Westminster Business Forum

Culture and conduct in financial services - the impact of new regulation, developing healthy work cultures and the role of senior managers

Morning, Thursday, 5^th September 2019
15Hatfields, Chadwick Court, London SE1 8DJ

Keynote Speakers: David Blunt, Head of Department, Conduct Specialists, Financial Conduct Authority and Alison Cottrell, Chief Executive Officer, Banking Standards Board

Emma Howard Boyd

Green finance and the impact of climate change on financial services - managing risk, opportunities for growth and the Green Finance Strategy

Morning, Tuesday, 10^th September 2019
Sixty One Whitehall, London SW1A 2ET

Keynote Speakers: Sir Roger Gifford, Chairman, Green Finance Initiative, City of London Corporation; Chair, Green Finance Taskforce and UK Country Head, SEB and Emma Howard Boyd, Chair, Environment Agency

Nigel Tipple

Developing the Oxford-MK-Cambridge Arc economy - collaboration, building on the region’s research base and delivering the Local Industrial Strategies

Morning, Thursday, 12^th September 2019
One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA

Keynote Speakers: Nigel Tipple, Chief Executive, OxLEP and Chair, Productivity Group, Oxford-MK-Cambridge Arc and James Palmer, Mayor, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority

Emma Jones

Supporting new businesses to start and scale-up in the UK

Morning, Wednesday, 9^th October 2019
Central London

Keynote Speakers: Alison Rose, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, NatWest Holdings; Chief Executive Officer, Commercial & Private Banking, RBS and Lead, Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship; Emma Jones, Founder, Enterprise Nation and Co-Chair, Prime Minister’s Small Business, Scale Ups and Entrepreneurs Council and Alice Hu Wagner, Managing Director, Strategy, Economics and Business Development, British Business Bank

Magali Vaissiere

The UK space sector - developing the National Space Programme, commercialisation and access to finance, and the future for international collaboration

Morning, Thursday, 31^st October 2019
Central London

Keynote Speaker: Magali Vaissiere, Director, Telecommunications and Integrated Applications and Head, ECSAT, Harwell UK, European Space Agency

Mary Starks

The future regulatory framework for essential services - infrastructure investment, innovation and value for consumers

Morning, Tuesday, 12^th November 2019
Central London

Keynote Speakers: Mary Starks, Executive Director, Consumers and Markets, Ofgem and Sarah Hayes, Senior Regulatory Advisor, National Infrastructure Commission

Professor Dilys Wiliams

Sustainability, ethics and the UK fashion industry - next steps for business practice and options for policy

Morning, Wednesday, 20^th November 2019
Central London

Keynote Speaker: Professor Dilys Wiliams, Director, Centre for Sustainable Fashion and Professor, Fashion Design for Sustainability, London College of Fashion

Consumer protection in the UK - Smart Data, modernising consumer markets and the changing roles of regulators

Morning, Monday, 9^th December 2019
Central London

Keynote Speakers: Jason Freeman, Director, Consumer Law, Competition and Markets Authority and Charles Nancarrow, Director, Trade and Regulation, NAO

Financial reporting in the UK - the new regulator, ensuring quality and the future shape of the auditing market

Morning, Wednesday, 11^th December 2019
Central London

Women in the workplace - returnships, intersectionality and reassessing the gender pay gap

Morning, Wednesday, 11^th December 2019
Central London

Brian Holliday

Supporting UK high value manufacturing - innovation and investment, skills and partnerships, and the future for international trade

Morning, Thursday, 12^th December 2019
Central London

Keynote Speakers: Clare Porter, Head of Manufacturing, BEIS; Brian Holliday, Managing Director, Siemens Digital Factory and Dr Eoin O’Sullivan, Director, Centre for Science Technology and Innovation Policy, University of Cambridge

Dr David Hancock

UK construction - modernisation, the workforce, and supporting productivity and growth following the Sector Deal

Morning, Tuesday, 14^th January 2020
Central London

Keynote Speakers: Dr David Hancock, Construction Director, Infrastructure and Projects Authority and Ann Bentley, Lead, Supply Chain and Business Models, Construction Leadership Council and Member, Global Board, Rider Levett Bucknall

Corporate governance in the UK - the impact of reforms, shareholder relations and boardroom composition

Morning, Wednesday, 26^th February 2020
Central London

Keynote Speakers: Sanu de Lima, Deputy Director, Corporate Governance, Responsibility & Diversity, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Senior speaker confirmed from the Financial Reporting Council ,

Core Sponsors

The core sponsor of the Westminster Business Forum is Economic Insight.

In Production

The Westminster Business Forum is planning a very full programme for the next 12 months.

Please give us a ring on 01344 864796 or email email info@forumsupport.co.uk to discuss future conferences.

We'd be happy to share ideas on areas to focus on, speaker suggestions, and other ways of getting involved.

Parliamentary Patrons of the Forum

The parliamentary patrons of the Westminster Business Forum are:

Nigel Adams MP

Sir David Amess MP

Luciana Berger MP

Lord Cavendish of Furness

Christopher Chope MP

Lord Curry of Kirkharle

Baroness Drake

Lord Dykes

Lord Empey

Nigel Evans MP

Barry Gardiner MP

Patricia Gibson MP

Lord Gordon of Strathblane

Lord Harrison

Lord Hollick

Baroness Howe of Idlicote

Lord Inglewood

Lord Kennedy of Southwark

Rt Hon the Lord Kilclooney

Stephen Kinnock MP

The Earl of Kinnoull

Lord Lee of Trafford

The Earl of Lindsay

Ian Lucas MP

Lord Marland

Lord Mendelsohn

Lord Northbrook

Chi Onwurah MP

Lord Oxburgh

Lord Puttnam CBE

Lord Razzall

Lord Redesdale

Andrew Rosindell MP

Lord Sharkey

Rt Revd Dr Alan Smith the Lord Bishop of St Albans

Mark Spencer MP

Lord Storey

Lord Teverson

Lord Triesman

Derek Twigg MP

Lord Vallance of Tummel

Rt Hon the Lord Wakeham

Admiral the Rt Hon Lord West of Spithead

Baroness Whitaker

Viscount Younger of Leckie

Note: parliamentary patrons take no financial interest in the Forum.