09:20   Chair’s opening remarks

Clive Shore, Government Adviser and Author (CONFIRMED)

 

 

09:25   Keynote address: Understanding the Importance of Strategic Asset Management -  Insights into the Capital and Asset Pathfinder programme

Baroness Hanham CBE,  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Communities and Local Government (CONFIRMED)

 

09:40   Sponsor Presentation

 

 

09:55   Reforming the health estate to meet future challenges

• Identifying the specifics areas of strategic challenge for the health estate
• Integration, co-location and efficiency – exploring the main objectives of the health estate
• Deploying the latest technological and design solutions to achieve better care outcomes through estate management
• Using refurbishment as tool for further conservation and sustainability
• Rethinking space to deliver new forms of care
• Ensuring infection rate reduction is effectively incorporated into your estate design strategy
• Understanding the implications of NHS trusts taking over community service assets from PCTs
• What will the health sector estate look like in ten years?

Chris Farrah, Chief Architect, Department of Health (CONFIRMED)

 

 

10:10   Redefining your Property Asset Management Plans and your facilities management strategies to meet challenging financial circumstances

• Effectively negotiating with the stakeholders in your Property Asset Management Plan process
• What should a top performing Property Asset Management Plan look like?
• Ensuring your Property Asset Management Plan can meet the objectives for 2011/12 and fit with the objectives of the Structural Reform Plans
• Incorporating ICT into your facilities and asset management plans to deliver more effective mobile working
• Using PAMPs as a tool for better performance management of your efficiency plans
• Demonstrating the effectiveness of your efficiency plans to stakeholder through your PAMP
• Reducing costs, increasing efficiency, and achieving energy reduction through better facilities management
• Using outsourcing to achieve the organisational objectives of better strategic facilities management
• Using Total Facilities Management to improve the flexibility and efficiency of your contracts
• Innovation in facilities management through property information systems
• The dangers of rushing savings

Ian Broadbent, Chairman, British Institute of Facilities Management (CONFIRMED)

 

 

10:25   Panel Discussions: Establishing a culture of innovation in your use of assets

• New ways of working with the private sector on your asset management
• Placing ICT at the heart of the innovation plans for your estate - How can we allow people to work in new ways via hot desking and virtualisation?
• Applying the lessons of Total Place for innovative co-location projects
• Using asset management as a tool for organisational change
• LEPs – Understanding their role in regeneration
• Practical Innovation through Energy Performance Contracts – better partnership working with the private sector
• Community Asset Transfers – Fitting community aspirations for ownership and mutals into your asset planning
• Local enterprise partnerships as a tool for regeneration
• Using the next generation of Local Asset Backed Vehicles as levers for regeneration
• Understanding the implications of revisions to the housing revenue account to your asset management strategy
• Using the Local Government Resource Review as a spur for local innovation
• Rethinking the way your organisation uses space
• Optimising your use of land via the better use of geographic information systems
• Practical innovations in green retrofitting and refurbishment
• Successful and value maxmising approaches to estate valuation and land release
• Using health co-location as a driver for further co-location in your boarder service delivery
• The Big Society and community asset transfers
• Learning the lessons for the health estate of the Southern Cross crisis

All Morning speakers, plus:

Paul Kingsmore, President, Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (CONFIRMED)

Jon McGinty, Deputy Chief Executive, Aylesbury Vale District Council (CONFIRMED)

Representative, PLACEMaking (CONFIRMED)

 

 

10:55   Morning Coffee and Networking

 

 

11:25   Seminar Session 1
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12:25   Lunch

 

 

13:25   Seminar Session 2
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14:25   Afternoon Coffee and Networking

14:55  Afternoon Keynote: Clarifying the national policy picture for the government estate: National Property Controls and beyond

• What are the on-going spending targets for your asset management strategy?
• What does radical innovation look like in the context of your Asset Management?
• Achieving better for less in the context of your approach to asset management
• Progress on the work of the property vehicles
• Deliveing the strategic vision for regional planning within the civil estate
• Ensuring you retain business continuity while managing lease breaks and lease ends
• What are the current exemptions to the spending freeze and what will they be in the future?
• Clarifying the national picture for relocation targets and the impact of inward investment
• Improving the sustainability of your estate

Stuart Ladds, Director - Government Property Unit (CONFIRMED)

 

15:10   Sponsor Session

15:25   Meeting the future challenges within Asset Management by developing the skills and flexibility of your asset function

• Anticipating the strategic transitions within asset management: Place-based budgeting, savings and sustainability
• Tackling the challenges identified by the Land and Society Commission
• Up-skilling your workforce to ensure they can face forthcoming challenges
• Investing in training to save money in the long-run: What areas should be prioritised 
• Improving your managerial decision-taking by empowering project managers to act strategically
• Progress towards transferable professional accreditation in asset management
• Equipping your workforce with the capacity for remote and home working

Keith Jones, Chairman, Public Sector Advisory Group, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (CONFIRMED)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15:55   Improved Public Sector Asset Utilisation and Rationalisation to deliver Savings, Service Transformation and Improvement in the Built Environment

• Localism and place based asset planning in action
• Case Studies of public sector co-location and efficiency led asset reform
• Practical models for achieving locally generated asset rationalisation and space saving
• Local Government's role as catalyst for change on an area based approach
• Lessons learned from Capital and Assets Pathfinder initiative
• Transforming and improving services in parallel with asset rationalisation and reduction
• How cultural change is delivered as part of an holistic approach to asset transformation
  

Stephen Clow, Assistant Director - Property Services, Hampshire County Council (CONFIRMED)

 

 

16:10  Case Study: Lessons from a major restructuring project: Creating and sustaining an efficient working relationship with all partners

• Opening up your procurement process to new partners – the example of Next Generation estate contracts
• Agreeing valuation and working process with your private sector partners
• The specific challenges and opportunities of joint ventures
• Reconfiguring your partnerships to ensure future challenges can be met while ensuring suppliers deliver value for money - The example of the National Training Estate Prime contract
• Ensuring your contracts are open to all partners, from SMEs to prime contractors
• Responding to procedural challenges – Implementing Project Bank Accounts
• Restructuring your Asset Management professionals to unlock significant savings – Creating The Defence Infrastructure Organisation
• Land release and the MOD
• Managing the tensions within your relationships to achieving long-term stability

Andrew Manley, Acting Chief Executive, Defence Infrastructure Organisation (CONFIRMED)

 

16:25    Reshaping the ways in which workforce will work in the future and facilitating ICT’s role in shrinking the government estate – Flexible Working for the Public Sector

• Incorporating the latest workplace design models into your estate management strategy – How is the public sector innovating its space?
• Overcoming the technical and organisational barriers to working flexibly
• Understanding how ICT innovations will reshape the modern workplace
• Placing hot-desking and adaptable space at the core of your asset strategy
• Using estate management to encourage collaborative, flexible and silo-free working

Nalin Seneviratne, Director of Property and Facilities Management, Sheffield City Council (CONFIRMED)

 

 

16:40   Greener and leaner estates – Applying the lessons of the Westminster Sustainable Business Forum’s report on estate management

• Realising the trinity of benefits of a greener reformed estate – How can improved property management delivery lower costs, lower carbon emissions and better services
• Identifying how space requirements can be reduced by up to 30% while running costs reduced by £7bn a year
• Using sustainability measures to deliver a saving of £190 per m2 per year
• Calculating the future environmental impact of your estate
• How far can energy generation be incorporated into the design of your government estate

Vilhelm Oberg, Head of Sustainability, Policy Connect (CONFIRMED)

 

 

17:10   Questions and Answers and Close of Conference