Take a look at the schedule for the Comms and Influencing Conference and Exhibition 2026

8:00am

Registration opens

9:30am

Opening remarks from the chair

Duration: 10 minutes

Location: Main stage

Chair:

  • Lucy Dixon

    Lucy Dixon
    Karbon Homes

9:40am

Duration: 30 minutes

Location: Main stage

Speakers:

  • Kate Henderson

    Kate Henderson
    National Housing Federation

  • Danny Thorpe
    Clarion Housing Group

  • Issy Bull
    New Economics Foundation

10:10am

Duration: 45 minutes

Speakers:

  • Natalie Tate

    Natalie Tate
    Joseph Rowntree Foundation

  • Lisa Astle

    Lisa Astle
    Orbit

  • Emma Slade Edmondson

    Emma Slade Edmondson
    Good Form

  • Jack Airey
    Public First

10:55am

Networking break and meet the exhibitors

Duration: 30 minutes

11:25am

Breakout sessions – please select one option

Duration: 30 minutes

Speakers:

  • Joe Dundas

    Joe Dundas
    West Midlands Combined Authority

  • Hannah Jowett

    Hannah Jowett
    Yorkshire Housing

  • Aly Heald

    Aly Heald
    L&Q

Chair:

  • Jo Allen

    Jo Allen
    National Housing Federation

Duration: 30 minutes

Location: Quality and accountability: responding to greater regulatory scrutiny

Speakers:

  • Kate Hartley

    Kate Hartley
    Polpeo

  • Kevin Garvey

    Kevin Garvey
    National Housing Federation

Chair:

  • Sonia Johal Squires

    Sonia Johal Squires
    Citizen

Speakers:

  • Jeni Harvey

    Jeni Harvey
    Rochdale Borough Housing

  • Hayley Warner
    Estuary

  • Nick Cullen

    Nick Cullen
    PA Housing

Chair:

  • Amanda Leonard

    Amanda Leonard
    Housemark

12:15pm

Breakout sessions – please select one option

Duration: 40 minutes

Speaker:

  • Alex Diner

    Alex Diner
    National Housing Federation

Speakers:

  • Matt Rhodes

    Matt Rhodes
    The Hyde Group

  • Emma Kiddle

    Emma Kiddle
    Settle

  • Jon Reeves

    Jon Reeves
    Amplius

Chair:

  • Jess Mullins

    Jess Mullins
    National Housing Federation

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Steve Hayes

    Steve Hayes
    GreenSquareAccord

  • Nicki Kirkup
    NCHA

  • Mike Carhart-Harris
    Magna Housing

Chair:

  • Claudia Esseen-Jayes

    Claudia Esseen-Jayes
    National Housing Federation

12:55pm

Duration: 55 minutes

Duration: 55 minutes

1:50pm

Breakout sessions – please select one option

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • John Greaves

    John Greaves
    Places for People

  • Tosin Adedayo

    Tosin Adedayo
    Metropolitan Police

Chair:

  • Sarauniya Shehu

    Sarauniya Shehu
    Southwark Council

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Charlotte Humble

    Charlotte Humble
    Karbon Homes

  • Jennifer Sproul

    Jennifer Sproul
    Institute of Internal Communications

  • Lindsay Garfitt-Brown

    Lindsay Garfitt-Brown
    Vico Homes

Speakers:

  • Fiona Capel

    Fiona Capel
    whg

  • Charlaine Nkum

    Charlaine Nkum
    Southern Housing

Chair:

  • Cara Green

    Cara Green
    National Housing Federation

2:30pm

Networking break and meet the exhibitors

2:55pm

Duration: 40 minutes

Location: Main stage

Speakers:

  • Veronica Gordon

    Veronica Gordon
    Abri

  • Emma Midgley

    Emma Midgley
    Golden Lane

  • Lydia Stockdale

    Lydia Stockdale
    Eastlight Homes

3:35pm

Duration: 40 minutes

Speakers:

  • Rhys Moore

    Rhys Moore
    National Housing Federation

  • Simon Henig

    Simon Henig
    Stephenson Mohl

  • Mairi MacRae

    Mairi MacRae
    Shelter

4:15pm

Duration: 5 minutes

4:20pm

Duration: 1 hour