Thursday 19th June 2025
Event Agenda
Dementia Care Stage
08:30 – 09:20
Registration, Networking and Exhibition
09:20 – 09:30
Registration, Networking and Exhibition
Welcome - Sameena Ali-Khan, ITV Presenter
09:30 – 10:30
Registration, Networking and Exhibition
Keynote Addresses
Release Your Inner Dragon (tbc)
Jermaine Harris, Author, The Rut Buster: The Secrets to Taking Control of Your Body, Money, Career and Life
10:30 – 11:00
Interactive session: Collaborating with the CQC for a Better Care System
- How can the sector work with the CQC to ensure people are getting the care they need?
- Collaboration as the key to person-centred adult social care in England
- What can be done to reverse inequality to access to care across the regions?
- Ensuring real-life experiences of people who use services are central to all areas of innovation and research?
James Bullion, Interim Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care and Integrated Care, Care Quality Commission
11:00 – 11:30
Morning Coffee Break and Exhibition
11:30 – 11:35
Welcome and Opening Remarks from the Chair
Ian Donaghy, Dementia Campaigner
11:35 – 12:00
An Action Plan to Tackle Long-Term Planning, Investment and Regional Variations in Dementia Diagnosis and Care
- Creating a collaborative now to reduce regional variations in dementia care.
- What needs to be done to tackle waiting lists, diagnostic tests and increasing the Carer’s Allowance to help people manage their symptoms and get the support they need?
- Transforming specialist training to equip care workers with the skills and knowledge they need to provide personalised, high-quality care for dementia.
- Why the need for investment specifically in early and accurate diagnosis and dementia care training for the social care workforce is greater than ever.
Speakers to be confirmed
12:00 – 12:30
Understanding the Relationship Between Head Injury and Dementia Risk
- What is the long-term impact of head injuries and dementia risk?
- What are some of the prevention and intervention strategies that can reduce dementia after head injury?
- What changes to dementia care and prevention policy be implemented now?
Speakers to be confirmed
12:30 – 13:00
Panel Session: Helping People with Dementia Live Healthier and Longer Lives
- How more funding, more partnerships and more research can help those living with dementia get the care that addresses their needs?
- What are alternative ways of person-centred care to help those living with dementia manage these symptoms without the need for antipsychotic drugs?
- Embedding the voice of those with dementia in implementing in dementia care strategies
- Enabling the families of those with dementia to live positively following diagnosis.
Speakers to be confirmed
13:00 – 13:50
Networking lunch
13:50 – 14:15
Panel – Best Practice Dementia Care Strategies that Work
- What strategies have been proven to work for people with mild cognitive impairment?
- Understanding what support staff actually need in the future
- Enhancing post-diagnosis interventions outside care homes.
- What can care staff do to manage challenging behavour?
- Insights as to when is a care home setting or an at home setting is most suitable?
Speakers to be confirmed
14:15 – 14:45
The Making and Keeping of Memory
- What is the link between understanding memory and helping to develop treatments for those living with dementia?
- How does memory rely on the plasticity of the brain and how does this help to develop new therapeutics targeted at Alzheimer's Disease and Neurodevelopmental Disorders?
- What an understanding of brain plasticity can mean on a day-to-day level for carers and those living with dementia.
Speakers to be confirmed
14:45 – 15:10
Afternoon Tea Break and Exhibition
15:10 – 15:30
Case Study: Living with Dementia in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities
- With diagnoses among minority communities set to increase, what strategies can carers in the sector adopt when communicating with and caring for people from diverse backgrounds?
- What can be done to raise awareness and lower levels of stigma that will support families from diverse ethnic backgrounds?
- Examining recent policy and strategy on dementia care and the implications for working with culture and ethnicity?
- What are the the experiences of people who may be caring for a person who is not a registered resident in the UK?
Speakers to be confirmed
15:30 – 15:40
Best Practices from Abroad into Dementia Prevention
- What have the practical lessons that can be implemented tomorrow?
- What are the specific solutions and approaches that have worked and made a real difference for those caring for and living with dementia?
- What are effective strategies for carers dealing with those approaching the end of their life?
Speakers to be confirmed
15:40 – 16:00
Panel: Technology, Innovation and Creativity in Dementia Care
- What are some of the radical new approaches being developed to meet dementia care needs?
- How can better outcomes for those living with dementia be delivered in more sustainable ways over the long term?
- What digital tools, approaches and methods are available for those caring for people living with dementia?
- Who are the dementia care technology innovators and how these innovative solutions are supporting people living with dementia?
Speakers to be confirmed
Future of Care Stage
08:30 – 09:20
Registration, Networking and Exhibition
09:20 – 09:30
Registration, Networking and Exhibition
Welcome - Sameena Ali-Khan, ITV Presenter
09:30 – 10:30
Registration, Networking and Exhibition
Keynote Addresses
Release Your Inner Dragon (tbc)
Jermaine Harris, Author, The Rut Buster: The Secrets to Taking Control of Your Body, Money, Career and Life
10:30 – 11:00
Interactive session: Collaborating with the CQC for a Better Care System
- How can the sector work with the CQC to ensure people are getting the care they need?
- Collaboration as the key to person-centred adult social care in England
- What can be done to reverse inequality to access to care across the regions?
- Ensuring real-life experiences of people who use services are central to all areas of innovation and research?
James Bullion, Interim Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care and Integrated Care, Care Quality Commission (proposed)
11:00 – 11:30
Morning Coffee Break and Exhibition
11:30 – 11:35
Welcome and Opening Remarks from the Chair
Sameena Ali-Khan, ITV Presenter
11:35 – 12:00
Forging a Sustainable Future for Adult Social Care
- Working collaboratively to implement the foundations of a sustainable future for adult social care.
- What more needs to be done in to help care providers continue to develop high quality care?
- Why the need is greater than ever for the sector to work with leaders of the newly formed government departments and local commissioning bodies.
- What the sector must do now to ensure social care reform is a priority?
Speaker to be confirmed
12:00 – 12:50
Panel Session: Transforming the Care Home Community, Service and Environment – A Call to Action
- What the sector must do now to transform the sector from within to ensure a resident-centred practice?
- Which solutions can be implemented now to revolutionise the care home environment?
- Understanding what processes and creative activities can foster a nurturing environment and set new standards of excellence.
- Collaborating within the sector to ensure care providers implement innovation into their organisations
- How will digital transformation programme impact the future of care?
- In light of NI changes how can the sector collaborate to ensure central government addresses the shortfall in funding to local government and stop piling additional cost burdens onto operators?
Speaker to be confirmed
12:50 – 13:30
Networking lunch
13:30 – 14:20
Collaboration Panel – Bringing Together Social Care Innovators to Shape the Future
The panel of experts will provide insight and expertise into the latest solutions that will shape the future of the sector. New ideas and actions points will be offered for you to discuss at your tables and to take back to your practice.
- Why do innovations in social care often struggle to sustain, scale and spread?
- What lessons can be learned to foster sustainable innovation that can improve the lives of those who need it most?
- Understanding the key challenges facing the sector in terms of systems, social innovations and business models.
- Overcoming the inevitable obstacles of limited funding, regulatory barriers and entrenched practices
Speaker to be confirmed
14:20 – 14:40
Building AI and Digital Confidence
- What can be done to simplify AI and digital technology for both professionals and those drawing on care and support?
- Understanding how AI and digital technology can cut bureaucracy, free up staff time and enhance high quality social care services?
- What are the real-life impacts of those benefiting from digital technology in the sector?
- Insights from social care organisations that have effectively introduced digital ways of working.
Speaker to be confirmed
14:40 – 15:10
Afternoon Tea Break and Exhibition
15:10 – 16:00
Panel: Transforming the Recruitment, Retention and Development of the Social Care Workforce
- What range of proposals aimed at improving working conditions are working?
- What are the professional development opportunities that ensure workers are adequately trained to support the growing need for social care service?
- How does the sector move together forward with a plan to address the current and future challenges faced by the sector - attraction and retention, training and development opportunities and collaboration to support the transformational change needed across adult social care?
Speaker to be confirmed
Healthcare Design & Build Stage
08:30 – 09:20
Registration, Networking and Exhibition
09:20 – 09:30
Registration, Networking and Exhibition
Welcome - Sameena Ali-Khan, ITV Presenter
09:30 – 10:30
Registration, Networking and Exhibition
Keynote Addresses
Release Your Inner Dragon (tbc)
Jermaine Harris, Author, The Rut Buster: The Secrets to Taking Control of Your Body, Money, Career and Life
10:30 – 11:00
Interactive session: Collaborating with the CQC for a Better Care System
- How can the sector work with the CQC to ensure people are getting the care they need?
- Collaboration as the key to person-centred adult social care in England
- What can be done to reverse inequality to access to care across the regions?
- Ensuring real-life experiences of people who use services are central to all areas of innovation and research?
James Bullion, Interim Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care and Integrated Care, Care Quality Commission
11:00 – 11:30
Morning Coffee Break and Exhibition
11:30 – 11:35
Welcome and Opening Remarks from the Chair
Jon Chapman, Head of Care, Pinders
11:35 – 12:00
Maximising Efficiency in Care Homes During a Cost of Energy Crisis
- Implementing energy solutions in a time when it’s never been more important to tackle the energy efficient
- What are the options of converting to sustainable systems that can maximise efficiency in care homes?
- Strategies for reducing energy costs whilst keeping residents warm and comfortable.
- Combined heat and power vs. traditional discrete heat and power generation systems.
Speaker to be confirmed
12:00 – 12:25
Evidence-Based Inspections to Improve Regulatory Ratings in a Care Home Setting
- What are the regulatory risks can be identified following a refurbishment or extension?
- Implementing strategies to enable continuous improvement of environment?
- Understanding care home interiors cost vs. durability through a regulatory lens.
- How can care home operators implement robust internal quality and improvement systems?
Speaker to be confirmed
12:35 – 13:00
Panel Session: Designing Modern Care Homes that Revolutionise Outcomes
- What are the design fundamentals that offer dignified living solutions to people in later life?
- What are the architectural and interior design considerations that will revolutionise modern care home living?
- What are effect examples of navigating planning permissions and adhering to building regulations.
Speaker to be confirmed
13:00 – 14:00
Networking lunch
14:10 – 14:15
Wellbeing and Healthcare Design and Build
- What are the wellbeing considerations of care home staff and residents that can make a difference?
- From flooring to wall finishes to colour, what are the design functionality implications that will promote physical and mental wellbeing?
- Innovation in design that integrates accessibility and mobility, respects privacy and independence whilst also creating spaces that prioritise mental health and wellbeing.
- What are the design concepts that can aid wayfinding, promote memories and allow smaller groups to meet?
Speaker to be confirmed
14:15 – 14:35
Panel – Care Home Refurbishment on a Limited Budget
- What are some best practice examples of care home refurbishment with limited funds?
- Understanding the latest energy saving technology and equipment that can ensure any changes made are compliant and efficient
- Enhancing the look and feel of the care home remaining on the right side of CQC standards and regulations.
- How noise reductive flooring be installed without going over budget?
- What can be done to minimise disruption to residents and staff during a refurbishment?
Speaker to be confirmed
14:35 – 14:40
Unravelling the Financial and Legal Complexities of Increasing the Property Portfolio
- What is the long-term financial impact of refurbishing vs building new?
- How can the return on investment in property be maximised without compromising on care quality?
- What are the legal implications to successfully managing an expanding care home portfolio?
- What are effective strategies to reduce ongoing maintenance costs?
Speaker to be confirmed
14:40 – 15:10
Afternoon Coffee Break and Exhibition
15:10 – 15:40
Achieving High Quality Design Championing Senior Living
- What successful design looks like for care homes where design integrity and creative flair ensure better outcomes for residents
- How is modern technology used to ensure budget is maintained without compromising on quality?
- How do we ensure design of the highest standard that maintains integrity?
Speaker to be confirmed
15:40 – 16:10
Panel – How AI is Being Adopted Across Care Home Design
- With over 24% of the UK population being over 65 by 2040 how will elderly care sector meet the demand for service?
- Energy inflation and wage rises what can care home operators do to mitigate increasing costs without passing onto fees?
- How can AI be used in a care home setting to help reduce falls, monitor vulnerable residents, detect discomfort and improve outcomes for individuals?
- What sensors can be used in a care home to detect resident discomfort?
- What are the privacy and data implications of having AI-designed care homes?
