AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for generations to come.
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- 14 May 2026
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Overview
Inspired by the ICE London ECNet’s debate series, The Big Questions Debate, hosted by the ICE United Arab Emirates Early Careers Network (ECNet), brings together student and graduate members for an online competition exploring the theme “Are engineers in control?”. This event examines how Artificial Intelligence is reshaping engineering practice and the ethical responsibilities that accompany it.
Paired student–graduate teams debate assigned motions, present structured arguments, and respond to questions from a judging panel, encouraging critical thinking about the future of technology in civil engineering. As Ethics is one of the ICE’s mandatory CPD themes, the debate offers a valuable opportunity for early‑career members to deepen their understanding of this essential area.
Open to ICE Student and Graduate Members in the UAE, with attendees welcome from across the MENA region and beyond, the event supports Continuing Professional Development and strengthens the growing ICE Early Careers Network community.
Special thanks to the ICE UAE annual sponsors: AECOM, AtkinsRéalis, CARES, and Maccaferri for supporting this debate and the young generation of civil engineers.
Sponsors
AtkinsRéalis
AtkinsRéalis is a world-leading professional services and project management company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people.
CARES
CARES is the leading independent international certification body for reinforcing steel products.
Maccaferri
Founded in 1879, Officine Maccaferri is known as the global leader in the manufacture and supply of gabions and related steel wire mesh products, Maccaferri is also a leader in construction geosynthetics.
Speakers & judges
Jack Rose
Buro Happold
associate director
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Jack Rose
Jack is a management consultant and project manager with a portfolio of complex projects that has led to him developing a broad technical, commercial and managerial skillset. His primary focus is strategic planning and advisory in cities and the commons.
Since joining Buro Happold, Jack has been engaged in a variety of consulting projects, including strategy development, organisation development, real estate development and public-private partnership initiatives. Jack previously led the Middle East Asia chapter of Buro Happold's innovation think tank, Urban C:Lab.
Prior to Buro Happold, Jack worked on the Thames Tideway Tunnel, Queensferry Crossing, Riyadh Metro, Hogarth Flyover and Manchester Metrolink.
Pinar Guvenc
Sour
partner
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Pinar Guvenc
A National Design Award winner, Pinar Guvenc is a recognised leader in inclusive innovation. As Partner at SOUR, a global design innovation studio tackling social and urban challenges, she leads participatory research and design strategy for Fortune 500 clients and local governments worldwide. She extends this mission through her academic roles, teaching ethical leadership and co-design methods at Parsons School of Design and School of Visual Arts.
As AI reshapes social and urban systems, Pinar's work increasingly focuses on participatory methods that build AI literacy, enable co-design across technology life-cycle stages, redesign processes for AI augmentation, facilitate pluralistic alignment, and strengthen organisational capacity for ethical innovation.
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