Take a look at the schedule for the Comms and Influencing Conference and Exhibition 2025
8:00am
Registration opens
8:30am
Duration: 35 minutes
Speaker:
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Sharon Amesu
SA Consulting
9:30am
Opening remarks from the chairs
Duration: 5 minutes
Speakers:
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Emma Kiddle
Settle -
Matt Rhodes
The Hyde Group
9:40am
Duration: 30 minutes
Speaker:
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Kate Henderson
National Housing Federation
10:10am
Duration: 45 minutes
Speakers:
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Luke Tryl
More in Common -
Anita Boateng
Portland & Former Government Special Adviser -
Pippa Crerar
The Guardian
10:55am
Networking break and meet the exhibitors
Duration: 30 minutes
11:25am
Breakout sessions – please select one option
Duration: 40 minutes
Speakers:
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Theo Bertram
Social Market Foundation -
Lucy Grove
Coin Street -
Catherine Thomas
Clarion Housing Group -
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
Suffolk Coastal
Chair:
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Joe Waters
National Housing Federation
Duration: 40 minnutes
Speakers:
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Kate Stanley
FrameWorks UK -
Frank Soodeen
Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) -
Rhys Moore
National Housing Federation
Chair:
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Danielle Sharp
Communications Team, Plus Dane Housing
Duration: 40 minutes
Speakers:
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Anne Waterhouse
Wandle Housing Association -
Matthew Geer
West Kent Housing Association -
Patrick Penny-Annang
Brent Council
Chair:
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Ciaran Tully
National Housing Federation
12:15pm
Breakout sessions – please select one option
Duration: 40 minutes
Speakers:
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Lucy Dixon
Karbon Homes -
Rob Loughenbury
Lexington -
James Hennigan
Riverside
Chair:
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Hannah Jowett
Yorkshire Housing
Duration: 40 minutes
Speakers:
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Steve Hayes
GreenSquareAccord -
Molly Boreham
Tower Hamlets Community Housing -
Emma Midgley
Johnnie Johnson Housing
Chair:
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Ruth Johnston
National Housing Federation
Duration: 40 minutes
Speakers:
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James Calnan
Eastlight Community Homes -
Kai Jackson
Black Country Housing Group -
Lauren Dearden
Onward Homes -
Andrea Marchetti
SNG
12:55pm
Networking lunch and meet the exhibitors
Duration: 1 hour
1:50pm
Breakout sessions – please select one option
Duration: 40 minutes
Speakers:
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Tristan Carlyon
National Housing Federation -
Lisa Naylor
Crisis -
James Kanagasooriam
Focaldata and Onward
Chair:
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Sonia Johal Squires
Citizen
Speakers:
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Thea McNaught-Reynolds
Islington & Shoreditch Housing Association -
Ruth Johnston
National Housing Federation -
Hannah Jowett
Yorkshire Housing -
Lucy Dixon
Karbon Homes
Duration: 40 minutes
Speakers:
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Matt Horwood
Open for Business -
Violet Pugh
Unify Network -
Jeni Harvey
Rochdale Borough Housing -
Billy Brown
TPAS, Southern Housing
Chair:
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Claudia Esseen-Jayes
National Housing Federation
2:30pm
Networking break and meet the exhibitors
Duration: 25 minutes
2:55pm
Duration: 45 minutes
Speakers:
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Jonathan Tanner
Rootcause -
Tara Singh
Burson’s Public Affairs Jon Cocker
Platform Housing
3:35pm
Duration: 40 minutes
Speakers:
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David Yelland
The Sun -
Simon Lewis
Gordon Brown -
Amanda Coleman
4:15pm
Chairs’ closing remarks and end of the conference
Duration: 5 minutes
Speakers:
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Emma Kiddle
Settle -
Matt Rhodes
The Hyde Group
4:20pm
Networking reception in exhibition
Duration: 25 minutes