Speakers:

This two-day conference will feature over 60 speakers including:

Dermot Finch, Director, Centre for Cities
Adam Marshall, Head of Policy, Centre for Cities
Sir Bob Kerslake, Homes and Communities Agency Set-up Team
Richard McCarthy, Communities and Local Government
Richard Simmons, CABE
Naomi Eiesenstadt, Cabinet Office

See a full list of speakers here

NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Business Design Centre, London

Securing Investment To Deliver Empowered, Prosperous And Sustainable Communities

PROGRAMME:

The conference agenda has been written following intensive research and consultation with regeneration experts from across the UK. Key sessions will include presentations from the industry's leading figures on 2008's hottest issues:

The implications of the Sub-National Review of regeneration and the Housing and Regeneration Bill

• Tackling worklessness and the welfare-to-work agenda
• Sustainable regeneration in the face of climate change
• The emerging agenda for the new Homes and Communities Agency
• Maintaining regeneration momentum in a time of economic downturn
• The Government's response to the Hills Review the plans for affordable housing
• Discovering new solutions for high-density housing in line with the Government's housing growth agenda