Pod36 - Vahid Walker of Walker Subsea Ltd

11/19/20 • 29 min

Podcast 36, 19th November 2020 - this week SUT CEO Steve Hall speaks to member Vahid Walker, founder & CEO of Walker Subsea engineering about the innovative subsea engineering sector in North East England, where an industry that was once dominated by heavy engineering such as shipbuilding has adapted to the requirements of technology-driven innovation, support for emerging industries, and where innovation in the region's automotive sector is able to feed technology into subsea systems too.
Steve & Vahid also talk about the need to encourage the next generation into subsea engineering, science and technology and the value of SUT as a Society able to nurture and support individuals in their career journey.
Find out more about Walker Subsea at www.walkersubsea.com
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Thanks to Emily Boddy for creating the podcast artwork, composing & performing podcast theme music, and her intro & outro narration.

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Pod35 - Adrian Phillips, Chair of SUT Middle East Branch on ADIPEC & SUT in the Middle East

Podcast Episode 35, 11th November 2020 - this week SUT CEO Steve Hall speaks to Adrian Phillips, Chair of SUT Middle East Branch about his career, the founding of SUT's first Branch in the Middle East, and the rapid growth in the region for companies engaged in subsea engineering, technology and services. Adrian highlights the importance of ADIPEC as the key trade show and networking opportunity in UAE and the advances being seen in encouraging local young people to enter the sector too. There's also a brief mention of Oceanology Middle East due to take place in September 2021.
You can contact Adrian at [email protected] and see https://www.sut.org/branch/middle-east/ for more abut the Branch.
To find out more about SUT see www.sut.org, or email us at [email protected]
Thanks to Emily Boddy for podcast artwork & composing & performing the podcast theme music. Please send us your questions for the 17th December Q&A special episode.
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Pod37 - Nick Swift, Chair of SUT Defence Special Interest Group

Podcast episode 37a, 27th November 2020 - in a change to the advertised schedule, this week we're using an edited audio version of the webinar that Nick Swift, chair of the Society for Underwater Technology's Defence Special Interest Group, gave on 16th November 2020. You can view the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/mpRxaoFT1QM
Nick talks about the role of the SIG, the projects that it is engaged in such as producing a position paper on the legal and policy aspects of armed autonomous underwater vehicles, and the rapidly changing technology that will impact how opponents contest the underwater battle space.
Find out more about SUT at www.sut.org, you can contact Nick at [email protected] or via [email protected]
Well be back next week with the interview with Professor Ralph Rayner that was originally scheduled for 26th November.
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