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Housing Technology 2020 Programme - 4-5 March 2020 Doubletree by Hilton Oxford Belfry | Oxfordshire
Housing Technology 2020
Programme
4-5 March 2020
Doubletree by Hilton
Oxford Belfry | Oxfordshire

                              #HousingTech2020
                              @HousingTech
Housing Technology 2020 Programme - 4-5 March 2020 Doubletree by Hilton Oxford Belfry | Oxfordshire
GEORGE GRANT
                          Publisher and Founder,
                                                    Welcome to Housing Technology 2020!
                          Housing Technology
                                                    Housing Technology’s annual conference

      We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone                Trinity Suite for the keynote talks). You can pick and choose any
      in Housing Technology’s community of readers, editorial                 presentation during the event; no pre-booking is necessary.
      contributors, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors; you are all            All drinks and food (included as part of your conference ticket)
      absolutely vital to all of our activities, ranging from not only        will be served in the College Suite and College Lounge where the
      this conference but also across our other events, bi-monthly            sponsors and exhibitors are located.
      magazine, market intelligence reports, recruitment services
                                                                              OUR COMMUNITY
      and research projects.
                                                                              Please join in with the latest news by contributing to our social
      The conference’s keynote talks (page 8) and IT/business                 media. The @housingtech Twitter feed will be updated before
      presentations (page 4-7) take place in the Exeter, Rycote, Lincoln,     and during the conference; please use #HousingTech2020 for
      Pembroke and University rooms (the latter three comprise the            your posts.

      PRE-EVENT DRINKS RECEPTION                      EVENING RECEPTION                             INFORMAL DINNER
      18.00 | Tuesday 03 March                        17.30 | Wednesday 04 March                    19.30 | Wednesday 04 March
      We are hosting an informal pre-event            There will be an early-evening drinks         After the evening reception, there will be
      drinks and canapé reception at the              reception on Wednesday 04 March to            an informal dinner (dress: smart/casual) to
      Oxford Belfry during the evening of             which all delegates, speakers, sponsors       which all delegates, speakers, sponsors and
      Tuesday 03 March to which all delegates,        and exhibitors are invited as Housing         exhibitors are invited. Pre-booking is required;
      speakers, sponsors and exhibitors are           Technology’s guests.                          please see the event website, contact the
      invited as Housing Technology’s guests.                                                       organisers or go to the hotel’s reception desk.

           The Oxford Belfry                                        How to find your way
      If you have any questions, please email conference@housing-technology.com or during the conference itself,
      comeThame,
             along Oxford
                   to the Organisers’ Office (see the location below).
           www.QHotels.co.uk

      EXETER

      COLLEGE SUITE

      TRINITY SUITE

      UNIVERSITY

      PEMBROKE

      LINCOLN

       THE OXFORD BELFRY
       How to find your way around                   ORGANISERS’ OFFICE             HOTEL RECEPTION               RYCOTE

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COLLEGE SUITE

                              COLLEGE FOYER

                                                                COLLEGE LOUNGE

HOUSING TECHNOLOGY 2020
@HousingTech
                                                                             TO RECEPTION AREA

#housingtech2020
                          EXHIBITOR FLOORPLAN

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                                COLLEGE SUITE                  TRINITY SUITE                  UNIVERSITY

  0830                          REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST

  1000                                                                  KEYNOTE | SABRINA COHEN-HATTON

                                                                                                                 PREMIUM SPONSOR

  1115                                                                                          ITICA
                                                                                                Stick or twist a.k.a. –
                                                                                                Should I stay or should
                                                                                                I go?

                                                                                                                 PREMIUM SPONSOR

  1215                                                                                          BRITANNIC
                                                                                                 TECHNOLOGIES
                                                                                                How digital transformation
                                                                                                reduces costs, improves
                                                                                                CX & grows value

  1300                          LUNCH

                                                                                                                 PREMIUM SPONSOR

  1415                                                                                          MOBILEIRON
                                                                                                Achieving mobile-centric,
                                                                                                zero-trust enterprise
                                                                                                security

  1515                                                                                          SANCTUARY
                                                                                                 GROUP
                                                                                                A 90-day plan for
                                                                                                technology change

  1615                          IT ACCELERATOR                                                 ARIGN
                                SESSIONS                                                       Nestclo – The property
                                                                                               management platform

                                                                                               FUZZLAB
                                                                                               Chatbots and AI for
                                                                                               customer self-service

  1730 - 1830                   EVENING RECEPTION | open to all at Housing Technology 2020

  1930 - 2100                   INFORMAL DINNER | open to all at Housing Technology 2020

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WEDNESDAY 04 MARCH

EXETER                              PEMBROKE                             RYCOTE                                   LINCOLN

Breaking down the barriers – Stories from a firefighter

                                                       PREMIUM SPONSOR                        PREMIUM SPONSOR                            PREMIUM SPONSOR

 REGENDA GROUP                     AAREON                              PARADIGM                                  IVICA & SOUTH
                                                                                                                    C
 A connected data                   Delivering a digital                   HOUSING                                  LAKES HOUSING
 landscape                          ecosystem                             Getting the ‘data basics’                 ‘Chat-a-boosting’ tenant
                                                                          right                                     satisfaction & productivity
                                                                                                                    when booking repairs

                  PREMIUM SPONSOR                      PREMIUM SPONSOR                                                                   PREMIUM SPONSOR

 SIMPSON                           NORTHGATE                           SOVEREIGN                                CASTLETON
  ASSOCIATES                          PUBLIC SERVICES                      HOUSING                                   TECHNOLOGY
 Service management                 Wolverhampton Homes                   Unlocking digital                         Panel discussion – Faster
 simplified – how to save           – Connecting homes                    transformation                            business transformation
 time and reduce risk               through IoT                                                                     with customer-centric,
                                                                                                                    data-driven systems

                                                       PREMIUM SPONSOR                                                                   PREMIUM SPONSOR

 WANDLE HOUSING                    ORCHARD                              SILVA HOMES                              POWEROBJECTS
 The ‘wow’ factor, part two         How cutting-edge                      Would you like a receipt                  Microsoft’s Power Platform
                                    technology will affect the            for that? handing digital                 – Improving safety
                                    user of today & tomorrow              control back to the                       processes within property
                                                                          customer                                  management

                                                       PREMIUM SPONSOR                                                                   PREMIUM SPONSOR

 COASTAL HOUSING                   CAPITA                              ADRA                                      AMAZON WEB
 “Can I speak to someone            Capita One introduces                Developing low-code                         SERVICES
 in IT?”                            One Housing                          solutions for corporate                    re:Imagine Infrastructure
                                                                         HR & finance processes

SAFECILITY:                       IOPT                               PARADPO & LOOK                           TRENT & DOVE
When buildings report on            The internet of things in              AHEAD HOUSING                              HOUSING &
themselves: Compliance &            housing maintenance                  Pragmatic data protection                    ORCHARD
safety in the IoT era                                                    using MyrIAD                                 (INTERNETALIA)
                                    MINIBEMS                                                                      Bringing quality and
OPTUS HOMES                        Advancing heat networks                                                         consistency to in-house
Mobile first – Genuine tenant       by leveraging data science                                                      repairs
self-management, today

 PRE-BOOKING REQUIRED

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                                COLLEGE SUITE                  TRINITY SUITE                  UNIVERSITY

  0830                          REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST

  0945                                                                  KEYNOTE | DR KEVIN FONG, OBE

                                                                                                                 PREMIUM SPONSOR

  1100                                                                                           OVEREIGN BUSINESS
                                                                                                S
                                                                                                INTEGRATION GROUP
                                                                                                Implementing new IT?
                                                                                                Make sure it integrates
                                                                                                with your current
                                                                                                environment!
                                                                                                                 PREMIUM SPONSOR

  1200                                                                                          TOTALMOBILE & WATES
                                                                                                  PROPERTY SERVICES
                                                                                                Beyond repairs – Integrating
                                                                                                planned & programmed
                                                                                                work into your maintenance
                                                                                                systems

  1245                          LUNCH

  1345                                                                                          L&Q
                                                                                                Connected places

  1445                                                                                          LONDON
                                                                                                 BOROUGH OF
                                                                                                 WALTHAM FOREST
                                                                                                The low-code chatbot
                                                                                                challenge

  1600                         CLOSE

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THURSDAY 05 MARCH

EXETER                    PEMBROKE                            RYCOTE                              LINCOLN

Becoming future proof

                                            PREMIUM SPONSOR                                                              PREMIUM SPONSOR

 VALLEYS TO COAST        MOBYSOFT                             RAND UNION
                                                               G                                    CADCORP & ORBIT
  HOUSING                 Why application                      HOUSING                              What is GIS & why do
 Enabling the modern      integration & CRM are the            Going full throttle to drive         housing providers use it?
 workplace                future of housing IT                 change

                                            PREMIUM SPONSOR                                                              PREMIUM SPONSOR

 CONNECTOLOGY            TSG                                 HOUSING PLUS                        CDW
 Transforming ICT teams   It’s Office 365, Jim…                Unleashing our IT to                 The future of the modern
                          But not as we know it                empower our people &                 workplace
                                                               customers

                          WATFORD                                                                  KINGDOM
                           COMMUNITY                                                                 HOUSING
                           HOUSING                                                                  Chrome killed my desktop
                          Transforming and future-
                          proofing IT…

                          THRIVE HOMES
                          Data security & integrity

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KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

                                                                               There is a new rhythm to our lives. In the digital age, the pace of
                                                                               progress is exponential, the clocks we depend upon are nestled in
                                                                               microchips, beating billions of times each second. 90 per cent of
                                                                               all the information ever generated was created within the last two
                                                                               years. All of this means that technology is getting better and faster
                                                                               all the time. With that comes new capabilities in every corner of
                                                                               our lives touched by the digital revolution; even medicine is slowly
                                                                               being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

                                                                               But with this capability comes uncertainty too. New technologies
                                                                               become obsolete at a rate never seen before, and with that the
                                                                               skills and businesses involved in their manufacture. What can
                                                                               we in medicine expect of the future? Where should we set our
                                                                               expectations and how should we prepare ourselves for our lives
                                                                               and careers in this new world? In a world full of machines that learn
      Sabrina Cohen-Hatton                                                     and computers that get ever faster, what will be left for humble
                                                                               humans to do? In this talk, Dr Kevin Fong takes us on a journey
      Breaking down the barriers
                                                                               from the breath-taking capability of the present into a future that is
      – Stories from a firefighter
                                                                               increasingly hard to predict.
      WEDNESDAY 04 MARCH
                                                                               Dr Kevin Fong has worked as a doctor with NASA and currently flies
      TRINITY SUITE | 1000                                                     as part of a helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) crew in
                                                                               the UK. As a front-line emergency physician, his expertise lies in
                                                                               understanding teamwork, risk management and decision-making
                                                                               under extreme pressure. With degrees in astrophysics, medicine
                                                                               and engineering, he is also something of a renaissance man. Having
                                                                               worked with NASA’s human space flight programme in Houston, Dr
      Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton will share some of her biggest                   Fong has a unique perspective on science, technology, exploration
      challenges, from homelessness to dealing with the trauma of              and the limits of the human body which he has brought to life
      emergencies. While these challenges were barriers at first, they         in his incredible talks, inspiring global audiences at both public
      also provided significant opportunities. She will share the power        and corporate events. In 2015, he delivered the prestigious Royal
      of difference and how by not conforming to a stereotype meant            Institution Christmas Lectures.
      that she wasn’t constrained by it, leaving her free to draw her
                                                                               Dr Kevin Fong has also brought his expertise to both television and
      own boundaries. This included leading national research, using
                                                                               radio. He co-presented ‘Astronauts: Do You Have What it Takes’
      behavioural science to revolutionise the way firefighters make
                                                                               and ‘Operation Goldrush’ with Dan Snow. He wrote and presented
      decisions and keeping them safer.
                                                                               ‘Space Shuttle: The Final Mission’, ‘To Boldly Go’ and several
      Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton has been a firefighter since she was 18          Horizon programmes including ‘We Need to Talk about Death’,
      years old. She is now one of the most senior female firefighters in      ‘Cyber Attack’, ‘Back from the Dead’ and ‘How to Avoid Mistakes
      the UK. After leaving home at 15 and school at 16, she joined the fire   in Surgery’. He presented Channel 4’s ‘Extreme A&E’ and his radio
      service in Wales. While climbing the ranks, she studied at the Open      documentaries include ‘Game Changer: Fortnite’ and ‘Trauma
      University and then at Cardiff University, eventually completing         Medicine: The Fight for Life’ on BBC Radio 4.
      a PhD in psychology. Her subsequent research into incident
                                                                               As an author, Dr Kevin Fong has written ‘Extremes’ which won an
      command in the emergency services has not only won awards but
                                                                               American Association for the Advancement of Science Award
      has also influenced policy at a global level.
                                                                               (AAAS) in 2015. He was awarded an OBE for services to science,
      She was recently conferred as an Honorary Fellow at Cardiff              medicine and healthcare in H.M. The Queen’s 2019 birthday honours.
      University. Her first book, ‘The Heat of the Moment’, was published
      in April 2019 and has been optioned for television by Kudos TV. She
      is an ambassador for The Big Issue. She lives with her husband and
      daughter in London.

                                                                                                                    Dr Kevin Fong, OBE
                                                                                                                    Becoming future proof

                                                                                                                    THURSDAY 05 MARCH
                                                                                                                    TRINITY SUITE | 0945

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STREAMLINE CONTRACTOR
INTERACTIONS

Managing the relationship between
landlords and housing providers and their
business partners is key to efficiency.

After all, the business success of a housing
company is directly dependent on trouble-
free collaboration with tradespeople, utilities
and other service providers. With the help of
the digital solutions from the Aareon Smart
World portfolio, social housing providers are
able to coordinate the work of tradespeople
efficiently and provide them, via mobile
devices, with all the information they need
to do their jobs.

For more information visit www.aareon.
co.uk or contact your account manager.

                                                  Call us on 02476 323 723

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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS

                                                     Aareon will be presenting how the future        Paul Lock has been product manager for             Aareon UK is the leading supplier of
                                                     digital landscape is changing. Do you           digital solutions at Aareon since 2016.            housing management and digital software
                                                     struggle with integration and connecting                                                           solutions for RSLs in the UK. Our position
                                                     third-party systems? Is the speed of            Previously with 1st Touch as a software            as a profitable, growing and innovative
                                                     deployment for new channels slow and            developer and implementation consultant,           organisation enables us to set the standard
                                                     difficult? How do you get suppliers to          he has over 10 years’ experience building and      for business processes in housing both
                                                     collaborate?                                    delivering digital products within housing.        today and in the future.
                                                                                                     This in-depth knowledge and willingness to
                                                     Join us and find out how your organisation      work with customers and colleagues alike           The Aareon product suite offers truly
AAREON                                               could benefit from a completely open            helps to shape the strategic direction of          integrated, highly functional and flexible
Delivering a digital ecosystem                       platform which will enable you to deliver       Aareon’s digital product portfolio.                software solutions, providing end-to-
                                                     a wide range of new innovative digital                                                             end business processing and designed
                                                     solutions.                                                                                         specifically to meet the needs of social
WEDNESDAY | PEMBROKE | 1115                                                                                                                             housing providers.
Speaker: Paul Lock, product manager, Aareon

                                                     Our journey towards in-house software           Alun Hughes previously worked as a web             We provide quality homes in North Wales.
                                                     development using low-code development          developer and co-ordinator for a medical           Our goal is affordable and reliable homes
                                                     platforms will be presented (warts and all!).   rehabilitation products manufacturer and as a      for local people. We work for the benefit of
                                                                                                     digital communications officer at Adra. Having     our communities by protecting, promoting
                                                     Don’t miss this opportunity to avoid            seen the rapid growth in mobile technology,        and assisting them to develop.
                                                     the potential pitfalls and learn how we         I thrive at delivering available anywhere/
                                                     embraced failure and implemented an             anytime solutions.                                 We aim to promote the health, environment
                                                     agile, low-code software development                                                               and safety of our communities and work
                                                     methodology.                                    Geraint Vernon previously worked as a              together to provide opportunities for the
ADRA                                                                                                 medical researcher, an Amazon smart-               people who live here. The culture and
Developing low-code solutions for corporate HR &                                                     processing developer and a local authority IT      safety of our communities is very important
finance processes                                                                                    manager. My passion is the application of IT       to us, especially our work to promote the
                                                                                                     to innovate and improve processes.                 Welsh language.

WEDNESDAY | RYCOTE | 1515
Speakers: Geraint Vernon, business systems
support manager & Alun Hughes, business systems
developer, Adra

                                                     The journey to driving more innovation          As an account manager for Amazon Web               Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide
                                                     in housing starts with re-imagining how         Services, Chris Masey helps non-profit             Public Sector helps government, education,
                                                     we manage our legacy systems and                organisations understand the capabilities          and non-profit customers deploy cloud
                                                     infrastructure.                                 of the AWS Cloud to save money, drive              services to reduce costs, drive efficiencies,
                                                                                                     innovation and enable digital transformation.      and increase innovation across the globe.
                                                     Amazon Web Services will explore why            Prior to Amazon, he was a digital solutions
                                                     shifting away from on-premise datacentres       manager at Orchard Information Systems,            With AWS, you only pay for what you use,
                                                     and hardware-focused tasks to provisioning      with a focus on helping tenants adopt digital      with no up-front physical infrastructure
                                                     these services in the cloud delivers greater    technologies for self-service.                     expenses or long-term commitments.
AMAZON WEB SERVICES                                  resilience, performance and agility.                                                               Public sector organisations of all sizes use
re:Imagine Infrastructure                                                                            David Mason has a background in public and         AWS to build applications, host websites,
                                                     Incline-IT, which has recently implemented      private sector IT services delivery and leads      harness big data, store information, conduct
                                                     an AWS infrastructure migration for a major     the Incline IT team. He is an advocate of          research, improve online access for citizens,
WEDNESDAY | LINCOLN | 1515                           housing provider, will introduce Incline’s      cloud computing and cloud-native SDWAN             and more.
Speakers: Chris Masey, account manager - UK Public   core offering, ‘housing as a service’, and      to achieve elegant and highly available
Sector (NPO), Amazon Web Services & David Mason,     explain why deploying AWS changes the           systems for Incline IT’s customers.
technical director, Incline-IT (part of MIS Group)   game for how infrastructure is managed
                                                     and enables housing providers to focus on
                                                     what truly matters, their data.

                                                     Nestclo is a cloud-based platform from          Manpreet Johal has 20 years’ experience            Arign (derived from ARchitecture, desIGN) is
                                                     Arign to manage property management             in designing and deploying technology              an IT architecture and design consultancy.
                                                     operations, enabling users to connect via       solutions for global organisations.                At Arign, we help clients to achieve their
                                                     a collaborative platform, and provides                                                             strategic objectives by providing digital
                                                     analytical reporting and real-time              With expertise in enterprise architecture and      transformation solutions via IT architecture,
                                                     management information.                         cyber security, he also provides consulting        solutions and information security services.
                                                                                                     services to clients across financial services,
                                                                                                     insurance, retail, public services, construction   Nestclo, our software-as-a-service platform
                                                                                                     and defence.                                       provides a suite of applications to digitally
ARIGN                                                                                                                                                   manage business operations for the
Nestclo – The property management platform                                                                                                              housing, real estate and food & beverage
                                                                                                                                                        sectors.

WEDNESDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1615
Speaker: Manpreet Johal, founder & director, Arign

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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS

                                                        From channel shift to self-service, to         Jonathan Sharp has 20 years’ experience           Britannic Technologies are award-winning
                                                        automation of rent arrears and repairs,        in driving business innovation and                specialists in voice communications,
                                                        digital transformation can help reduce costs   transformation. As sales & marketing director     systems integration and managed services,
                                                        and improve customer experience with           at Britannic Technologies, he is enthusiastic     maximising the ICT investment of private
                                                        a seamless customer journey. But most          about IT adoption, helping businesses to          and public organisations across the UK.
                                                        importantly, it helps grow real business       connect with their customers and staff in the
                                                        value.                                         most efficient and intuitive ways.                Most importantly, we are your partner
                                                                                                                                                         when it comes to designing, delivering and
                                                        Micro-services and automation are making       He encourages technology and business             developing transformative solutions. We
BRITANNIC TECHNOLOGIES                                  a big impact in housing, from procurement      leaders to ‘think bigger’ and regularly           work with you to understand your business
How digital transformation reduces costs, improves      through to customer service – see some         shares ideas around evolving technologies,        goals, processes and culture. Then we build
CX & grows value                                        innovative examples that will make life        applications and business models through          and support your integrated solution with
                                                        better for your customers and provide real     workshops, seminars and conferences.              network services, systems and applications
                                                        business value.                                                                                  that really meet your end-users’ needs and
WEDNESDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1215                                                                                                                            commercial requirements.
Presenter: Jonathan Sharp, sales & marketing
director, Britannic Technologies

                                                        Have you heard how housing providers are       Fergus Craig works with commercial                Cadcorp SIS is a geographic information
                                                        making better use of their resources by        organisations in realising the full value of      system (GIS) used by housing providers
                                                        deploying a geographic information system      their data through GIS and web mapping.           across the UK to combine data with location
                                                        (GIS)? Are you considering GIS but not sure    He focuses on providing GIS to the social         to improve land, assets and grounds
                                                        what’s possible?                               housing and insurance sectors, enabling           maintenance management. Those new
                                                                                                       them to make better informed decisions on         to GIS use its intuitive data capture and
                                                        Orbit Group will be sharing its rationale      managing their land and assets.                   editing tools for creating and maintaining
                                                        behind selecting and using GIS; with                                                             map records of their land and property
                                                        Cadcorp, Orbit will demonstrate how,           Steve Litchfield is a GIS specialist with a       assets. Cadcorp SIS is also used to integrate
CADCORP & ORBIT                                         by using GIS, it can better manage its         real passion for geographic information and       disparate data sets and to present enriched
What is GIS & why do housing providers use it?          assets, grounds maintenance and stock          cartography. He has enjoyed bringing his          intelligence.
                                                        performance.                                   mapping expertise to different organisations,
                                                                                                       helping them to maximise efficiency and           At Orbit, we re-invest our profits to support
THURSDAY | LINCOLN | 1100                                                                              move forward with data science-based              our vision of building thriving communities.
Speakers: Steve Litchfield, senior GIS analyst, Orbit                                                  strategies.                                       We want every generation to be able to
Group & Fergus Craig, business development                                                                                                               live in a home that they can afford, in a safe
manager for housing, Cadcorp                                                                                                                             and thriving community. Our development
                                                                                                                                                         programme delivers around 2,000 new
                                                                                                                                                         homes every year.

                                                        Introducing the latest updates from the        Glenn Allan has been with Capita since 2011       Your housing, our technology… We know
                                                        Capita One Housing roadmap.                    and has over 30 years’ experience in the          your housing management solution needs
                                                                                                       software industry.                                to be as intelligent and intuitive as the
                                                                                                                                                         technology we use every day, helping you
                                                                                                       Having worked in the public sector and for        to streamline operations and provide the
                                                                                                       several blue-chip companies, he has spent         very best customer service.
                                                                                                       the last 15 years in the housing sector, giving
                                                                                                       him extensive experience of different housing     That’s why One Housing is unique, providing
                                                                                                       management systems.                               a fully integrated suite of tools in the
CAPITA ONE                                                                                                                                               cloud to help balance effective asset
Capita One introduces One Housing                                                                                                                        management, maintenance, self-serve
                                                                                                                                                         portals, managing an efficient workforce,
                                                                                                                                                         finance and payments.
WEDNESDAY | PEMBROKE | 1515
Speaker: Glenn Allan, head of product for housing,
Capita

                                                        Castleton and its guests share their           Jimmy Rogers has been at Castleton since          Castleton Technology is the leading
                                                        experience of achieving business               2014 and is responsible for all new business      provider of integrated technology solutions
                                                        transformation by considering all aspects      and commercial sales. He has many years’          in social housing, helping housing providers
                                                        of solution delivery. We’ll be exploring a     experience and expertise in software and          of all sizes to achieve their business
                                                        customer-centric approach, with solutions      social housing, having previously worked at       transformation goals through the provision
                                                        designed around the customer rather            IBS OpenSystems and Documotive.                   of customer-centric, data-driven, hosted
                                                        than the property and how to ensure you                                                          software solutions and future-proof
                                                        have the right technology to support your      Simon Penaluna is responsible for strategic IT    technologies.
                                                        operations.                                    direction at Grand Union Housing, advising on
CASTLETON TECHNOLOGY                                                                                   innovations and technologies that transform       We aim to be a true technology partner
Panel discussion – Faster business transformation       Our guests discuss their omni-channel          customer services across the group.               of choice to your organisation, bringing
with customer-centric, data-driven systems              strategies, how to adopt new technologies                                                        about change where change is needed
                                                        and the importance of data accuracy and        Darren Penny is the ICT manager for               and delivering innovation where there is
                                                        security.                                      Honeycomb Group, a Staffordshire-based            demand.
WEDNESDAY | LINCOLN | 1215                                                                             housing provider.
Speakers: Jimmy Rogers, new business sales &
marketing director, Castleton Technology,
Darren Penny, ICT service delivery manager,
Honeycomb Group & Simon Penaluna, director of IT,
Grand Union Housing

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TRANSFORM THE
HOUSING EXPERIENCE
FOR A REDUCED COST
Housing organisations know they need to digitally
transform, but transforming is expensive, right?

Wrong.

At Housing Technology 2020, Britannic Technologies will
show housing organisations how they can:
 Spread limited resources to higher value areas with business process automation

 Drastically reduce the cost to serve with conversational AI and digital agents

 Encourage and motivate agents and report with contact centre gamification

 Manage and respond across multiple channels through one smart inbox

 Utilise self-serve through WebRTC, chat and AI

 Introduce microservices for areas such as the automation of maintenance requests

Join over 30 housing associations already working with
Britannic to Improve tenant and employee experiences.
SEE DEMOS AT THE BRITANNIC STAND AT HOUSING TECHNOLOGY 2020

 01483 242526
 hello@btlnet.co.uk
 www.btlnet.co.uk                                                                   | 13
BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS

                                                       • Collaboration in the cloud – how can          Shaun Ward has held chief architect roles       CDW is a multi-brand technology solutions
                                                          new workplace platforms help with             for very large enterprise cloud and desktop     provider to business, government,
                                                          collaboration?                                transformation programmes, as well as           education and healthcare organisations
                                                       • Data in the cloud – how best to use data      having a wealth of experience in housing.       in the United States, Canada, United
                                                          from standard and custom applications to                                                      Kingdom and other international locations.
                                                          improve customer service?                     Matthew Browne is an experienced solutions      We are recipients of the industry’s highest
                                                       • Automation – enable your staff to             specialist focused on creating ‘modern          achievable accreditations. We help our
                                                          concentrate on the most important tasks.      workspace’ solutions to solve key business      clients achieve their goals by delivering
                                                       • Applications – how can employees create       challenges. He has advanced knowledge           integrated solutions and services that
CDW                                                       their own automated and digital processes     of enterprise analytics and automation,         maximise their IT investment.
The future of the modern workplace                        & tools?                                      providing not only the system design but also
                                                       • The future – how will collaboration and the   the data design to accompany it.                Building IT solutions that generate results
                                                          modern workplace evolve?                                                                      is what we do. And we do it better than
THURSDAY | LINCOLN | 1200                                                                                                                               anyone else because we are the People
Speakers: Shaun Ward, practice lead for cloud                                                                                                           Who Get IT.
solutions & Matthew Browne, cloud solutions
specialist, CDW

                                                       Hear how chatbots can improve and                Tim Franklin has 30 years’ experience           Civica is a market-leading provider of cloud
                                                       accelerate the availability, responsiveness      helping a range of public and private           software, digital solutions and managed
                                                       and productivity of your tenant repair           sector organisations to navigate complex        services to the social housing sector,
                                                       processes and online FAQs.                       digital landscapes. Right now, he’s using       working in partnership with more than 400
                                                                                                        his expertise to shape Civica’s chatbot and     housing providers to support five million
                                                                                                        conversational AI solutions.                    tenants. We help housing organisations
                                                                                                                                                        gain better data insights by creating a single
                                                                                                        Paul Aitken has 11 years’ experience in the     view of customers, enabling the delivery
                                                                                                        housing sector. He has delivered many           of intelligent, responsive services while
CIVICA & SOUTH LAKES HOUSING                                                                            different projects during his time as an IT     unlocking significant savings.
’Chat-a-boosting’ tenant satisfaction & productivity                                                    Manager at South Lakes Housing, including
when booking repairs                                                                                    being one of the first adopters of Civica Cx.   South Lakes Housing is the largest provider
                                                                                                                                                        of affordable rented housing in South
                                                                                                                                                        Lakeland (Cumbria), managing over 3,000
WEDNESDAY | LINCOLN | 1115                                                                                                                              homes, with plans to build 300+ new homes
Speakers: Tim Franklin, head of conversational                                                                                                          over the next few years.
AI, Civica & Paul Aitken, IT manager, South Lakes
Housing

                                                       How does diversity help IT departments?          Rhian Waygood and Amy Kelly have                Coastal Housing Group is a not-for-profit
                                                       Why are women leaving technical roles?           collectively worked at Coastal Housing for      industrial and provident society, existing
                                                       What can the housing sector do to get            12 years. They both started in housing roles    only for the benefit of the community,
                                                       ahead of the recruitment curve and leave         before IT and are now dedicated to providing    operating in Swansea, Neath, Port Talbot,
                                                       the dark ages of IT behind?                      creative digital offerings to Coastal’s staff   Bridgend and Carmarthenshire.
                                                                                                        ever since.
                                                       This talk will explore these questions and
                                                       hopefully raise a few laughs. They will also     They share a mutual dislike for
                                                       talk about working in their department           troubleshooting printers.
COASTAL HOUSING                                        which enjoys a 50/50 gender ratio and
”Can I speak to someone in IT?”                        other reasons to be cheerful!

WEDNESDAY | EXETER | 1515
Speakers: Rhian Waygood, IT business partner
team leader & Amy Kelly, lead IT support analyst,
Coastal Housing

                                                       Many housing providers have a business           Steve Dungworth has worked in the public        Connectology is a housing consultancy
                                                       transformation programme. However, one           sector for over 40 years, including 12 years    focused on connecting people, data and
                                                       of the barriers to its achievement is the        engaged in digital transformation in housing.   technology.
                                                       capacity and capability of the internal ICT
                                                       team.                                            He was previously the director of digital       The relentless drive to use technology
                                                                                                        transformation at a large housing provider      impacts on our customers, staff and
                                                       A modern ICT team needs to be embedded           in Yorkshire where he developed and             suppliers - people! We can help you
                                                       in the culture of the rest of the business,      implemented omni-channel services, mobile       understand the impact of changes and get
                                                       particularly when IT staff can sometimes         working and a self-service portal.              better buy-in from leaders, enthuse users
CONNECTOLOGY                                           be seen as different, reserved or defensive,                                                     to adopt the benefits, and communicate
Transforming ICT teams                                 so how can you develop your IT team to                                                           effectively with all your stakeholders.
                                                       collaborate with your business customers?

THURSDAY | EXETER | 1200
Speaker: Steve Dungworth, founder & director,
Connectology

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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS

                                                    This session will demonstrate how Fuzzlab’s    Scott Summers has been delivering                Fuzzlab is the first and best chatbot and AI
                                                    AI-enabled chatbot, trained specifically       successful IT projects and products into         solution provider that specialises in social
                                                    for the housing sector, can reduce your        the housing sector for over 20 years. He         housing.
                                                    call volumes while increasing customer         co-founded Fuzzlab to bring better user
                                                    satisfaction.                                  experience and less frustration to tenants       Our mission is to make tenants’ lives easier
                                                                                                   when dealing with their landlords.               by making it simple to manage their affairs
                                                    It acts as a virtual assistant, enabling                                                        and interactions with their landlord. The
                                                    customer self-service for repairs, rent                                                         founders have over 30 years’ combined
                                                    queries, reporting ASB and housing                                                              housing experience that they’ve applied to
FUZZLAB                                             applications. Our chatbot works on web,                                                         make digital transformation and customer
Chatbots & AI for customer self-service             mobile, Facebook and Alexa, providing ‘off                                                      self-service simple for our customers.
                                                    the shelf’ digital transformation.

WEDNESDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1615
Speaker: Scott Summers, co-founder, Fuzzlabs

                                                    Two years ago, we were comfortably             Simon Penaluna is responsible for strategic IT   Grand Union Housing manages
                                                    tootling along, operating as four separate     direction at Grand Union Housing, advising on    12,000 homes across Bedfordshire,
                                                    housing providers within the wider group.      innovations and technologies that transform      Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and
                                                                                                   customer services across the group.              Hertfordshire, with plans to build a further
                                                    However, rather than being in the driving                                                       1,800 homes in the next few years.
                                                    seat of a fast, responsive car, we found we    Sue Rice leads Grand Union’s transformation
                                                    were increasingly lagging behind in our        team, delivering innovative IT projects that
                                                    trusty old banger. This is our story of how    change the way colleagues deliver and
                                                    we’ve taken over the wheel and gone full       customers access its services.
GRAND UNION HOUSING                                 throttle to transform ourselves back to the
Going full throttle to drive change                 future.

THURSDAY | RYCOTE | 1100
Speakers: Simon Penaluna, IT director & Sue Rice,
IT business transformation manager, Grand Union
Housing

                                                    An overview of why and how we’ve               Andrew Dale is experienced at delivering IT      Housing Plus is a charitable community
                                                    transformed our IT services to enable          services and transformation programmes in        benefit society, providing homes and
                                                    specific services to be delivered by           the housing and private sectors. He is now       care services across Shropshire and
                                                    specialist partners, with a ‘cloud first’      focused on driving service improvements          Staffordshire.
                                                    approach to technical delivery.                through partnership working to enable ease
                                                                                                   of digital transformation.                       As one of the largest housing providers in
                                                    Focusing on the challenges we faced; the                                                        the area, the group manages 18,000 homes
                                                    IT service delivery model we designed for                                                       and employs 800+ people.
                                                    robust, scalable and effective IT services;
HOUSING PLUS                                        how we’ve transformed IT service delivery
Unleashing our IT to empower our people &           through engagement with specialist
customers                                           partners; and the resulting benefits.

THURSDAY | RYCOTE | 1200
Speaker: Andrew Dale, assistant director of IT,
Housing Plus

                                                    Dane Ralston, the founder of iOpt, will talk   Dane Ralston has been working in the asset       iOpt is the leading IoT service provider
                                                    about how his background in industrial         monitoring sector for over 20 years, starting    specialising in the housing sector.
                                                    asset monitoring led to iOpt moving into the   off in the automotive world and subsequently     Established in 2016, iOpt has gone from
                                                    housing sector four years ago.                 the aerospace and electricity distribution       strength to strength, with customers
                                                                                                   sectors and now brings his experience to         globally reaping the benefits of iOpt’s asset
                                                    Hear about how using simple data and           housing.                                         monitoring expertise.
                                                    making sure it’s gathered consistently can
                                                    lead to easy wins in the early stages of an                                                     The iOpt platform uses sensor data to
                                                    IoT deployment, before moving on to more                                                        allow iOpt to deploy its unique algorithms
iOPT                                                sophisticated use cases such as cost/                                                           and expertise to tackle a variety of issues
The internet of things in housing maintenance       benefit analysis.                                                                               including preventative maintenance and
                                                                                                                                                    social issues such as fuel poverty and
                                                                                                                                                    disrepair claims.
WEDNESDAY | PEMBROKE | 1615
Speaker: Dane Ralston, founder, iOpt

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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS

                                                        Under pressure to deliver better customer        John Doughty was appointed as a director of       Itica is a business-driven IT consultancy.
                                                        service, digital transformation, maintain        Itica in 2018, having previously held executive   Since 2010, we’ve helped housing providers
                                                        compliance and increase organisational           positions at a leading social housing software    of all sizes to make the right decisions about
                                                        efficiency, the sector is facing the difficult   supplier. His experience includes executive,      technology, suppliers and IT organisation,
                                                        ‘stick or twist’ choice about strategic          leadership and practitioner roles in both         enabling them to drive strategic outcomes,
                                                        technology plans, not helped by new              private and public sector organisations.          whether that’s improving customer service,
                                                        entrants and with long-term suppliers to the                                                       achieving digital transformation, maintaining
                                                        sector being in various states of flux as they                                                     compliance or increasing efficiency.
                                                        re-engineer their systems to meet changing
ITICA                                                   needs.                                                                                             Our customers value our blend of sector
Stick or twist a.k.a. – Should I stay or should I go?                                                                                                      knowledge combined with different
                                                        Our presentation will discuss and debate                                                           perspectives from our non-sector
                                                        what this means for housing providers and                                                          experience.
WEDNESDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1115                           their suppliers.
Speaker: John Doughty, director, Itica

                                                        Find out how Kingdom Housing has                 Gary Haldane graduated from Napier                Kingdom Housing operates across East
                                                        been running its business on Chrome OS,          University in 2015 with a MSc in ICT strategic    Central Scotland providing housing to meet
                                                        removing the desktop, internal networks,         leadership. He is responsible for Kingdom         a wide range of needs.
                                                        static licence agreements and deploying          Housing’s digital strategy and thrives on
                                                        new services in GCP, with the result that        being disruptive in the workplace, with a         Kingdom has developed over 4,000
                                                        we’ve cut costs with G-Suite, zero-cost          focus on making employees’ jobs easier.           affordable homes, the majority being for
                                                        BYOD, procurement-in-a-day, reduced risk,                                                          social rent, and also provides mid-market
                                                        increased performance and provide the                                                              rent properties, affordable housing for sale
                                                        best user experience for employees.                                                                and factoring services.
KINGDOM HOUSING
Chrome killed my desktop                                Furthermore, integrate cloud DMS to your
                                                        housing system for staff and tenant access,
                                                        and run your legacy apps in a browser.
THURSDAY | LINCOLN | 1345
Speaker: Gary Haldane, head of digital, Kingdom
Housing

                                                        Emerging technologies open new paths             Amina Graham became the change &                  L&Q’s vision is to enable better lives through
                                                        to delivering better, faster and cheaper         transformation director at L&Q in 2017            creating better places to live.
                                                        services and L&Q’s award-winning                 after 10 years as the executive director of
                                                        Connected Places programme is a great            corporate & customer services at RHP, having      We create better places to live by delivering
                                                        example of the intelligent use of technology     previously worked at M&S for 22 years.            high quality homes, neighbourhoods and
                                                        to solve business challenges.                                                                      housing services that people can afford.
                                                                                                         As the innovation lead at L&Q, Tom Way            With over 50 years’ experience, we have
                                                        Connected Places has delivered at-scale          partners with different business areas to         what it takes to do things right and provide
                                                        IoT solutions, enabling L&Q to predict and       design good quality products to transform         long-term support to our communities.
L&Q                                                     prevent maintenance issues and actively          traditional service models. Before joining
Connected places                                        monitor and optimise housing conditions to       L&Q, he worked at RHP.
                                                        improve the customer experience.

THURSDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1345
Speakers: Amina Graham, change & transformation
director & Tom Way, innovation manager, L&Q

                                                        Waltham Forest has just completed                Richard Holland is focused on providing           London Borough of Waltham Forest runs
                                                        a chatbot challenge, creating a bot to           smart, innovative and cost-effective solutions    services for 280,000 residents, 2,800 staff
                                                        allow residents to report ASB using Lex          for both internal and external customers. He      and 60 councillors, from collecting rubbish
                                                        technology, co-developed with students           has 20 years’ experience working in local         to public health and housing.
                                                        from the borough.                                government, housing, aerospace, defence,
                                                                                                         finance and outsourcing.
                                                        It took us five weeks to produce a working
                                                        prototype, based on low-code development         John Hubbard has worked at Waltham
                                                        and the democratisation of development,          Forest for over 10 years and is its director of
LONDON BOROUGH OF                                       and it didn’t always go according to the         commercial innovation, covering a range of
WALTHAM FOREST                                          plan.                                            commercial projects including the setup of
                                                                                                         local authority trading companies (LATC) and
The low-code chatbot challenge
                                                                                                         Waltham Forest’s innovation and enterprise
                                                                                                         programme.
THURSDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1445
Speakers: Richard Holland, assistant director
for technology innovation & John Hubbard,
commercial & innovation director, London Borough
of Waltham Forest

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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS

                                                          District and community heat networks are         Finian Parrick has 20 years’ experience of         Minibems help heat network owners and
                                                          currently designed, specified, procured,         owning and managing leading heat system            operators leverage data to reduce energy
                                                          installed, commissioned and operated             installation and distribution firms. Minibems      use and lower running costs through our
                                                          following norms and practices that largely       was founded in order to develop data-driven        unique real-time flow control technology.
                                                          ignore data.                                     approaches to the continual improvement of
                                                                                                           heat networks.                                     We deliver heat network performance to
                                                          Minibems leverages data to reduce costs                                                             housing providers, local authorities and
                                                          and add value to each part of the value                                                             private residential, through a combination
                                                          chain. The housing sector will be particularly                                                      of an in-house hardware and software
MINIBEMS                                                  interested in learning how using data                                                               solution that merges heating control logic
Advancing heat networks by leveraging data science        science can reduce capital and operating                                                            knowledge with embedded firmware
                                                          costs while pursuing carbon reduction                                                               capabilities.
                                                          goals and ensuring heating comfort for their
WEDNESDAY | PEMBROKE | 1615                               residents.
Speaker: Finian Parrick, CEO, Minibems

                                                          MobileIron will discuss the unique               David Critchley is responsible for managing        MobileIron is redefining enterprise security
                                                          advantages of zero-trust, mobile-centric         MobileIron’s UK & Ireland teams and helping        with the industry’s first mobile-centric,
                                                          security that’s built on a foundation of         their partners and customers to deliver trust      zero-trust platform built on a unified
                                                          UEM and on-device threat detection               in a ‘zero-trust’ world. Prior to MobileIron, he   endpoint management (UEM) foundation to
                                                          and remediation and share how to start           held senior roles at Rackspace, Dimension          secure access and protect data across the
                                                          implementing it in your environment today.       Data and Cisco.                                    perimeter-less enterprise.

MOBILEIRON
Achieving mobile-centric, zero-trust enterprise
security

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WEDNESDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1415
Speaker: David Critchley, sales director, UK & Ireland,                                                                                                                                                       M

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                                                          With more landlords switching to Dynamics        Derek Steele founded Mobysoft in 2003 and          Mobysoft helps deliver time- and cost-
                                                          CRM, integrating data enrichment tools           has led the company to significant success         saving solutions which create tangible RoI CMY
                                                          such as Mobysoft’s RentSense becomes             and growth, including winning a Queen’s            for the social housing sector, including
                                                          more feasible.                                   Award for Innovation.                              RentSense, our cloud-based predictive       K
                                                                                                                                                              analytic solution that optimises front-line
                                                          A system that can give organisations             He is a member of Business Insider’s ‘42           income management workloads.
                                                          a single view of customers, while                under 42’ entrepreneurs’ group and was
                                                          incorporating best-of-breed solutions,           shortlisted as ‘Technology Entrepreneur of         Our software helps over 150 housing
                                                          will enable faster and more accurate             the Year’ in 2014.                                 providers maximise income, create
MOBYSOFT                                                  insights, lead to better services and create                                                        efficiencies and mitigate welfare reform.
Why application integration & CRM are the future of       a more productive work environment. This                                                            Customers typically achieve a 16% arrears
housing IT                                                presentation will discuss how close this                                                            reduction in the first year and overall
                                                          future of technology is in housing.                                                                 efficiency savings of 32%. In the past two
                                                                                                                                                              years, RentSense has helped reduce
THURSDAY | PEMBROKE | 1100                                                                                                                                    customers’ arrears by around £67 million.
Speaker: Derek Steele, CEO & founder, Mobysoft

                                                          The discussion will show how IoT is a            Trevor Hampton has been on the leading             The housing sector is calling out for a fresh
                                                          practical reality and a core component for       edge of IT for over 30 years, ranging from         approach to managing their customers,
                                                          housing maintenance and tenancy well-            developing some of the first mobile and web        processes and people. Northgate pushes
                                                          being. It will showcase how technology is        solutions to being involved in R&D for IoT         boundaries and raises standards to deliver
                                                          transforming the traditional approach to         and AI.                                            positive changes to shape a housing sector
                                                          delivering housing services.                                                                        that thinks smart and works smarter.

                                                          Hear first-hand from Wolverhampton                                                                  And with over 180 housing customers
                                                          Homes about how smart technology and                                                                and five million tenants already relying on
NORTHGATE PUBLIC SERVICES                                 data can deliver intelligence in decision-                                                          Northgate innovations, we’ve the talent,
Wolverhampton Homes – Connecting homes                    making. The session will discuss the                                                                technology and expertise that counts.
through IoT                                               benefits for the tenant and Wolverhampton
                                                          Homes, and explore the challenges of
                                                          retrofitting properties and dealing with
WEDNESDAY | PEMBROKE | 1215                               tenancy privacy.
Speaker: Trevor Hampton, product director for
housing solutions, Northgate Public Services

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managing cost and compliance, we can work with you to deliver your digital
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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS

                                                       Today, consumers can open a bank                  Gerry Kelly is a seasoned and respected           Optus Homes is passionate about giving
                                                       account, manage NHS appointments, order           strategic business development professional       tenants a convenient and mobile-first
                                                       food and transport, all from a mobile app         with senior management experience across          way to manage their rental account and
                                                       – so why not manage their rental account          many sectors and companies, including             interactions with landlords.
                                                       in an app?                                        Sony, Mitsubishi and Verbatim. He has
                                                                                                         also previously managed a start-up from           Our mobile app solution has been designed
                                                       Optus Homes offers a solution for all             formation through to divestment.                  and built in conjunction with housing
                                                       landlords, covering complaints, repairs,                                                            associations, and it uses Microsoft’s Azure
                                                       payments and many more exciting features,                                                           cloud platform for ease of integration.
OPTUS HOMES                                            such as two-way community messaging                                                                 Our senior management team come from
Mobile first – Genuine tenant self-management, today   and open banking. It’s convenience for                                                              a combination of the housing sector,
                                                       tenants and efficiencies for landlords – all in                                                     cloud computing and strategic business
                                                       your own branded app, with integration to                                                           management.
WEDNESDAY | EXETER | 1615                              your existing systems.
Speaker: Gerry Kelly, CEO, Optus Homes                                                                                                                     Convenience for Tenants – Efficiencies for
                                                                                                                                                           Landlords.

                                                       Orchard will take you on a journey into how       Ian Chaffey has worked in social housing for      Orchard has been delivering ‘people first’
                                                       new technologies are shaping different            15 years, starting out in a housing association   solutions as an independent provider to the
                                                       sectors and how these are being or could          in South Wales, delivering technical and          UK housing sector for over 40 years.
                                                       be used in the housing sector.                    application support before progressing
                                                                                                         to project delivery and business process          We deliver end-to-end business solutions
                                                                                                         improvement. Since joining Orchard in 2013,       to housing providers and public sector
                                                                                                         he has continued with his ‘customer first’        organisations, helping them to manage all
                                                                                                         ethos, most recently taking up the role of        aspects of their businesses and to improve
                                                                                                         head of service delivery.                         the lives of their customers, tenants and
ORCHARD                                                                                                                                                    residents. Orchard solutions and services
How cutting-edge technology will affect the user of                                                      Joanna Lewis is responsible for the strategy,     improve operational effectiveness and have
today & tomorrow                                                                                         direction and performance of Orchard’s            a positive social impact for our customers.
                                                                                                         housing solutions. She works closely with
                                                                                                         customers, keeping abreast of market and
WEDNESDAY | PEMBROKE | 1415                                                                              technology trends and best practices with the
Speaker: Joanna Lewis, general manager for housing                                                       aim of delivering market-leading solutions.
solutions & Ian Chaffey, head of service delivery,
Orchard

                                                       New technology provides us with                   Philip Dunn has led teams of data experts         Paradigm Housing manages 15,000 homes
                                                       tremendous opportunities, but if you’re           for 20 years, including 10 years at the           across the South East and London. House
                                                       getting the ‘data basics’ wrong, you              consultancy behind the Tesco Clubcard. He         prices in the areas where we work are
                                                       won’t be able to take advantage of those          is currently leading Paradigm’s BI team. His      high, both to buy and rent, so our aim is to
                                                       opportunities.                                    dissertations for both of his MSc degrees         provide affordable homes for those who
                                                                                                         focused on AI.                                    need them most. Any surplus is reinvested
                                                       Common errors on the ‘data basics’ – such                                                           so that we can build new affordable homes
                                                       as collection, quality, storage, warehousing,                                                       and provide a fair deal for our existing
                                                       KPIs and ownership – can often be tackled                                                           residents.
PARADIGM HOUSING                                       without large system investments.
Getting the ‘data basics’ right

WEDNESDAY | RYCOTE | 1115
Speaker: Philip Dunn, head of business intelligence,
Paradigm Housing

                                                       We are over 18 months since GDPR went             Neil Topping is an experienced data               ParaDPO has been established to help
                                                       live so it’s important to discuss some of the     professional who has worked with many             provide reliable and effective data
                                                       challenges faced by organisations.                housing providers in a number of roles. This      protection support to housing providers.
                                                                                                         has included training DPOs, leading GDPR
                                                       To help address some of these areas,              programmes and delivering business data           This includes DPO as a service, ranging
                                                       ParaDPO has launched MyrIAD to enable             transformations.                                  registering as your DPO with the ICO to
                                                       housing providers to manage and all of their                                                        offering more ad-hoc support. This is
                                                       data protection needs. This compliments           Cliff Barton has extensive regulatory             complemented by MyrIAD, which can also
                                                       the Data Protection Officer (DPO) as a            compliance experience across the banking          be deployed as a stand-alone solution.
PARADPO & LOOK AHEAD HOUSING                           service offered by ParaDPO. We have               sector implementing lasting solutions
Pragmatic data protection using MyrIAD                 partnered with Look Ahead.                        to resolve complex challenges. He has
                                                                                                         successfully delivered a GDPR programme
                                                                                                         for a housing provider and is the technical
WEDNESDAY | RYCOTE | 1615                                                                                lead for MyrIAD.
Speaker: Neil Topping & Cliff Barton, co-founders,
ParaDPO and John Tilsley, IT director, Look Ahead                                                        John Tilsley is an IT leader with 20 years’
Housing                                                                                                  experience of delivering IT solutions that
                                                                                                         drive digital transformation and support
                                                                                                         business change.

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Stick or Twist?

It’s your turn now!
Making the right housing technology decisions is difficult regardless of whether it’s
IT infrastructure, telecoms, AV, CRM, housing, repairs, asset management, digital,
mobile, finance, HR, Payroll, analytics or BI.

At itica pretty much all of our current work is helping housing organisations and
local authorities to make these difficult decisions by guiding them through a
structured thinking process.

Why not get in touch to hear about our work, or come and see our presentation and
visit our stand at Housing Technology 2020, for the latest insights and perspectives
on the biggest challenge facing the sector.

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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS

                                                    How Power Platform applications can             Jamie Barker empowers CxO executives            PowerObjects is a leader in delivering
                                                    be used to ease property management             to extract the maximum value from their         Microsoft Business Applications solutions
                                                    processes, particularly around ensuring the     IT investments by helping them improve          and the Dynamics 365 workloads through
                                                    safety of tenants and properties.               business performance, achieve upticks in        unparalleled offerings of service, support,
                                                                                                    customer satisfaction, increase productivity/   education, and add-ons.
                                                    We will showcase how Power Apps and             performance and reduce the year-on-year
                                                    Power Automate (formerly Flow) integrate        cost of supplying services.                     Named the 2019 Microsoft Financial
                                                    with each other to provide a truly integrated                                                   Services Partner of the Year and the 2019
                                                    solution that addresses fire safety, health                                                     Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Customer
POWEROBJECTS                                        and safety to people and places.                                                                Service Partner of the Year, PowerObjects’
Microsoft’s Power Platform – Improving safety                                                                                                       mission is to deliver solutions that help
processes within property management                                                                                                                organisations increase productivity,
                                                                                                                                                    streamline business processes and build
                                                                                                                                                    better relationships.
WEDNESDAY | LINCOLN | 1415
Speaker: Jamie Barker, senior solution architect,
PowerObjects

                                                    We will cover BI, data management, IoT, AI,     Craig Round is a disruptor in the housing       Regenda Group comprises multiple
                                                    cognitive learning, predictive analytics and    sector, with a cutting-edge approach to         organisations working together with the
                                                    how building our connected data landscape       data management, business intelligence, AI      core purpose of regenerating places to
                                                    has been essential for us as a data-driven      and IoT.                                        create opportunities for people. With
                                                    organisation.                                                                                   Regenda Homes at the heart of our group,
                                                                                                                                                    we manage 13,000 homes across the North
                                                    If you want to achieve one version of the                                                       West.
                                                    truth to become a data-driven organisation,
                                                    using BI to shape your business investments
REGENDA GROUP                                       and drive service delivery, come and hear
A connected data landscape                          our story.

WEDNESDAY | EXETER | 1115
Speaker: Craig Round, business analyst, Regenda
Group

                                                    As technology enables buildings to report,      Cian O’Flaherty, the CEO of Safecility, is an   Safecility is your building compliance
                                                    monitor and test themselves, how do             experienced start-up executive focused on       concierge. We create safer buildings and
                                                    compliance and asset managers automate          helping customers achieve big goals and         make life easier for housing authorities
                                                    critical compliance and safety work?            solve critical challenges through technology.   through IoT technology. With increased
                                                                                                                                                    regulation post Hackitt, Safecility makes it
                                                    What can we do to manage it at scale in a                                                       easier to comply. Our product automates
                                                    shifting regulatory environment? What can                                                       emergency lighting and other legally
                                                    we expect from technology to help this                                                          required testing and our platform manages
                                                    journey?                                                                                        auditable data across your estate making
SAFECILITY                                                                                                                                          compliance quick and effortless.
When buildings report on themselves: Compliance &   Discover insights and lessons from the team
safety in the IoT era                               at Safecility who are tackling this problem                                                     We handle the pain of testing and reporting.
                                                    right now.                                                                                      Housing authorities improve safety,
                                                                                                                                                    streamline compliance, free up company
WEDNESDAY | EXETER | 1615                                                                                                                           resources, save money and reduce carbon
Speaker: Cian O’Flaherty, CEO, Safecility                                                                                                           emissions. Think of Safecility as a dedicated
                                                                                                                                                    compliance buddy locally managing your
                                                                                                                                                    buildings so you don’t have to.

                                                    The first 90 days of a new role are critical.   Neill Crump joined Sanctuary Group as its       Sanctuary’s mission is to build affordable
                                                    This presentation will focus on how a new       group head of technology change to deliver      homes and sustainable communities where
                                                    group head of technology change defined         digital transformation. In the public and       people choose to live. One of the UK’s
                                                    the current state of a leading housing          private sectors, he has held roles such as      leading providers of housing, care, and
                                                    provider, designed the vision for IT change     chief data officer and undertaken digital and   commercial services, Sanctuary employs
                                                    and the blueprint that will enable it, and      data consulting assignments for FTSE-100        around 13,000 people and manages
                                                    created near-term innovations to support        firms.                                          over 100,000 units of accommodation
                                                    a modern workplace and the customer                                                             throughout England and Scotland.
                                                    experience.
SANCTUARY GROUP
A 90-day plan for technology change

WEDNESDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1515
Speaker: Neill Crump, group head of technology
change, Sanctuary Group

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