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Housing Technology 2020 Programme 4-5 March 2020 Doubletree by Hilton Oxford Belfry | Oxfordshire #HousingTech2020 @HousingTech
GEORGE GRANT Publisher and Founder, Welcome to Housing Technology 2020! Housing Technology Housing Technology’s annual conference We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone Trinity Suite for the keynote talks). You can pick and choose any in Housing Technology’s community of readers, editorial presentation during the event; no pre-booking is necessary. contributors, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors; you are all All drinks and food (included as part of your conference ticket) absolutely vital to all of our activities, ranging from not only will be served in the College Suite and College Lounge where the this conference but also across our other events, bi-monthly sponsors and exhibitors are located. magazine, market intelligence reports, recruitment services OUR COMMUNITY and research projects. Please join in with the latest news by contributing to our social The conference’s keynote talks (page 8) and IT/business media. The @housingtech Twitter feed will be updated before presentations (page 4-7) take place in the Exeter, Rycote, Lincoln, and during the conference; please use #HousingTech2020 for Pembroke and University rooms (the latter three comprise the your posts. PRE-EVENT DRINKS RECEPTION EVENING RECEPTION INFORMAL DINNER 18.00 | Tuesday 03 March 17.30 | Wednesday 04 March 19.30 | Wednesday 04 March We are hosting an informal pre-event There will be an early-evening drinks After the evening reception, there will be drinks and canapé reception at the reception on Wednesday 04 March to an informal dinner (dress: smart/casual) to Oxford Belfry during the evening of which all delegates, speakers, sponsors which all delegates, speakers, sponsors and Tuesday 03 March to which all delegates, and exhibitors are invited as Housing exhibitors are invited. Pre-booking is required; speakers, sponsors and exhibitors are Technology’s guests. please see the event website, contact the invited as Housing Technology’s guests. organisers or go to the hotel’s reception desk. The Oxford Belfry How to find your way If you have any questions, please email conference@housing-technology.com or during the conference itself, comeThame, along Oxford to the Organisers’ Office (see the location below). www.QHotels.co.uk EXETER COLLEGE SUITE TRINITY SUITE UNIVERSITY PEMBROKE LINCOLN THE OXFORD BELFRY How to find your way around ORGANISERS’ OFFICE HOTEL RECEPTION RYCOTE 2 | housing-technology.com
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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS RUNNING ORDER MAY BE SUBJECT TO MINOR CHANGES BEFORE THE EVENT COLLEGE SUITE TRINITY SUITE UNIVERSITY 0830 REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST 1000 KEYNOTE | SABRINA COHEN-HATTON PREMIUM SPONSOR 1115 ITICA Stick or twist a.k.a. – Should I stay or should I go? PREMIUM SPONSOR 1215 BRITANNIC TECHNOLOGIES How digital transformation reduces costs, improves CX & grows value 1300 LUNCH PREMIUM SPONSOR 1415 MOBILEIRON Achieving mobile-centric, zero-trust enterprise security 1515 SANCTUARY GROUP A 90-day plan for technology change 1615 IT ACCELERATOR ARIGN SESSIONS Nestclo – The property management platform FUZZLAB Chatbots and AI for customer self-service 1730 - 1830 EVENING RECEPTION | open to all at Housing Technology 2020 1930 - 2100 INFORMAL DINNER | open to all at Housing Technology 2020 4 | housing-technology.com
WEDNESDAY 04 MARCH EXETER PEMBROKE RYCOTE LINCOLN Breaking down the barriers – Stories from a firefighter PREMIUM SPONSOR PREMIUM SPONSOR PREMIUM SPONSOR REGENDA GROUP AAREON PARADIGM IVICA & SOUTH C A connected data Delivering a digital HOUSING LAKES HOUSING landscape ecosystem Getting the ‘data basics’ ‘Chat-a-boosting’ tenant right satisfaction & productivity when booking repairs PREMIUM SPONSOR PREMIUM SPONSOR PREMIUM SPONSOR SIMPSON NORTHGATE SOVEREIGN CASTLETON ASSOCIATES PUBLIC SERVICES HOUSING TECHNOLOGY Service management Wolverhampton Homes Unlocking digital Panel discussion – Faster simplified – how to save – Connecting homes transformation business transformation time and reduce risk through IoT with customer-centric, data-driven systems PREMIUM SPONSOR PREMIUM SPONSOR WANDLE HOUSING ORCHARD SILVA HOMES POWEROBJECTS The ‘wow’ factor, part two How cutting-edge Would you like a receipt Microsoft’s Power Platform technology will affect the for that? handing digital – Improving safety user of today & tomorrow control back to the processes within property customer management PREMIUM SPONSOR PREMIUM SPONSOR COASTAL HOUSING CAPITA ADRA AMAZON WEB “Can I speak to someone Capita One introduces Developing low-code SERVICES in IT?” One Housing solutions for corporate re:Imagine Infrastructure HR & finance processes SAFECILITY: IOPT PARADPO & LOOK TRENT & DOVE When buildings report on The internet of things in AHEAD HOUSING HOUSING & themselves: Compliance & housing maintenance Pragmatic data protection ORCHARD safety in the IoT era using MyrIAD (INTERNETALIA) MINIBEMS Bringing quality and OPTUS HOMES Advancing heat networks consistency to in-house Mobile first – Genuine tenant by leveraging data science repairs self-management, today PRE-BOOKING REQUIRED HOUSING TECHNOLOGY 2020 @HousingTech #housingtech2020 |5
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS RUNNING ORDER MAY BE SUBJECT TO MINOR CHANGES BEFORE THE EVENT COLLEGE SUITE TRINITY SUITE UNIVERSITY 0830 REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST 0945 KEYNOTE | DR KEVIN FONG, OBE PREMIUM SPONSOR 1100 OVEREIGN BUSINESS S INTEGRATION GROUP Implementing new IT? Make sure it integrates with your current environment! PREMIUM SPONSOR 1200 TOTALMOBILE & WATES PROPERTY SERVICES Beyond repairs – Integrating planned & programmed work into your maintenance systems 1245 LUNCH 1345 L&Q Connected places 1445 LONDON BOROUGH OF WALTHAM FOREST The low-code chatbot challenge 1600 CLOSE 6 | housing-technology.com
THURSDAY 05 MARCH EXETER PEMBROKE RYCOTE LINCOLN Becoming future proof PREMIUM SPONSOR PREMIUM SPONSOR VALLEYS TO COAST MOBYSOFT RAND UNION G CADCORP & ORBIT HOUSING Why application HOUSING What is GIS & why do Enabling the modern integration & CRM are the Going full throttle to drive housing providers use it? workplace future of housing IT change PREMIUM SPONSOR PREMIUM SPONSOR CONNECTOLOGY TSG HOUSING PLUS CDW Transforming ICT teams It’s Office 365, Jim… Unleashing our IT to The future of the modern But not as we know it empower our people & workplace customers WATFORD KINGDOM COMMUNITY HOUSING HOUSING Chrome killed my desktop Transforming and future- proofing IT… THRIVE HOMES Data security & integrity HOUSING TECHNOLOGY 2020 @HousingTech #housingtech2020 |7
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS There is a new rhythm to our lives. In the digital age, the pace of progress is exponential, the clocks we depend upon are nestled in microchips, beating billions of times each second. 90 per cent of all the information ever generated was created within the last two years. All of this means that technology is getting better and faster all the time. With that comes new capabilities in every corner of our lives touched by the digital revolution; even medicine is slowly being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. But with this capability comes uncertainty too. New technologies become obsolete at a rate never seen before, and with that the skills and businesses involved in their manufacture. What can we in medicine expect of the future? Where should we set our expectations and how should we prepare ourselves for our lives and careers in this new world? In a world full of machines that learn Sabrina Cohen-Hatton and computers that get ever faster, what will be left for humble humans to do? In this talk, Dr Kevin Fong takes us on a journey Breaking down the barriers from the breath-taking capability of the present into a future that is – Stories from a firefighter increasingly hard to predict. WEDNESDAY 04 MARCH Dr Kevin Fong has worked as a doctor with NASA and currently flies TRINITY SUITE | 1000 as part of a helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) crew in the UK. As a front-line emergency physician, his expertise lies in understanding teamwork, risk management and decision-making under extreme pressure. With degrees in astrophysics, medicine and engineering, he is also something of a renaissance man. Having worked with NASA’s human space flight programme in Houston, Dr Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton will share some of her biggest Fong has a unique perspective on science, technology, exploration challenges, from homelessness to dealing with the trauma of and the limits of the human body which he has brought to life emergencies. While these challenges were barriers at first, they in his incredible talks, inspiring global audiences at both public also provided significant opportunities. She will share the power and corporate events. In 2015, he delivered the prestigious Royal of difference and how by not conforming to a stereotype meant Institution Christmas Lectures. that she wasn’t constrained by it, leaving her free to draw her Dr Kevin Fong has also brought his expertise to both television and own boundaries. This included leading national research, using radio. He co-presented ‘Astronauts: Do You Have What it Takes’ behavioural science to revolutionise the way firefighters make and ‘Operation Goldrush’ with Dan Snow. He wrote and presented decisions and keeping them safer. ‘Space Shuttle: The Final Mission’, ‘To Boldly Go’ and several Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton has been a firefighter since she was 18 Horizon programmes including ‘We Need to Talk about Death’, years old. She is now one of the most senior female firefighters in ‘Cyber Attack’, ‘Back from the Dead’ and ‘How to Avoid Mistakes the UK. After leaving home at 15 and school at 16, she joined the fire in Surgery’. He presented Channel 4’s ‘Extreme A&E’ and his radio service in Wales. While climbing the ranks, she studied at the Open documentaries include ‘Game Changer: Fortnite’ and ‘Trauma University and then at Cardiff University, eventually completing Medicine: The Fight for Life’ on BBC Radio 4. a PhD in psychology. Her subsequent research into incident As an author, Dr Kevin Fong has written ‘Extremes’ which won an command in the emergency services has not only won awards but American Association for the Advancement of Science Award has also influenced policy at a global level. (AAAS) in 2015. He was awarded an OBE for services to science, She was recently conferred as an Honorary Fellow at Cardiff medicine and healthcare in H.M. The Queen’s 2019 birthday honours. University. Her first book, ‘The Heat of the Moment’, was published in April 2019 and has been optioned for television by Kudos TV. She is an ambassador for The Big Issue. She lives with her husband and daughter in London. Dr Kevin Fong, OBE Becoming future proof THURSDAY 05 MARCH TRINITY SUITE | 0945 8 | housing-technology.com
STREAMLINE CONTRACTOR INTERACTIONS Managing the relationship between landlords and housing providers and their business partners is key to efficiency. After all, the business success of a housing company is directly dependent on trouble- free collaboration with tradespeople, utilities and other service providers. With the help of the digital solutions from the Aareon Smart World portfolio, social housing providers are able to coordinate the work of tradespeople efficiently and provide them, via mobile devices, with all the information they need to do their jobs. For more information visit www.aareon. co.uk or contact your account manager. Call us on 02476 323 723 |9
BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS Aareon will be presenting how the future Paul Lock has been product manager for Aareon UK is the leading supplier of digital landscape is changing. Do you digital solutions at Aareon since 2016. housing management and digital software struggle with integration and connecting solutions for RSLs in the UK. Our position third-party systems? Is the speed of Previously with 1st Touch as a software as a profitable, growing and innovative deployment for new channels slow and developer and implementation consultant, organisation enables us to set the standard difficult? How do you get suppliers to he has over 10 years’ experience building and for business processes in housing both collaborate? delivering digital products within housing. today and in the future. This in-depth knowledge and willingness to Join us and find out how your organisation work with customers and colleagues alike The Aareon product suite offers truly AAREON could benefit from a completely open helps to shape the strategic direction of integrated, highly functional and flexible Delivering a digital ecosystem platform which will enable you to deliver Aareon’s digital product portfolio. software solutions, providing end-to- a wide range of new innovative digital end business processing and designed solutions. specifically to meet the needs of social WEDNESDAY | PEMBROKE | 1115 housing providers. Speaker: Paul Lock, product manager, Aareon Our journey towards in-house software Alun Hughes previously worked as a web We provide quality homes in North Wales. development using low-code development developer and co-ordinator for a medical Our goal is affordable and reliable homes platforms will be presented (warts and all!). rehabilitation products manufacturer and as a for local people. We work for the benefit of digital communications officer at Adra. Having our communities by protecting, promoting Don’t miss this opportunity to avoid seen the rapid growth in mobile technology, and assisting them to develop. the potential pitfalls and learn how we I thrive at delivering available anywhere/ embraced failure and implemented an anytime solutions. We aim to promote the health, environment agile, low-code software development and safety of our communities and work methodology. Geraint Vernon previously worked as a together to provide opportunities for the ADRA medical researcher, an Amazon smart- people who live here. The culture and Developing low-code solutions for corporate HR & processing developer and a local authority IT safety of our communities is very important finance processes manager. My passion is the application of IT to us, especially our work to promote the to innovate and improve processes. Welsh language. WEDNESDAY | RYCOTE | 1515 Speakers: Geraint Vernon, business systems support manager & Alun Hughes, business systems developer, Adra The journey to driving more innovation As an account manager for Amazon Web Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide in housing starts with re-imagining how Services, Chris Masey helps non-profit Public Sector helps government, education, we manage our legacy systems and organisations understand the capabilities and non-profit customers deploy cloud infrastructure. of the AWS Cloud to save money, drive services to reduce costs, drive efficiencies, innovation and enable digital transformation. and increase innovation across the globe. Amazon Web Services will explore why Prior to Amazon, he was a digital solutions shifting away from on-premise datacentres manager at Orchard Information Systems, With AWS, you only pay for what you use, and hardware-focused tasks to provisioning with a focus on helping tenants adopt digital with no up-front physical infrastructure these services in the cloud delivers greater technologies for self-service. expenses or long-term commitments. AMAZON WEB SERVICES resilience, performance and agility. Public sector organisations of all sizes use re:Imagine Infrastructure David Mason has a background in public and AWS to build applications, host websites, Incline-IT, which has recently implemented private sector IT services delivery and leads harness big data, store information, conduct an AWS infrastructure migration for a major the Incline IT team. He is an advocate of research, improve online access for citizens, WEDNESDAY | LINCOLN | 1515 housing provider, will introduce Incline’s cloud computing and cloud-native SDWAN and more. Speakers: Chris Masey, account manager - UK Public core offering, ‘housing as a service’, and to achieve elegant and highly available Sector (NPO), Amazon Web Services & David Mason, explain why deploying AWS changes the systems for Incline IT’s customers. technical director, Incline-IT (part of MIS Group) game for how infrastructure is managed and enables housing providers to focus on what truly matters, their data. Nestclo is a cloud-based platform from Manpreet Johal has 20 years’ experience Arign (derived from ARchitecture, desIGN) is Arign to manage property management in designing and deploying technology an IT architecture and design consultancy. operations, enabling users to connect via solutions for global organisations. At Arign, we help clients to achieve their a collaborative platform, and provides strategic objectives by providing digital analytical reporting and real-time With expertise in enterprise architecture and transformation solutions via IT architecture, management information. cyber security, he also provides consulting solutions and information security services. services to clients across financial services, insurance, retail, public services, construction Nestclo, our software-as-a-service platform and defence. provides a suite of applications to digitally ARIGN manage business operations for the Nestclo – The property management platform housing, real estate and food & beverage sectors. WEDNESDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1615 Speaker: Manpreet Johal, founder & director, Arign 10 | housing-technology.com
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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS From channel shift to self-service, to Jonathan Sharp has 20 years’ experience Britannic Technologies are award-winning automation of rent arrears and repairs, in driving business innovation and specialists in voice communications, digital transformation can help reduce costs transformation. As sales & marketing director systems integration and managed services, and improve customer experience with at Britannic Technologies, he is enthusiastic maximising the ICT investment of private a seamless customer journey. But most about IT adoption, helping businesses to and public organisations across the UK. importantly, it helps grow real business connect with their customers and staff in the value. most efficient and intuitive ways. Most importantly, we are your partner when it comes to designing, delivering and Micro-services and automation are making He encourages technology and business developing transformative solutions. We BRITANNIC TECHNOLOGIES a big impact in housing, from procurement leaders to ‘think bigger’ and regularly work with you to understand your business How digital transformation reduces costs, improves through to customer service – see some shares ideas around evolving technologies, goals, processes and culture. Then we build CX & grows value innovative examples that will make life applications and business models through and support your integrated solution with better for your customers and provide real workshops, seminars and conferences. network services, systems and applications business value. that really meet your end-users’ needs and WEDNESDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1215 commercial requirements. Presenter: Jonathan Sharp, sales & marketing director, Britannic Technologies Have you heard how housing providers are Fergus Craig works with commercial Cadcorp SIS is a geographic information making better use of their resources by organisations in realising the full value of system (GIS) used by housing providers deploying a geographic information system their data through GIS and web mapping. across the UK to combine data with location (GIS)? Are you considering GIS but not sure He focuses on providing GIS to the social to improve land, assets and grounds what’s possible? housing and insurance sectors, enabling maintenance management. Those new them to make better informed decisions on to GIS use its intuitive data capture and Orbit Group will be sharing its rationale managing their land and assets. editing tools for creating and maintaining behind selecting and using GIS; with map records of their land and property Cadcorp, Orbit will demonstrate how, Steve Litchfield is a GIS specialist with a assets. Cadcorp SIS is also used to integrate CADCORP & ORBIT by using GIS, it can better manage its real passion for geographic information and disparate data sets and to present enriched What is GIS & why do housing providers use it? assets, grounds maintenance and stock cartography. He has enjoyed bringing his intelligence. performance. mapping expertise to different organisations, helping them to maximise efficiency and At Orbit, we re-invest our profits to support THURSDAY | LINCOLN | 1100 move forward with data science-based our vision of building thriving communities. Speakers: Steve Litchfield, senior GIS analyst, Orbit strategies. We want every generation to be able to Group & Fergus Craig, business development live in a home that they can afford, in a safe manager for housing, Cadcorp and thriving community. Our development programme delivers around 2,000 new homes every year. Introducing the latest updates from the Glenn Allan has been with Capita since 2011 Your housing, our technology… We know Capita One Housing roadmap. and has over 30 years’ experience in the your housing management solution needs software industry. to be as intelligent and intuitive as the technology we use every day, helping you Having worked in the public sector and for to streamline operations and provide the several blue-chip companies, he has spent very best customer service. the last 15 years in the housing sector, giving him extensive experience of different housing That’s why One Housing is unique, providing management systems. a fully integrated suite of tools in the CAPITA ONE cloud to help balance effective asset Capita One introduces One Housing management, maintenance, self-serve portals, managing an efficient workforce, finance and payments. WEDNESDAY | PEMBROKE | 1515 Speaker: Glenn Allan, head of product for housing, Capita Castleton and its guests share their Jimmy Rogers has been at Castleton since Castleton Technology is the leading experience of achieving business 2014 and is responsible for all new business provider of integrated technology solutions transformation by considering all aspects and commercial sales. He has many years’ in social housing, helping housing providers of solution delivery. We’ll be exploring a experience and expertise in software and of all sizes to achieve their business customer-centric approach, with solutions social housing, having previously worked at transformation goals through the provision designed around the customer rather IBS OpenSystems and Documotive. of customer-centric, data-driven, hosted than the property and how to ensure you software solutions and future-proof have the right technology to support your Simon Penaluna is responsible for strategic IT technologies. operations. direction at Grand Union Housing, advising on CASTLETON TECHNOLOGY innovations and technologies that transform We aim to be a true technology partner Panel discussion – Faster business transformation Our guests discuss their omni-channel customer services across the group. of choice to your organisation, bringing with customer-centric, data-driven systems strategies, how to adopt new technologies about change where change is needed and the importance of data accuracy and Darren Penny is the ICT manager for and delivering innovation where there is security. Honeycomb Group, a Staffordshire-based demand. WEDNESDAY | LINCOLN | 1215 housing provider. Speakers: Jimmy Rogers, new business sales & marketing director, Castleton Technology, Darren Penny, ICT service delivery manager, Honeycomb Group & Simon Penaluna, director of IT, Grand Union Housing 12 | housing-technology.com
TRANSFORM THE HOUSING EXPERIENCE FOR A REDUCED COST Housing organisations know they need to digitally transform, but transforming is expensive, right? Wrong. At Housing Technology 2020, Britannic Technologies will show housing organisations how they can: Spread limited resources to higher value areas with business process automation Drastically reduce the cost to serve with conversational AI and digital agents Encourage and motivate agents and report with contact centre gamification Manage and respond across multiple channels through one smart inbox Utilise self-serve through WebRTC, chat and AI Introduce microservices for areas such as the automation of maintenance requests Join over 30 housing associations already working with Britannic to Improve tenant and employee experiences. SEE DEMOS AT THE BRITANNIC STAND AT HOUSING TECHNOLOGY 2020 01483 242526 hello@btlnet.co.uk www.btlnet.co.uk | 13
BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS • Collaboration in the cloud – how can Shaun Ward has held chief architect roles CDW is a multi-brand technology solutions new workplace platforms help with for very large enterprise cloud and desktop provider to business, government, collaboration? transformation programmes, as well as education and healthcare organisations • Data in the cloud – how best to use data having a wealth of experience in housing. in the United States, Canada, United from standard and custom applications to Kingdom and other international locations. improve customer service? Matthew Browne is an experienced solutions We are recipients of the industry’s highest • Automation – enable your staff to specialist focused on creating ‘modern achievable accreditations. We help our concentrate on the most important tasks. workspace’ solutions to solve key business clients achieve their goals by delivering • Applications – how can employees create challenges. He has advanced knowledge integrated solutions and services that CDW their own automated and digital processes of enterprise analytics and automation, maximise their IT investment. The future of the modern workplace & tools? providing not only the system design but also • The future – how will collaboration and the the data design to accompany it. Building IT solutions that generate results modern workplace evolve? is what we do. And we do it better than THURSDAY | LINCOLN | 1200 anyone else because we are the People Speakers: Shaun Ward, practice lead for cloud Who Get IT. solutions & Matthew Browne, cloud solutions specialist, CDW Hear how chatbots can improve and Tim Franklin has 30 years’ experience Civica is a market-leading provider of cloud accelerate the availability, responsiveness helping a range of public and private software, digital solutions and managed and productivity of your tenant repair sector organisations to navigate complex services to the social housing sector, processes and online FAQs. digital landscapes. Right now, he’s using working in partnership with more than 400 his expertise to shape Civica’s chatbot and housing providers to support five million conversational AI solutions. tenants. We help housing organisations gain better data insights by creating a single Paul Aitken has 11 years’ experience in the view of customers, enabling the delivery housing sector. He has delivered many of intelligent, responsive services while CIVICA & SOUTH LAKES HOUSING different projects during his time as an IT unlocking significant savings. ’Chat-a-boosting’ tenant satisfaction & productivity Manager at South Lakes Housing, including when booking repairs being one of the first adopters of Civica Cx. South Lakes Housing is the largest provider of affordable rented housing in South Lakeland (Cumbria), managing over 3,000 WEDNESDAY | LINCOLN | 1115 homes, with plans to build 300+ new homes Speakers: Tim Franklin, head of conversational over the next few years. AI, Civica & Paul Aitken, IT manager, South Lakes Housing How does diversity help IT departments? Rhian Waygood and Amy Kelly have Coastal Housing Group is a not-for-profit Why are women leaving technical roles? collectively worked at Coastal Housing for industrial and provident society, existing What can the housing sector do to get 12 years. They both started in housing roles only for the benefit of the community, ahead of the recruitment curve and leave before IT and are now dedicated to providing operating in Swansea, Neath, Port Talbot, the dark ages of IT behind? creative digital offerings to Coastal’s staff Bridgend and Carmarthenshire. ever since. This talk will explore these questions and hopefully raise a few laughs. They will also They share a mutual dislike for talk about working in their department troubleshooting printers. COASTAL HOUSING which enjoys a 50/50 gender ratio and ”Can I speak to someone in IT?” other reasons to be cheerful! WEDNESDAY | EXETER | 1515 Speakers: Rhian Waygood, IT business partner team leader & Amy Kelly, lead IT support analyst, Coastal Housing Many housing providers have a business Steve Dungworth has worked in the public Connectology is a housing consultancy transformation programme. However, one sector for over 40 years, including 12 years focused on connecting people, data and of the barriers to its achievement is the engaged in digital transformation in housing. technology. capacity and capability of the internal ICT team. He was previously the director of digital The relentless drive to use technology transformation at a large housing provider impacts on our customers, staff and A modern ICT team needs to be embedded in Yorkshire where he developed and suppliers - people! We can help you in the culture of the rest of the business, implemented omni-channel services, mobile understand the impact of changes and get particularly when IT staff can sometimes working and a self-service portal. better buy-in from leaders, enthuse users CONNECTOLOGY be seen as different, reserved or defensive, to adopt the benefits, and communicate Transforming ICT teams so how can you develop your IT team to effectively with all your stakeholders. collaborate with your business customers? THURSDAY | EXETER | 1200 Speaker: Steve Dungworth, founder & director, Connectology 14 | housing-technology.com
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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS This session will demonstrate how Fuzzlab’s Scott Summers has been delivering Fuzzlab is the first and best chatbot and AI AI-enabled chatbot, trained specifically successful IT projects and products into solution provider that specialises in social for the housing sector, can reduce your the housing sector for over 20 years. He housing. call volumes while increasing customer co-founded Fuzzlab to bring better user satisfaction. experience and less frustration to tenants Our mission is to make tenants’ lives easier when dealing with their landlords. by making it simple to manage their affairs It acts as a virtual assistant, enabling and interactions with their landlord. The customer self-service for repairs, rent founders have over 30 years’ combined queries, reporting ASB and housing housing experience that they’ve applied to FUZZLAB applications. Our chatbot works on web, make digital transformation and customer Chatbots & AI for customer self-service mobile, Facebook and Alexa, providing ‘off self-service simple for our customers. the shelf’ digital transformation. WEDNESDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1615 Speaker: Scott Summers, co-founder, Fuzzlabs Two years ago, we were comfortably Simon Penaluna is responsible for strategic IT Grand Union Housing manages tootling along, operating as four separate direction at Grand Union Housing, advising on 12,000 homes across Bedfordshire, housing providers within the wider group. innovations and technologies that transform Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and customer services across the group. Hertfordshire, with plans to build a further However, rather than being in the driving 1,800 homes in the next few years. seat of a fast, responsive car, we found we Sue Rice leads Grand Union’s transformation were increasingly lagging behind in our team, delivering innovative IT projects that trusty old banger. This is our story of how change the way colleagues deliver and we’ve taken over the wheel and gone full customers access its services. GRAND UNION HOUSING throttle to transform ourselves back to the Going full throttle to drive change future. THURSDAY | RYCOTE | 1100 Speakers: Simon Penaluna, IT director & Sue Rice, IT business transformation manager, Grand Union Housing An overview of why and how we’ve Andrew Dale is experienced at delivering IT Housing Plus is a charitable community transformed our IT services to enable services and transformation programmes in benefit society, providing homes and specific services to be delivered by the housing and private sectors. He is now care services across Shropshire and specialist partners, with a ‘cloud first’ focused on driving service improvements Staffordshire. approach to technical delivery. through partnership working to enable ease of digital transformation. As one of the largest housing providers in Focusing on the challenges we faced; the the area, the group manages 18,000 homes IT service delivery model we designed for and employs 800+ people. robust, scalable and effective IT services; HOUSING PLUS how we’ve transformed IT service delivery Unleashing our IT to empower our people & through engagement with specialist customers partners; and the resulting benefits. THURSDAY | RYCOTE | 1200 Speaker: Andrew Dale, assistant director of IT, Housing Plus Dane Ralston, the founder of iOpt, will talk Dane Ralston has been working in the asset iOpt is the leading IoT service provider about how his background in industrial monitoring sector for over 20 years, starting specialising in the housing sector. asset monitoring led to iOpt moving into the off in the automotive world and subsequently Established in 2016, iOpt has gone from housing sector four years ago. the aerospace and electricity distribution strength to strength, with customers sectors and now brings his experience to globally reaping the benefits of iOpt’s asset Hear about how using simple data and housing. monitoring expertise. making sure it’s gathered consistently can lead to easy wins in the early stages of an The iOpt platform uses sensor data to IoT deployment, before moving on to more allow iOpt to deploy its unique algorithms iOPT sophisticated use cases such as cost/ and expertise to tackle a variety of issues The internet of things in housing maintenance benefit analysis. including preventative maintenance and social issues such as fuel poverty and disrepair claims. WEDNESDAY | PEMBROKE | 1615 Speaker: Dane Ralston, founder, iOpt 16 | housing-technology.com
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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS Under pressure to deliver better customer John Doughty was appointed as a director of Itica is a business-driven IT consultancy. service, digital transformation, maintain Itica in 2018, having previously held executive Since 2010, we’ve helped housing providers compliance and increase organisational positions at a leading social housing software of all sizes to make the right decisions about efficiency, the sector is facing the difficult supplier. His experience includes executive, technology, suppliers and IT organisation, ‘stick or twist’ choice about strategic leadership and practitioner roles in both enabling them to drive strategic outcomes, technology plans, not helped by new private and public sector organisations. whether that’s improving customer service, entrants and with long-term suppliers to the achieving digital transformation, maintaining sector being in various states of flux as they compliance or increasing efficiency. re-engineer their systems to meet changing ITICA needs. Our customers value our blend of sector Stick or twist a.k.a. – Should I stay or should I go? knowledge combined with different Our presentation will discuss and debate perspectives from our non-sector what this means for housing providers and experience. WEDNESDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1115 their suppliers. Speaker: John Doughty, director, Itica Find out how Kingdom Housing has Gary Haldane graduated from Napier Kingdom Housing operates across East been running its business on Chrome OS, University in 2015 with a MSc in ICT strategic Central Scotland providing housing to meet removing the desktop, internal networks, leadership. He is responsible for Kingdom a wide range of needs. static licence agreements and deploying Housing’s digital strategy and thrives on new services in GCP, with the result that being disruptive in the workplace, with a Kingdom has developed over 4,000 we’ve cut costs with G-Suite, zero-cost focus on making employees’ jobs easier. affordable homes, the majority being for BYOD, procurement-in-a-day, reduced risk, social rent, and also provides mid-market increased performance and provide the rent properties, affordable housing for sale best user experience for employees. and factoring services. KINGDOM HOUSING Chrome killed my desktop Furthermore, integrate cloud DMS to your housing system for staff and tenant access, and run your legacy apps in a browser. THURSDAY | LINCOLN | 1345 Speaker: Gary Haldane, head of digital, Kingdom Housing Emerging technologies open new paths Amina Graham became the change & L&Q’s vision is to enable better lives through to delivering better, faster and cheaper transformation director at L&Q in 2017 creating better places to live. services and L&Q’s award-winning after 10 years as the executive director of Connected Places programme is a great corporate & customer services at RHP, having We create better places to live by delivering example of the intelligent use of technology previously worked at M&S for 22 years. high quality homes, neighbourhoods and to solve business challenges. housing services that people can afford. As the innovation lead at L&Q, Tom Way With over 50 years’ experience, we have Connected Places has delivered at-scale partners with different business areas to what it takes to do things right and provide IoT solutions, enabling L&Q to predict and design good quality products to transform long-term support to our communities. L&Q prevent maintenance issues and actively traditional service models. Before joining Connected places monitor and optimise housing conditions to L&Q, he worked at RHP. improve the customer experience. THURSDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1345 Speakers: Amina Graham, change & transformation director & Tom Way, innovation manager, L&Q Waltham Forest has just completed Richard Holland is focused on providing London Borough of Waltham Forest runs a chatbot challenge, creating a bot to smart, innovative and cost-effective solutions services for 280,000 residents, 2,800 staff allow residents to report ASB using Lex for both internal and external customers. He and 60 councillors, from collecting rubbish technology, co-developed with students has 20 years’ experience working in local to public health and housing. from the borough. government, housing, aerospace, defence, finance and outsourcing. It took us five weeks to produce a working prototype, based on low-code development John Hubbard has worked at Waltham and the democratisation of development, Forest for over 10 years and is its director of LONDON BOROUGH OF and it didn’t always go according to the commercial innovation, covering a range of WALTHAM FOREST plan. commercial projects including the setup of local authority trading companies (LATC) and The low-code chatbot challenge Waltham Forest’s innovation and enterprise programme. THURSDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1445 Speakers: Richard Holland, assistant director for technology innovation & John Hubbard, commercial & innovation director, London Borough of Waltham Forest 18 | housing-technology.com
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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS District and community heat networks are Finian Parrick has 20 years’ experience of Minibems help heat network owners and currently designed, specified, procured, owning and managing leading heat system operators leverage data to reduce energy installed, commissioned and operated installation and distribution firms. Minibems use and lower running costs through our following norms and practices that largely was founded in order to develop data-driven unique real-time flow control technology. ignore data. approaches to the continual improvement of heat networks. We deliver heat network performance to Minibems leverages data to reduce costs housing providers, local authorities and and add value to each part of the value private residential, through a combination chain. The housing sector will be particularly of an in-house hardware and software MINIBEMS interested in learning how using data solution that merges heating control logic Advancing heat networks by leveraging data science science can reduce capital and operating knowledge with embedded firmware costs while pursuing carbon reduction capabilities. goals and ensuring heating comfort for their WEDNESDAY | PEMBROKE | 1615 residents. Speaker: Finian Parrick, CEO, Minibems MobileIron will discuss the unique David Critchley is responsible for managing MobileIron is redefining enterprise security advantages of zero-trust, mobile-centric MobileIron’s UK & Ireland teams and helping with the industry’s first mobile-centric, security that’s built on a foundation of their partners and customers to deliver trust zero-trust platform built on a unified UEM and on-device threat detection in a ‘zero-trust’ world. Prior to MobileIron, he endpoint management (UEM) foundation to and remediation and share how to start held senior roles at Rackspace, Dimension secure access and protect data across the implementing it in your environment today. Data and Cisco. perimeter-less enterprise. MOBILEIRON Achieving mobile-centric, zero-trust enterprise security C WEDNESDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1415 Speaker: David Critchley, sales director, UK & Ireland, M MobileIron Y CM MY CY With more landlords switching to Dynamics Derek Steele founded Mobysoft in 2003 and Mobysoft helps deliver time- and cost- CRM, integrating data enrichment tools has led the company to significant success saving solutions which create tangible RoI CMY such as Mobysoft’s RentSense becomes and growth, including winning a Queen’s for the social housing sector, including more feasible. Award for Innovation. RentSense, our cloud-based predictive K analytic solution that optimises front-line A system that can give organisations He is a member of Business Insider’s ‘42 income management workloads. a single view of customers, while under 42’ entrepreneurs’ group and was incorporating best-of-breed solutions, shortlisted as ‘Technology Entrepreneur of Our software helps over 150 housing will enable faster and more accurate the Year’ in 2014. providers maximise income, create MOBYSOFT insights, lead to better services and create efficiencies and mitigate welfare reform. Why application integration & CRM are the future of a more productive work environment. This Customers typically achieve a 16% arrears housing IT presentation will discuss how close this reduction in the first year and overall future of technology is in housing. efficiency savings of 32%. In the past two years, RentSense has helped reduce THURSDAY | PEMBROKE | 1100 customers’ arrears by around £67 million. Speaker: Derek Steele, CEO & founder, Mobysoft The discussion will show how IoT is a Trevor Hampton has been on the leading The housing sector is calling out for a fresh practical reality and a core component for edge of IT for over 30 years, ranging from approach to managing their customers, housing maintenance and tenancy well- developing some of the first mobile and web processes and people. Northgate pushes being. It will showcase how technology is solutions to being involved in R&D for IoT boundaries and raises standards to deliver transforming the traditional approach to and AI. positive changes to shape a housing sector delivering housing services. that thinks smart and works smarter. Hear first-hand from Wolverhampton And with over 180 housing customers Homes about how smart technology and and five million tenants already relying on NORTHGATE PUBLIC SERVICES data can deliver intelligence in decision- Northgate innovations, we’ve the talent, Wolverhampton Homes – Connecting homes making. The session will discuss the technology and expertise that counts. through IoT benefits for the tenant and Wolverhampton Homes, and explore the challenges of retrofitting properties and dealing with WEDNESDAY | PEMBROKE | 1215 tenancy privacy. Speaker: Trevor Hampton, product director for housing solutions, Northgate Public Services 20 | housing-technology.com
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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS Today, consumers can open a bank Gerry Kelly is a seasoned and respected Optus Homes is passionate about giving account, manage NHS appointments, order strategic business development professional tenants a convenient and mobile-first food and transport, all from a mobile app with senior management experience across way to manage their rental account and – so why not manage their rental account many sectors and companies, including interactions with landlords. in an app? Sony, Mitsubishi and Verbatim. He has also previously managed a start-up from Our mobile app solution has been designed Optus Homes offers a solution for all formation through to divestment. and built in conjunction with housing landlords, covering complaints, repairs, associations, and it uses Microsoft’s Azure payments and many more exciting features, cloud platform for ease of integration. OPTUS HOMES such as two-way community messaging Our senior management team come from Mobile first – Genuine tenant self-management, today and open banking. It’s convenience for a combination of the housing sector, tenants and efficiencies for landlords – all in cloud computing and strategic business your own branded app, with integration to management. WEDNESDAY | EXETER | 1615 your existing systems. Speaker: Gerry Kelly, CEO, Optus Homes Convenience for Tenants – Efficiencies for Landlords. Orchard will take you on a journey into how Ian Chaffey has worked in social housing for Orchard has been delivering ‘people first’ new technologies are shaping different 15 years, starting out in a housing association solutions as an independent provider to the sectors and how these are being or could in South Wales, delivering technical and UK housing sector for over 40 years. be used in the housing sector. application support before progressing to project delivery and business process We deliver end-to-end business solutions improvement. Since joining Orchard in 2013, to housing providers and public sector he has continued with his ‘customer first’ organisations, helping them to manage all ethos, most recently taking up the role of aspects of their businesses and to improve head of service delivery. the lives of their customers, tenants and ORCHARD residents. Orchard solutions and services How cutting-edge technology will affect the user of Joanna Lewis is responsible for the strategy, improve operational effectiveness and have today & tomorrow direction and performance of Orchard’s a positive social impact for our customers. housing solutions. She works closely with customers, keeping abreast of market and WEDNESDAY | PEMBROKE | 1415 technology trends and best practices with the Speaker: Joanna Lewis, general manager for housing aim of delivering market-leading solutions. solutions & Ian Chaffey, head of service delivery, Orchard New technology provides us with Philip Dunn has led teams of data experts Paradigm Housing manages 15,000 homes tremendous opportunities, but if you’re for 20 years, including 10 years at the across the South East and London. House getting the ‘data basics’ wrong, you consultancy behind the Tesco Clubcard. He prices in the areas where we work are won’t be able to take advantage of those is currently leading Paradigm’s BI team. His high, both to buy and rent, so our aim is to opportunities. dissertations for both of his MSc degrees provide affordable homes for those who focused on AI. need them most. Any surplus is reinvested Common errors on the ‘data basics’ – such so that we can build new affordable homes as collection, quality, storage, warehousing, and provide a fair deal for our existing KPIs and ownership – can often be tackled residents. PARADIGM HOUSING without large system investments. Getting the ‘data basics’ right WEDNESDAY | RYCOTE | 1115 Speaker: Philip Dunn, head of business intelligence, Paradigm Housing We are over 18 months since GDPR went Neil Topping is an experienced data ParaDPO has been established to help live so it’s important to discuss some of the professional who has worked with many provide reliable and effective data challenges faced by organisations. housing providers in a number of roles. This protection support to housing providers. has included training DPOs, leading GDPR To help address some of these areas, programmes and delivering business data This includes DPO as a service, ranging ParaDPO has launched MyrIAD to enable transformations. registering as your DPO with the ICO to housing providers to manage and all of their offering more ad-hoc support. This is data protection needs. This compliments Cliff Barton has extensive regulatory complemented by MyrIAD, which can also the Data Protection Officer (DPO) as a compliance experience across the banking be deployed as a stand-alone solution. PARADPO & LOOK AHEAD HOUSING service offered by ParaDPO. We have sector implementing lasting solutions Pragmatic data protection using MyrIAD partnered with Look Ahead. to resolve complex challenges. He has successfully delivered a GDPR programme for a housing provider and is the technical WEDNESDAY | RYCOTE | 1615 lead for MyrIAD. Speaker: Neil Topping & Cliff Barton, co-founders, ParaDPO and John Tilsley, IT director, Look Ahead John Tilsley is an IT leader with 20 years’ Housing experience of delivering IT solutions that drive digital transformation and support business change. 22 | housing-technology.com
Stick or Twist? It’s your turn now! Making the right housing technology decisions is difficult regardless of whether it’s IT infrastructure, telecoms, AV, CRM, housing, repairs, asset management, digital, mobile, finance, HR, Payroll, analytics or BI. At itica pretty much all of our current work is helping housing organisations and local authorities to make these difficult decisions by guiding them through a structured thinking process. Why not get in touch to hear about our work, or come and see our presentation and visit our stand at Housing Technology 2020, for the latest insights and perspectives on the biggest challenge facing the sector. For more information, please contact Neville Brown on +44 (0) 7771 810 621 or email neville.brown@itica.com www.itica.com
BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS How Power Platform applications can Jamie Barker empowers CxO executives PowerObjects is a leader in delivering be used to ease property management to extract the maximum value from their Microsoft Business Applications solutions processes, particularly around ensuring the IT investments by helping them improve and the Dynamics 365 workloads through safety of tenants and properties. business performance, achieve upticks in unparalleled offerings of service, support, customer satisfaction, increase productivity/ education, and add-ons. We will showcase how Power Apps and performance and reduce the year-on-year Power Automate (formerly Flow) integrate cost of supplying services. Named the 2019 Microsoft Financial with each other to provide a truly integrated Services Partner of the Year and the 2019 solution that addresses fire safety, health Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Customer POWEROBJECTS and safety to people and places. Service Partner of the Year, PowerObjects’ Microsoft’s Power Platform – Improving safety mission is to deliver solutions that help processes within property management organisations increase productivity, streamline business processes and build better relationships. WEDNESDAY | LINCOLN | 1415 Speaker: Jamie Barker, senior solution architect, PowerObjects We will cover BI, data management, IoT, AI, Craig Round is a disruptor in the housing Regenda Group comprises multiple cognitive learning, predictive analytics and sector, with a cutting-edge approach to organisations working together with the how building our connected data landscape data management, business intelligence, AI core purpose of regenerating places to has been essential for us as a data-driven and IoT. create opportunities for people. With organisation. Regenda Homes at the heart of our group, we manage 13,000 homes across the North If you want to achieve one version of the West. truth to become a data-driven organisation, using BI to shape your business investments REGENDA GROUP and drive service delivery, come and hear A connected data landscape our story. WEDNESDAY | EXETER | 1115 Speaker: Craig Round, business analyst, Regenda Group As technology enables buildings to report, Cian O’Flaherty, the CEO of Safecility, is an Safecility is your building compliance monitor and test themselves, how do experienced start-up executive focused on concierge. We create safer buildings and compliance and asset managers automate helping customers achieve big goals and make life easier for housing authorities critical compliance and safety work? solve critical challenges through technology. through IoT technology. With increased regulation post Hackitt, Safecility makes it What can we do to manage it at scale in a easier to comply. Our product automates shifting regulatory environment? What can emergency lighting and other legally we expect from technology to help this required testing and our platform manages journey? auditable data across your estate making SAFECILITY compliance quick and effortless. When buildings report on themselves: Compliance & Discover insights and lessons from the team safety in the IoT era at Safecility who are tackling this problem We handle the pain of testing and reporting. right now. Housing authorities improve safety, streamline compliance, free up company WEDNESDAY | EXETER | 1615 resources, save money and reduce carbon Speaker: Cian O’Flaherty, CEO, Safecility emissions. Think of Safecility as a dedicated compliance buddy locally managing your buildings so you don’t have to. The first 90 days of a new role are critical. Neill Crump joined Sanctuary Group as its Sanctuary’s mission is to build affordable This presentation will focus on how a new group head of technology change to deliver homes and sustainable communities where group head of technology change defined digital transformation. In the public and people choose to live. One of the UK’s the current state of a leading housing private sectors, he has held roles such as leading providers of housing, care, and provider, designed the vision for IT change chief data officer and undertaken digital and commercial services, Sanctuary employs and the blueprint that will enable it, and data consulting assignments for FTSE-100 around 13,000 people and manages created near-term innovations to support firms. over 100,000 units of accommodation a modern workplace and the customer throughout England and Scotland. experience. SANCTUARY GROUP A 90-day plan for technology change WEDNESDAY | UNIVERSITY | 1515 Speaker: Neill Crump, group head of technology change, Sanctuary Group 24 | housing-technology.com
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