As pioneers in both the 4G and 5G rollouts, EE has led the way in transforming the mobile network landscape. Our presentation will delve into the advancements and investments in 5G Standalone (SA), highlighting its benefits such as lower latency, dedicated capacity, network slicing and enhanced network performance. Delivered by one of BT’s Principal Network Architects, this session promises to provide expert insights into the future of connectivity for the housing sector.

Speaker: Alex Whitmore, Product Manager for Core Mobile, BT/EE Business, BT

Alex has built a 28-year career in the mobile and communications industry, starting with CompuServe during the dial-up internet era and later transitioning into telecoms. Over the years, Alex contributed to key projects like the launch of EE, the introduction of 4G, and the integration of BT and EE, improving products and services for business users.

More recently, Alex has specialised in Service Design, with a strong focus on Customer Experience. For the past two years, Alex has worked with BT Core Mobile Product Delivery for BT Business, driving 5G Standalone network benefits and enhancing network performance visibility for business customers.

Social housing providers manage highly complex services, but to do so effectively, they need a deep understanding of their properties and customers. Organisations are increasingly opting to build complex customer views themselves, but the effectiveness of this undertaking can vary wildly.

Join Mobysoft’s Chief Technology & Product Officer, Chris Fleck for an insightful session titled ‘Making Sense of Data’ in which he’ll explore the critical question that many social landlords should be asking of themselves: Are you a data business or a service business? Chris will delve into why a holistic view of tenants and properties is essential for social housing providers and discuss whether organisations should develop these intricate, comprehensive customer views independently.

With many providers struggling to balance service delivery with the demands of data management, this session will offer actionable insights into navigating these challenges. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain clarity on your data strategy and discover the best path forward for your organisation.

Speaker: Chris Fleck, Chief Technology & Product Officer, Mobysoft

Chris Fleck joined Mobysoft from LandTech, a global PropTech business serving thousands of property developers in the UK and USA, where he was CTO for the last three years. Before LandTech, he spent 10 years as CTO in other fast-growing SaaS businesses.

At Mobysoft, his remit entails overseeing the construction, delivery and support of Mobysoft’s sector-leading AI-powered predictive analytics platforms trusted by over 180 social housing providers in the UK.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has conducted research into addressing the systemic challenges associated with the absence of common data standards in social housing. This research aims to facilitate interoperability between systems thereby eliminating inefficiencies such as manual work-arounds and reducing failures. By establishing these standards, the goal is to improve tenants’ outcomes. Better data would help in streamlining processes, improving service delivery and ensuring better data-driven activities across the sector.

Speaker: Sheldon Ferguson, Policy Lead, Local Digital Team, Ministry of Housing Communities & Local Government

Data-driven decision making remains at the forefront of every data transformation programme under the sky.  Join this session to hear from seasoned practitioners on how obstacles of the past were turned into great opportunities, through a modern approach to building and deploying a data platform.  This talk will explore how scalability, integrity and resilience was embedded into a data platform design upfront to unlock value through multiple use cases and customer journeys.

It goes on to demonstrate how a modern data platform can be instrumental in unlocking a far-reaching impact across tens of thousands of tenants enabling a step change in organisation’s operational efficiency, winning the Board support for further initiatives and maturing the organisation’s data culture along the way.  Design patterns that ensured the data platform could deliver value at scale for one of the biggest housing providers in the UK will be shared. This talk, presented by The Dot Collective and Places for People, is based on a recent real world case study.

Speakers: Kaz Sahota, Delivery Manager, The Dot Collective and Rob Gallagher, Chief Data Officer, Places for People

Rob Gallagher has spent around 20 years working in the field of data in a variety of roles in Business Intelligence, Data Engineering and Data Governance and most recently, Chief Data Officer.  These roles have been in a variety of industries, ranging from financial services, insurance, and public sector.  At Places for People, we’ve recently embarked on a journey to help the organisation become data driven through a multi-year data transformation programme called ‘Making Better Decisions’.  I have a background in engineering, having gained a qualification in Electronic Engineering, and on a more personal note I consider myself to be an avid geek, with interests in science, science fiction and gaming in my spare time.

We’ll be looking at Sovereign Network Group’s data quality (DQ) journey, from our initial steps saying that something was wrong, working out what the ‘problem statement’ was and then getting each element fixed (incl. our focus on the 6 Cs of data quality).

Like many other housing providers, SNG is always keen to share our experiences of what our pain points are (once we’ve identified them, of course).

We’ll also cover how every housing provider needs a senior group who are committed to supporting their teams in their quests for data quality across every level of the company. SNG has such a group and it’s been vital in our DQ success story.

Speakers: Robert Kilpatrick, Data Quality Officer, Sovereign Network Group

Robert Kilpatrick started in housing in 1989 and has worked at Sovereign since 2000, first as a housing officer and housing manager, moving into systems training and analysis and now in data quality.

Picture this – you’ve created a data strategy, the business is bought into the vision and now you have to deliver on your promise. The pressure is on to deliver value through data, and fast!

To create a data-driven organisation, data must be considered a key business priority with real engagement across all levels of the organisation. A data strategy is at the heart of driving the change and engagement needed to reach your organisation’s data goals.

Claire England will share her first-hand account of data delivery, from building a modern data team, selecting a partner, maintaining business buy-in and developing a data-delivery operating model to get data in the hands of the business as fast as possible!

Speakers: Claire England, Head of Data & Analytics, Orbit Group

With experience in a wide range of data, performance and management roles over the past 10 years, Claire England now leads Orbit’s central data function and is responsible for the creation and implementation of Orbit’s data strategy.