Agenda | Housing Finance Conference & Exhibition 2024

The NHF’s Housing Finance Conference & Exhibition returns with a packed and thought-provoking agenda. Tackling some of the sector's most pressing issues, the event will be running across eight content streams so that you and your team can tailor the conference to your strategy and objectives and provide space for discussion and engagement with both colleagues and exhibitors.

Pre-Event: Tuesday 12 March 2024
Wednesday 13 March 2024
Thursday 14 March 2024

6:00pm

Duration: 1 hour

7:00pm

Duration: 2 hours

8:30am

Registration and exhibition opens

8:30am

Duration: 1 hour

9:00am

Breakfast briefing

Duration: 40 minutes

9:50am

Chair’s welcome and opening remarks

Duration: 10 minutes

Chair:

Mark Easton
BBC

10:00am

Duration: 40 minutes

10:40am

Duration: 40 minutes

11:20am

Refreshments and networking in the exhibition

12:00pm

Breakout sessions – please choose one option

Duration: 45 minutes

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Duration: 45 minutes

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Duration: 45 minutes

12:10am

Breakout sessions – please choose one option

Duration: 45 minutes

12:45pm

Networking lunch in the exhibition

2:05pm

Breakout sessions – please choose one option

Duration: 45 minutes

Sponsored by:

Duration: 45 minutes

Sponsored by:

Duration: 45 minutes

Sponsored by:

Duration: 45 minutes

2:50pm

Please move to your next session

3:00pm

Duration: 45 minutes

Sponsored by:

Duration: 45 minutes

Sponsored by:

Duration: 45minutes

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3:45pm

Refreshments and networking in the exhibition

4:20pm

Duration: 40 minutes

5:00pm

Keynote

5:30pm

Chair’s closing remarks and end of the first day of the conference

Chair:

Mark Easton
BBC

5:30pm

Networking reception in exhibition

Duration: 2.5 hours

8:00pm

Location: Revolution Liverpool - Albert Dock, Unit 4M, Atlantic Pavilion, Liverpool L3 4AE

7:30am

Duration: 30 minutes

8:00am

Registration opens

8:30am

Exhibition opens

9:20am

Chair’s welcome

Duration: 5 minutes

Chair:

Mark Easton
BBC

9:25am

Duration: 40 minutes

10:05am

Duration: 40 minutes

10:45am

Refreshments and networking in the exhibition

11:30am

Breakout sessions – please choose one option

Duration: 45 minutes

Sponsored by:

Duration: 45 minutes

11:40am

Breakout sessions – please choose one option

Duration: 45 minutes

Sponsored by:

Duration: 45 minutes

Duration: 40 minutes

12:15pm

Networking lunch in the exhibition

1:30pm

Breakout sessions – please choose one option

Duration: 45 minutes

6:00pm

Early bird registration

7:00pm

Pre-event networking

8:30am

Registration and exhibition opens

8:30am

Newcomers networking at the NHF stand

9:00am

Breakfast briefing

The role of technology in adapting to change and supporting an agile organisation

9:50am

Chair’s welcome and opening remarks

Chair:

10:00am

The big economic picture

10:40am

Is your finance strategy a long-term plan or a short-term fix?

11:20am

Refreshments and networking in the exhibition

12:00pm

Breakout sessions – please choose one option

Business planning and risk management: Lessons learned from mergers

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Data and Digital: Create a competitive advantage through social impact data reporting

Investment and funding: Charting the upcoming trajectory of funding

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Housing market: Housing market update

12:10am

Breakout sessions – please choose one option

Policy and regulation: Outlining the new Decent Homes Standard

Finance masterclass: An update on the defined benefit pension schemes valuation

Business transformation: Redefining the role of the finance team

Discussion forum: How can smaller housing associations work collaboratively to improve their finances?

12:45pm

Networking lunch in the exhibition

2:05pm

Breakout sessions – please choose one option

Business planning and risk management: Business planning and balancing competing priorities in an uncertain market

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Data and Digital: Artificial Intelligence in housing finance – is this the future?

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Investment and funding: How to fund your retrofit project

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Housing market: Valuations update

Policy and regulation: Highlighting the economic benefits of net zero for social housing providers

Finance masterclass: Changes to Financial Reporting Standards and SORP are coming.

Business transformation: Closing the skills gap

2:50pm

Please move to your next session

3:00pm

Business planning and risk management: How can the sector maintain the delivery of new homes?

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Data and Digital: ‘Proptech’ and the role of digital in housing finance

Investment and funding: The role of for profits and institutional investment in pushing the development agenda

Housing market: Forming strategic partnerships with funders and moving away from the ‘lender borrower’ mindset

Finance masterclass: In conversation with HMRC

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Business transformation: What is the role of leadership in business transformation?

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3:45pm

Refreshments and networking in the exhibition

4:20pm

Working strategically to strengthen the sector’s credit rating

5:00pm

Keynote

5:30pm

Chair’s closing remarks and end of the first day of the conference

Chair:

5:30pm

Networking reception in exhibition

Networking reception in exhibition

8:00pm

Off-site networking evening

7:30am

Finance run

8:00am

Registration opens

8:30am

Exhibition opens