July 21st 2022
East Village - Core Forum ‘On Location’, Tour and Summer evening Reception on the Sky Bridge!
2.00pm - 8.00pm
Venue
East Village, Stratford
Park Walk
, London, East Village
E20 1JL
£125.00 + VAT
Trialist / Non member rate
£145.00 + VAT
EVENT FORMAT:
2.00pm - 4.30pm - Part 1 - Core Forum Session & Networking *
4.30pm - 5.30pm - Part 2 - Tour of East Village or Networking Lounge **
5.30 - 8.00pm - Part 3 - Drinks & Buffet on the ‘Sky Bridge’ (Portlands Place) ***
HOST PARTNER - East Village, Get Living
An opportunity to visit and find out more about ‘The Making of East Village’, connected easily by overground and underground from central London. 10 years on… Tour the UK’s first at scale BTR development and experience the latest phase in its evolvement. See first-hand the story of UK BTR!
Get involved in our interactive sessions on community engagement and the creation of the very best and most inclusive ‘place’s for people’ and communities.
Join this Movers & Shakers forum, tour and evening reception, networking, at East Village, with our Host Partner, Get Living. Connect with the Industry ‘movers and shakers’ and engage in our discussion sessions, take a look around the developments and network over drinks and a light buffet on the spectacular ‘glass bridge’ at Portlands Place, over-looking East Village.
TOPICS FOR THE DAY:
- Listen, learn, and engage on the key Industry themes: delivering the best ‘places’, comprehensive community engagement, and curating inclusive homes & local
communities for ‘everyone’. - Join the celebrations of the 10 year legacy of the Olympics and the regeneration journey of East Village as a ‘place’ to be proud to live, work and play, in! With more
to come… ! - The past, present and future of BTR - on view and in the planning…
AUDIENCE: Aimed at the typical high-profile Movers & Shakers’ members; senior property Industry professionals, from both the private and public sectors.
* PART 1 - CORE FORUM IN THE LAB E20:
- Welcome to East Village - Rick de Blaby, CEO, Get Living
- Opening Keynote Address - “The 2012 Olympics - Past, Present & Future” - From the 2012 Summer Olympics, the story for London 10 years on; underpinned by the regeneration of the area and the evolving legacy of East Village. What is in store for the next 10 years? - Rosanna Lawes, Executive Director of Development, LLDC
- Community Presentation “The People’s Narrative” (community engagement is at the heart of the journey) - Jonathan Silman, Founder, Community Sports Academies
Panel Session - “A ‘Place’ for Everyone” - A mix of senior representatives from the private and public sectors, will lead the discussion on defining great place making; how ESG is bringing social outcomes up the agenda for the developer and investor; balancing mixed tenures (the BTR proposition), affordability and responsible development - from an Industry of ‘builders’ to one of community ‘stewards’. Moving the conversation forward!
** PART 2 - SITE TOUR OF EAST VILLAGE:
Take a look areound the area; inside the buildings; and see the embedded community stories, with all demographics participating in the activity and vibrancy of East Village.
*** PART 3 - EARLY EVENING RECEPTION - with drinks & a light buffet:
An evening reception in the spectacular ‘Sky Bridge’ located within Portlands Place. A wonderful environment to network with senior guests and to enjoy the final part of this event. With keynote address, introduced by our Host Partner, Get Living.
TRANSPORT: Easy Routes to East Village, Stratford:
- 7 minutes from St Pancras on the High Speed train
- Overground to Stratford (and 5 minute walk through Westfield
- 26 minutes from Bond Street by underground
- Stratford International DLR station, practically within East Village (as is the High Speed train station)
- https://moovitapp.com/index/en-gb/public_transportation-East_Village-London_and_South_East-site_6769722-2122
EVENT SPEAKERS
Rick de Blaby
CEO
Get Living
Ailish Christian-West
Chief Operating Officer
Get Living
Gavin Poole
Chief Executive Officer
Here East
Gavin Poole is the CEO of Here East, a dedicated campus for the technology and creative sectors, which is now home to over 6,500 people. Built out of a bid to transform the former international press and broadcast centre used during the 2012 London Olympic games, the vision for the campus has positioned it as one of the most successful Olympic re-developments.
Gavin is also a Director of Plexal, the innovation centre at Here East, which is focused on utilising technology to deliver national security and prosperity. He also sits on the Tech London Advocates and Global Tech Advocates advisory board for Russ Shaw CBE.
Before starting Here East, Gavin served for over twenty years in the Royal Air Force, starting as an aircraft engineering apprentice and retiring as a Wing Commander. Gavin ran the Centre for Social Justice, a think tank in Westminster. He is also a governor of the University of East London.
Rosanna Lawes
Executive Director of Development
London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC)
Rosanna Lawes is responsible for the delivery of development programmes on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, one of the largest and high-profile urban regeneration projects in the world. Rosanna’s key focus is delivering new neighbourhoods on the Park as well as driving forward flagship projects for London such as East Bank, the UK’s newest cultural quarter which will attract an additional 1.5m visitors to the Park while generating £1.5bn of economic benefit to the capital and the UK. Overall, Rosanna oversees the development mix of residential, commercial and social infrastructure which equates to a gross development value of £3.3bn.
Jonathan Silman
Founder
Community Sport Academies
Bek Seeley
Managing Director for Development
Lendlease
Harry Knibb
Development Director
Oxford Properties Group
Professor Sadie Morgan OBE
Founding Director,
dRMM
Sadie Morgan is a founding director of Stirling Prize winning architecture practice dRMM. She lectures internationally on the work of dRMM and the importance of infrastructure which connects back to people and place. She became the youngest president of the Architectural Association in 2013, and in 2016, was appointed Professor at the University of Westminster and awarded an honorary doctorate from London South Bank University.
Sadie was named New Londoner of the Year at the New London Awards 2017 for her work championing the importance of design at the highest political level.
