Tuesday 29 June

9.00 Preparing for the future: choice of 2 surgeries:

• APC: an RTPI surgery
• Chair: Tracey Lloyd, Head of Membership and Careers, RTPI
  
  • Shaping your future career in an uncertain world: an RTPI careers surgery
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  9.50 Welcome from the President

  
  

  10.00 Plenary: Shaping the global future – Cities and climate change
  Global Climate Change is a question about justice – how much are you prepared to give up; it is not until budgets are questioned that people get creative
  Speakers: Alexis Robert, Urban Policy Specialist, OECD Urban Development Programme
  Bruce Knight, President, American Planning Association (APA)
  Cleo Paskal, Associate Fellow, Energy, Environment and Development Programme, The Royal Institute of International Affairs
  
  11.15 Coffee with the exhibitors
  
  11.50 Plenary: Shaping the Future - Planning nationally, delivering locally
  Bringing together national and local providers of infrastructure and housing with local delivery – finding out what they do and how they do it.
  Chair: Sir Michael Pitt, Chair, Infrastructure Planning Commission
  Speakers: Trevor Beattie, Corporate Director, Strategy, Policy, Performance and Research, Homes and Communities Agency
  Celia Carrington, Deputy Chief Executive and Group Director, Environment and Regeneration and Community, Swindon Borough Council
  
  1.00 Lunch with the exhibitors
  
  2.15 New knowledge - New skills (choice of workshops)

  • Workshop 1 - Water and planning
  • Workshop 2 - Green Infrastructure – the new agenda for delivery
  • Workshop 3 - Planning Apprenticeship Programme - a new way to recruit
  • Workshop 4 - Planning for large scale growth in the 2010s: challenges & opportunities
  • Workshop 5 - The economic game change: planning for new realities
  • Workshop 6 - Planning : Shaping the future on a reduced budget
  
  3.20 Coffee with the exhibitors
  
  3.50 Plenary: Question Time - Shaping the United Kingdom’s future
  Chair: Nick Cuff, Chairman of the Planning Committee, London Borough of Wandsworth
  Speakers: Jim MacKinnon, Chief Planner, Scottish Executive
  Steve Quartermain, Chief Planner, Communities and Local Government
  Edwin Poots MLA, Minister of the Environment, Northern Ireland Executive
  Rosemary Thomas, Deputy Director, Welsh Assembly Government
  If you have a question you would like answered in this session please submit it here
  
  5.00 Plenary: RTPI Shaping the Agenda
  RTPI Young Planners Network, speakers Nick Pleasant and Tom Venables
  5.10 Speaker: Ann Skippers, RTPI President
  
  5.30 Ministerial speech
  Speaker: Greg Clark, Minister for Decentralisation
  
  6.00 Drinks reception