The Housing Technology 2024 conference returns to the East Midlands Conference Centre (Nottingham) on Tuesday 05 March with informal afternoon workshops (new for 2024) and a pre-conference evening reception. Our 15th annual conference then continues on Wednesday 06 and Thursday 07 March with expert panel discussions, business/IT presentations, a technology showcase in the exhibition hall and, of course, wall-to-wall networking throughout the event with your peers.
Registration for Housing Technology 2024 has just opened at conference.housing-technology.com.
New for 2024 – ‘Any answers?’ workshops
As a new addition to the conference for 2024, we’re holding a series of topic-specific ‘Any answers?’ workshops during the afternoon of Tuesday 05 March; access to and participation in the workshops is included with tickets to the main conference.
Each workshop will be moderated (no presentations) by a subject-matter expert from a different housing provider, giving conference attendees unrivalled off-the-record opportunities to discuss what they’re doing, share their experiences and pick others’ brains for answers to their problems within the different workshop topics (outline details below).
- Are they being served? – Faster repairs, better communications & happier tenants (mod. Housing Solutions);
- Foster the people – Cultural evolution alongside business/IT changes (mod. Choice Housing);
- Rethinking your enterprise – Digital transformation, rapid deployment & resilience (mod. Newark & Sherwood District Council);
- Show me the data – Building the strongest foundations with data management (mod. tbc);
- Stay protected – Cyber security in housing (mod. Sovini Group);
- The rise of the machines – Best practice & ethics for AI, machine learning & IoT (mod. tbc).
Summary of speakers
As ever, we’ve arranged a brilliant range of speakers and presentations for the two days of the Housing Technology conference, alongside two expert panel discussions to open each day of the event (details to be announced nearer the time). More presentations will be revealed later in 2023; the first tranche of confirmed presentations are below:
- Choice Housing: Cultural change alongside digital evolution… Failure leads to success at Choice Housing;
- Coastline & Smartline: Using IoT sensors to support independent living (incl. ethics, security and integration);
- Freebridge Community Housing: Calling for innovation… An honest appraisal around digital acceleration, data security & quality and technology adoption;
- Home Group: From ship-building & coal-mining to nail bars & Turkish hairdressers – A look at jobs, wealth, society, how technology impacts it and what that means for social housing;
- Housing Solutions: A new model for inspections – QR codes, real-time resident ratings and community involvement;
- Lincolnshire Housing Partnership: The halo effect – Transforming corporate support services;
- London Borough of Barking & Dagenham: Making the case for change – Standing still isn’t an option, yet change brings risks (incl. moving from HMS to ERP);
- Newark & Sherwood District Council: The transformation triad – A reflection on the factors that can derail your transformation plans (incl. people, process development & system limitations);
- North Star Housing Group: Best practice & ethics for AI, machine learning & IoT – The results of new research from North Star Housing, Waterstons, York University & Warwick University;
- Orbit Group: Creating and implementing a data management strategy;
- Platform Housing Group: What is AI best practice for housing?;
- Riverside Group: Building the strongest foundations with data management;
- Selwood Housing: Dynamics 365, data management and analytics;
- Sovereign Housing: Sovereign’s data observability and governance journey – A case study around Selwood Housing’s use of Microsoft Purview;
- Sovini Group: Cyber security for housing – Build your walls high, bolt your gates, dig your moat… then work out how that big wooden horse still got in…;
- Wrekin Housing Group: Waking up after a cyber attack – What we’ve learned.
Technology, business & services showcase
Housing Technology 2024 will feature a technology, business and services showcase in the exhibition hall at the centre of the East Midlands Conference Centre. At the time of going to press, the sponsors and exhibitors are confirmed (more to be added over the coming months) as Aico, Civica, Crimson, FLS – Smart Lean Smart, Housing Insight, Lioness Recruitment, Manifest Software Solutions, Mobysoft, Pay360, Social Telecoms and Voicescape.
Registration for Housing Technology 2024 has just opened at conference.housing-technology.com.
