IET EVENTS

Professional Engineering Events and Conferencestheiet.org

IET Events delivers engineering conferences, training courses, and community events to over 156,000 IET members across 148 countries, operating UK venues and a digital events platform within a Royal Charter charity.

Company typePrivate
Founded1871
HeadquartersStevenage, United Kingdom
Headcount—
GTM typeB2B
OfferingServices

What IET EVENTS does

IET Events is the events, conferences, and training arm of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a UK-registered charity founded in 1871 and headquartered in Stevenage. Operating as a division of a non-profit membership body incorporated by Royal Charter, IET Events designs and delivers engineering conferences, professional training courses, and community events for the IET's global membership base of over 156,000 engineers and technologists across 148 countries. The events business operates from two owned venues (IET London: Savoy Place and IET Birmingham: Austin Court) and the events.theiet.org digital platform, which handles event registration, sponsorship sales, and exhibition management.

The broader IET technology platform underpins the events business and includes the Inspec bibliographic database (over 19 million records on physics, electrical/electronic/computer engineering, and manufacturing), Inspec Analytics, the IET.tv video platform, the IET Digital Library, and the Career Manager professional development portal. Publishing partnerships with Wiley (academic journals) and Redactive (E+T Magazine) extend content distribution. The portfolio spans BS 7671 Wiring Regulations standards (18th Edition Amendment 4:2026), the EngX online engineering community, and STEM education programmes including Faraday Challenge Days and the FIRST LEGO League UK partnership.

Revenue derives from six streams: membership subscriptions, publishing and journals (including Inspec), professional registration fees licensed by the Engineering Council UK, events and conferences, venue hire, and standards/bookshop sales. In 2025 the IET recorded global income of approximately £65.1m, supported by 507 average worldwide employees and 3,800+ volunteers. Distribution runs through direct digital channels, four regional offices (China, India, Hong Kong, USA), and wholly-owned subsidiaries including IET Services Ltd, IET Conventions Limited, IET Engineering and Technology Consultancy (Beijing), and WISE Campaign Community Interest C.I.C. (acquired 2024, integrated early 2025).

IET EVENTS firmographics

Firmographics

Name: IET EVENTS
Legal name: The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Website: https://theiet.org
Company type: Private
Founded year: 1871
Operating status: Operating
Short description: IET Events delivers engineering conferences, training courses, and community events to over 156,000 IET members across 148 countries, operating UK venues and a digital events platform within a Royal Charter charity.
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IET EVENTS industry classification

Industry

Product category: Professional Engineering Events and Conferences
NAICS: Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events with Facilities (71131), Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events with Facilities (711310), Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events without Facilities (71132)
SIC: Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Allied To Motion Picture Production (7819)
akta.pro primary industry: Engineering & Technology Congresses (THAHAJAE)
akta.pro secondary industries: Conferences & Conventions Operations Services (Registration, AV, Logistics) (MPAGAGAM), Professional & Certification Expos Organizers (THAHABAD)

Keywords

Engineering conferences
Professional training courses
Community events
Conference venue hire
Technical event management

Where IET EVENTS is headquartered

Location

Headquarters

HQ city: Stevenage
HQ country: United Kingdom
HQ region: Europe

Offices7 records

Markets served

IET EVENTS business model

Business model

GTM type: B2B
Offering type: Services
Cost components: Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

Membership Subscriptions: Annual membership fees from over 156,000 members across various categories (Student, Associate, Member MIET, Fellow FIET, Technician TMIET). Provides recurring subscription revenue.
Publishing and Journals: Sale of journals, books, E+T Magazine, and the Inspec database. Publishing partners include Wiley for journals and Redactive for E+T website.
Professional Registration Services: Fees for professional registration services including Chartered Engineer, Incorporated Engineer, Engineering Technician, and ICT Technician registration licensed by the Engineering Council.
Events and Conferences: Revenue from conferences, courses, training, and community events organized by IET Events.
IET Venues: Hire of IET venue facilities including IET London: Savoy Place and IET Birmingham: Austin Court for conferences and events.
Bookshop and Standards: Sale of IET Wiring Regulations (BS 7671), technical publications, and books through the IET Bookshop.

Pricing tiers

Model	Billing	Price
Subscription	Annual	Membership tiers: Student, Associate, Member (MIET), Technician (TMIET), Fellow (FIET)
One time/ perpetual license	One time/ perpetual license	BS 7671 IET Wiring Regulations 18th Edition with Amendment 4:2026
Other	Multi-year contract	Training courses and professional development

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels10 records

IET EVENTS product offering

Product offering

Core offering

IET Events organises engineering and technology conferences, professional training courses, and community events for engineers and technologists globally. The events arm manages online registration through events.theiet.org, sponsorship and exhibition sales, and operates two physical conference venues - IET London: Savoy Place and IET Birmingham: Austin Court - hosting both IET-produced events and externally-organised corporate conferences.

Product overview

The IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) is a global professional membership organisation with over 156,000 members in 148 countries, operating as a not-for-profit body incorporated by Royal Charter. Its product and service portfolio is not a unified software platform but a collection of interconnected offerings: the IET Events Platform (events.theiet.org) and IET Venues (Savoy Place and Austin Court) manage conferences, courses, and sponsorship; IET Publishing and Inspec provide bibliographic and journal publishing services; E+T Magazine, IET.tv, and the Digital Library deliver media and archival content; professional development is served through Career Manager, IET Academy, professional registration, and CPD schemes; electrical standards are addressed via the IET Wiring Regulations (BS 7671); and public engagement is supported through the WISE Campaign, Faraday STEM programmes, and the EngX online community. The portfolio is unified by a shared My IET membership account and shared publishing infrastructure (Wiley partnership for journals, Redactive for E+T), but each operates as a semi-autonomous service line rather than a single platform with modular add-ons.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

IET Events Platform The IET Events Platform (events.theiet.org) is the online portal that enables engineers, technologists, and organisations to search, browse, and register for IET conferences, training courses, and community events. It includes sponsorship and exhibition management capabilities for corporate partners and event organisers.
IET Venues IET Venues provides two flagship physical conference venues - IET London: Savoy Place (WC2R 0BL) and IET Birmingham: Austin Court - for hire to corporate clients, associations, and event organisers. Services include the venue space, associated catering, technical facilities, accessibility services, and Gold-certified sustainability credentials.
IET Conferences IET Conferences are flagship technical conferences such as REACH 2026 (computer architecture forum) and Cyber Security for Critical Industries, designed for senior engineers, researchers, and technology leaders. They include paper submission programmes, technical tracks, exhibition, and sponsorship opportunities, and are held at IET venues or partner locations.
IET Training Courses IET Training Courses are professional development courses for engineers and technicians, including offerings such as Writing evidence for Professional Registration that supports preparation for Engineering Council UK registration and CPD requirements. Courses are delivered online or in person and are priced per course.
IET Community Events IET Community Events are locally organised networking and technical meetings run by IET's volunteer local networks, providing regional engineers and technologists with accessible, free or low-cost CPD, networking, and knowledge-sharing opportunities.

Quantifiable outcome

Over 156,000 members served globally
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Companies that use IET EVENTS

Customer profile

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

IET EVENTS technology and API

Technology

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API: No
API docs
API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

IET EVENTS partnerships and signals

Strategic signal

Partnerships

21 partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

WISE Campaign Community Interest C.I.C.coreOthers · 1 January 2024Acquired by IET in 2024, integrated in early 2025. WISE focuses on promoting women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The organization runs programs including WISE Awards, WISE Membership, and My Skills My Life (role model platform) to increase gender diversity in engineering.
High Value Manufacturing CatapultflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint publication of 'Through the looking glass' report on augmented reality in manufacturing. Collaboration between IET and High Value Manufacturing Catapult to investigate AR technology adoption in industrial settings.
International Broadcasting Convention (IBC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAnnual collaboration producing 'The best of IET and IBC' publications featuring papers and articles on electronic media technology from IBC conferences, combined with selected papers from Electronics Letters.
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research on the future of manufacturing engineering including survey reports on skills, competencies, and career development for manufacturing engineers.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupport for The Apollo Protocol initiative to create cross-sectoral framework for digital twins between manufacturing and built environment sectors.
Digital Manufacturing & Performance Workstream (Construction Leadership Council)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to build stronger connection between technology, manufacturing, and construction sectors through The Apollo Forum and Apollo Protocol.
University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in The Apollo Protocol initiative for cross-sectoral digital twin framework.
High-Value Manufacturing (HVM) CatapultflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in The Apollo Protocol initiative for digital twins unification across sectors.
Digital Twin Hub (Connected Places Catapult)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in The Apollo Protocol initiative for cross-sectoral digital twin framework.
Cambridge Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in The Apollo Protocol initiative for digital twins unification.
techUKcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in The Apollo Protocol initiative for cross-sectoral digital twin framework.
The Alan Turing InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in The Apollo Protocol initiative for digital twins unification.
Engineering Council UKflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerLicensed by the Engineering Council to deliver professional registration including Chartered Engineer (CEng), Incorporated Engineer (IEng), Engineering Technician (EngTech), and ICT Technician (ICTTech) designations.
WileycoreTechnology or IntegrationPublishing partner for IET Journals providing journal publishing services for the IET's academic publications portfolio.
RedactivecoreTechnology or IntegrationPublishing services provider for E+T website and publishing content.
UplandscoreTechnology or IntegrationTechnology and software supplier for direct marketing programs, operating under contract containing standard contractual clauses for international data transfers.
AutodeskminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAutodesk provided response to IET's 'Good data for the public good' report, discussing interoperability challenges in the built environment sector.
CooleyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-sponsored 'This AI Life: Ensuring our AI future works for us' conference held at IET London: Savoy Place in October 2018.
Future IntelligenceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organized 'This AI Life' conference and co-authored report on AI in healthcare with IET.
Immerse UKminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-hosted 'Think Big: Future Health and Life Sciences Unconference' with IET on immersive healthcare technologies.
Hatsumi VRminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-hosted 'Think Big: Future Health and Life Sciences Unconference' with IET on immersive healthcare.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

IET EVENTS competitors and assessment

Company assessment

Broad incumbents

Wiley: Wiley is IET's journal publishing partner but operates as a broad incumbent across academic and professional publishing — comparable because it distributes and monetises similar technical content and competes for the same institutional library budgets as Inspec.
Informa: A global B2B events and exhibitions operator (through Informa Markets, Informa Connect, Informa Tech) that organises large-scale technical and engineering conferences and trade shows — directly comparable to IET Events as a competitor for corporate sponsors, exhibitors, and technical attendees.
Elsevier: A global academic publisher (ScienceDirect, Scopus) that competes with Inspec in indexing and analytical services for scientific literature, while also running large-scale engineering and technology conferences — overlapping significantly with IET's publishing and events arms.

Direct peers

Royal Academy of Engineering: The UK's national academy for engineering, operating a parallel mission of recognising engineering excellence, influencing policy, and supporting the profession. Although focused on fellows rather than mass membership, it competes for the same prestige and policy positioning as IET.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers): The world's largest technical professional organisation, IEEE is a direct peer to IET in serving electrical, electronics, and computing engineers globally through membership, conferences (e.g. ICC, Globecom), journals, and standards — operating on a similar professional-body model at significantly larger scale.
Institute of Physics (IOP): A UK-based professional body for physicists with a closely analogous operating model: chartered status (CPhys), membership tiers, peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and policy work — directly comparable to IET in scale and structure.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): The premier global computing professional society, ACM is a direct peer in delivering computing membership, peer-reviewed publications (Digital Library), conferences (SIGCOMM, etc.), and professional recognition, overlapping with IET's computing/IT member base.
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT: A UK professional body for IT and computing professionals that operates a near-identical model to IET — membership tiers, chartered registration, events, publications, and community — directly competing for the same UK engineering/technology member base.
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE): A UK-based professional engineering institution comparable to IET in structure, with shared membership, events, accreditation, and policy functions. IET and IMechE even collaborate on joint research (e.g. the future of manufacturing engineering), highlighting their direct comparability.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME): A global engineering professional society with parallel membership, conferences, standards development, and publishing operations. ASME serves mechanical engineers in a comparable way to how IET serves electrical/electronics engineers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

IET EVENTS financial estimates

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IET EVENTS leadership team

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IET EVENTS subsidiaries and ownership

Company hierarchy

Subsidiaries11 records

IET EVENTS funding detail

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Funding rounds

Investors

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IET EVENTS M&A and investment

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Investments

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Frequently asked questions about IET EVENTS

What does IET EVENTS do?

Is IET EVENTS a public or private company?

IET EVENTS is a private company. It is classified as nonprofit foundation owned and is currently operating.

When was IET EVENTS founded?

IET EVENTS was founded in 1871.

Where is IET EVENTS based?

IET EVENTS is headquartered in Stevenage, United Kingdom, in the Europe region.

How does IET EVENTS make money?

Six revenue lines are on record. Membership Subscriptions are the primary driver. The others are publishing and Journals, professional Registration Services, events and Conferences, IET Venues and bookshop and Standards.

Who are IET EVENTS's main competitors?

Broad incumbents on record are Wiley, Informa and Elsevier. Direct peers are Royal Academy of Engineering, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Institute of Physics (IOP), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Does IET EVENTS have an API?

No public API is recorded for IET EVENTS.

What industry is IET EVENTS in?

IET EVENTS's product category is Professional Engineering Events and Conferences. Its primary akta.pro industry code is THAHAJAE, Engineering & Technology Congresses, with a secondary code of MPAGAGAM, Conferences & Conventions Operations Services (Registration, AV, Logistics). Its NAICS code is 71131 and its SIC code is 8600.