Nicola Allen, Head of School – Construction, Surveying & Engineering, University of the Built Environment (invited)

• Update on the Building Safety Regulator’s strategic priorities and operational performance
• Overview of the Building Safety Regulator’s revised approach to Building Assessment Certificates and what it means for duty holders
• Strengthening compliance and accountability across the built environment through effective regulation and industry engagement
• Key challenges, emerging risks, and opportunities shaping the future of building safety regulation

Charlie Pugsley, Interim CEO, Building Safety Regulator (invited)

• Delivering safer homes through the next phase of building safety reform
• Balancing housing growth ambitions with robust regulatory oversight and resident protection
• Supporting industry through regulatory transition, skills development, and workforce reform
• Addressing key delivery challenges to accelerate remediation and ensure long-term compliance across the built environment
• Setting out the government’s vision for a safer, more resilient housing sector that supports sustainable development and public confidence

Senior Representative, Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government (invited)

• Preparing successful Gateway 2 submissions
• Understanding regulator expectations and common reasons for delays or refusals
• Demonstrating compliance through robust evidence and the Golden Thread
• Lessons learned from Higher-Risk Building projects and Gateway applications
• Practical advice for duty holders, designers, and contractors

Neil Hope-Collins, Operational Policy Lead, HRB Building Control Authority, HSE (invited)

• Applying Building Regulations and fire safety requirements across commercial, healthcare, education and other non-higher-risk buildings
• Understanding the responsibilities of dutyholders and building owners outside the Higher-Risk Building regime
• Managing fire and structural safety risks throughout refurbishment, maintenance and change-of-use projects
• Developing proportionate approaches to compliance while maintaining safe, resilient and operational buildings
• Sharing practical lessons and best practice from managing safety across diverse building portfolios

Pauline Niesseron, Assistant Director of Building Safety, One Housing (invited)

This session will provide you with the opportunity to discuss the main challenges you face in ensuring new and existing buildings comply with regulations and are of a high quality. Share your experiences and learn from ideas trialled by peers from across the sector.  

• Moving beyond documentation to evidence-based compliance throughout the building lifecycle
• Understanding what the Building Safety Regulator expects at Gateway 3 and occupation
• Demonstrating compliance through inspections, testing, digital records and quality assurance
• How a robust Golden Thread supports Building Assessment Certificates, insurance and resident confidence

George Stevenson, Chair, BIM4Housing, Managing Director, ActivePlan, Chair, The Golden Thread Taskforce

• Embedding a positive building safety culture across organisations, from board level to frontline teams
• Strengthening leadership and accountability to improve decision-making and resident outcomes
• Supporting collaboration between dutyholders, contractors, regulators, and residents to improve safety
• Developing continuous improvement strategies that promote competence, transparency and organisational learning

Dr Barbara Lane CEng, Chair, Building Advisory Committee, Building Safety Regulator (invited)

• Embedding competence across the built environment to improve building safety outcomes
• Strengthening professional registration, competency frameworks and continuing professional development
• Addressing skills shortages and attracting the next generation of building safety professionals
• Improving collaboration across designers, contractors, building control professionals and dutyholders to deliver safer buildings

David McCullogh, Chair, Construction Industry Council Building Safety Committee & RICS Building Safety Working Group (invited)

Jon Vanstone, Chair, Industry Competence Committee (invited)

Sarah-Jane Gay, Head of Building and Fire Safety Programmes, The National Housing Federation (invited)

• Embedding resident engagement within building safety management systems
• Meeting statutory duties while improving communication and accountability
• Strategies for encouraging resident participation in identifying and managing building safety risks
• Sharing best practice from organisations delivering resident-focused building safety

Lorraine Gilbert, Head of Resident Engagement, Notting Hill Genesis (invited)

Nicola Allen, Head of School – Construction, Surveying & Engineering, University of the Built Environment (invited)