Chair - Stuart Ladds, Head of National Property Controls: Cabinet Office - Efficiency & Reform Group, Government Property Unit
Keith Davis, Director: National Audit Office
Keith presents findings of Government Property Unit report, "Improving the efficiency of central government office property"
Sherin Aminossehe, Head of Regional Strategy: Cabinet Office - Efficiency & Reform Group, Government Property Unit
Clive Dutton OBE, Executive Director, Regeneration & Inward Investment: London Borough of Newham
Clive will be speaking on "East London, post Olympics transformation; walking the talk"
Rachel Caldicott, Managing Consultant: IBM Global Business Services
Successfully introducing more flexible styles of working and service delivery is a key way to achieve cost savings and wider business benefits in government. Realising workplace flexibility at an enterprise level is typically difficult to achieve. Rachel will share IBM's experiences in unlocking value by giving equal weight to organisation, people & culture, real estate and technology. She will explain the criticality of defining appropriate workforce categories, workstyles, workplaces and supporting tools. Consideration will be given as to what the future might hold in terms of the workplace and how this will impact the role of different stakeholders.
Picking up on themes covered at Government Property 2011 last July, Carol will revisit the need for good property data and take that forward into the context of service delivery and estates management. This session will look in particular at Partnership Working, Co-location, Service Delivery and the impact Property can have, and the centralisation of Property Management functions.
Carol Summers, Managing Director: TerraQuest Solutions
Despite all our efforts there is still a demand for more 'efficiencies'. There are many options to consider, but the best will be those that don't compromise the organisation's aims and objectives and also deliver the maximum benefits. This seminar will show you how to measure estate performance, evaluate the options and identify the best programmes of work to achieve improved efficiencies and enhance service delivery and other business benefits.
Terry Pitt, Product Manager: ATRIUM Software
This session will look at how to actively initiate property change by considering some of the essential ingredients that are required to remodel the estate and deliver successful property collocation solutions. Recognising that estate rationalisation must be viable in terms of keeping the business running whilst never losing sight of the customer or end user needs. This session will cover property rationalisation and consolidation issues from both a strategic and delivery perspective.
Mark O'Brien, Head of Strategic Asset Management: DVS
Pelham Walker, Asset Strategy Manager: Surrey County Council
Find out how this innovative, award-winning programme, set up by the Greater London Authority, can help you substantially reduce your estate's carbon footprint and achieve guaranteed energy savings.
Dimitri Hadjidakis, RE:FIT Programme Director: Turner & Townsend
Emma Strain, Senior Manager - Programme Delivery: Greater London Authority
In 2011, the UK Public Sector Property, Estates & FM Survey Report provided great insight into the challenges facing Public Sector property managers – and what they were doing about tackling them. Challenges ranged from balancing operational requirements, with the need to demonstrate value for taxpayers’ money, to the need to manage Public Sector assets efficiently.
A key finding was that Public Sector financial cutbacks were forcing 28% of Public Sector respondents to rationalise their estates to stay within budget, with 72% of respondents either reviewing or actively reducing their office accommodation.
The survey also showed that, far from being a barrier to success, ICT was increasingly being seen as a means to solve problems, with over half of all respondents agreeing that ICT was not a serious issue inhibiting real estate savings but that ICT is part of the solution – not the problem. Finally, over 40% of Central and Local Government respondents are currently planning to change FM and other property service providers. All have cited that access to critical data held by their service providers is an issue.
This work session will illustrate how IBM has tackled some of these issues on its own global portfolio. We will show how it is possible to extract, collect and process data within and about our buildings so that not only can the individual buildings be managed more effectively, but the overall portfolio can be sized and shaped to meet business needs.
Dr Claire Penny, Smarter Buildings Lead: IBM
Joe Potter, Associate Partner, Asset Management Group: IBM Global Business Services
A review of the approach to workplace, new ways of working and embracing change – this session will look at evaluation techniques, qualitative and quantitative assessment of accommodation options. We will provide examples of how public sector is leveraging value to create an accommodation infrastructure that is sustainable, versatile and fit for purpose.
Stephen Armitage, Head of Public Sector Services: Lambert Smith Hampton
Dr Rob Harris, Principal, Workplace Planning Expert: Ramidus Consulting
Kuljeet Hothi, Partner: Eversheds LLP
Roger Taylor, Director - Group Workplace: BIS and Skills Funding Agency
With little certainty in financial and regulatory environments, has the traditional model of contracting with the private sector had its day? Multiple contracts and a mis-alignment of objectives and motivations between suppliers have resulted in the inevitable heavy-handed approach to contract management. At the same time, the public sector is facing unprecedented budgetary pressure and finding it difficult to recruit and retain professional staff. This session introduces the integrator model as a solution – it delivers client side commerciality while also acting as a focal point for the procurement, management and delivery of support services. Due its flexible nature, this solution has the potential to adapt to customers’ needs and changing objectives over time; resulting in a collaborative working model which puts the successful achievement of customers’ outcomes at its core.
Simon Treglown, Strategic Programme Director: Babcock
Deborah Rowland, Head of Facilities Management Category: Government Property Unit
An interactive session for delegates working across all departments that will share the practical lessons gained from the utilisation of a housing-led strategy to support new methods of service delivery in the areas of community healthcare, social services and blue light, whilst also preserving the value of the urban realm. These lessons can be applied to many government and public sector clients having to balance reducing direct funding with significant changes in service demand.
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Patrick Odling-Smee, Director of Housing at the London Borough of Islington and who is responsible for strategy, development and regeneration. He will share his current experience of bringing ALMOs back into local authority control and will discuss the prospects for housing led delivery of public services in the light of changes to housing funding.
Sarah Elliot, senior consultant at AECOM who specialises in working with government and public sector stakeholders to help realise change programmes which have estates at their core,
Ben de Waal, Head of Housing at Davis Langdon who specialises in property based banking, tax and finance issues and whose project work extends to advising clients on funding and procurement models for housing led developments and estate renewal.
This session will cover the current benchmarking framework within Central Government and the application of this data to your day to day and strategic property decisions.
Victoria Mejevitch, Director: IPD Occupiers
Stuart Ladds, Head of National Property Controls: Government Property Unit
The current need to achieve cost reduction and capital release from property, whilst at the same time improving the quality of public services delivered from, and the utilisation of, retained accommodation is a massive challenge. To achieve it requires a systematic approach. By definition a pragmatic approach will not get you there. This session explores these challenges and the ways they are being pursued and connects success with good practice and good techniques in asset management.
Keith Jones: Performent Consulting and RICS