Schneider x IET Singapore Local Network Young Professionals & Site Visit
Engineer Your Own Path: Building a Future Ready Career
About
Engineer Your Own Path: Building a Future-Ready Career is a joint Schneider Electric and IET Singapore Young Professionals event designed to help young engineers understand the breadth of career pathways available within and beyond traditional technical roles. Hosted at the Schneider Electric Innovation Hub, the evening combines an immersive site experience, a fireside conversation and professional networking.
The fireside conversation will remain grounded in engineering while examining how careers can evolve across technical, project, solution, services, sales, commercial and leadership roles. Speakers will share how technical depth can be complemented by interpersonal, customer and business capabilities, and how AI, automation and digitalisation are changing engineering work.
Tour of the Schneider Electric Innovation Hub - A guided exploration of Schneider Electric's Innovation Hub, showcasing practical applications of digitalisation, automation, energy management and intelligent infrastructure technologies, and how these innovations are reshaping engineering careers and industry solutions.
Speakers:
• Monica Chia, VP, Human Resources, East Asia at Schneider Electric
• Lim Chee Keong, Head of Digital & Consulting Services at Schneider Electric
• Dilys Tan, Segment Sales Manager, Government at Schneider Electric
• Peter Wong – Electrical Manager Nixera
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Continuing Professional Development
This event can contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours as part of the IET's CPD monitoring scheme.
12 Nov 2026
6:15pm - 9:00pm
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Reasons to attend
• Expose young engineering professionals to diverse career pathways across technical, project, solutions, services, sales, commercial and leadership functions.
• Provide practical perspectives on how engineers can build technical depth while strengthening communication, stakeholder, customer and business capabilities.
• Explore how AI, automation and digitalisation are reshaping engineering roles, project delivery and customer solutions without losing the importance of core engineering judgement.
• Enable participants to learn from engineers with different career journeys, including professionals who have moved across engineering domains or taken on broader project and customer responsibilities.
• Create meaningful connections between Schneider Electric, IET members, young professionals and the wider engineering community through a curated networking experience.
*Target Participant: IET members and non-members, Young Professionals
Programme
• 6:15 PM – 7:30 PM Registration, Dinner & Networking
• 7:30 PM – 7:10 PM Welcome & Introduction
• 7:10 PM – 7:40 PM Innovation Hub tour
• 7:40 PM – 8:40 PM Fireside chat + Q&A
• 8:40 PM onwards Closing & networking
Fireside chat Discussion focus: Different engineering career pathways; the evolution of technical and non-technical capabilities; and the impact of AI, automation and digitalisation on engineering work.
• Two Schneider Electric speakers offering complementary perspectives from technical/project-facing and broader customer, commercial or business-facing roles.
• One IET-nominated mid-career engineering professional from an electrical, power, automation, controls or related background, who remains close to technical, project or solution work and can offer an external industry perspective.
• A senior industry-experienced moderator to guide the conversation and audience Q&A.