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Our Online Autumn Conference Please Note That the Directory Is by Mark Pack Only Available Online and Not in Hard Copy Format Conference App Download our Conference App for the Online Autumn Conference, with great features such as My Schedule (the easiest way to plan your Conference) and a searchable Fringe Guide and Agenda. Available from early September. To download the App visit App Store or Google Play For Blackberry / Windows Phone visit www.libdemconference.org.uk Contents Welcome to the Liberal Feature 4–5 Democrat Autumn 2020 conference Directory. Welcome to our Online Autumn Conference Please note that the Directory is by Mark Pack only available online and not in hard copy format. Conference information: 6–9 If you have any questions whilst at conference, please email the Exhibition: 10–15 conference team at: Fringe & training guide: 16–48 [email protected] Fringe & training intro For details of the main auditorium and key 17 sessions, see the separate Friday fringe & training 20 conference Agenda, available at: Saturday fringe & training 25 www.libdems.org.uk/a20-agenda Sunday fringe & training 34 Our virtual conference Monday fringe & training 43 venue – Hopin Registered attendees will be emailed details of how to log onto Further information, registration the Hopin platform a few days prior and conference publications to the start of the conference. See (including plain text page 6 for information about and clear print Hopin. versions) are available at: Please note that all events taking place on the Hopin platform www.libdems.org.uk/conference (including fringe events and exhibitors) require you to have a valid conference registration. To register, please go to: www.libdems.org.uk/ autumn-conference Published by The Conference Office, Liberal Democrats,8–10 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AE. Design and layout by Mike Cooper, [email protected]. Photographs © Liberal Democrats unless stated. ONLINE AUTUMN CONFERENCE 2020 1 Spokespeople Q&A sessions There will be four Q&A sessions during conference where you can ask questions of our spokespeople. Foreign affairs and looking beyond the end of the Brexit transition period Baroness Northover (Lords Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs) Baroness Ludford (Lords Spokesperson for Europe) Christine Jardine MP (Spokesperson for the Treasury, Brexit, Europe and Trade) Layla Moran MP (Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs & International Development) Chair: Chris Maines Saturday 10.00–10.40 in the auditorium The climate emergency Lord Oates (Lords Spokesperson on Climate Change), Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (Lords Spokesperson for the Environment) Lord Teverson (former Lords Spokesperson for Energy) Sarah Olney MP (Spokesperson for the Climate Emergency, Business & Energy and Transport) Chair: Belinda Brooks Gordon Saturday 16.00–16.50 in the fringe Coronavirus: the economic, work and educational legacy Lord Fox (Lords Spokesperson on Business) Baroness Kramer (Lords Spokesperson for the Economy) Lord Storey (Lords Spokesperson for Education) Daisy Cooper MP (Deputy Leader and Spokesperson for Education) Sarah Olney MP (Spokesperson for the Climate Emergency, Business & Energy and Transport) Chair: Cllr Joe Otten Saturday 18.00–18.45 in the auditorium Coronavirus: the health approach and the impact on communities and society Baroness Brinton (Lords Spokesperson for Health), Baroness Pinnock (Lords Spokesperson for Communities & Local Government) Lord Shipley (former leader of Newcastle City Council) Munira Wilson MP (Spokesperson for Health, Wellbeing and Social Care) Chair: Chris Maines Sunday 16.00–16.50 in the fringe Voting members can submit concise questions (maximum 25 words) on the subject of the session, until 16.00 on Friday 25 September via the website at: www.libdems.org.uk/conference_submissions or using the conference chat whilst the session is in progress. 2 DIRECTORY Feature PASTORAL CARE Amanda Curtin MA, BSc (hons) HCPC CONFIDENTIAL ONE TO ONES MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT CRISIS INTERVENTION WORKSHOPS REFERRALS [email protected] T: 073 850 31170 ONLINE AUTUMN CONFERENCE 2020 3 Feature Welcome to our online Autumn Conference by Mark Pack As we gather virtually for our very not stop at borders. One that needs first online federal conference, I’m greater international cooperation. reminded of the words of David One that welcomes the flow of skills Lloyd George. Speaking at the close and expertise across borders. One of the First World War, he said the that requires our best and task for politicians was, “to make generous nature to overcome. Britain a fit country for heroes to You can see those two visions at live in … There is no time to lose. I odds in the questions over who we want us to take advantage of this welcome into our country. new spirit. Don’t let us waste this Conservatives are so hostile to the victory merely in ringing joybells”. outside world that they even want As we struggle through coronavirus, to exclude most care workers from we now face a similar challenge. post-Brexit visas. What sort of country do we want And as for Labour? It’s a split our recovery from coronavirus to coalition, as its twisting over produce? There are two answers to immigration and free movement that. shows. It is certainly welcome that There’s the illiberal, nationalistic, Keir Starmer is steering Labour suspicious response. One that sees away from the worst excesses of the answer to coronavirus as Corbynism. His steps on tackling cutting ourselves off from the anti-Semitism are much needed. world. One that puts up barriers But Labour is not a liberal party. and keeps people out. One that’s Our values cannot be trusted to about hunkering down in a corner. them. Or there’s the liberal answer. One Which is why continuing and that sees coronavirus – like climate accelerating our recovery is so change – as a problem that does important. Many thanks are due to 4 DIRECTORY I look forward to hearing at conference your views on all those, and other Feature steps you think we need to take. The move to an online conference is an exciting innovation for the party. It means we can involve far more people. Those of us used to conference will miss the chance to catch-up with old friends in person. But I’m sure the many new opportunities of an online conference will give us something different to enjoy instead. However, the circumstances which have forced the move to an online conference are, Dorothy Thornhill and her of course, born of tragedy. Many colleagues for their frank election long-standing friends are absent, review. It sets out the huge task we their lives cut short by COVID-19. have as a party to fix how we Our thoughts and sympathies are campaign, how we communicate with all those who have lost friends, and how we organise ourselves. colleagues and relatives. Let us remember them as we discuss, We’ve made a big start on that so debate and vote on the way ahead far. We have the largest field staff for the party they contributed so team in place at this point in a much to. Parliament since Charles Kennedy was leader. We’re making a major investment in improving our technology. In response to the Thornhill Review’s criticisms of the way the party is run, the Board is piloting a new Steering Group. A Mark Pack, new plan to improve our record on President of the Liberal diversity and inclusion is on its way, Democrats and much more. ONLINE AUTUMN CONFERENCE 2020 5 Conference information Any questions programs open. If something goes wrong, try refreshing your browser! Information l If you have any questions prior If you do not have a computer and to or during conference please are using a tablet, please ensure email: you have downloaded Google [email protected] Chrome and are using this browser to enter Hopin. l If you have any tech queries, please go to the tech helpdesk in There is a short video on how the exhibition area of the online Hopin works on our website: conference (see page 9). www.libdems.org.uk/ l If you have a formal request that autumn-conference you wish to make of the chair of a debate, please email: After the conference, all sessions will be available for 72 hours on [email protected] Hopin and the auditorium sessions (available 24–28 Sept). will be available on YouTube. l If you have a question with Hopin navigation regards to the session you are in, please use the conference chat On the Hopin platform, the menu function; do not use chat to bar appears on the left. communicate with the chair of a Home session. See guidance on page 7. View the agenda and the exhibition tiles (one for each entity in the Attending conference exhibition area). Hopin: our virtual Auditorium conference venue Watch the debates and speeches. Members can vote on motions via All registered attendees will be polls (within Hopin). There will be emailed details of how to login to BSL signers during auditorium Hopin, our virtual conference sessions. venue, just prior to the conference starting. Fringe & Training For best results on 25–28 Fringe is available for all to view. September, please use a computer Fringe events happen outside when logging into Hopin, and use auditorium hours. Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. Training is only for party members Ensure you turn off your ad to view and is run simultaneously blockers and don’t have any other 6 DIRECTORY Conference information alongside the auditorium sessions. For the emergency motions ballot, mi-voice voting will be used and See the fringe and training guide on registered members will be emailed pages 16–48 for details. a link prior to conference to vote in Exhibition the ballot. You can enter this area to view the Conference Chat exhibition stands throughout conference, view exhibitor’s videos, In each auditorium session there Information ask questions in the chat function will be a chat feature enabled, and connect to their websites.
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