Our full list of speakers from leading IT partners and housing associations will be added shortly.
How data confidence can lead to better customer outcomes…. In the absence of any silver bullets, we’ll highlight the key factors influencing data confidence, its benefits and some practical strategies to achieve it (exact synopsis tbc).
Speaker: Paul Croston, Director of Technology, Digital & Data
George Grant is the CEO and publisher of Housing Technology. He co-founded Housing Technology with Alastair Tweedie (editor & co-founder) in 2007 to equip the UK’s social housing providers with the technology resources and information they require to improve their tenants’ lives. George has a track record of providing trusted information, research and news to the UK housing sector via the Housing Technology magazine, reports, events and broadcasts. Combining creative thinking with strategic planning, he thrives within a dynamic environment, delivering the maximum results for both housing professionals and leading IT suppliers.
To be confirmed
Hear from Riverside about how it used a data problem to drive a data-ownership culture and how it used value creation rather than compliance as a driver for information governance (exact synopsis tbc).
Speaker: Chris Nove, Director of Information Services
Following the merger of Southern Housing and Optivo, find out the highs and lows of Southern Housing’s data assurance programme to establish data ownership, data architecture, process alignment and data quality for seamless integration and improvement planning between the two merged organisations – no mean feat when we’re also integrating systems and staff at the same time (exact synopsis tbc).
Speakers: Nicole Brosnan, Data Quality & Improvement Manager and Amramanjari Singh, Director of Data and Business Information
With a complicated business model spanning its core activity as a housing provider alongside repairs and maintenance, trade supplies, construction, development, asbestos and waste management, Sovini found that its very information-rich, Power BI-derived reports were too much for many of its intended end-users. Discover how Sovini has implemented a data literacy programme, comprising analytical skills training, breaking down all processes and performance measures to the individual level, answering all/any questions simply and clearly, and providing self-service to users (exact synopsis tbc).
Speakers: Steve Monks, Sovini Group
We built a data lake… how and why did we do it, what worked (and what didn’t!), and its contribution to high-quality data (exact synopsis tbc).
Speakers: Paul Blaydes, Assistant Director of Data
Housing providers’ board members are under growing pressure to ensure their organisation’s data is fit for purpose yet few have direct expertise in data governance. Hear from an experienced board member on what they need from their executive staff to provide the necessary assurance and find out how best to present to boards in ways that will resonate with them so the right senior-level decisions are made to support effective data management (exact synopsis tbc).
Speakers: Nick Murphy, Board Member
