This is the preliminary programme for WF26, please check back for updates.
8.40 Welcome & introduction: Simone Fenton-Jarvis, conference chair
Setting the scene
9.00 Keynote: making sense of the future
Dr Mel Bull, Director of Executive Education, Deputy Head of Department, Nottingham Trent Business School
9.20 How did we get here: a rundown of FM’s history
Sarah Hodge, Global Director Experience, London Stock Exchange Group
9.40 M&A: a pattern of change
Satvir Bungar, Managing Director & National Head of Business Services, BDO
10.00 Market research: insights, now and for the mid-term
John Raspin, Global Head Growth Opportunity Analytics, Frost & Sullivan
10.20 Q&A
10.40 Coffee
Key issues
11.00 People
Steve Gladwin, Director, Nodus Solutions
11.20 Technology
Andrew Targell, Head of Technology & Strategy Advisory, JLL Technologies
11.40 Sustainability
Sunil Shah, Managing Director, Acclaro Advisory (SFMI)
12.00 Why standards matter in a disruptive FM landscape
Mark Griffiths, Founder & Managing Director, WMA Consultancy and Gordon Mitchell, Founder, WHOLUS
12.20 Panel discussion – the future of work & the workplace
12.50 Lunch
13.30 Technology in FM Award – winner announcement
Finding and delivering success
13.40 People and the workplace
Louisa Clarke, Co-founder & Director, The Human-centric Workplace
14.00 Technology and the workplace – TBC
14.20 Service provider case study
James Bradley, CEO, Churchill Group
14.40 Service provider case study
Martyn Freeman, CEO, Q3 Services
15.00 Tea
15.20 Service provider case study – CBRE
15.40 Service provider case study – TBC
16.00 Service provider case study – TBC
16.20 Q&A – where to from here?
16.40 Wrap-up with Lucy Jeynes, Managing Director, Larch Consulting
17.00 Conference close, drinks & networking