Above: Session 1, Burdett Theatre – Kenote speaker Jackie Ducker, Co-Chair CLC Skills Group & Executive Director, Customer & Product, CITB. This followed by a panel on ‘Agents for Change’ with Jay Parmar, CEO, Joint Industry Board, Alasdair Reisner, CEO, CECA, Shenaaz Chenia, CEO, Youth Build, and Lucy Wright, Careers Strategy Manager, CITB.
Above: Session 2, Burdett Theatre: Ralph James, FM & Technical Services Manager, Met Office. The session closes with a panel discussion on new entrants into construction featuring Stephen Cole, CITB; Vickie Bathe, FM Conway; Letitcia Paez, Ardmore Group; and Ben Whistlecroft, FM Conway
Above: Session 3, Burdett Theatre: the second keynote speaker of the day, Caroline Gumble, CEO, CIOB, is followed by a panel on ‘Workplace Time for Change’ featuring David Daly, Wellbeing Manager, GRAHAM Construction Mark Lesley, Performance & Compliance Officer, AE Yates, and Charles Stevenson, General Manager, JCB. The final panel in the Burdett Theatre on inclusive recruitment, follows, and features Deborah Underwood-King, Emerging Talent Manager, FM Conway; Peter Allen, MD, Enact Solutions; and Eillish Kwai, Community Manager, Employment & Skills, Ardmore.
Above: the first session in the breakout Marlborough Theatre was on ‘Education Game Changers’, and featured Paul Aldridge, Sustainability Director, WJ North; Ann Harrison, Group Marketing & Communications, HAE; and Deborah Lamb, School Enabler, L&Q.
Above: the final session in the Marlborough Theatre featured Jessica Mellor-Clark of BeOnsite, and Claire Preston – Care Leavers – who was winner of the FIR Inspiration Award 2021.