Agenda
We're still working on the 2021 programme. In the mean time here's a look at last year's agenda for a taste of what to expect.
November 2020
Throughout the morning you will be able to make use of:
- Match making networking and live delegate meet ups
- Replay functions so you never miss a session
- Live chat, questioning and polling tools
- Real time resources and presentations
- A next generation conference engagement platform
Before proceedings get underway, this short explainer session will explore how you can get the most out of our new next generation summit platform.
Our team will run through how to make virtual connections, creating networking meet ups, accessing content on demand and how to use our new Q&A, chat functions and virtual polling tools during the day.
- Enabling the transformation of the Civil Service putting people and places at the heart of innovation
- Outlining the risks, responses and opportunities of COVID-19
- Setting out GPA’s direction and priorities and how this supports departments across government
- Opportunities to support growth across the UK and investing in regions to aid the rebuilding of a post-COVID-19 economy – working closely with local authorities
- Contributing to the commitment to deliver net-zero by 2050
- Assessing the experience of home working across government during the COVID-19 pandemic – how did the public sector respond to the accelerated move?
- Understanding the cultural impact of the crisis, the lessons learned, and new considerations to be made to enable a productive, diverse and well supported workforce
- Exploiting and improving current smarter working tools for future ways of working in a post-COVID-19 society – supporting an increased level of remote working and mobile tech use
- Evaluating the level of smarter working engagement and maturity across government departments and outlining the next steps in smarter working policy
Use our Conference platform to pose your live questions to speakers and share your challenges and solutions with fellow delegates via our chat function
Your opportunity to make the most of the virtual Conference, meet up with fellow delegates and exhibitors, make connections, tour our real-time resources and content and take part on discussions via the tailored channels.
We are delighted to confirm that during the first break (10.30am-10.50am) the Government Property Agency will be running a virtual roundtable conversation
Roundtable conversation – learning lessons from Covid to reimagine the workplace
20 minute discussion
This year has taught us many lessons, none more so in the way we work and live our lives. Join Jenny Baynes, Head of Smarter Working Business Change, Government Property Agency for a conversation to explore some of these changes and how we can use this insight to reimagine the workplace of the future.
To navigate the current COVID-19 crisis and plan for a more dynamic future of work, we need to use the lessons we’re learning now to develop both short-term return-to-workplace tactics and long-term workplace strategies.
In this talk Bertie will explain how a resilient, dynamic, workplace network:
- Builds Community
- Provides Equitable Experiences
- Reinforces Organisational Purpose
- Enables Effective Work
Herman Miller
In this session, EMCOR UK Executive Directors will challenge whether wellbeing is truly reflected within today’s workplace and ask is it really shaping the future of work? They will ask how wellbeing actions and initiatives are authentically translated to employees, as well as discuss what fundamental measures leaders should take to ensure sustainable wellbeing for all their people.
This comes at a time when both the public and private sector are awakening up to the fact that employee wellbeing both psychological as well as physiological are playing a major role in UK productivity and shaping the future of work.
Jeremy, Jonathan and Dylan, as experts in their fields, will analyse the impact that industry 4.0, the digital agenda and the demand for workplace experiences are having on wellbeing. In addition, they will explore the challenges they have faced – both past and present, and the practical methods they are deploying to ensure wellbeing remains intrinsic and a key focus of good workplace practice both now and into the future.
- Learning from North Lincolnshire’s Workwell Programme – how improving cross-organisational communication and staff engagement allowed for a smoother transition to working from home
- Learn how the NHS Digital smart working strategy and technology for accessible working aided the COVID-19 response
- Considering the security and cyber risks to consider following on from a huge uptake in mobile and remote tech, as well as the financial implications?
- Understanding importance of keeping momentum on the green agenda whilst we think about different space and design strategies
- Recommissioning and repurposing space to support the clinical needs of the NHS during COVID-19
- Looking at the longer-term impact of smarter working and remote working across the NHS – ensuring that the workforce are able to work safely and efficiently
- Continuing with existing commitments – encouraging better management, driving savings, and supporting the NHS Long Term Plan
Your opportunity to make the most of the virtual Conference, meet up with fellow delegates and exhibitors, make connections, tour our real-time resources and content and take part on discussions via the tailored channels.
Almost overnight, COVID-19 forced millions of employees worldwide to work from home. But, there is an opportunity to respond to the pandemic crisis, redesign the business and reinvent the way people work. Join Poly in an interview GCHQ to find out about their Smarter Working journey and their future plans around Hybrid Working Cultures, Technologies, and Workspaces.
The Future of Work is no longer an aspiration or ‘further down the road’. We all recognise that our workplace requires change today, having spent the last few months in response mode and with an immediate requirement to change how we work.
In this session we will:
- Discuss ways to assess, strategise, plan and implement – enabling change and impacting the way your people, teams and organisation approaches work going forward
- Using real life examples to illustrate both the successes and challenges of implementing change, we will explore ways to increase success in achieving new ways of working and how to sustain this for the long term.
- Lastly, the future is a moving target. Discuss how we must be capable to adapt and modify how we work in order to manage all impacts to our workplace and work life.
- What do we mean by agile working
- Did lockdown homeworking accelerate adapting agile working?
- Lessons from covid – the good and bad of agile working
What practical measures has your team had to take to help make these changes since COVID and what is to come post COVID.
– The importance of the procurement process to make GPA’s changes happen.
– Challenges, issues and working with local FM partners
– Success so far, highlighting a few of the CCS frameworks that have been used during this time
Our conversation chats and roundtable sessions are open to all attendees. The sessions will allow attendees to drive their own learning and share experiences with a number of the speakers and others on a number of different subject areas.
Our fireside chats and roundtable sessions are open to all attendees. The sessions will allow attendees to drive their own learning and share experiences with others on a number of different subject areas.
This session will be led by what the audience wants to hear. The top issues selected from the audience will be brought to the table for debate among the experts