17-18/11/2009: NHF IT in housing conference

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 12:00 AM

It has been confirmed that the National Housing Federation's IT in Housing Conference and Exhibition will be opened by Tony Travers from the London School of Economics and will be chaired by Philip Stafford, Technology Correspondent of the FT. This opening session will set the scene for the conference demonstrating where IT departments can be seen as the saviours of many organisations, saving money by maximising efficiency during these economically lean times.

Taking place on 17 - 18 November 2009 at the Olympia Conference Centre in London, the conference will also cover important topics such as the green agenda, standards of housing systems and the use of innovative technology.

Other confirmed speakers include:

.Graham Whitehead, Former Futurology Expert, BT, Director and Managing Consultant, Bowzer Productions
.Catalina McGregor, UK Government Deputy Champion, Green ICT Delivery Unit, Cabinet Office
.Dean James, Chief Operating Officer, Department for Work
and Pensions
.Emmanuel Aharoni, Managing Director, Emmanuel Aharoni Ltd.

For more information about the conference, please visit www.housing.org.uk/events

ENDS

For further information contact:
Jon Shepherd, Marketing Manager
jons@housing.org.uk

For details of our other conferences, training and publications visit:
www.housing.org.uk /events
NOTES TO EDITORS

The National Housing Federation represents 1,200 independent, not-for-profit housing associations in England and is the voice of affordable housing. Our members provide over two million homes for five million people.

The National Housing Federation's Commercial Services Team provides solutions to support members in their commitment to neighbourhoods, customers and excellence for iN business for neighbourhoods, through the provision of conferences and events, training and consultancy and publications. Income generated from our business solutions is used to fund our work in supporting and promoting the work of our members. www.iNbiz.org

Visit the Federation's website www.housing.org.uk to keep up-to-date with details of the full range of business solutions available:

. Conference and event programme
. Over 300 training courses
. Coaching programme
. In-house training and consultancy
. Over 100 book titles
. Business development advice
. Federation subscriber scheme - for public, third sector and commercial organisations
. Housemark and Procurement for Housing (PfH)
. Employee satisfaction surveys
. Tenant satisfaction surveys (Feedback)
. Data analysis service (Housing Figures)
. Lion Court Conference Centre.

Building for success

The National Housing Federation provides our members with a united voice and one with more influence than simply the sum of their parts. In 2007/08, the Federation.

.persuaded the Government to accept a number of its amendments to the Housing and Regeneration Bill
.convinced the Government of the need to invest in the delivery of up to 70,000 new social homes per year
.persuaded ministers to invest £8.4bn for the delivery of new social homes up to 2011
.ran a high profile campaign on fuel poverty, which helped draw a promise from the Chancellor to stop the injustice of higher charges for prepayment meters
.helped persuade ministers that a rural housing target should be reintroduced.

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