Conservative Party Conference 2016 Tech Fringe Guide 22 September 2016 • 1 Conservative Party Conference: Tech Fringes Political Intelligence will be attending the Conservative Party Conference and has compiled a guide to the tech fringe events to look out for. Our Conservative Party Conference team consists of: Philip Reid, Managing Partner Phil is the Managing Partner of Political Intelligence’s London office and oversees a range of accounts in the tech, transport and health sectors. [email protected] Nicolle Laurie, Consultant Nicolle focuses on the tech, utilities and health sectors. [email protected] Alex Mather, Consultant Alex focuses on the tech, transport and health sectors. [email protected] Make sure you keep abreast of our tweets throughout conference by following @Politicalintel. 22 September 2016 • 2 Sunday 2nd October Respublica and CityFibre: Building Gigabit Britain: How digital infrastructure competition will deliver a brighter future 17.45 – 19.00, Birmingham ICC: Hall 7a . Christopher Williams, Chief Business Correspondent, The Telegraph . Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Minister of State for Digital and Culture . Nigel Adams MP, CLG Committee . Cllr John Clancy, Leader, Birmingham City Council (invited) . Mark Collins, Director of Strategy & Public Affairs, CityFibre . Damian Collins MP, CMS Committee Monday 3rd October Policy Exchange & Aviva: Digital Disruption: How will technology change the future of our economy? 09.30 – 10.30, Birmingham ICC: Hall 7a . Allister Heath, The Telegraph (invited) . Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Minister of State for Digital and Culture . Serge Taborin, Aviva . Debbie Wosskow, LoveHomeSwap . Gerard Grech, Tech City UK . David de Koning, Funding Circle Brook and Plan UK: Healthy relationships & digital safety: sexual harassment & schools 12.30 – 13.45, Birmingham ICC: The Youth Zone . Emma Barnett, The Telegraph (invited) . Helen Marshall, CEO, Brook . Tanya Barron, CEO Plan UK . Jonathan Baggaley, CEO PSHE Association . Mims Davies MP, Women and Equalities select committee (invited) . Sarah Newton MP, Home Office Minister (invited) 22 September 2016 • 3 Royal Society and Royal Statistical Society: Rise of the machines: mass unemployment or luxury for all? 12.30 – 14.00, Copthorne Hotel: Chamberlain Suite . Hetan Shah, Executive Director, Royal Statistical Society . Matt Warman MP, Commons Science and Technology Committee . Timandra Harkness, Author, "Big data: does size matter?" . Sabine Hauert, Royal Society Machine Learning project . Sarah O’Connor, Financial Times employment correspondent Prospect Magazine: Smart cities and intelligent transport in an era of devolution 12.45 – 14.00, Birmingham ICC: Executive Room 9 . Jon Bernstein, Associate Editor, Prospect (Chair) . Mark Prisk MP, Communities and Local Government Committee, Chair of the Smart Cities APPG . Jason Pavey, Local Transport Director, Atkins . Laura Shoaf, Managing Director, Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) . Dr Jeni Tennison, Technical Director and Deputy CEO, Open Data Institute (ODI) Social Market Foundation: Markets for the masses – making the most of consumer data 12.45 – 14.00, Hyatt Regency Birmingham: Dolce . Nida Broughton, Chief Economist, Social Market Foundation . Jeremy Quin MP . Romilly Dennys, Executive Director, The Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec) . Jan Smith, External Affairs Director, Callcredit Countryside Alliance: Tackling Digital Exclusion in the Countryside 13.00 – 14.00, Hyatt Regency Birmingham: Fortissimo . Tim Bonner, Chief Executive - Countryside Alliance . Rt Hon Ed Vaizey MP, former Minister for Culture . Representative from BT . Other speakers to be confirmed ResPublica and Big Innovation Centre: The future of capitalism in Britain: Artificial intelligence and innovation 17.45 – 19.00, Birmingham ICC: Hall 7b . Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica . Jo Johnson MP, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation (invited) . Will Hutton, Principal, Hertford College Oxford . Birgitte Andersen, Chief Executive, Big Innovation Centre 22 September 2016 • 4 Prospect Magazine supported by BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT: PPP: who owns health data and how can it best be put to use? 19.30 – 21.00, Birmingham ICC: Executive Room 8 . Jon Bernstein, Associate Editor, Prospect (Chair) . Jo Churchill MP, Chair, APPG on Personalised Medicine . Andy Kinnear, Chair of BCS Health . Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, Founder & CEO, Patients Know Best . Dr Jeni Tennison, Technical Director and Deputy CEO, Open Data Institute (ODI) Tuesday 4th October IPPR and RELX: Will technology Revolutionise Public Services? 12.45 – 14.00, Birmingham ICC: Executive Room 2 . Helia Ebrahimi, Channel 4 News (invited) . Lord Maude of Horsham . Nicola Blackwood MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Innovation (invited) . Rohan Silva, Co-founder and Co-CEO, Second Home (invited) . Tom Kibasi, Director, IPPR . Alistair Tebbit, Head of Government Affairs, UK, RELX Group The Enterprise Forum & EEF, The Manufacturers’ Organisation: How can the Conservatives position themselves for the 4th Industrial Revolution? 12.45 – 14.00, Jury’s Inn, 245 Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2HQ: 1st Floor Room . Andrew Cumpsty, Chairman of The Enterprise Forum . Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG, Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property . James Cleverly MP, Convenor of the Free Enterprise Group . Terry Scuoler, Chief Executive of EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation . Isabel Oakeshott, Political Editor at Large, Daily Mail Centre for Policy Studies and Vodafone: Is Fibre Good For You: Building Broadband That is Fit for Purpose 13.30 – 14.30, Jury’s Inn, 245 Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2HQ: 1st Floor Room . Tim Knox, Director, CPS . Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Minister of State for Digital & Culture . Paul Morris, Head of Government Affairs, Vodafone Ltd . David Wheeldon, Group Director of Policy Sky . Dan Lewis, Senior Adviser, Infrastructure Policy, Institute of Directors 22 September 2016 • 5 New Statesman & Raytheon: From Government to the home: A Cybersafe UK? 13.30 – 14.30, Library of Birmingham: Room 101 . Ben Wallace MP, Minister of State for Security . Harriett Baldwin MP* (invited), Minister for Defence Procurement . Graham LeFevre, Head of Business Development Intelligence & Security, Raytheon UK ConservativeHome and Smart Energy GB: How can technology and innovation transform Britain’s energy market? 16.00 – 17.30, Birmingham ICC: ConservativeHome Marquee . ConservativeHome . Greg Clark MP, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (invited) . Richard Wiles, Director, Toshiba . Romilly Dennys, Executive Director, Coalition for a Digital Economy (Invited) . Sacha Deshmukh, Chief Executive, Smart Energy GB Policy Exchange & ATOS: Re-wiring the State: How can digital technology transform our public services? 17.00 – 18.00, Birmingham ICC: The Policy Exchange Marquee . Isabel Oakeshott, Daily Mail (invited) . Rt Hon David Gauke MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (invited) . David Haley, Atos . Kulveer Ranger, Atos . Daniel Finkelstein, The Times (invited) Demos and BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT: Disrupting Democracy: Is Social Media Helping or Harming Politics? 17.30 – 19.00, Jurys Inn: 105 . Kate Russell, BBC . Matt Warman MP, Science and Technology Committee . David Evans, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT . Alex Krasodomski-Jones, Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos . Nick Pickles, Twitter . Michael Sani, Bite the Ballot LGA and Huawei: Technology in the Public Sector: Combining Efficiency and Better Services 17.45 – 19.00, Novotel: Darwin Suite . James Quinn, The Daily Telegraph . Cllr Mark Hawthorne, LGA 22 September 2016 • 6 . Huawei speaker . Jo Casebourne, Programme Director, Institute for Government . Ministerial Speaker (invited) StubHub, Sharing Economy UK: Homes, cars, live events - how do we make the sharing economy work for the consumer? 18.00 – 19.00, Birmingham ICC: Executive Room 10 . Ellie Gummer, Sharing Economy UK . Nick Harford, StubHub . Debbie Wosskow, Love Home Swap The Spectator and Sky: Free to go global: opportunities in a post-Brexit Britain 18.00 – 19.00, Birmingham ICC: Hall 9 . Fraser Nelson, Editor, The Spectator . Andrew Griffith, Group Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Sky . Tony Abbott, former Prime Minister of Australia . More speakers TBA 22 September 2016 • 7 .