Explore your agenda for Board Leadership 2026

8:30am

Registration and exhibition open

10:00am

Chair's opening remarks

Duration: 10 minutes

Chair:

  • Mark Easton

    Mark Easton

10:10am

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Kate Henderson

    Kate Henderson
    National Housing Federation

  • Ben Shimshon

    Ben Shimshon
    Thinks Insight & Strategy

Chair:

  • Mark Easton

    Mark Easton

10:55am

Duration: 40 minutes

Chair:

  • Mark Easton

    Mark Easton

11:35am

Networking break

12:05pm

Breakout sessions - please select one

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Holly Dagnall

    Holly Dagnall
    Nottingham Community Housing Association

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Jerome Tsui

    Jerome Tsui
    Jigsaw Homes

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Matthew Scott

    Matthew Scott
    Chartered Institute of Housing

Duration: 45-60 minutes

Speakers:

  • Alistair Smyth

    Alistair Smyth
    National Housing Federation

  • Jess Mullins

    Jess Mullins
    National Housing Federation

12:55pm

Breakout sessions - please select one

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Jenny Danson

    Jenny Danson
    Healthy Homes Hub

  • Leanne Hurrell

    Leanne Hurrell
    Amazon Web Services

Chair:

  • Parminder Dosanjh

    Parminder Dosanjh
    WHG

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Jean Templeton

    Jean Templeton
    St Basils

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Aileen Evans

    Aileen Evans
    Curo Group

  • Verity Richards

    Verity Richards
    Housing Ombudsman

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • James Carss

    James Carss
    Castle Peak Group

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1:35pm

Networking Lunch

2:35pm

Breakout sessions - please select one

Duration: 40 minutes

Duration: 40 minutes

Chair:

  • Catherine Ryder

    Catherine Ryder
    PlaceShapers

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Kate Dodsworth

    Kate Dodsworth
    Regulator of Social Housing

Duration: 40 minutes

3:15pm

Networking break

3:45pm

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Tom Arey

    Tom Arey
    Places for People

  • Andy George

    Andy George
    Home Builders Federation

Chair:

  • Mark Easton

    Mark Easton

4:30pm

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Althea Efunshile

    Althea Efunshile
    Metropolitan Thames Valley

Chair:

  • Mark Easton

    Mark Easton

5:10pm

Chair's closing remarks

Duration: 10 minutes

Chair:

  • Mark Easton

    Mark Easton

6:00pm

Duration: 1 hour

8:30am

Registration and exhibition opens

9:15am

Chair's opening remarks

Duration: 10 minutes

Chair:

  • Mark Easton

    Mark Easton

9:20am

Duration: 40 minutes

Chair:

  • Mark Easton

    Mark Easton

10:05am

Duration: 40 minutes

Chair:

  • Mark Easton

    Mark Easton

10:45am

Networking break

11:15am

Breakout sessions - please select one

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • John Hoarey

    John Hoarey
    Housing Ombudsman Service

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Geraldine Howley

    Geraldine Howley
    Together Housing

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Nick Phillips

    Nick Phillips
    The Almhouse Association

Duration: 40 minutes

12:05pm

Breakout sessions - please select one

Duration: 40 minutes

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Ruth Picknett-Powell

    Ruth Picknett-Powell
    Sovereign Network Group

Duration: 40 minutes

12:45pm

Lunch

Learning from inspection: in conversation with Pickering and Ferens (12:55pm-1:35pm)

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • John Glenton

    John Glenton
    Pickering and Ferens

  • Claire Warren

    Claire Warren
    Pickering and Ferens Homes

1:45pm

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Sarah Elliott

    Sarah Elliott
    Shelter

Chair:

  • Mark Easton

    Mark Easton

2:30pm

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Jacqueline Starr

    Jacqueline Starr
    LiveWest

  • Jonathan Walters

    Jonathan Walters
    Regulator of Social Housing

Chair:

  • Mark Easton

    Mark Easton

3:10pm

Chair's closing remarks

Duration: 5 minutes

Chair:

  • Mark Easton

    Mark Easton

3:15pm

Conference ends