IET Volunteers Conference

Volunteers Conference 2009

IET volunteers are key to the delivery of high quality knowledge sharing around the world.

Volunteers Conference, 25 - 26 April 2009

Thank you to everyone who attended the conference and made it a big success. The event was attended by over 300 members from 36 different countries with over 70 members of staff present to help answer members’ questions.

Next years' conference will take place on the 20 and 21 March - please add this date to your diary. More information will be circulated towards the end of 2009.

If you wish to discuss further any of the topics covered by the conference, please visit the Volunteers Conference 2009 discussion forum.

The following presentations from the event are available:

Saturday 25 April

The IET as a Community of Communities - Chris Earnshaw

The IET as a community of communities (273 k)

Empowering the organisation - Cdre Barry Brooks, Alan Watts, Dr N F Chin and Dr Sam McLaughlin

Empowering the organisation (2557 k)

Virtual Communities - Alison Hardy

Virtual Communities (5049 k)

Workshop sessions:

Using the web

Using the web (9624 k)

Ethics and Professionalism

To help members and the public to interpret its Rules of Conduct and to understand the demands of professional behaviour, the IET is establishing a web zone on professional ethics and the IET. The draft content for the zone featuring two case studies was demonstrated to members at a workshop at the Volunteers Conference. The draft zone can be viewed at www.theiet.org/about/ethics/

Feedback from the workshop, which was attended by almost 70 members, was very positive, with the overwhelming majority rating the zone as a valuable resource.