culture that inspires, engages and celebrates the diversity of its members, volunteers, colleagues, and the wider engineering and technology community. The IET has a long history of working to improve EDI in the sector one aspect of this is our Young Woman Engineer (YWE) of the Year Campaign and Awards. YWE 2025 opens for applications on 8 March – could you be our next YWE winner?
Award Sponsors
Amazon
Sponsor of the EDI organisation of the Year Award
At Amazon, the RME (Reliability and Maintenance Engineering) team is the beating heart of Amazon Operations. They’re the gatekeepers who ensure the durable quality and operational state of our machines.
Passionate about innovation at every step of the process they create, reinvent and maintain cutting edge technologies, ensuring logistics and deliveries run smoothly.
We strive to build a culture that’s inclusive for everyone and are thrilled to be supporting the WISE 2025 Awards, shining a light on the hard work, success, determination and commitment of individuals and organisations who are helping to grow the number of women in the UK STEM workforce.
BAE Systems
Sponsor of the Outstanding Woman in Engineering Award
Operating from more than ten sites across the UK, we sustain employment for more than 5,000 people in the many British SMEs and partners in our supply chain. We are committed to generating long-term prosperity in the UK, investing in advanced R&D, sovereign IP and exportable solutions driving the creation of high-quality jobs.
BDO
Sponsor of the STEM Ally Award
BDO is an award-winning accountancy and business advisory firm, we work with mid-sized, entrepreneurially-spirited, high-growth businesses that are driving growth in the UK economy.
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
Sponsor of the Women’s Wellbeing at work Award
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) is the employer-led skills body for the Engineering Construction Industry in Great Britain.
A non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Education, the ECITB works with employers and government to attract, develop and qualify personnel across a wide range of craft, technical and managerial disciplines.
We invest more than £20 million every year to enhance skills across the engineering construction industry, support growth through workforce training, and help to tackle labour shortages and skills gaps.
ERA Foundation
Supporter of the Outreach & Engagement Award
The ERA Foundation is a non-profit organisation. We focus on helping the high-tech manufacturing sector in the UK by supporting engineering, innovation and industrial development programmes. The ERA Foundation has been supporting UK engineering and industry development in high-tech manufacturing since 1920. Our aim is to ensure the important role that the high-tech manufacturing sector plays in the UK economy is recognised; to support the next generation of UK engineers, to help our high-tech manufacturing companies prosper, and to encourage entrepreneurship, innovation and technical excellence in individuals and organisations.
We work with organisations which share our principles. Our work involves generating new policy ideas; developing, funding or delivering industry development programmes; supporting industrial engagement activity; supporting the development of new technologies and skills; or coordinating the sharing of skills and knowledge between partners.
Partnerships are at the heart of the Foundation works to achieve its’ aims. Our partners range from prestigious national institutions, industry support organisations and others that can help our high-tech manufacturing sector prosper. We also work with government departments, policy think-tanks, and the financial sector. The relationships we have built with our partners have allowed us to develop a wide range of successful initiatives achieving a much greater impact than working alone.
GCHQ
Sponsor of the Nurturing New Talent Award
At GCHQ, our mission to protect the UK will only be successful if we have the right mix of minds to tackle the biggest national security issues facing us today.
To meet the challenges of our increasingly complex world and protect our people and way of life, inclusive values must be at the heart of our mission.
We need diverse teams with a range of life experiences, skill sets and perspectives.
We are renowned for championing diversity of thought, but we recognise we still have progress to make, and we are all working together to enhance our inclusive workplace culture to ensure everyone can thrive.
Sponsorship of the WISE Awards is just one of the ways GCHQ is demonstrating its commitment to support women in technology, helping to inspire an ever-increasing range of diverse tech talent by celebrating and recognising their achievements across the UK.
Northrop Grumman
Sponsor of the Outstanding Woman in Technology Award
We are an industry leader in solutions that harness the latest in data science, machine learning and secure cloud transformation technology, delivered at pace and scale.
Drawing on our global scale, we deliver integrated Information Advantage solutions across all domains as the key mission-winning discriminator.
Pfizer
At Pfizer, we apply science and our global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives.
We strive to set the standard for quality, safety and value in the discovery, development and manufacture of health care products, including innovative medicines and vaccines.
Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time.
Consistent with our responsibility as one of the world’s premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, we collaborate with health care providers, governments and local communities to support and expand access to reliable, affordable health care around the world.
For more than 170 years, we have worked to make a difference for all who rely on us.
In the UK, Pfizer has its business headquarters in Surrey and is a major supplier of medicines to the NHS.
STEM Returners
Sponsor of the STEM Returner Award
STEM Returners is a multi-award-winning solution to an industry-wide problem.
Our unique Returners Programmes help highly qualified STEM professionals to return to an equitable and inclusive STEM sector after a career break, enabling STEM leaders to access a new and overlooked talent pool, and in doing so, improve diversity and inclusion within their organisation.