Keynote speakers have been announced for this year’s Construction Industry Summit which takes place on 20 and 21 September at the Grange, St Paul’s Hotel in London.

They are: David Hancock, Government Construction Team – ‘Government Construction Strategy’; Lord Digby Jones, former Minister of State for UK Trade & Investment – ‘A Post Brexit Country’; Anne Bentley, Rider Levitt Bucknall; David Cash, BDP; Mike Putnam, Skanska; Simon Rawlinson, Arcadia – ‘Construction Leadership Council Question Time’; and Maggie Philbin, media presenter, president Institute of Engineering Designers and co-founder and ceo Teen Tech – ‘Technology, Diversity and Innovation’.

Also included in the programme is a comprehensive array of leading industry experts with presentations entitled: ‘Working with the Enemy: sharing, collaboration and trust’; ‘Disrupting the Norm; Buying Smart: better procurement and more sophisticated finance models’; ‘Smart Cities and Open Data: a data driven future’; and ‘Delivering the Future: a skills base for the 21st century’.

In addition, the Summit also features a number of breakout sessions that include Construction Youth Trust’s #notjustforboys debate, with panellists British Chinese stand-up comedian (and former Cambridge University Engineering student) Phil Wang and Sophie Walker, leader of the Women’s Equality Party; Paul Morrell, former HM Government chief construction adviser and chair of Built Environment Professional Education Project (BEPE), on achieving an inclusive environment.

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