Housing Today Live conference 2024
Highlights from the Housing Today Live conference 2024
Housing Today Live delegates were invited to share their ideas on how to improve the housing sector. Here is a selection of their views.
2024 AGENDA
Guests to sign in via registration desk prior to pre-conference refreshments.
Chloe is editorial director at Assemble Media Group overseeing three publications – Building, Building Design and Housing Today – and bringing relevant and impactful news, insight and analysis to professionals in the built environment. The titles boast a membership community of 85,000 professionals in over 100 countries.
Her team of journalists regularly interview industry CEOs, review ground-breaking buildings and report on controversies and challenges facing construction.
Chloe is an award-winning editor and journalist, with over two decades of experience working in digital and print media.
In 2023 she won both the PPA Editor of the Year (Business Media) and the PPA Independent Publisher Awards Editor of the Year title.
She specialises in setting editorial agendas and devising campaigns that will resonate with audiences. As the face of the flagship title Building she regularly chairs online debates, hosts podcasts and speaks at public events.
Prior to the launch of Southern Housing, Paul held the same positions at Optivo from 2017 and led AmicusHorizon as CEO from 2012.
Before becoming CEO of AmicusHorizon, he spent four years as Chief Operating Officer and oversaw the transformation of service delivery.
Paul has worked in the housing association sector since 1989. Before joining AmicusHorizon, Paul was Executive Director, Development and New Business with Moat. He led Moat's new build and sales programmes and led the merger with Bourne Housing Society. He also oversaw a number of major regeneration projects, including Moat’s first PFI.
Prior to that, Paul spent eight and a half years at L&Q, where he led a number of large and complex regeneration projects and stock transfers. His last role at L&Q was to establish a key worker housing business.
Paul is an Honorary Professor at the UCL Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction and a member of the Bartlett's Independent Advisory Board. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the Chartered Institute of Building, the Chartered Institute of Housing, and is an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism.
Between 2017-19 Paul was Chair of G15 and a member of the Homes for Londoners Board. During his two-year term, Paul focused on building stronger relationships with the public sector and making the economic case for higher grant rates and longer-term funding. He was also a high-profile advocate of rebalancing the landlord tenant relationship.
Paul was awarded a CBE for services to social housing.
A Fair Deal for Housing: How do we deliver the new homes the country needs?
Speakers include:
As the demand for housing continues to rise, the pressing question of how to deliver new homes that are not only sufficient in number but also equitable and sustainable becomes paramount.
This is why Housing Today has been running its A Fair Deal for Housing campaign for the past two years.
Join us for a dynamic panel discussion where experts from various parts of the sector delve into strategies for addressing this challenge.
Key discussion points include:
Coffee, tea and light refreshments
Every Person Counts: Are we ready to meet the requirements of maintaining and improving the nation's social and affordable housing stock?
Speakers include:
"Are we ready to meet the requirements of maintaining the nation's social and affordable housing stock?"
This pivotal question lies at the heart of our upcoming panel discussion, where housing officers, industry leaders and policy experts will converge to assess the state of our social and affordable housing infrastructure.
With changing regulations, demand surging and resources strained, examining the readiness and capacity of our systems to maintain and improve this vital housing stock is paramount. This has never been more true than at this point of massive regulatory reform.
What can the social housing sector do to ensure it has a sufficiently skilled, diverse and dynamic workforce to rise to this challenge?
From exploring innovative maintenance and renovation strategies to scrutinising funding mechanisms, regulatory frameworks and the landscape of asset data, our panelists will dissect the challenges and opportunities that all lie at the heart of Housing Today's Every Person Counts initiative.
Key discussion points for this session include:
Amanda took up her role as the new permanent Chief Executive of Rochdale Boroughwide Housing in September 2023. Her professional experience is across private and public sectors with her most recent experience being in senior roles in the social housing sector. This has spanned governance and business improvement, leading customer facing services and delivering high impact social investment programmes that make a huge difference to people being able to thrive.
She is now leading RBH through its transformation back to regulatory compliance with a focus on shaping services for and with our customers whilst making it easy for the people in our business to deliver. Amanda has a relentless focus on delivering great services that make a difference to the people living in our homes and communities.
She believes that those people working in customer facing roles should be able to do so seamlessly and with a passion that makes a real difference to customers; and that our customers should be able to expect to live a warm, safe home. She is focusing RBH on delivering this fundamental objective for social landlords.
Full day conference attendees to be provided with lunch. At the same time Housing Today and the G15 will be carrying out a closed-door roundtable to discuss the housing priorities for the new government.
Previous Housing Today Live speakers include:
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