Dane Ralston, the founder of iOpt, will speak about how his background in industrial asset monitoring led to iOpt moving into the housing sector four years ago. In particular we will hear about how using simple data and making sure it is gathered consistently can lead to easy wins in the early stages of an IoT deployment, before moving on to more sophisticated use cases such as cost/benefit analysis.
Speaker: Dane Ralston (founder)
Nestclo is a cloud-based platform from Arign to manage property management operations, enabling users to connect via collaborative platform, and provides analytical reporting and real-time management information.
Speaker: Manpreet Johal (founder and director)
Waltham Forest has just completed a chatbot challenge which created a bot to allow residents to report ASB using Lex technology using students from the borough. It took us five weeks to produce a working prototype, based on low-code development and the democratisation of development, and it didn’t always go according to the plan…
Speaker: Richard Holland (assistant director for technology innovation) and John Hubbard (director – commercial and innovation)
In this session, Glenn Allan, head of housing products for Capita One, explores the concept that, when it comes to social housing, you can’t deal with people and their houses separately; the two are intrinsically linked.
So how can we maximise the contribution that housing professionals make to the well-being of communities, working to transform the lives of the most vulnerable in society? Join Glenn as he explores this key consideration facing our sector today.
Speaker: Glenn Allan (head of product for housing)
Sabrina will share some of her biggest challenges, from homelessness to dealing with the trauma of emergencies. While these challenges initially presented as barriers, they also provided significant opportunities. She will share the power of difference and how by not conforming to a stereotype meant that she wasn’t constrained by it, leaving her free to draw her own boundaries. This included leading national research, using behavioural science to revolutionise the way firefighters make decisions and keeping them safer.
Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton has been a firefighter since she was 18 years old. She is now one of the most senior female firefighters in the UK. After leaving home at 15 and school at 16, she joined the fire service in Wales. While climbing the ranks, she studied at the Open University and then at Cardiff University, eventually completing a PhD in Psychology. Her subsequent research into incident command in the emergency services has not only won awards but has also influenced policy at a global level. Sabrina was recently conferred as an Honorary Fellow at Cardiff University. Her first book, The Heat of the Moment, was published in April 2019 and has been optioned for TV by Kudos TV. She is an ambassador for the Big Issue. She lives with her husband and daughter in London.
https://www.housing-technology.com/speaker/keynote-sabrina-cohen-hatton/
How does diversity help IT departments? Why are women leaving technical roles? What can the housing sector do to get ahead of the recruitment curve and leave the dark ages of IT behind? This talk will explore these questions and, hopefully, raise a few laughs. They will also talk about working in their department which enjoys a 50:50 gender ratio and reasons to be cheerful!
Speakers: Rhian Waygood (IT business partner team leader) and Amy Kelly (Lead IT support analyst)
