Evening Networking Dinner
Tuesday 15 October, 19.00–22.00
Taking place on the evening of day one of the Congress, the networking dinner will be an opportunity for delegates to connect informally with members of the programme committee, as well as enjoy a sumptuous three-course meal and a live music performance.
This year the Dinner will be held at the World Museum, which is the oldest of the museums and galleries operated by National Museums Liverpool. It first opened on 8 March 1853 in the Ropeworks district of Liverpool, and it moved to its present site on William Brown Street in 1860.
It has expanded to become one of the great museums of the British regions, with collections and displays of life sciences, earth sciences and human cultures around the world. Today, the museum is famous for its great collections, its history of innovation and the family-friendly experience that it offers. In 2010 visits to the museum totalled 748,065 making it one of the most popular and respected museums in the UK.
Date and time: 19.00–22.00
Address: World Museum, William Brown St, Liverpool, L3 8EN
The Dinner is now fully booked.
Sponsor’s address:
Building healthy communities: Raising construction standards and building public trust
The Considerate Constructors Scheme has been supporting communities and driving better conduct, higher standards and positive change in the construction industry for three decades. Executive chair Amit Oberoi will discuss how the scheme builds trust with the public by holding the construction industry to account.
As well as workforce and environmental impact improvements, this drives contractors to behave more considerately to their neighbours and contribute more positively to the communities in which they operate. In 2023, almost £200 billion of construction activity across more than 5000 sites, suppliers and organisations registered with the scheme and more than 10,000 monitoring visits took place.
Keynote talk:
Getting upstream into the prevention agenda – dealing with the ‘how’ questions
The UK’s Minister of Health, Wes Streeting, is right in his analysis that the NHS is broken and needs radical surgery. We need to be honest and get upstream into the prevention agenda. Over 40 years, we have been creating and delivering transformational projects at every scale. From a place to a street to a city, the Bromley by Bow Centre, the St Paul’s Transformation Project, and the Olympic Legacy Project have all demonstrated the importance of a ‘learning by doing’ culture. Now is the time to move beyond well-meaning words and put a more socially entrepreneurial culture and business logic behind this move upstream. The NHS, local authorities and the wider public sector need to stimulate a ‘learning by doing’ culture focused on practical action and delivery on the ground. This is the driving culture of the internet age for a new generation – and we need to embrace it.
Lord Andrew Mawson will give this keynote address, detailing how at Well North Enterprises and 360 Degree Society, we’re taking practical lessons from east London housing estates, in partnership with public- and business-sector partners, to build a national programme focused on placemaking, culture change and transformation, and making it real. The solutions are not top down,or bottom up, but actually inside out. The way into the macro is, in practice, via the micro. Get interested in the detail, in people and relationships – not process, strategy and expensive research documents that few read
Amit Oberoi
Lord Andrew Mawson
