• Assessing the impact of a global recession and the immediate effects on local authorities in reductions in funding from central government
• Finding local solutions, unlocking community support and developing inclusive processes that enable people and communities to manage their own wellbeing
• Managing the impact of a reduction in business rates as the office sector shrinks and online retail grows
• Ensuring that local authorities are addressing the Net-Zero agenda and the implications of a greater reliance on technology
• Developing new ways of working in local authorities that move away from traditional models of service provision

• Local Government has become accustomed to balancing several strategic tensions from increasing demand for key services, reduced funding from Government and a need to respond to macro forces such as climate change or a global pandemic.
• In this session, Rob Turner will explore how local authorities can navigate these challenges while adding the need to help to deliver levelling up to them.  
• Rob will focus on the importance of understanding the uniqueness of place and the need to chart a bespoke approach to places with different needs.

• Designing a process of rapid data experimentation and analytics accelerations
• Providing immediate actionable insight for individual Directorates
• Highlighting the potential for how the Council could benefit from a common data structure and analytics platform
• Developing an innovative vision where data becomes a strategic and commercial asset to the Council

• Putting ‘place’ at the heart of economic strategy – the Live, Work, Visit, Invest offer
• Partnership working at the heart of delivery
• Planning infrastructure that delivers a ‘Staffordshire’ for the future
• Ensuring sustainable growth
• Levelling up in practice: focus on skills, start-ups and innovative investment

The ambition of the levelling up agenda is to address the economic imbalance that exists across the regions of the UK so that the benefits of economic growth are shared by the whole country. So how can we ensure that the investment reaches the right places and communities? The presentation will look at how to identify the communities most in need of levelling up funding and consider if the investments are landing in the right places.

• The impact of anti-money laundering legislation 
• Client money protection and the banking sector 
• Legislation, regulation & potential rental reform 
• What next for property payments, is the future blockchain or cryptocurrency?

• Local government cyber security incidents and impacts
• Looking at security challenges for local government
• Addressing vulnerabilities and threats
• Solution and low hanging fruit

Panellists include:

• Ronald Mackintosh, Director, Differentis
• Max Kenney, Differentis
• Adam Doyle, Director of Careers and Enterprise, Royal Docks School of Business and Law, University of East London
• Si Chun Lam, Insight Development Manager, Coventry City Council

• What is Human Centric Process Mining?
• Why is it important?
• What are the benefits?
• How to get started?

• Looking at how LAEP provides the most effective pathway to decarbonising an entire region
• How it brings together the key stakeholders responsible for and impacted by the net-zero transition to enable the plan to be implemented 
• How GMCA, Bridgend other local authorities are using it to respond to the climate emergency

• Reflect on the future of government policy
• Share challenges we face as a result of accelerating citizen expectations and emerging technologies
• Agree actions that we as a community need to do now
• And also identify what the opportunities are to explore further