{"id":4476,"date":"2018-10-22T15:51:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T14:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2019-08-21T10:11:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T09:11:02","slug":"thecityuk-national-conference-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/thecityuk-national-conference-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"TheCityUK National Conference 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/10\/TheCityUK-conference.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4477\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/10\/TheCityUK-conference.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/10\/TheCityUK-conference.jpg 700w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/10\/TheCityUK-conference-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/10\/TheCityUK-conference-250x64.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>A range of speakers from the public and private sector will be speaking at TheCityUK National Conference 2018 on the 22nd of November at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebcec.co.uk\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Birmingham Conference &amp; Events Centre<\/a>. The conference will be focused on the contribution of financial and related professional services across the UK with regards to issues such as skills and talent, infrastructure, devolution and regional and national growth initiatives. City-REDI\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/schools\/business\/staff\/profile.aspx?ReferenceId=45910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professor Simon Collinson<\/a> will be joined by following confirmed speakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/biographies\/commons\/james-brokenshire\/1530\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Brokenshire MP<\/a>, MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midlandsengine.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sir John Peace<\/a>, Chairman, Midlands Engine<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/biographies\/commons\/jonathan-reynolds\/4119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Reynolds MP<\/a>, MP for Stalybridge and Hyde and Shadow City Minister<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/britainthinks.com\/team\/deborah-mattinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deborah Mattinson<\/a>, Founding Partner, BritainThinks<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnashcroftandcompany.com\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr John Ashcroft<\/a>, former Chief Executive, Pro-Manchester<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dlapiper.com\/en\/uk\/people\/w\/wallace-sandra-m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sandra Wallace<\/a>, TheCityUK City Chair for Birmingham and UK Managing Partner, DLA Piper<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/home.kpmg.com\/uk\/en\/home\/contacts\/h\/chris-hearld.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Hearld<\/a>, TheCityUK City Chair for Leeds and North Region and Chairman and Leeds Office Senior Partner, KPMG<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsbc.com\/about-hsbc\/leadership\/ian-stuart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ian Stuart<\/a>, Chief Executive Officer, HSBC UK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The University of Birmingham has ten complimentary tickets reserved so please get in touch directly with Richard Kelly at TheCityUK if you are keen to attend (using <a href=\"mailto:richard.kelly@thecityuk.com\">richard.kelly@thecityuk.com<\/a>). Further information about the schedule is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecityuk.com\/about-us\/thecityuk-national-conference-2018\/national-conference-agenda-and-speakers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Disclaimer:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\nThe views expressed in this analysis post are those of the authors and not necessarily those of City-REDI or the University of Birmingham.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To sign up for our blog mailing list, please\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cityredi@contacts.bham.ac.uk?Subject=City-REDI%20Blog%20Mailing%20List\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A range of speakers from the public and private sector will be speaking at TheCityUK National Conference 2018 on the 22nd of November at the\u00a0Birmingham Conference &amp; Events Centre. The conference will be focused on the contribution of financial and related professional services across the UK with regards to issues such as skills and talent, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/thecityuk-national-conference-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TheCityUK National Conference 2018&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":4477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,41,19,80],"tags":[30,234,235,229,237,233,236,84],"class_list":["post-4476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-redi","category-events","category-policy","category-politics","tag-devolution","tag-financial-services","tag-infrastructure","tag-liam-ofarrell","tag-national-economic-growth","tag-professional-services","tag-regional-economic-growth","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6252,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions\/6252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}