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The Second Annual Enhancing Housing Services Through Technology Event 2022

De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, London 19 July 2022, 8:00am - 4:15pm

Day 1
8:00am
Registration
9:00am
Chair's Welcome Address
Emma Maier, Director, Ask Why
9:10am
Keynote Address: Adopting Modern Methods Of Construction To Deliver Better Homes At A Faster Rate To Tackle The Housing Shortage
  • Forming the Building Better strategic alliance of housing associations working together on modern methods of construction
  • Focusing on how to develop off-site, technology-driven solutions that work for the affordable housing sector
  • Building more efficiently, achieving better quality, reducing long term costs, increasing resident satisfaction and reducing CO2 emissions
  • Standardisation and collaboration among housing associations and combining the sector's pipeline to buy homes from the offsite manufacturing sector
Trina Chakravarti, Director, Building Better
9:30am
HM Land Registry Update: Local Land Charges Programme
  • An overview of the Local Land Charges (LLC) Programme – The policy drivers and our objectives. 
  • The Programme journey so far
  • Our Local Authority Migration Plan
  • The benefits of the Programme to our customers and the wider economy
Donna Ridgway, Senior LA Delivery Manager, HM Land Registry
9:50am
How Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Can Empower Your Organisation And Give A More Complete Picture Of Your Customer’s Needs
  • Introduce Esri UK and the power of geospatial for the housing sector
  • Look at various use cases for GIS in a housing organisation and how these can enhance the services the organisation provides
  • Take a deep dive into a business need and the application developed by one of our customers Thirteen Housing Group
  • Explore the depth of data available through the ArcGIS system and how this can connect to existing business systems within a housing organisation
Isabel Clouting, Housing Customer Success Manager, Esri UK
10:10am
Modernising Construction - How to Specify Bathroom Pods
  • Why consider bathroom pods for public sector housing schemes?
  • Specification considerations for architects, contractors and housing providers
  • What are the environmental benefits of this type of offsite manufacturing?
  • Two case studies - How Havering Borough Council and Peabody Trust are using bathroom pod technology
Stephen Wade Palmer, Senior Business Development Manager, Offsite Solutions
10:30am
Break and Networking
11:00am
Building Stronger Communities And Happier Residents By Unleashing The Power Of Data
Cem Savas, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Plentific
11:20am
Understanding The Socio-economic Inhibitors To The Take Up Of Digital Innovation In Construction
Dr Reyhaneh Shojaei, Research Associate Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
11:30am
Utilising Technology to Eliminate Fuel Poverty
  • How Intelligent Energy Systems (IES) are utilised to manage energy consumption, monitor energy use and property conditions, predict energy demand and why this is an essential part of any decarbonisation model
  • How robotics have been utilised to improve energy efficiency
  • Lessons learnt from completed decarbonisation projects
  • Data security and the use of blockchain technology
AJ Eaton, Director of Decarbonisation and Energy Solutions, Bell Group
12:00pm
Seminar Session A: The Digital Journey
  • How a truly offline mobile App for Staff can change the way you deliver your services
  • A self-service mobile App and Portal for Customers, Applicants and third Parties that delivers a solution that is available 24x7, in the language of choice, and fully accessible to all
  • Using Cloud services, the PanConnect solution brings all stakeholders closer through connectivity on one Digital Platform
  • Full integration with all your back-office systems allows you to choose the best-of-breed software solutions to suit the needs of your organisation
Nas Hayat, Director, Housing Insight
12:00pm
Seminar Session B: Using Conversational AI And Chatbots To Deliver 24/7 Customer Service
  • The Challenge – How to increase first contact resolution and reduce call volumes coming into the contact centre
  • Project Aims – Delivering 24/7 self-service through chatbot technology to improve the customer experience and deliver operational efficiency and ROI to the contact centre 
  • The Solution – How Great Places implemented the solution and lessons learnt along the way
  • Measuring Results – Analysing data to improve performance and customer satisfaction levels
Tom Walmsley, Account Director, Enghouse Interactive & Justine Carroll, Head of Customer Contacts, Great Places
12:30pm
Lunch and Networking
1:30pm
Panel Session: Unleashing Technological Innovation In The Social Housing Industry
  • Dr Reyhaneh Shojaei, Research Associate Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
  • Isabel Clouting, Housing Lead, Esri UK
  • Dr Richmond Juvenile Ehwi, Research Associate Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
Sponsored by Esri UK
2:10pm
Seminar Session A: A Uniform Framework For Dealing With Reported Damp, Condensation And Mould
  • Answering the call for a Proactive Framework dealing with Damp and Mould
  • Manage complex Disrepair claims with Better Decision Making and Cost-effective Resolutions
  • Certify the Health, Retrofit and Decarbonisation impacts of a structure
  • Partner with Industry Experts for credible Property Trend Management and Improved Tenant relations
David Bly, Operations Director, Cornerstone Ltd
2:10pm
Seminar Session B: The Evolving Face Of Residential Development In An Information Driven Age
  • Where have come from
  • Where are we going – Why change
  • The importance of Information – Data
  • Challenges and Solutions
Michael Johnson, Head of Digital Construction & Building Operations, Cadline
2:50pm
Seminar Session A: How The Housing Sector Can Keep Pace In The Digital Age
  • How to measure Customer success objectively and with meaningful context
  • What communication channels are used by different age groups to access public service information
  • The communication channels UK Housing Sector organisations should focus on developing
  • How to overcome the complexity created by having a group of communication applications with a modern platform that unifies the experience for the entire organisation
James Barratt, Public Sector Government Lead, 8x8
2:50pm
Seminar Session B: The Human Element: How To Drive Engagement, Adoption And Transparency In Your Digital Solutions

Having great technology is important, but only part of the solution. To help you get the most out of your digital efforts, we’ll be sharing some of the tips, tricks and best practices we’ve learned from delivering hundreds of successful digital solutions to the social housing sector over 20 years:

  • Defining the right content and delivering it in an engaging and thoughtful way
  • When and how to engage residents or customers in the project journey and how to measure it
  • How to keep standards of UX high and facilitate continuous improvement
Jamie Norris, Managing Director, VerseOne
3:30pm
A Scalable Approach To Healthier, Safer, And More Sustainable Homes With IoT
  • How can IoT help tackle issues of disrepair such as damp and mould
  • Our approach to Homes "Fitness for Human Habitation" Act compliance
  • Retrofit and monitoring requirements: the importance of a dual strategy to home health and sustainability
  • IoT case studies: Fire and CO safety, sustainability, and disrepair
Mark Wood, Regional Specification Manager – London East, Aico
3:50pm
Case Study: Tackling The Social Housing Shortage In Lewisham
Councillor Suzannah Clarke, Chair of Planning, Lewisham Council
4:10pm
Chair's Summary And Close
Emma Maier, Director, Ask Why
4:15pm
End Of Day

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