Data Matters 2025
About the event
Data matters. Good data and sound data management strategies must be the foundation of all housing providers’ operations, spanning technology, properties, tenants, staff and finance. Now in its fourth consecutive year, Housing Technology’s one-day Data Matters 2025 event will feature a brilliant selection of 100 per cent data and AI-focused presentations from selected housing providers on their data-specific experiences, recommendations, pitfalls to avoid and ongoing results. The key themes for Data Matters 2025 will be:
The key themes for Data Matters 2025 will be:
- Why sector-wide data standards benefit housing providers and tenants
- Using data standards to make data interoperable between application silos
- Demonstrating how data standards and AI can democratise data across an organisation
- ‘Rubbish in, rubbish out’ – the importance of good data for successful AI programmes
- How AI can transform routine data management tasks
- Using AI to mine your structured & unstructured TSM data
- Why good governance and regulatory compliance both need data standards and AI
- Pitfalls and tips for using AI within data management
Find out more
Date
16 September 2025. Data Matters 2025 will open at 08.45 for registration, breakfast and informal networking. Lunch will be provided, and the event will close at 16.00. Download our calendar invite and save the date!
Location
IET: Savoy Place (2 Savoy Place, London)
Get In Touch
If you are interested in giving a presentation at Data Matters 2025 or being involved in the technology showcase, please get in touch:
- Speaker & presentation enquiries: alastair@housing-technology.com;
- Partnership enquiries: partnership enquiries form.
Presentations
Please note that more presentations will be added to this page shortly.
Title TBCSynopsis TBC Speaker: TBC | Using AI to mine your structured & unstructured TSM dataSpeakers: Ola Balogun (Head of IT Services), Greg Terefenko (Head of Housing Management) The presentation looks into how The Barnet Group (TBG) has leveraged AI within its Incorta data platform to deliver real-time analytics and insights, highlighting the value of AI in the perception of TSMs and facilitating the reporting of protected characteristics across services such as income collection, ASB, housing options and repairs. By overlaying internal data with sector benchmarks, our solution enables tailored residents’ services, expands TBG’s understanding of its service users’ needs and supports data-led service design. | Data ‘swamps’ & achieving good data for AI & regulatory complianceSpeaker: Adam Whittle (Senior Lead for IT Service Delivery & Data Security) |
Why data standards matter - Unlocking scalable AI in UK housingAI holds real promise for housing, from responsive repairs to predictive asset management. However, without consistent, interoperable data, the sector runs the risk of having isolated pilot projects with only a shallow impact. This talk will explore why UK Housing Data Standards are a critical enabler of scalable AI adoption, not just a technical detail. Speaker: Guy Marshall (Director) | How ‘data mature’ are you & getting your data ambitions off the groundSpeakers: Frank Manoharan (Corporate Head of Data & Technology) & Pat Dawson (Data Manager) LHP will demonstrate its first steps to put ‘data on the map’ and share some tips, including:
| Data, analytics & integration (provisional title)Speakers: Dr. Odayne Haughton (Lead, Data Governance Engineer) Magna Housing’s presentation will cover how housing providers can strengthen their data governance foundations, improve their data quality and maturity, and implement scalable, people-centred governance frameworks for cross-system integration and trusted insight (provisional synopsis). |
Beyond the dashboard - A ‘whole system’ approach to data governance & insightThis session shares how Red Kite Community Housing has reimagined our data landscape, from platform strategy to quality metrics, AI-assisted data dictionaries and KPI dashboards to build a sustainable platform for data insights and utilisation that embeds core governance principles. Speaker: Sean Beckles (Data Governance Manager) | Microsoft Fabric, data standards & BI/analyticsSpeakers: Mark Mayler (Chief Financial Officer), Sarah Bridges (Group Data Governance Manager), Annabel Hammond-Stevens (IT Solutions Development Manager) Selwood Housing agreed its new data strategy in 2023 and since then we’ve embarked on numerous data-focused transformation projects. This discussion will focus on some of our key successes and the ongoing challenges we’re overcoming to implement data standards, introduce new storage capabilities through Microsoft Fabric and drive improved insight through enhanced analytics such as Power BI… All as jumping onto a moving train! | Title TBCSynposis TBC Speaker: TBC |
Venue
We’re delighted to be hosting at the historic IET: Savoy Place (The Institution of Engineering and Technology) in London. Address: 2 Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL. Our exhibition hall and networking areas will be held in the Riverside Room, offering fantastic views of the Thames. Additionally, our presentation sessions will take place in the state-of-the-art Turing Lecture Theatre, providing the perfect setting for insightful discussions.The closest tube stations to IET London: Savoy Place:
Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line)
Embankment (Northern, Bakerloo, Circle, District Lines)
London Charing Cross (Northern, Bakerloo Lines)
Temple (Circle, District Lines)