Social housing organisations today face increasing pressure to adapt to their changing environment. In many cases, this means seeking ways to change how they operate or add to the services and provision available to tenants.
In light of this pressure and necessity for development, organisations constantly face questions about the future – most significantly ‘what now?’; ‘where can we go from here?’
Capita’s Housing Conference 2012 seeks to pose and discuss these critical questions, and offer thought-provoking suggestions towards their resolution. Be sure to book your place to be a part of it.
Delegate information and how to book
We are freezing last year's prices. Please click here for attendance options, pricing infromation and to book your place.
The agenda
Key issues to be addressed by the 2 day programme include:
- what success looks like, and what it means to the UK housing sector
- where and how tenants fit into proposed visions of the future
- the potential power that technological innovation offers the housing sector of tomorrow.
The conference will begin with a bang, with high-profile keynote speakers addressing the vital issue of acting today to prepare for tomorrow, and how housing associations should shape their businesses now to be fit for the future. The days’ agenda takes its lead from there, featuring real customer success stories, product workshops, specialised sessions and the opinions of inspirational individuals and champions of progress concentrating on the same key theme.
Announcing! Chairman for the conference panel debate, Mark Easton, Home Editor for BBC News
As Home Editor for BBC News, Mark plays an integral role in identifying and debating the issues and challenges faced by the United Kingdom: not least the part social housing plays in our society’s future.
In his BBC blog, he expresses great interest in ‘learning and conversing and arguing about our brilliant, fascinating, occasionally exasperating but always changing United Kingdom’ – a very fitting statement in light of the conference’s panel debate, which seeks to learn, converse and argue about the always changing social housing landscape, and how this will continue to change in future years. Having recently chaired The 2011 International Housing Summit, Mark is no stranger to hot-topic debate around the housing sector, and promises to be a very insightful, knowledgeable asset to our panel.
Mark's first book, Britain etc., was released earlier this year and is receiving great acclaim, being celebrated for its insight into British society and described by The Observer as 'a terrific read'.
Housing conference keynote speaker, James Bellini
Dr James Bellini's experience and insight makes him the perfect keynote speaker for this year's housing conference. James is a leading futurologist and author with a strong focus on social, economic and technological trends over the next ten to twenty years.
Inspiring the idea that organisations and individuals must ‘revisit the idea of how to think’ now and in years to come, James has been coined as ‘The historian of the future’.
"One of our big jobs is to pose big 'what if' questions. You then get to focus the mind on future scenarios and think outside the box." James Bellini, BBC News Magazine
After an early academic career, James joined the US-headquartered futurology ‘think tank’, the Hudson Institute, as its first British member. He subsequently moved to the BBC to present The Money Programme, Newsnight and Panorama and then to independent television as presenter, writer and narrator of a wide range of award-winning documentary series, current affairs programmes and environmental reports. For seven years he was also a studio presenter with Financial Times Television and Sky News.
“Bellini paints a fascinating picture of societies, businesses and economies on the brink of truly fundamental change.”
Visit http://www.jamesbellini.com/about-me/ for more about Dr James Bellini.
More speaker names to be announced very soon... please keep your eye on this page for updates.
The venue
Chesford Grange Hotel, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Chesford Bridge,
Kenilworth,
Nr Warwick,
CV8 2LD
Tel: 01926 859331
Please click here for directions to the hotel.
Last year's conference success
2011's successful housing conference saw over 100 of you and your peers coming together to hear industry experts and organisations discuss housing issues and present success stories on technologies that can support your business.
For food for thought, please see last year's review and videos here.