Sustainable Futures for Project Delivery

This one-day conference organised by Project X explores how aspirations for improved project delivery can be achieved whilst addressing commitments for Levelling-Up, Net Zero and the Plan for Growth.

Project X is delighted to invite you to the Sustainable Futures for Project Delivery Conference on Wednesday 6 October 2021.

In the United Kingdom, post-pandemic recovery plans to ‘Build Back Better’ are founded on an assumption of improved project delivery enabling ‘faster’, ‘fairer’ and ‘greener’ growth. This creates an unprecedented opportunity for academics and project delivery professionals to come together to share expertise and ideas that rise to the challenge of transforming large-scale projects and programmes.

This one-day conference explores how aspirations for improved project delivery can be achieved whilst addressing commitments for Levelling-Up, Net Zero and the Plan for Growth.

Expert speakers from government, industry and academia will explore the agenda for reform alongside opportunities and challenges of making project delivery more economically, socially and environmentally sustainable.  We invite delegates to join us to discuss how major projects and programmes can transition to a more sustainable future.  

• Outline Agenda

  This conference is fully online to enable access from many locations. Each session has been carefully designed to generate debate and stimulate ideas.  

  Throughout the day there are three central questions that we have asked leading experts, policymakers, industry and academics to consider:

  • What are the challenges of transitioning to a more sustainable future?
  • What are the implications for project delivery capabilities, skills and standards? 
  • How can we come together to pool our knowledge and ideas to navigate this change?

  Please see the Project X website for a more detailed programme for the day, information about the sessions, videos, blogs and more.

• Speakers

   Rachel Skinner, President, Institute of Civil Engineers; Executive Director, WSP

   Mike Lewis, Professor of Management, University of Bath

   Fiona Spencer, Director for Function, Profession & Standards; IPA

   Peter McGettrick, Managing Director of Advisory, Turner & Townsend

   Paul Nightingale, Professor of Strategy, University of Sussex

   Terri Harrington, Sponsorship Director, Highways England

   Alison Baptiste, Director of Public and Security Services, IPA

   Andrew Davies, RM Phillips Freeman Chair in Innovation, SPRU, University of Sussex

   Gill Evans, EU Exit Portfolio Director, HM Revenue & Customs

   Helen Campbell, Director of Strategy, Performance & Assurance; IPA

   Naomi Brookes, Professor of Complex Programme Management, WMG

   Rebecca Vine, Lecturer in Accounting, University of Sussex

   Rehema Msulwa, Research Associate, Bennett Institute for Public Policy, Cambridge

   Michael Bourne, Professor of Business Performance, Cranfield School of Management

   Richard Kirkham, Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering, University of Manchester

   Juliano Denicol, Lecturer in Project Management, UCL

   Phillippa Groome, Research Student, University of Sussex

   Dicle Kortantamer, Research Fellow, Brighton Business School

   Jas Kalra, Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Newcastle University

   Vedran Zerjav, Associate Professor in Infrastructure Project Management, UCL